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heplifyvsPelican Panel

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

heplifyPelican Panel
Score49/10064/100
Rank in category#27 of 48 in Network Monitoring#13 of 62 in Game Servers
GitHub stars2222 413
Stars, last 30 days+0+82
Stable releases, 12 months110
Latest release2.0.28 · 4 Sept 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoPHP

Which one should you pick?

Pelican Panel scores 64/100 against 49/100 for heplify, so it is the safer default.

heplify ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Pelican Panel.

If you want the quickest setup, Pelican Panel is easier to run; heplify needs more configuration.

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

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