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paperclipvsPufferPanel

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

paperclipPufferPanel
Score88/10063/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#15 of 62 in Game Servers
GitHub stars108 2371 762
Stars, last 30 days+26 873+15
Stable releases, 12 months1010
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026v3.0.9 · 14 Jul 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptGo

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 63/100 for PufferPanel, so it is the safer default.

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

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