| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Server Software | 8.8 (#2) | 7.7 (#12) |
| Performance | The project says its from-scratch codebase lets it revisit performance-critical areas and describes Allay as highly performant compared with almost all other server software. | The maker says Glowstone’s simpler, original implementation can improve performance over CraftBukkit and other servers. |
| Purpose | Allay is third-party server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, written from scratch to be reliable, fast, and feature-rich. | The project aims to provide a lightweight Bukkit API and Minecraft server when exact vanilla functionality is unnecessary or higher performance is desired. |
| Runtime | Allay requires Java 21; its installation guide recommends GraalVM for performance or OpenJDK for a familiar experience. | Glowstone is a standalone Java server executable that can be run from a terminal. |
| Versions | Allay describes itself as supporting multiple Minecraft versions. | The maker’s download page lists a release and latest build for Minecraft 1.12.2 and a development build for Minecraft 1.19. |