# Pelican Panel

Free, open-source game server control panel, built on Laravel and Filament, that runs game servers in Docker containers.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pelican-panel/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-21
Listed since: 2026-10-21

## Record

### Links

- home: https://pelican.dev
- repository: https://github.com/pelican/panel
- docs: https://pelican.dev/docs

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Pelican
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: php
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.4
- basedOn: laravel, filament

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: sqlite, mysql, mariadb, postgres
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: per-request
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: composer install from the downloaded panel files

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: AGPL-3.0-only, AGPL-3.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-10

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2393
- packagistDownloads: unknown
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 232
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://pelican.dev/docs/panel/getting-started (read 2026-10-21)
- urls: https://pelican.dev (read 2026-10-21)
- urls: https://github.com/pelican/panel (read 2026-10-21)
- urls: https://pelican.dev/docs (read 2026-10-21)
- maintainer: https://pelican.dev (read 2026-10-21)
- basedOn: https://pelican.dev/docs/comparison (read 2026-10-21)
- category: https://pelican.dev/docs/comparison (read 2026-10-21)
- language: https://github.com/pelican/panel (read 2026-10-21)
- runtime: https://pelican.dev/docs/panel/getting-started (read 2026-10-21)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/pelican/panel/blob/main/composer.json (read 2026-10-21)
- databases: https://pelican.dev/docs/panel/getting-started (read 2026-10-21)
- databases: https://pelican.dev/docs/panel/getting-started (read 2026-10-21)
- installMethod: https://pelican.dev/docs/panel/getting-started (read 2026-10-21)
- installMethod: https://pelican.dev/docs/panel/getting-started (read 2026-10-21)
- runsAs: https://pelican.dev/docs/panel/getting-started (read 2026-10-21)
- license: https://github.com/pelican/panel/blob/main/composer.json (read 2026-10-21)
- license: https://github.com/pelican/panel (read 2026-10-21)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/pelican/panel/releases/latest (read 2026-10-21)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/pelican/panel (read 2026-10-21)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/pelican/panel/contributors (read 2026-10-21)

## Notes

Pelican Panel is a free, open-source game server control panel built on Laravel and Filament. It started as a fork of Pterodactyl, as the project's comparison page states. The panel is a Laravel web application that runs on a web server with PHP, and it installs directly with `composer install` or with Docker.

The panel's database can be SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL. The game servers it manages run in Docker containers, started by a separate component, Wings, which is not part of this record. The project is maintained under the name Pelican.

## Worth knowing

The only tagged release is a release candidate, and no stable version is tagged, so the record shows the release candidate's date. The name is shared with the Pelican static site generator, which is a different project.

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