Top 7 Open-Source Alternatives to PandaSpigot

The top open-source alternatives to PandaSpigot are Sponge, PaperMC, and Magma Forge. 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.

Sponge Landing Page
1

Sponge

The purpose of the Sponge project is to create a plugin development framework for Minecraft.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Online Services 5 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
Magma Forge Landing Page
3

Magma Forge

Magma combines the functionality of both PaperMC and Minecraft Forge, allowing for the use of boths plugins and mods on one single server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Group Chat & Notifications #Cloud Hosting 3 social mentions
Glowstone Landing Page
4

Glowstone

A fast, customizable and compatible open source Minecraft server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Online Services 3 social mentions
Serverspace.io Landing Page
5

Serverspace.io

Serverspace offers automated, simple, and affordable cloud infrastructure to everyone. Get started building your cool digital stuff right now.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- $4.95 / Monthly (1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD, 50 Mbps Bandwidth)
#VPS #Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage 3 social mentions
Cuberite Landing Page
6

Cuberite

A custom Minecraft compatible game server written in C++.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Online Services 7 social mentions
Geyser Landing Page
7

Geyser

A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock edition.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Hosting #Cloud Hosting 235 social mentions