# Pterodactyl Panel Reviews **Vendor:** Pterodactyl Team **Category:** [Container Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-management) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 6 ## About Pterodactyl Panel Pterodactyl is the open-source game server management panel built with PHP7, Nodejs, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to administrators and users. Stop wasting time fiddling with other systems-make game servers a first class citizen on your platform. ## Pterodactyl Panel Reviews ### 1. The best Open Source GamePanel **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas B. | Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Pterodactyl Panel?** Pterodactyl is for me the best game panel at the moment, Pterodactyl provides us with everything we need to manage our game servers, the community of this panel is also incredible and many addons are available to make the panel more beautiful **What do you dislike about Pterodactyl Panel?** I did not find any defect for Pterodactyl. **Recommendations to others considering Pterodactyl Panel:** Do not hesitate to use Pterodactyl **What problems is Pterodactyl Panel solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pterodactyl allows me to provide game servers to my customers quickly, in a few seconds I can create a server for my customer. ### 2. Game manager and server upload **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesus A. | Software and Security Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Pterodactyl Panel?** I like to manage the load of my applications on the server, application correction, and remote connection. **What do you dislike about Pterodactyl Panel?** Personally I require another type of connection to the server through the system to avoid installing other unnecessary programs that slow down my system. **What problems is Pterodactyl Panel solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage personal applications written in PHP code and immediate system response. ### 3. The Best AlO Panel **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric J. | Cybersecurity, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Pterodactyl Panel?** One of the best feature in Pterodactyl must be that it keeps all applications in Dockers aka containers. It helps contain memory usage, CPU usage, and security. Let's say if an application has a memory leak, it will not keep consuming the computer's entire memory. The Pterodactyl docker is what keeps it contained, whatever amount of memory and storage you allocate to it. Containers are also easy to sterilize in case of an accident. **What do you dislike about Pterodactyl Panel?** I do not like the dark mode theme on Pterodactyl. I wish they can make a light mode, so it's better to see in the day. Plus, some people have disability conditions that do not allow them to read white text over a dark background easily. I have requested them for a light theme, but they won't ship it in releases. They just tell you to modify the files and make our own theme. **What problems is Pterodactyl Panel solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Pterodactyl Panel, we can have peace of mind when it comes to running questionable applications or malicious code. We have our customers run many programs, java, python, ruby, in Pterodactyl Panel. We can be sure that our system will not get infected with viruses because these programs are isolated in docker containers. The benefits are that it's easy to destroy and create containers with just a few clicks. This has greatly saved us time because we don't have to factory reset the OS every time, which even takes longer. We also realized better security because we know some clients can accidentally run infected applications, but with Pterodactyl Panel, removal is as easy as destroying the container. ### 4. Great panel to oversee all of your running servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Noah M. | Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Pterodactyl Panel?** I love the CPU core pinning feature in Pterodactyl. It dedicates specific cores to the process instead of splitting the load across all cores. This manages the CPU usage efficiently without having to worry about a process hanging up or hogging all the system resources due to an eror. Pterodactyl also has an OOM killer option, which is really great in case your program overuses the system memory. We also have the option to view all nodes and allocated memory per node, which prevents us from over allocating or using too much resources because we know what is on there first. **What do you dislike about Pterodactyl Panel?** I don't like the dark mode in Pterodactyl Panel. I know it could be changed with a theme, but if they could ship it with light mode or make the Panel template easier to change instead of rebuilding the panel files every time you edit something, then this would be better for us. I also don't like the frequency of daemon releases in Pterodactyl panel because of a "security issue" or something. It was called Daemon before, and now it's called "wings"? I kind of feel like the updates are too often but that's alright with me. **What problems is Pterodactyl Panel solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run Python and NodeJS applications on Pterodactyl Panel. Some badly built programs of our can often overuse memory and cause a slowdown on our system but Pterodactyl limits what it's allowed to use, so it's all managed for us. Pterodactyl panel also allows us to oversee multiple instances easily so we know which one is running. It helps us organize our running processes and servers, and reduces the hassle of complicated management. ### 5. Free and UI is AMAZING! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark J. | Presenter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Pterodactyl Panel?** What I like best about Pterodactyl Panel is the fact of the beautiful design the team has made for the panel. The Pterodactyl Panel has great features from the user side to admin side of the panel. Pterodactyl Panel provides a summary page of all the server nodes with its current CPU, memory and other usage information useful to the logged in administrator. It can help with repairs and etc. Another great feature is the use of community themes. You can use themes for the panel which has its ups and downs. Mostly a good feature because the person installing the panel may not like the standard theme so installing a theme adds a more personalized experience for the company to the user instead of an overused theme across other hosting companies. **What do you dislike about Pterodactyl Panel?** I personally dislike that Pterodactyl Panel only allows SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) which gets customers confused. YES, it's secure and that's a GREAT feature but customers aren't familiar with SFTP and creates confusion which ends up having support tickets opened on how to process file transfers across their personal servers. **Recommendations to others considering Pterodactyl Panel:** It's open-source. It's definitely a good option for administrators to go with. **What problems is Pterodactyl Panel solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving a panel for game servers that is easy to setup and use for our customers needs. The panel has features that allows WHMCS to be integrated and have an auto-setup for the panel which then emails the customer with login details instead of the traditional manual setup and having a staff member email the user their login details. ### 6. Very nice and has great support! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex M. | Disputes and Claims Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Pterodactyl Panel?** I LOVE Pterodactyl Panel hands down. It's literally one of the best and easy panel's out there for game server hosting and our customers enjoy using it. This panel supports many different games. Unlike Multicraft and TCAdmin it can support almost all games in one panel while multicraft only supports Minecraft. This is very beneficial to use since we don't have to have 2 different panels set up for our customers. Not only that, TCAdmin looks very bad and outdated. **What do you dislike about Pterodactyl Panel?** So far I have no complaints about Pterodactyl Panel, although I'm still getting used to and am new to the software so I'm sure something will arise. So far, though, no complaints. **Recommendations to others considering Pterodactyl Panel:** I would get it in a heartbeat. :) **What problems is Pterodactyl Panel solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our customers are able to login to one panel for all their server needs whether they have multiple game servers or 1, they have one link to follow and see all their servers that they currently have purchased. We have seen tremendous feedback from our customers saying they like this panel because of how much more modern it looks and that it's not finicky like all the other panels out there. I'd agree with them on that part. Also, Pterodactyl Panel allows auto-provisioning which is a MUST for businesses like our so that a staff member doesn't have to be online just to set up a server for our customers every single time someone orders a plan with us. It's a hassle and very inconvenient for customers to have to go through that. ## Pterodactyl Panel Discussions - [What port does pterodactyl panel use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-port-does-pterodactyl-panel-use) - [Are pterodactyl panels safe?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/are-pterodactyl-panels-safe) - [How does pterodactyl panel work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-pterodactyl-panel-work) - [hi](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26921-hi) - 1 upvote - [View Pterodactyl Panel pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/pterodactyl-panel/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-20+14%3A22%3A40+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b53bdb68-4c6f-4cf2-9855-30b56e14b8b4&secure%5Btoken%5D=bf584be6555585b73e5fd16e9baf837a5354f2cde508adb4f6aad3d312acbd34&format=llm_user) ## Pterodactyl Panel Features **Management** - Access Control - Network Isolation - File Isolation **Organization** - Packaging - Container Networking - Orchestration **Development** - Developer Toolkit - Architecture - Datacenter - Virtualization ## Top Pterodactyl Panel Alternatives - [Portainer](https://www.g2.com/products/portainer/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (292 reviews) - [Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (215 reviews) - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (736 reviews)