| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Server Software | 8.8 (#2) | 8.2 (#5) |
| API | Allay's API is published to Maven Central, with snapshot versions available through Sonatype's central snapshot repository. | Leaves extends and improves the Bukkit, Spigot, and Paper APIs. |
| 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. | Leaves says it has improvements and optimizations for large redstone machines and game features. |
| Plugin development | The project provides a Gradle plugin and Java, Kotlin, and Scala plugin templates. | The README documents Leaves API and server dependencies and says using Leaves as a dependency requires building it yourself. |
| Purpose | Allay is third-party server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, written from scratch to be reliable, fast, and feature-rich. | LeavesMC says its software balances experience and performance and is intended to help players enjoy Minecraft. |
| Setup | Allay is intended to be ready to use out of the box, and the project provides deployment documentation. | Users download and install the server software, then consult the project documentation to get started. |