Top 5 Open-Source Alternatives to Apex Minecraft Hosting

Product categories

Cloud Hosting Game Servers Gaming Group Chat & Notifications Hosting Online Services Open Source Realtime Backend / API Server Management VPS

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Apex Minecraft Hosting are Pterodactyl, PaperMC, and Pufferpanel. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Pterodactyl Landing Page
1

Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl is the free game server management panel designed by users, for users.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Game Servers #Server Management 148 social mentions
PaperMC Landing Page
2

PaperMC

Paper is a fork of the Spigot server implementation (which is itself a fork of CraftBukkit). Paper strives to bring improved performance, more features, and more APIs for developers to build awesome plugins with.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Gaming 178 social mentions
Pufferpanel Landing Page
3

Pufferpanel

It's made for hosting your Minecraft server. It's open source.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Group Chat & Notifications #Realtime Backend / API 5 social mentions
Application Management Panel (AMP) Landing Page
4

Application Management Panel (AMP)

AMP is an easy to install, self-hosted, web-based management panel for game servers. It supports dozens of applications including Minecraft, CS:GO, Rust, 7 Days to Die, Starbound, Factorio and many more. Supports both Windows and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Realtime Backend / API #VPS 2 social mentions
MCSManager Landing Page
5

MCSManager

Distributed, Docker-supported, Multilingual, and Lightweight control panel for Minecraft server and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming #Realtime Backend / API