What is Chocolatey?
A package manager for Windows enabling software deployment and lifecycle management with support for private repositories, offline deployments, and integration with infrastructure management tools.
Chocolatey pricing
We don't have Chocolatey's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Chocolatey does
The capabilities that matter for package registries, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Role
- Package manager client
- Ecosystem / language
- OS-level
- Deployment
- Both
- Package formats supported
- Many formats
- Private / scoped packages
- ✓
- Upstream proxy / caching
- ✓
- Lockfile / deterministic installs
- -
- Workspaces / monorepo
- -
- Content-addressable store
- -
- Supply-chain integrity
- -
- Vulnerability / licence scanning
- -
- Openness
- Open-core
- Pricing model
- Free / OSS
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Windows
- Air-gapped
- Self-hosted
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- infrastructure management tools
- RMM tools
Chocolatey alternatives
Other package registries we track, ranked by the same independent score.
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- pnpmFast, disk space efficient package managerlow · 28%
- pipThe package installer for Pythonlow · 26%
- HomebrewThe Package Manager for Everywherelow · 18%
- PoetryPython dependency management and packaging made easylow · 32%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Chocolatey, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release Cadence | 84 | 10.00 | 844.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 14.00 | 641.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 22 | 16.00 | 352.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 4.00 | 320.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 77 | 4.00 | 306.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 6.00 | 150.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 8.00 | 109.8 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 11,471 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"role":"manager_client","ecosystem":"os","deployment":"both","open_source":"open_core","pricing_model":"free","upstream_proxy":true,"package_formats":"multi","private_packages":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | C# | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 28 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |