Pelican Panel
Web panel for creating and managing game servers, each running in its own Docker container, for communities, hosting providers and self-hosters.
Pelican Panel at a glance
What is Pelican Panel?
Pelican Panel is a game server control panel built on Laravel. Administrators and users create and manage servers from a web interface, while a separate daemon called Wings runs every server in an isolated Docker container, so the host machine does not collect each game's dependencies. Server types are defined by "eggs", which cover Minecraft variants such as Paper and Bungeecord, SteamCMD titles like Palworld, ARK and Counter Strike, standalone games such as Factorio and Terraria, plus Discord bots, voice servers like Mumble and TeamSpeak, and databases. It belongs to the Pterodactyl ecosystem.
Good fit if
- You host game servers for a community or as a business and want to replace a paid control panel.
- You want each server sandboxed in Docker rather than installed directly on the host.
- Your users need a translated web UI; the panel ships in 26 languages.
Look elsewhere if
- You would rather use the original panel of the same ecosystem, built with PHP, React and Go under MIT: Pterodactyl.
- You run a few Linux servers and would rather manage them from the command line: LinuxGSM.
Before you adopt it
Pelican Panel is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and the repository has no paid parts; volunteers build it and accept sponsorships. Anyone sending code to the project has to accept its CLA first. The latest release, v1.0.0-rc.2, is still a release candidate, so expect changes before a stable 1.0. Setup involves the panel plus Wings on each node that runs game servers. Nine authors committed in the last 90 days.
Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 7 November 2026. Report a correction
How to run Pelican Panel yourself
One-click install
Not listed in the app catalogs of Umbrel, YunoHost, TrueNAS, Unraid, CasaOS, Runtipi, Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts and Coolify.
Ways to install
- Docker files
- Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
- Docker image
- ghcr.io/pelican/panel: x86-64, ARM64
- Compose file
- compose.yml: 1 service
- Setup effort
- 1 of 5, judged from the compose file
- Kubernetes
- No Helm chart in the repository
- Desktop and mobile
- No app builds in GitHub releases
- Interface languages
- 26 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish
Show all 26
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Install instructions: pelican.dev or the README on GitHub. Docker images and packages are checked weekly.
Pelican Panel health: is it still maintained?
79 of 100, actively developed
Read from GitHub on 12 November 2026. How the score works
Pelican Panel security
Security advisories are the vulnerabilities the maintainers disclosed on GitHub, with the versions that fix them; many advisories can mean careful disclosure as much as weak code.
Latest advisories
- Host Header Poisoning in Password Reset Leads to Account Takeover
- Pelican Panel: console "feature" fix-actions (EULA / Java-version / GSL-token) miss server-side authorization, letting a minimal subuser write files to the serv
- OAuth/SSO account takeover: provider identity linked to a pre-existing local account by unverified email, bypassing password + 2FA
Advisories read from GitHub on 12 November 2026.
Pelican Panel license: is it open source?
Pelican Panel uses AGPL-3.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI. Contributors sign a contributor license agreement, which lets the owner relicense their work later.
- March 2024First published on GitHub.
- TodayAGPL-3.0. A contributor license agreement is required.
Pelican Panel for developers
Written in
- PHP 98%
- Blade 1%
- CSS <1%
- JavaScript <1%
- Shell <1%
- Other <1%
Getting involved
Language shares are GitHub’s count of the code in the repository.
Alternatives to Pelican Panel
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Questions about Pelican Panel
Is Pelican Panel open source?
Yes. Pelican Panel is published under AGPL-3.0, an OSI-approved open-source license.
Is Pelican Panel still maintained?
Its health score is 79 of 100 (actively developed). It had 159 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 11 November 2026, and its latest release came out on 22 October 2026.
How do I run Pelican Panel?
You can run it with the Docker image ghcr.io/pelican/panel. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.
What is Pelican Panel written in?
Pelican Panel is written mainly in PHP (98% of the code), by GitHub’s count of the repository.
What languages is Pelican Panel available in?
The repository has interface translations for 26 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian.
What are the alternatives to Pelican Panel?
Close alternatives in the Games & game servers category include Pterodactyl, LinuxGSM, RomM.