Parallel Disk Usage (pdu)
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Plans and prices
From Parallel Disk Usage (pdu)'s own pricing page, checked 10 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Apache-2.0 licensed · CLI tool |
The facts
Each one read from Parallel Disk Usage (pdu)'s own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Application sizes
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Desktop platforms
- Windows,macOS,Linuxchecked 23 Sep 2026
What it does
- Comparisons
- pdu can compare the disk usage of separate files and directories.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Customization
- Users can customize the displayed tree depth and chart size.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Downloads
- The release page lists binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Exportable reports
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- File-type breakdown
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Hardlinks
- Hardlink detection and deduplication are optional and can make pdu proportionally slower.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The project documents installation from GitHub Releases, crates.io with Cargo, and Arch Linux's official repository.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The CLI supports JSON input and output, allowing disk usage data to be piped between pdu and other CLI tools.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Library
- The project is also a library crate that can be used to build tools with features beyond the pdu command.checked 10 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies the project as licensed under Apache 2.0.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Limitations
- pdu does not account for reflinks and does not follow symbolic links.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- pdu is a CLI program that renders a graphical chart of disk usage for files and directories.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Release security
- Executables published to GitHub Releases starting with version 0.23.0 include build provenance attestations that can be verified with GitHub CLI.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Scan scope
- files_folderschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Speed
- The project describes pdu as highly parallelized and very fast.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Treemap view
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Usage options
- The command can measure apparent size, block size, or block count, and can limit traversal to one filesystem.checked 10 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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