| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 0 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Server Software | 7.7 (#12) | 7.1 (#20) |
| Performance | The maker says Glowstone’s simpler, original implementation can improve performance over CraftBukkit and other servers. | The site says Pumpkin starts in 5 ms and uses about 100 MB of memory with a world loaded. |
| Product | Glowstone is a lightweight, open-source Minecraft server written in Java for Minecraft: Java Edition. | Pumpkin is a Minecraft server written in Rust. |
| Purpose | The project aims to provide a lightweight Bukkit API and Minecraft server when exact vanilla functionality is unnecessary or higher performance is desired. | Pumpkin is a Minecraft server written in Rust. |
| Support | The maker directs users to its documentation, FAQ, and Discord chat for help. | The download page directs users to Discord for help if the server does not start. |
