Benchmark¶

Attempting to unify all package managers is a Sisyphean task.

This did not prevent me or others to try to solve that problem. It is not easy to explain why but there might be a greater need for such tools out there. Here is a list of some related projects I stumbled into and how they compares to mpm.

Features¶

Feature	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`brew`[3]
Package manager autodetection	✅	✅	✅
Unified CLI and options	✅	✅	✅	✅
Multi-PM execution	✅	✅	❌	✅
Concurrent multi-PM execution	✅	❌	❌	✅
Package manager priority	✅	✅	❌
Consolidated output	✅	❌	❌
Configurable output	✅
Sortable output	✅
Colored output	✅	✅		✅
Version parsing and diff	✅	❌		✅
purl support	✅			✅
JSON export	✅			✅
CSV export	✅
Markup export	✅
Configuration file	✅	✅	✅	✅
Non-interactive	✅	✅	✅	✅
Dry-run	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sudo elevation	✅	✅	✅	❌
Supply-chain cooldown	✅	❌		❌
Desktop notifications		✅
Bash auto-completion	✅	✅	❌	✅
Zsh auto-completion	✅	✅	❌	✅
Fish auto-completion	✅	✅	❌	✅
XKCD #1654	✅
Xbar/SwiftBar plugin	✅
Apply manifest (declarative install)	✅			✅
Backend-prefixed package IDs	✅

Operations¶

Operation	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`brew`[3]
List available managers	✅
List installed packages	✅		✅	✅
List duplicate packages	✅
List outdated packages	✅		✅	✅
List orphaned dependencies	✅			✅
Search packages	✅		✅	✅
Locate binaries (`which` command)	✅			✅
Install a package	✅		✅	✅
Remove / Uninstall a package	✅		✅	✅
Remove a package with its orphans	✅		✅
Upgrade single package	✅		✅	✅
Upgrade all packages	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sync	✅		✅	✅
Cleanup: caches	✅	🟡	✅	✅
Cleanup: orphans	✅	🟡	🟡	✅
Backup / Lock / Freeze	✅			✅
Restore	✅			✅
List explicitly installed packages (leaves)			✅	✅
Pin / Unpin version				✅
Latest filter (newest installable)
Reshim / rebuild executable index
Doctor / diagnostics	✅			✅
Import from external tool
Services management				✅

mpm’s SBOM export sits in a different category from the package-manager front-ends benchmarked here. It is compared against dedicated SBOM and software-composition-analysis tools (Syft, Trivy, cdxgen, component-detection) in the SBOM documentation.

Package manager support¶

brew is itself a meta-manager: brew bundle dispatches to other package managers (cask, mas, VSCode extensions, taps, and more) via the Brewfile DSL, which is why it earns a column alongside the dedicated wrappers in the tables above. The table below marks which managers each competing tool reaches natively, so the overlap with mpm is visible at a glance.

Manager	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]
`0install`
`am`		✅
`antibody`		🟡
`antidote`		🟡
`antigen`		🟡
`apk`	✅	✅	✅
`apm`	✅	✅
`app-man`		✅
`apt`	✅	✅	✅
`apt-cyg`	✅
`apt-mint`	✅
`aqua`		✅
`asdf`	✅	✅
`atuin`		✅
`aura`		✅
`bash-it`		🟡
`bin`		✅
`brew`	✅	✅	✅
`bun`		✅
`cabal`		❌
`cargo`	✅	✅
`cask`	✅	✅	✅
`cave`	✅
`certbot`		✅
`chezmoi`		✅
`choco`	✅	✅	✅
`choosenim`		✅
`chromebrew`	✅
`composer`	✅	✅
`conda`	✅	✅	✅
`containers`		✅
`cpan`	✅
`deb-get`	✅	✅
`dein`		🟡
`deno`		✅
`distrobox`		✅
`dkp-pacman`		✅
`dnf`	✅	✅	✅
`dnf5`	✅
`dotnet`		✅
`emacs`		✅
`emerge`	✅	✅	✅
`eopkg`	✅	✅
`etc-update`		✅
`fink`	✅
`fish-plug`		🟡
`fisher`		🟡
`flatpak`	✅	✅
`flutter`		✅
`fossil`		✅
`fundle`		🟡
`fwupd`	✅	✅
`gcloud`		✅
`gem`	✅	✅
`getnf`		✅
`gh-ext`	✅	✅
`ghcup`		✅
`git`		✅
`gnome-shell`		✅
`go`		✅
`guix`	✅	✅
`haxelib`		✅
`helm`		✅
`home-manager`		✅
`jetpack`		✅
`julia`		✅
`juliaup`		✅
`kakoune`		✅
`krew`		✅
`lazy`		🟡
`lure`		✅
`macos`		✅
`macports`	✅	✅	✅
`mamba`		✅
`mas`	✅	✅
`mason`		🟡
`micro`		✅
`miktex`		✅
`mise`	✅	✅
`myrepos`		✅
`nala`		✅
`neobundle`		🟡
`nix`	✅	✅
`npm`	✅	✅
`oh-my-bash`		🟡
`oh-my-fish`		🟡
`oh-my-zsh`		🟡
`ollama`		✅
`opam`		✅
`opencode`		❌
`opkg`	✅
`pacaur`	✅
`pacdef`		✅
`packer-nvim`		🟡
`pacman`	✅	✅
`pacstall`	✅	✅
`pamac`		✅
`paq`		🟡
`paru`	✅	✅
`pearl`		✅
`pihole`		✅
`pikaur`		✅
`pip`	✅	✅	✅
`pip-review`		✅
`pipupgrade`		✅
`pipx`	✅	✅
`pipxu`		✅
`pixi`		✅
`pkcon`	✅		✅
`pkg`	✅	✅
`pkg-tools`	✅
`pkgfile`		✅
`pkgin`	✅	✅
`platformio-core`		✅
`plug`		🟡
`pnpm`	✅	✅
`podman`		✅
`poetry`		✅
`ports`	✅
`protonplus`		✅
`protonup`		✅
`pwsh-gallery`	✅	✅
`pyenv`		✅
`raco`		✅
`rcm`		✅
`remotes`		✅
`restarts`		✅
`rtcl`		✅
`rustup`		✅
`rye`		✅
`scoop`	✅	✅	✅
`sdkman`	✅	✅
`sfsu`	✅
`sheldon`		✅
`slapt-get`	✅
`snap`	✅	✅
`soar`	✅
`sorcery`	✅
`spack`
`sparkle`		✅
`spicetify`		✅
`stack`		✅
`steamcmd`	✅
`stew`	✅	✅
`sun-tools`	✅
`swupd`	✅
`system`		✅
`tazpkg`	✅
`tldr`		✅
`tlmgr`	✅	✅	✅
`tmux`		✅
`toolbx`		✅
`topgrade`	✅	✅
`trizen`		✅
`typst`		✅
`urpmi`	✅
`uv`	✅	✅
`uvx`	✅
`vagrant`		✅
`vcpkg`		✅
`vim`		✅
`volta`	✅	✅
`voom`		🟡
`vscode`	✅	✅
`vscodium`	✅	✅
`vundle`		🟡
`waydroid`		✅
`winget`	✅	✅	✅
`wsl`		✅
`xbps`	✅	✅	✅
`xcodes`		✅
`yadm`		✅
`yarn`	✅	✅
`yarn-berry`	✅	✅
`yay`	✅	✅
`yazi`		✅
`yt-dlp`		❌
`yum`	✅	✅
`zerobrew`	✅	❌
`zgenom`		🟡
`zigup`		✅
`zim`		🟡
`zinit`		🟡
`zplug`		🟡
`zr`		🟡
`zvm`		✅
`zypper`	✅	✅	✅

Operating system support¶

OS	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`brew`[3]
BSD	🅱️[4]
Linux	🐧[5]	🐧	🐧	🐧
macOS	🍎	🍎	🍎	🍎
Unix	⨂[6]
Windows	🪟	🪟	🪟

Distribution¶

Package manager	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`brew`[3]
Versions
GitHub				-
macOS binary	✅ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)	✅ (`x86_64`)	✅(`x86_64`, `aarch64`, `universal`)
Linux binary	✅ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)	✅ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`, `armv7`)	✅ (`x86_64`)
Windows binary	✅ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)	✅ (`x86_64`)	✅ (`x86_64`)
Homebrew			✅	-
Chocolatey
Crates.io
PyPI
AUR votes

Activity¶

Metrics	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`brew`[3]
Watchers
Contributors
Commit activity
Commits since latest release
Last release date
Last commit
Open issues
Open PRs
Forks
Dependencies freshness				-

Popularity¶

Metrics	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`brew`[3]
Stars
SourceRank				-
Dependent repos				-

Metadata¶

Metadata	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`brew`[3]
License
Main language
Latest version
Version benchmarked	`7.4.1`	`17.8.0`	`0.23.1`	`6.0.12`
Benchmark date	2026-07	2026-07	2026-07	2026-07

Coming from pacapt, sysget or whohas?

These three were mpm’s closest peers: single-command wrappers that ran search, install, remove and upgrade across whatever package manager was on the host. All three are now unmaintained — pacapt last released in 2022, sysget in 2019 and whohas in 2015. mpm covers the same cross-manager operations — search, install, remove, upgrade, sync and cleanup — across many more backends, so their users can retire them and switch to mpm.