Calagopus vs Pelican Panel

Both are self-hosted games - administrative utilities & control panels projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Calagopus and Pelican Panel are closely matched on maintenance health (77 vs 74). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
CalagopusPelican Panel
Health score 77/100 74/100
Commits (11 mo) 886 385
Commits (last 3 mo) 498 111
Stars 675 2.3k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 16 Aug 2026
Licence MIT AGPL-3.0
Built with Rust, Docker, deb PHP, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Calagopus

Modern game server management panel. Deploy, monitor, and manage Minecraft, Hytale, and other game servers with industry-leading performance.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 31/40
Releases 25/25
Community 6/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 78% of tracked projects; popularity more than 28%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 0 commits 2026-04: 203 commits 2026-05: 185 commits 2026-06: 163 commits 2026-07: 137 commits 2026-08: 198 commits

Pelican Panel

Web application for easy management of game servers, offering a user-friendly interface for deploying, configuring, and managing servers, server monitoring tools, and extensive customization options (fork of Pterodactyl).

74/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 23/40
Releases 25/25
Community 10/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 58% of tracked projects; popularity more than 52%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 36 commits 2025-11: 52 commits 2025-12: 51 commits 2026-01: 41 commits 2026-02: 56 commits 2026-03: 4 commits 2026-04: 12 commits 2026-05: 22 commits 2026-06: 33 commits 2026-07: 28 commits 2026-08: 50 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted games - administrative utilities & control panels.