Chocolatey vs. NuGet

Chocolatey

4 Reviews and Ratings

NuGet

3 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Chocolatey	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows designed to make complex tasks simple, from Chocolatey Software in Topeka. The vendor states Chocolatey can easily handle all aspects of package management, but it is also able to work well within the existing ecosystem that is Windows software management.	N/A
NuGet	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers.	N/A

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Chocolatey

NuGet

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Chocolatey	NuGet
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Chocolatey	NuGet
Top Pros	Pro Package management Pro Dependency management Pro Ease of use	Pro Easy upload Pro Integration with popular Pro Web based
Top Cons	Minus Admin rights Minus Easy to find	Minus Text based Minus Multiple projects Minus User friendly

Best Alternatives
	Chocolatey	NuGet
Small Businesses	Git Score 10.0 out of 10	Git Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Git Score 10.0 out of 10	Git Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Git Score 10.0 out of 10	Git Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Chocolatey	NuGet
Likelihood to Recommend	6.8 (2 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Chocolatey	NuGet
Likelihood to Recommend	Chocolatey Software It is very easy to install a batch of Windows software from the command line when setting up a new machine. All needed software installs could be scripted in one batch file and then run on a new machine. It is also very easy to keep the installed software up-to-date via the command line. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Whenever your projects need some packages which are available on NuGet it is easy to consume them with the help of tools such as Visual Studio, and MSBuild. We can add customized functionality to existing packages and can host them as a separate packages easily. Packages that depend on other packages are well managed by NuGet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Chocolatey Software Package management Dependency management Ease of use Availability of libs Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review	Microsoft The built-in package explorer / manager in Visual Studio work reliably Integration with popular web-based repository manager is good Command-line options are enough even for complex use cases like publishing to private, credentials-protected repositories Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Chocolatey Software Available software to install is not easy to find. You need admin rights to install all software. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Incomplete download resume in case of network disruptions Adding user friendly platform to add and update the packages Package creation option in Visual Studio Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Chocolatey Software The big reason I picked Chocolatey was the fact that npm and Maven are not well-suited for native windows environments. I had to run on a Windows Server virtual machine, so was limited by what I could use, and I did not want to install WSL on the machine. So, I picked Chocolately for dependency management on those machines. Incentivized Chris Hyde Test Engineering Manager Read full review	Microsoft Not really have a choice here, especially when working with .NET Framework / .NET Core. At least the built-in GUI of NuGet helps beginners get up to speed quickly. However, advanced users would be able to be more productive with Maven / Ivy thanks to the complete text-based format. Basically, people from the Java world are spoiled by a much better dependency management system. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Chocolatey Software Improved time to setup new machines Improved security due to easy update process of installed software Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Saves a rework by sharing the common functionalities across the projects Helped to optimize the given package using a central repository Helped to make use of existing useful packages Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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