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excalidrawvsPelican Panel

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

excalidrawPelican Panel
Score91/10064/100
Rank in category#1 of 9 in Whiteboarding#13 of 62 in Game Servers
GitHub stars134 7502 413
Stars, last 30 days+2 008+83
Stable releases, 12 months10
Latest releasev0.18.1 · 21 Apr 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPHP

Which one should you pick?

excalidraw scores 91/100 against 64/100 for Pelican Panel, so it is the safer default.

excalidraw ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Pelican Panel.

excalidraw is growing faster right now (+2 008 stars in 30 days).

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