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Pelican PanelvsWuzAPI

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

Pelican PanelWuzAPI
Score64/10057/100
Rank in category#13 of 62 in Game Servers#7 of 14 in Messaging
GitHub stars2 4131 046
Stars, last 30 days+82+0
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—v1.1.0 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languagePHPGo

Which one should you pick?

Pelican Panel scores 64/100 against 57/100 for WuzAPI, so it is the safer default.

WuzAPI ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Pelican Panel.

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

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