Pricing
You pay for the hours you actually play
There's no plan to choose and no monthly fee to forget about. A server that ran for six hours this month costs you six hours. Below you can work out roughly what that means for your group.
Billed by the hour
The meter runs while your server is on, and the rate depends on the size you chose. Nothing is rounded up to a day or a month.
No subscription, no minimum
Nothing to cancel, no tier to be locked into, and no charge at all in a month where you didn't play.
One bill, once a month
We total your hours at the end of the calendar month and charge your saved card once. You can see the running total any time.
What would it cost you?
Three questions, none of them technical. We'll pick the server size that suits your group and show you the working.
We size the server from this — you never have to think in gigabytes.
Closest to your group, not to you. It affects both lag and price.
Currently estimating 8 hours a week.
Roughly, per month
$4.85
- Hourly rate
- $0.14
- Server we'd give you
- 2 vCPU · 4 GB · London
$0.14 an hour × 8 hours a week × 4.33 weeks in an average month.
See Minecraft Java in detailThe same server, played more or less
| If you play | Per month |
|---|---|
| 4 hours a week | $2.43 |
| 8 hours a week | $4.85 |
| 16 hours a week | $9.71 |
| 28 hours a week | $16.99 |
| Left running all month | $101.92 |
That bottom row is the one worth looking at. Leaving a server running when nobody is on it is the only way to spend real money here, and it's why stopping it matters.
An estimate, not a quote. Prices shown are the Default tier and update live as you change the answers above.
What that figure does and doesn't cover
We'd rather you found this out here than on a bill.
Included, no extra charge
- Setting the server up and keeping it running
- The address your friends connect to
- Moving to a bigger or smaller size whenever you like
- Downloading your world whenever you want a copy
- Support, by Discord, email or the contact form
Not in the figure above
- Keeping your world saved. Stopping a server stops the hourly charge above, but we're still holding your world, and that carries a small separate charge for as long as the server exists. Deleting it is what stops everything.
- Tax. Any VAT or sales tax that applies where you live is added on top.
The storage rate isn't published yet, so we've left it out of the estimate rather than guess at it. It is small next to the hourly cost, but it isn't nothing, and you shouldn't have to discover it.
Every game, cheapest size first
Quoted in London on the Default tier. Each game's page explains why its sizes are what they are.
| Game | Sizes | From, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Minecraft Bedrock | 4 | $0.07 |
| Minecraft Java | 6 | $0.07 |
| Hytale | 4 | $0.14 |
| Minecraft RLCraft | 4 | $0.14 |
| Project Zomboid | 5 | $0.14 |
| Valheim | 3 | $0.14 |
| Minecraft BetterMC 4 | 5 | $0.15 |
| Minecraft Cursed Walking | 5 | $0.15 |
| Minecraft Prominence 2 | 5 | $0.15 |
| Minecraft ATM 10 | 5 | $0.16 |
No card needed to look around
You only need a payment method when you start your first server, and you're charged from the moment it's running — not before.