Difference between "paru" and "pacman"

I use CachyOS first time and I understand that CachyOS use the default packet manager “pacman”. But I also understand that we have “paru”.

When I install some packets with “paru”, does the auto-update will find the updates from “paru” too?

pacman -Syu would not find those, as AUR packages are not installed from a repository/mirror. Use paru or a different AUR package installer for this.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers

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Paru is for AUR it is crowdsourced, Pacman is for the packages Cachyos/Arch has.