Minecraft hosting pricing
Pay metered for the time your server is awake, or a flat monthly rate to keep it online all day. By default a metered server sleeps 8 minutes after the last player leaves, and you can change that per server. Both plans get the same reserved CPU, and you can switch or leave at any time.
Metered
- Scale-to-zero + wake-on-join
- Guaranteed CPU, not oversold
- Live TPS/MSPT on tick-capable cores
- Web console, file manager, backups
- Suits irregular play
Flat 24/7
- Server online around the clock
- Guaranteed CPU, not oversold
- Tiers from 2 GB to 16 GB ($48/mo)
- Everything in Metered
Event
- Beefy cores under load
- Spun up for your date/time
- Velocity network on request
- Pay only for the event window
Pricing estimate (USD), not a quote. Metered bills active GB-hours; Flat bills each UTC day a server runs.
Price and CPU by RAM tier
| Memory | Flat / month | Guaranteed CPU | Bursts up to | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 GB | $6/mo | 0.25 CPU | 1 CPU | Vanilla/Paper, small group |
| 4 GB | $12/mo | 0.5 CPU | 2 CPU | Vanilla/Paper, small group |
| 8 GB | $24/mo | 1 CPU | 2 CPU | Plugins, busy SMP |
| 16 GB | $48/mo | 1.5 CPU | 3 CPU | Big modpacks, events |
| 24 GB (on request) | $72/mo | 3 CPU | 6 CPU | Premium tier, on request |
| 32 GB (on request) | $96/mo | 4 CPU | 8 CPU | Premium tier, on request |
CPU is the same on Metered and Flat. 1 CPU = the time of one hardware thread of an AMD Ryzen 7 9700X (Zen 5). The guaranteed share is what admission control reserves for your server: guarantees on a node never add up to more than 6.5 CPU on an 8-core box, and a server that doesn't fit is placed on another node or refused. "Bursts up to" is a hard cap your server can reach while its neighbours are idle. It uses spare capacity and isn't guaranteed.
Metered is $0.012/active GB-hour, so a 4 GB server awake 5 h/day costs far less than flat. Estimate, not a quote. Metered bills per active GB-hour; Flat bills each UTC day a server runs.
Self-serve create goes up to 16 GB. 24 GB and 32 GB are available on request: contact us on Discord or reach support.
How the two plans differ
A monthly tier is billed whether anyone logs in or not. That suits a server that is busy all day. For a world a few friends visit in the evenings it's a poor fit, so there are two ways to pay here. Both get the same reserved CPU, the same panel and the same metrics.
Metered charges $0.012 per GB-hour for the time the server is awake. An empty metered server shuts itself down and starts again when a player connects, so you aren't billed for the hours it sleeps. The join itself wakes the server, so nobody has to remember to start it. The wait before it sleeps (8 minutes by default, and you can change it per server) counts as awake time.
Flat charges $3.00 per GB of RAM a month, billed for each UTC day the server runs. A day it stays stopped isn't charged. The server stays up around the clock, so it answers at any hour. Flat comes out cheaper once a metered bill would have added up to a full month, and it suits anything that must not stop, like a proxy in front of a network.
On either plan, CPU is reserved for each running server and not sold twice: admission control won't put a server on a node without room for it. We measured what sharing a core costs. Whichever plan you pick, you can price your own hours in the calculator, resize from the panel later, and take your world with you if you leave.
Billing questions
Still unsure which plan fits? Ask us, or read how this compares to other hosts.
Start a server and watch its tick yourself
Top up by card or PayPal. A sleeping metered server bills nothing.