Pterodactyl
Management panel for game servers, with an intuitive UI for end users.
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Still maintained? Yes: 9 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.15.2 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Pterodactyl quick facts
- Health score
- 61/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 9,441
- Last commit
- 9 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.15.2, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Pterodactyl scores 61/100, #16 of 20 in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels: 9 commits in the last 90 days earn 10.5 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.15.2, 9 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 9,441 stars add 15.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 24.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 10.5 / 35
9 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.15.2 released 9 days ago
- Stars 15.9 / 20
9.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 9
- Last 90 days
- 95
- Last 12 months
- 9 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 20 tools in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels by health , between Gameyfin (#15) and auto-mcs (#17) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | v1.15.2 · 9 days ago |
| Stars | 9,441 |
| Open issues | 124 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | pterodactyl/panel ↗ |
Pterodactyl vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Pterodactyl (Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelican Panel | 94 | 2.4k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Calagopus | 92 | 860 | MIT | yesterday |
| Crafty Controller | 90 | 255 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| GameAP | 89 | 152 | MIT | 12 days ago |
| LinuxGSM | 85 | 4.9k | MIT | 7 days ago |
| Pterodactyl (this tool) | 61 | 9.4k | MIT | 9 days ago |
Pterodactyl: common questions
Is Pterodactyl still maintained?
Pterodactyl had 9 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 9 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.15.2, is from 9 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.