What is Pelican?

Create static websites from text files using Markdown, reStructuredText, or HTML without requiring a database or server-side logic. Customize your site's appearance using Jinja2-based themes.

Independently observed

Pelican pricing

We don't have Pelican's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
Deployment
  • Self-hosted

Security & compliance

Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality

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Side by side against other static site generators, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Pelican, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 39 / 100
low · 21%updating
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Dependent projects590.063.7
Release cadence670.053.5
Stars780.032.0
Security score390.041.6
Capabilities00.080.0-
Integrations00.070.0-
Development activity00.090.0
Security posture00.070.0-
Package downloads00.140.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.060.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d0mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars13,337highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%
Dependent repos3,322highsource · 2026-08-26 · 85%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryPythonhighsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxAGPL-3.0highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-20 · 60%
Modelopen_sourcemediumsource · 2026-08-20 · 60%
Price levelfreemediumsource · 2026-08-20 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days60mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 70%
History20 itemsmediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 70%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Scorecard3.9highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%
VulnerabilitiesCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=pelican&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%