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PterodactylvsShinobi

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

PterodactylShinobi
Score75/10066/100
Rank in category#5 of 62 in Game Servers#3 of 24 in Video Surveillance
GitHub stars9 438—
Stars, last 30 days+184—
Stable releases, 12 months110
Latest releasev1.15.2 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languagePHP—

Which one should you pick?

Pterodactyl scores 75/100 against 66/100 for Shinobi, so it is the safer default.

Pterodactyl ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Shinobi.

Pterodactyl is growing faster right now (+184 stars in 30 days).

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