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paperclipvsPelican Panel

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

paperclipPelican Panel
Score88/10064/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#13 of 62 in Game Servers
GitHub stars108 2372 413
Stars, last 30 days+26 873+83
Stable releases, 12 months100
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPHP

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 64/100 for Pelican Panel, so it is the safer default.

paperclip ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Pelican Panel.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+26 873 stars in 30 days).

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