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Pelican Panelvspidoors

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

Pelican Panelpidoors
Score64/10036/100
Rank in category#13 of 62 in Game Servers#69 of 78 in Security
GitHub stars2 41326
Stars, last 30 days+82+0
Stable releases, 12 months019
Latest release—v0.4.11 · 12 Sept 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0—
Main languagePHPPHP

Which one should you pick?

Pelican Panel scores 64/100 against 36/100 for pidoors, so it is the safer default.

pidoors ships more often: 19 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Pelican Panel.

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

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

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