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CMS Made SimplevsPelican Panel

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

CMS Made SimplePelican Panel
Score64/10064/100
Rank in category#11 of 42 in Content Management#13 of 62 in Game Servers
GitHub stars—2 413
Stars, last 30 days—+82
Stable releases, 12 months00
Latest release——
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main language—PHP

Which one should you pick?

CMS Made Simple and Pelican Panel score the same (64/100), so the choice comes down to the details below.

Pelican Panel is growing faster right now (+82 stars in 30 days).

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