# Pterodactyl

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.

Repository: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pterodactyl
Homepage: https://pterodactyl.io
Language: PHP
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: laravel, opensource, mit, docker, free, tailwindcss, react, typescript, golang, games, management-system, php
Last push: 2026-08-14T20:17:23+00:00
Link (homepage): https://pterodactyl.io
Link (site_page): https://pterodactyl.io/project/introduction.html
Link (site_page): https://pterodactyl.io/community/about.html
Link (site_page): https://pterodactyl.io/project/about.html
Link (site_page): https://pterodactyl.io/wings/1.0/installing.html

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3923, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": 19, "gap_med": 18, "n_releases_24m": 14}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9178, forks 2662 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:28.749390+00:00)

## What it is
Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. It runs game servers in isolated Docker containers with strict resource limits and exposes a secure, user-friendly web UI for administrators and players.

## Use cases
- host a minecraft server with a web panel
- manage multiple game servers from one dashboard
- run a game server hosting company
- isolate game servers in docker containers
- give players self-service game server control
- host teamspeak or cs:go servers at scale

## When to choose
- you need a secure, scalable panel for running many game servers
- you want per-server docker isolation and resource limits
- you run a hosting business or community network of game servers

## When to avoid
- you only need a single game server with no multi-user management
- your host runs Windows or LXC/OpenVZ virtualization without nested container support
- you need a general-purpose VPS control panel rather than game servers

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, container-runtime, deployment, gui, self-hosted, developer-tools
- domain: gaming-tools, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, go, php, python
- tags: game-server-management, docker-orchestration, hosting-panel, minecraft, control-panel, wings-daemon, devops, containers, linux, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- pterodactyl/panel (main) score 98
- pterodactyl/wings (backend) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:28.749390+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:23:21.534293+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:28.749390+00:00, sha 76b161266953)
  - homepage: https://pterodactyl.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:23:25.406346+00:00, sha d505a891fcb8)
  - site_page: https://pterodactyl.io/community/about.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:23:25.417747+00:00, sha 6da391ca77db)
  - site_page: https://pterodactyl.io/project/about.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:23:25.419373+00:00, sha ec47a0b4c80b)
  - site_page: https://pterodactyl.io/wings/1.0/installing.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:23:25.429617+00:00, sha 388f5421b3ba)
  - site_page: https://pterodactyl.io/project/introduction.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:23:25.415855+00:00, sha c686c25b0333)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.