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dockwatchvsPelican Panel

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

dockwatchPelican Panel
Score51/10064/100
Rank in category#20 of 44 in Container Management#13 of 62 in Game Servers
GitHub stars3412 413
Stars, last 30 days—+83
Stable releases, 12 months120
Latest releasev0.6.617 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languagePHPPHP

Which one should you pick?

Pelican Panel scores 64/100 against 51/100 for dockwatch, so it is the safer default.

dockwatch ships more often: 12 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Pelican Panel.

Pelican Panel is growing faster right now (+83 stars in 30 days).

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