Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux



Hydrodactyl is described as 'Modern, performance-focused game server management panel forked from Pterodactyl. It delivers smaller bundles, faster builds, and an accessible, reimagined interface. It's development is funded by Blueprint, an organization that builds free and open-source' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hydrodactyl for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Self-Hosted, Web-based and Mac apps. The best Hydrodactyl alternative is Calagopus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hydrodactyl are Pterodactyl, FeatherPanel, Crafty Controller and MCSManager.



Bright Game Panel is a free and open source game server control panel. "BGPanel" utilizes many standard technologies available on many shared hosting platforms which gives all communities the ability to remotely control their game servers.



Game server control panel with 100+ templates, Docker isolation, mod management, and multi-node support. Free tier available.




ServerSheriff is a modern SaaS-based server panel that stands out through reliability, an intuitive interface, and full feature support.

Self-hostable dashboard centralizes administration of Pterodactyl, VPS, VDS, and Minecraft servers, featuring real-time console access, file management, one-click software installs, SSH/SFTP clients, plugin marketplace, versioning, and secure local credentials.




Realm is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Realm runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing an intuitive UI to end users.




A lightweight, open-source Windows application built on .NET 10 for easily creating, configuring, and managing local Minecraft servers.

Hajime is a free, open-source, cross-platform Minecraft server wrapper aiming to bring advanced features to the masses with easy setup, comprehensive functionality, and a pure CLI design.


Ultimate Game server Control Center, or UGCC, is a web based game server control panel for managing multiplayer based game servers. It is a game hosting panel targeted towards small game server providers (GSPs), clans and communities.



