# Arduino Pro Mini vs Teensy

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-mini-vs-teensy/26601>\
**Category:** Arduino\
**Created:** [April 23, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-mini-vs-teensy/26601 "2013-04-23T17:56:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Christian271](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Christian271](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/Christian271)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-mini-vs-teensy/26601/1 "2013-04-23T17:56:35Z")

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I was looking around at the different arduino options and came across the [[Arduino Pro Mini 328](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11114) and the [[Teensy 3.0](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11780). What is the difference between the two? It seems to me that there would be no reason to get the mini over the teensy.

Thanks in advance.]([Teensy 3.2 - DEV-13736 - SparkFun Electronics](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11780))]([https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11114](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11114))

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**Author:** ![SFE-Toni](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/sparkfun/user_avatar/community.sparkfun.com/sfe-toni/32/6051_2.png) [@SFE-Toni](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/SFE-Toni)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-mini-vs-teensy/26601/2 "2013-04-23T19:10:34Z")

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Price and simplicity would be the main reason for the Pro Mini over the Teensy. The Teensy is more robust as far as features go, but you pay for the difference. Also, a lot of customers have a preference as to the coding interface, so you also need to look at the Arduino IDE and the Teensy Loader application.

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**Author:** ![stevech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@stevech](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/stevech)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/arduino-pro-mini-vs-teensy/26601/3 "2013-04-24T00:01:27Z")

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The Teensy(s) have a good Arduino library. A little hard to find on the web site though.

I like the ready-to-use USB bootloader (fast), on the Teensy(s)