No setup fees, no sneaky overage charges, no surprise renewal price. Every plan gets the same processor, the same fast storage and daily backups, so you are just choosing how much of the machine you want.
Hosting a Discord bot rather than a game server? Bot plans are here.
A real server to try properly. No card, no time limit, no nagging.
$0/mo
Free forever, no card required
Opening soon — first come, first served
Always on, room for mods, plenty for a regular group of friends.
$5/mo
Billed monthly, cancel anytime
Opening soon — first come, first served
For busy worlds and the big modpacks that eat smaller servers alive.
$12/mo
Billed monthly, cancel anytime
Opening soon — first come, first served
Cores that are yours alone, and twice Drift's memory. For the biggest modpacks and the busiest worlds.
$24/mo
Billed monthly, cancel anytime
Opening soon — first come, first served
Prices in USD. Annual billing charges ten months up front. Daily backups are included on every plan — see the terms for how they work.
| Feature | Free | Frost | Drift | Blizzard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Up to 1 vCPU | Up to 1 vCPU | Up to 3 vCPU | 2 dedicated cores |
| Core sharing | Shared | Shared | Shared | Yours alone |
| Memory | 1 GB | 4 GB | 5 GB | 10 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB NVMe | 20 GB NVMe | 45 GB NVMe | 80 GB NVMe |
| Players (guidance) | About 5, not enforced | About 8, not enforced | About 25, not enforced | No cap set by us |
| Backups | Daily, 1 kept | Daily, 3 kept | Daily, 3 kept | Daily, 3 kept |
| Availability | Naps when empty | Always on | Always on | Always on |
| Modpacks | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Price | Free | $5/mo | $12/mo | $24/mo |
Player numbers are guidance, not a limit we enforce. Nothing in our system counts your players or turns anyone away. Two different things set the ceiling: memory decides how much world and how many mods you can load at once, and processor decides how many people can be moving around in it before the tick rate suffers. A plain survival world fits far more people than a heavy modpack on the same plan, so treat these as a starting point and go one size up if you are near the edge.
A modern processor core can work on two things at once, and each of those halves is a vCPU. So 1 vCPU is roughly half a core's worth of work, and 3 vCPU is roughly one and a half cores'. On every plan that is a ceiling — the most your server may take — rather than a reservation held empty for you. It is what stops any one server, including someone else's, running away with the machine.
Blizzard is the exception. It gets two whole cores, pinned to your server and no one else's — both halves of each one, so nothing else runs on them at all. That is a reservation as well as a ceiling. It is also why there is exactly one Blizzard slot on the machine: cores that are reserved for you cannot be sold to anybody else, so we can only honestly sell one.
Every plan gets backed up daily. Paid plans keep the last three days, the free plan keeps yesterday. Charging people extra so they do not lose the world they spent six months building seemed like a rotten way to make money.
It sleeps when nobody is playing and wakes when someone joins, so an idle world costs us almost nothing to keep around. That is the entire trick, and it is also why there is no free tier for Discord bots — a bot has to stay awake to work. Same processor, same fast storage as everyone else.
Normal survival with a few friends: Free or Frost. Running a modpack, or more than about ten regulars: Drift. A proper community, a big modpack, or anything where lag would genuinely wind people up: Blizzard, which is also the only plan with cores nobody else shares. If you are unsure, start smaller. Moving up takes seconds and your world comes with you.
Yes. Your allowance is reserved for your server and nothing else can dip into it, so a busy weekend somewhere else on the machine does not quietly shrink what you have. We sell only what the hardware holds, which is why the plans stop where they do instead of advertising numbers that would need six servers to share one pool.
Yes. We just lift the limits on the server you already have. Your world, your plugins, your settings, your address, all untouched. Going back down works the same way, as long as your files fit in the smaller plan.
Then do not pay us. The free plan runs on the same processor as the paid ones specifically so you can find out before spending anything.
It keeps running until the end of the month you already paid for, then pauses. It is not deleted. You get time to download your world and backups before anything goes.
Start free, measure it, then upgrade in place if you like what you see.