How to clean cache and orphan dependencies in snap and flatpak?

Is there an equivalent of sudo apt clean in snap and flatpak (to delete the cached installation files)?

That might free up a considerable amount of space.

Also, is there any equivalent of sudo apt autoremove, or is it taken care of automatically?

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I have not come across one but the following should help:

Snapd

Snap generally preserves at least three revisions (older versions) of any software / package you have installed at any point of time. This makes snapd/cache very bulky. You can set to 1 or 2 using

sudo snap set system refresh.retain=2 // starting from snapd version 2.34

This way you preserver lot of space. Now, clearing the cached installation

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd

flatpak

The analogous process of sudo apt autoremove in flatpak is

flatpak uninstall --unused
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