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]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]	`brew`[6]	`mise`[7]	`asdf`[8]
Package manager autodetection	✓	✓
Unified CLI and options	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
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	✓
Project-scoped manifest[9]							✓	✓	✓
Apply manifest (declarative install)	✓						✓	✓	✓
State drift detection							✓
State reconciliation cleanup							✓
Lockfile with checksums or attestations								✓
Third-party backend plugins							✓	✓	✓
Per-package hooks (pre/post install)								✓	✓
Trust mechanism for project configs								✓
Backend-prefixed package IDs	✓							✓
Shim-based version routing								✓	✓
Walk-up directory resolution								✓	✓
Legacy version file ingestion								✓	✓
Environment variable management								✓
Task runner								✓

Operations¶

Operation	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]	`brew`[6]	`mise`[7]	`asdf`[8]
List available managers	✓							✓	✓
List installed packages	✓		✓		✓		✓	✓	✓
List duplicate packages	✓
List outdated packages	✓		✓		✓		✓	✓
Search packages	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Locate binaries (`which` command)	✓						✓	✓	✓
Install a package	✓		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Remove / Uninstall a package	✓		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Upgrade single package	✓		✓		✓		✓	✓
Upgrade all packages	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Sync	✓		✓	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Cleanup: caches	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Cleanup: orphans	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
Backup / Lock / Freeze	✓						✓	✓	✓
Restore	✓						✓	✓	✓
List leaves (top-level installs)							✓
Autoremove orphaned dependencies							✓
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, mise, and asdf are themselves meta-managers: each dispatches to other package managers (brew bundle via the Brewfile DSL, mise via per-package backends, asdf via plugins). The columns below mark which third-party manager each tool reaches natively, so the overlap with mpm is visible at a glance.

Manager	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]
`0install`
`am`		✓
`antibody`		≈[10]
`antidote`		≈[10]
`antigen`		≈[10]
`apk`	✓	✓	✓	✓
`apm`	✓	✓
`app-man`		✓
`apt`	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
`apt-cyg`				✓		✓
`apt-mint`	✓
`aqua`		✓
`asdf`	✓	✓
`atuin`		✓
`aura`		✓
`bash-it`		≈[10]
`bin`		✓
`brew`	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
`bun`		✓
`cargo`	✓	✓
`cask`	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
`cave`				✓
`certbot`		✓
`chezmoi`		✓
`choco`	✓	✓	✓
`choosenim`		✓
`chromebrew`					✓
`composer`	✓	✓
`conda`		✓	✓	✓
`containers`		✓
`cpan`	✓
`deb-get`	✓	✓
`dein`		≈[10]
`deno`		✓
`distrobox`		✓
`dkp-pacman`		✓
`dnf`	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
`dnf5`	✓
`dotnet`		✓
`emacs`		✓
`emerge`	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
`eopkg`	✓	✓			✓
`etc-update`		✓
`fish-plug`		≈[10]
`fisher`		≈[10]
`flatpak`	✓	✓			✓
`flutter`		✓
`fossil`		✓
`fundle`		≈[10]
`fwupd`	✓	✓
`gcloud`		✓
`gem`	✓	✓			✓
`getnf`		✓
`ghcup`		✓
`git`		✓
`github-cli-extensions`		✓
`gnome-shell`		✓
`go`		✓
`guix`	✓	✓			✓
`haxelib`		✓
`helm`		✓
`home-manager`		✓
`jetpack`		✓
`julia`		✓
`juliaup`		✓
`kakoune`		✓
`krew`		✓
`lazy`		≈[10]
`lure`		✓
`macos`		✓
`macports`	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
`mamba`		✓
`mas`	✓	✓
`mason`		≈[10]
`micro`		✓
`miktex`		✓
`mise`	✓	✓
`myrepos`		✓
`nala`		✓
`neobundle`		≈[10]
`nix`	✓	✓			✓
`npm`	✓	✓			✓
`oh-my-bash`		≈[10]
`oh-my-fish`		≈[10]
`oh-my-zsh`		≈[10]
`ollama`		✓
`opam`		✓
`opkg`	✓			✓
`pacaur`	✓
`pacdef`		✓
`packer-nvim`		≈[10]
`pacman`	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
`pacstall`	✓	✓
`pamac`		✓
`paq`		≈[10]
`paru`	✓	✓
`pearl`		✓
`pihole`		✓
`pikaur`		✓
`pip`	✓	✓	✓		✓
`pip-review`		✓
`pipupgrade`		✓
`pipx`	✓	✓
`pipxu`		✓
`pixi`		✓
`pkg`	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
`pkg-mgr`					✓
`pkg-tools`				✓
`pkgfile`		✓
`pkgin`		✓				✓
`platformio-core`		✓
`plug`		≈[10]
`pnpm`	✓	✓
`podman`		✓
`poetry`		✓
`ports`	✓
`powershell`		✓
`protonplus`		✓
`protonup`		✓
`pwsh-gallery`	✓
`pyenv`		✓
`raco`		✓
`rcm`		✓
`remotes`		✓
`restarts`		✓
`rtcl`		✓
`rustup`		✓
`rye`		✓
`scoop`	✓	✓	✓		✓
`sdkman`	✓	✓
`sfsu`	✓
`sheldon`		✓
`slapt-get`					✓	✓
`snap`	✓	✓			✓
`spack`
`sparkle`		✓
`spicetify`		✓
`stack`		✓
`steamcmd`	✓
`stew`	✓	✓
`sun-tools`				✓
`swupd`				✓
`system`		✓
`tazpkg`				✓
`tldr`		✓
`tlmgr`		✓	✓	✓
`tmux`		✓
`toolbx`		✓
`topgrade`	✓	✓
`trizen`		✓
`typst`		✓
`uv`	✓	✓
`uvx`	✓
`vagrant`		✓
`vcpkg`		✓
`vim`		✓
`volta-packages`		✓
`voom`		≈[10]
`vscode`	✓	✓
`vscodium`	✓	✓
`vundle`		≈[10]
`waydroid`		✓
`winget`	✓	✓
`wsl`		✓
`xbps`	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
`xcodes`		✓
`yadm`		✓
`yarn`	✓	✓
`yarn-berry`	✓	✓
`yay`	✓	✓
`yazi`		✓
`yum`	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
`zerobrew`	✓
`zgenom`		≈[10]
`zigup`		✓
`zim`		≈[10]
`zinit`		≈[10]
`zplug`		≈[10]
`zr`		≈[10]
`zvm`		✓
`zypper`	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Operating system support¶

OS	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]	`brew`[6]	`mise`[7]	`asdf`[8]
BSD	🅱️[11]					🅱️[11]
Linux	🐧[12]	🐧	🐧	🐧	🐧	🐧[12]	🐧	🐧	🐧
macOS	🍎	🍎	🍎	🍎	🍎	🍎	🍎	🍎	🍎
Unix	⨂[13]					⨂[13]
Windows	🪟	🪟	🪟			🪟		🪟

Distribution¶

Package manager	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]	`brew`[6]	`mise`[7]	`asdf`[8]
Versions
GitHub							-
macOS binary	✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)	✓ (`x86_64`)	✓(`x86_64`, `aarch64`, `universal`)					✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)	✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)
Linux binary	✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)	✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`, `armv7`)	✓ (`x86_64`)		✓ (`x86_64`)			✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`, `armv7`)	✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`, `armv7`)
Windows binary	✓ (`x86_64`, `aarch64`)	✓ (`x86_64`)	✓ (`x86_64`)					✓ (`x86_64`)
Homebrew			✓				-
Macports		✓
Chocolatey
Scoop	✓	✓	✓					✓
Crates.io
PyPI
AUR votes

Activity¶

Metrics	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]	`brew`[6]	`mise`[7]	`asdf`[8]
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]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]	`brew`[6]	`mise`[7]	`asdf`[8]
Stars
SourceRank					-	-	-		-
Dependent repos					-	-	-		-

Metadata¶

Metadata	`mpm`	`topgrade`[1]	`pacaptr`[2]	`pacapt`[3]	`sysget`[4]	`whohas`[5]	`brew`[6]	`mise`[7]	`asdf`[8]
License
Main language
Latest version
Version benchmarked	`5.21.0`	`17.4.0`	`0.15.2`	`3.0.7`	`2.3`	`0.29.1`	`6.0.1`	`2026.6.5`	`0.19.0`
Benchmark date	2025-04	2026-05	2022-04	2022-04	2022-04	2026-05	2026-06	2026-06	2026-06

Project’s URL¶