Benchmarks

Performance results for Calagopus, measured against five other panels on identical hardware. Each chart compares every panel across every test configuration.

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CPU limit1 CPU2 CPUs4 CPUs8 CPUs

peak throughput · 8c

245k req/s

245kCalagopus

177kPufferPanel

1,431FeatherPanel

1,170Pterodactyl

799Hydrodactyl

381Pelican

avg response · 8c

1.6 ms

1.6 msCalagopus

2.2 msPufferPanel

270 msFeatherPanel

333 msPterodactyl

491 msHydrodactyl

1066 msPelican

peak memory · 8c

92 MiB

77 MiBPufferPanel

92 MiBCalagopus

148 MiBPterodactyl

158 MiBHydrodactyl

261 MiBFeatherPanel

358 MiBPelican

Methodology

All panels run from their official :latest Docker images (as of 2026-07-21) with no configuration beyond initial setup. Runs are driven by our open-source benchmarking suite: each panel boots from its own Docker Compose stack and is swept across CPU-quota variants (1, 2, 4, and 8 CPUs) while container CPU and memory are sampled. Every scenario runs 384 concurrent connections for 10 seconds after a 1-second warmup, against three endpoints: public settings (unauthenticated), account details (authenticated), and the server list (authenticated). All panels keep their default rate limiting; high [429] counts on authenticated endpoints are expected.

Configurations are labeled <CPU> · <cores>c. The numbers on this page are the suite's JSON reports (pnpm run bench <panel> --json) checked into the site as typed data - anyone can reproduce a run and compare.

Test environments

Ryzen 9 9900XAMD Ryzen 9 9900X · DDR5-6000

panelpeak cpupeak mem

Calagopus812%84 MiB

FeatherPanel824%237 MiB

Hydrodactyl819%235 MiB

Pelican525%389 MiB

Pterodactyl818%212 MiB

PufferPanel548%119 MiB

EPYC 7443PAMD EPYC 7443P · DDR4-2666

panelpeak cpupeak mem

Calagopus758%138 MiB

FeatherPanel827%266 MiB

Hydrodactyl823%212 MiB

Pelican591%433 MiB

Pterodactyl816%194 MiB

PufferPanel588%120 MiB

2× Xeon E5-2680 v22× Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 · DDR3-1600

panelpeak cpupeak mem

Calagopus754%92 MiB

FeatherPanel826%229 MiB

Hydrodactyl817%237 MiB

Pelican553%441 MiB

Pterodactyl820%209 MiB

PufferPanel530%85 MiB

Core i5-12500Intel Core i5-12500 · DDR4-3200

panelpeak cpupeak mem

Calagopus550%137 MiB

FeatherPanel827%262 MiB

Hydrodactyl818%194 MiB

Pelican528%413 MiB

Pterodactyl819%238 MiB

PufferPanel472%116 MiB

Ampere Altra Q80-30Ampere Altra Q80-30 · DDR4-2133

panelpeak cpupeak mem

Calagopus367%80 MiB

FeatherPanel837%261 MiB

Hydrodactyl812%223 MiB

Pelican543%434 MiB

Pterodactyl813%206 MiB

PufferPanel570%77 MiB

Peaks are the highest values observed across all CPU configs and scenarios on that system.

Memory usage

Mean under load1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - less memory used while serving load.

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System	Calagopus (MiB)	FeatherPanel (MiB)	Hydrodactyl (MiB)	Pelican (MiB)	Pterodactyl (MiB)	PufferPanel (MiB)
9900X	71.0	216.4	155.5	278.4	141.9	70.8
EPYC 7443P	80.1	219.1	125	232.6	115.3	72.4
2× E5-2680v2	84.2	225.7	151.7	300.3	140.4	71.5
i5-12500	85.9	250.6	149.3	273.7	137.5	74.0
Altra Q80-30	35.5	256.1	151.4	295.5	140.5	76.4

Peak under load1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - smaller worst-case memory footprint.

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System	Calagopus (MiB)	FeatherPanel (MiB)	Hydrodactyl (MiB)	Pelican (MiB)	Pterodactyl (MiB)	PufferPanel (MiB)
9900X	84.3	221.3	158.3	327.5	147.9	71.9
EPYC 7443P	84.1	220.5	127.3	243	119	74.5
2× E5-2680v2	92.2	229.4	155.8	357.5	144	72.9
i5-12500	90.9	258.5	151.6	290.7	141.7	74.9
Altra Q80-30	39.7	261.3	154.2	296.9	144.1	77.0

Throughput

Scenario: settings (unauth)1c2c4c8c

↑ Higher is better - more requests served per second.

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System	Calagopus (req/s)	FeatherPanel (req/s)	Hydrodactyl (req/s)	Pelican (req/s)	Pterodactyl (req/s)	PufferPanel (req/s)
9900X	245043.5	1431.5	799.4	381.0	1169.7	177798.2
EPYC 7443P	107760.8	982.9	498.0	243.7	675.9	79998.5
2× E5-2680v2	61972.8	202.4	124.5	118.6	155.5	14958.6
i5-12500	114794.6	1065.3	508.1	276.2	735.7	130673.2
Altra Q80-30	5728.7	769.5	383.6	157.5	557.2	64732.2

Scenario: account (auth)1c2c4c8c

↑ Higher is better - more requests served per second.

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System	Calagopus (req/s)	FeatherPanel (req/s)	Hydrodactyl (req/s)	Pelican (req/s)	Pterodactyl (req/s)	PufferPanel (req/s)
9900X	222449.2	376.6	713.8	322.8	709.1	7203.6
EPYC 7443P	98073.4	312.5	537.8	196.6	639.7	3161.1
2× E5-2680v2	57753.4	144.5	120.8	83.3	163.8	737.8
i5-12500	101152.8	434.7	472.7	243.3	562.0	5292.9
Altra Q80-30	4944.8	142.4	415.8	127.2	537.5	1940.7

Scenario: list servers (auth)1c2c4c8c

↑ Higher is better - more requests served per second.

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System	Calagopus (req/s)	FeatherPanel (req/s)	Hydrodactyl (req/s)	Pelican (req/s)	Pterodactyl (req/s)	PufferPanel (req/s)
9900X	222592.8	884.0	523.0	332.9	721.6	4814.4
EPYC 7443P	101168.5	256.8	471.6	205.2	510.4	2297.3
2× E5-2680v2	59196.8	142.7	124.4	80.9	174.5	548.7
i5-12500	101442.6	291.7	441.2	240.7	548.3	3812.2
Altra Q80-30	4709.3	119.8	425.0	129.8	325.2	1374.2

Average latency

Scenario: settings (unauth)1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - faster average response.

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System	Calagopus (ms)	FeatherPanel (ms)	Hydrodactyl (ms)	Pelican (ms)	Pterodactyl (ms)	PufferPanel (ms)
9900X	1.6	269.6	491.3	1066.4	332.7	2.2
EPYC 7443P	3.5	392.0	798.7	1719.7	581.3	4.8
2× E5-2680v2	6.2	2084.0	3666.1	4010.5	2839.1	25.5
i5-12500	3.3	363.7	777.7	1506.9	534.7	2.9
Altra Q80-30	66.6	495.9	1046.6	2825.2	707.2	5.9

Scenario: account (auth)1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - faster average response.

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System	Calagopus (ms)	FeatherPanel (ms)	Hydrodactyl (ms)	Pelican (ms)	Pterodactyl (ms)	PufferPanel (ms)
9900X	1.7	1064.6	547.2	1264.4	556.1	53.2
EPYC 7443P	3.9	1262.2	737.7	2190.7	613.2	121.4
2× E5-2680v2	6.6	3252.5	3923.9	6926.2	2700.3	527.6
i5-12500	3.8	889.7	846.1	1728.2	698.8	72.6
Altra Q80-30	77.1	2996.1	959.7	3704.6	733.9	197.3

Scenario: list servers (auth)1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - faster average response.

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System	Calagopus (ms)	FeatherPanel (ms)	Hydrodactyl (ms)	Pelican (ms)	Pterodactyl (ms)	PufferPanel (ms)
9900X	1.7	443.6	761.7	1220.2	544.1	79.8
EPYC 7443P	3.8	1612.6	841.6	2079.4	775.6	167.5
2× E5-2680v2	6.5	3067.7	3803.5	7286.8	2464.7	725.0
i5-12500	3.8	1409.8	903.2	1731.1	723.5	101.0
Altra Q80-30	80.9	4291.4	938.8	3573.3	1230.8	280.1

p99 latency

Scenario: settings (unauth)1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - faster worst-case (p99) response.

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System	Calagopus (ms)	FeatherPanel (ms)	Hydrodactyl (ms)	Pelican (ms)	Pterodactyl (ms)	PufferPanel (ms)
9900X	4.0	403.6	834.8	2173.2	511.2	9.7
EPYC 7443P	9.5	572.7	1378.0	3179.2	955.2	19.2
2× E5-2680v2	15.8	3448.0	5789.4	6461.2	4485.7	141.2
i5-12500	10.4	534.5	1301.7	2671.2	856.7	10.1
Altra Q80-30	168.8	973.5	1770.9	4964.2	1091.6	18.7

Scenario: account (auth)1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - faster worst-case (p99) response.

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System	Calagopus (ms)	FeatherPanel (ms)	Hydrodactyl (ms)	Pelican (ms)	Pterodactyl (ms)	PufferPanel (ms)
9900X	4.4	1282.9	799.3	2339.0	812.2	135.6
EPYC 7443P	10.2	1840.4	1248.5	3750.9	1013.2	309.2
2× E5-2680v2	16.6	5851.7	6617.7	9304.8	4969.8	1347.8
i5-12500	12.0	1571.4	1537.6	3087.7	1230.8	186.7
Altra Q80-30	197.4	3709.1	1658.5	6298.7	1230.8	496.2

Scenario: list servers (auth)1c2c4c8c

↓ Lower is better - faster worst-case (p99) response.

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System	Calagopus (ms)	FeatherPanel (ms)	Hydrodactyl (ms)	Pelican (ms)	Pterodactyl (ms)	PufferPanel (ms)
9900X	4.3	631.4	1288.6	2132.8	968.0	175.7
EPYC 7443P	9.7	2790.7	1244.6	3732.4	1229.0	368.7
2× E5-2680v2	16.5	5343.5	6343.8	9487.3	4521.9	1666.5
i5-12500	11.4	2431.1	1393.1	3049.9	1337.5	221.2
Altra Q80-30	206.5	7426.3	1556.9	5973.2	1457.1	613.9

Detailed comparisons

Raw numbers are only part of the picture. For feature-by-feature breakdowns against specific panels, see Calagopus vs Pterodactyl, Calagopus vs Pelican, and Calagopus vs AMP.