Colyseus vs OpenLeaderboard
Colyseus
colyseus.io
OpenLeaderboard
openleaderboard.appSide by side
| Figure | Colyseus | OpenLeaderboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $15/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · Game Leaderboard Software | 9.3 (#3) | 7.4 (#30) |
| License | The repository is released under the MIT license, permitting commercial use, modification and redistribution with notices retained. | The project is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. |
| Open-source license | Colyseus describes the framework as MIT licensed and free for commercial games. | The site identifies the project as open source under Apache-2.0. |
| Self-hosting | Colyseus runs as a standard Node.js application and can be deployed on cloud providers or bare metal. | The project can be self-hosted, and its repository documents a Docker quickstart. |
| What it does | Colyseus is an open-source Node.js framework for authoritative multiplayer game servers with real-time synchronization and matchmaking. | OpenLeaderboard is an open-source leaderboard API for game developers to submit scores and retrieve player rankings. |
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In their own words
Colyseus
Colyseus is an open-source Node.js framework for building real-time multiplayer games, with built-in matchmaking and state synchronization. Its authoritative server design has clients send inputs while the server decides game outcomes. Developers define game state on the server, and Colyseus synchronizes it to clients without manual serialization. The framework creates rooms and matches players automatically; rooms can be distributed across processes or machines. The site says this can scale from 10 to 10,000+ concurrent users. SDKs or integrations are listed for JavaScript, Unity, Godot, GameMaker, Defold, Haxe, C, and Construct 3. The MIT-licensed framework is free for commercial games and can be self-hosted as a standard Node.js application on cloud services or bare metal. Colyseus Cloud provides deployment, scaling, and monitoring across 32 global locations. Its Cloud plan starts at $15/mo and includes email support, while the free Open Source plan includes community support. Cloud has no free tier or automatic scaling; heavier workloads require upgrading deployment resources through the dashboard.
OpenLeaderboard
OpenLeaderboard has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.