| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Server Software | 8.8 (#2) | 7.2 (#19) |
| License | The project says its content is generally open source under LGPL-3.0, while its data and codegen folders use MIT. | The project says Sponge is licensed under the MIT license. |
| Plugin distribution | AllayHub lets users discover plugins and automatically indexes their GitHub repositories, syncing README files, releases, changelogs, and version history. | Ore is SpongePowered’s platform for distributing and downloading plugins, and its page links to an Ore API. |
| Purpose | Allay is third-party server software for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, written from scratch to be reliable, fast, and feature-rich. | Sponge is a community-driven open-source modding platform for Minecraft: Java Edition. |
