Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl is a PHP-based application that provides management panel for game servers, with an intuitive UI for end users.

NOASSERTION Free pterodactyl/panel · 8.7K pterodactyl.io PHP 1 deploy option Plugins

Overview

Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users. Pterodactyl is an open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users. The project has 9K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under NOASSERTION.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, plugins.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

Plugin / Extension System

Category

Gaming & Entertainment (57) Game Servers & Admin (23)

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