Pterodactyl
Pterodactyl is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Game Servers category, licensed MIT and written mainly in PHP. It ships a Docker image. It has 9,421 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 21, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 9,421
- Forks
- 2,739
- Open issues
- 123
- Commits, last 12 months
- 95
- Last commit
- Oct 21, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.15.2Oct 21, 2026
- Created
- Dec 6, 2015
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 21, 2026, 95 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases8 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 21, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 95 |
| Latest release | v1.15.2 (Oct 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 8 |
| Releases, all time | 141 |
| Open issues | 123 |
| Open pull requests | 74 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 6, 2015 |
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About Pterodactyl
Management panel for game servers, with an intuitive UI for end users.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/pterodactyl/panel.
Topics
- laravel
- opensource
- mit
- docker
- free
- tailwindcss
- react
- typescript
- golang
- games
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Is Pterodactyl free and open source?
Yes. Pterodactyl is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Pterodactyl with Docker?
Yes. Pterodactyl provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Pterodactyl?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Pterodactyl include Sunshine, RomM and LinuxGSM.
Is Pterodactyl actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Pterodactyl was on Oct 21, 2026 with 95 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.15.2, published Oct 21, 2026. It had 123 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.