| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Server Software | 8.8 (#2) | 7.1 (#20) |
| Installation | Allay can be installed with AllayLauncher on Windows and Linux, or downloaded as a shaded JAR and run manually. | The download page describes Pumpkin as a self-contained executable with no Java requirement or installer. |
| License | The project says its content is generally open source under LGPL-3.0, while its data and codegen folders use MIT. | The maker describes the whole server as open source under GPL-3.0. |
| 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 site says Pumpkin starts in 5 ms and uses about 100 MB of memory with a world loaded. |
| Plugin languages | Allay supports plugins written in Java, Kotlin, and Scala. | The homepage lists Rust, Kotlin, Python, Go, C#, C, D, Zig, and TypeScript for plugins. |
| Plugins | Plugins can be written in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or another JVM-based language. | The site lists plugin development in Rust, Kotlin, Python, Go, C#, C, C++, D, Zig, and TypeScript. |
| Purpose | Allay is third-party server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, written from scratch to be reliable, fast, and feature-rich. | Pumpkin is a Minecraft server written in Rust. |
