How much does a Minecraft server cost?
Between nothing and about a hundred euros a month, and the honest answer to which end you belong on is shorter than most pages make it: it depends on memory, and memory depends on mods far more than on how many friends you have. Here are the actual numbers, the monthly rate next to the term rate, and where free hosting is genuinely the better answer.
What each size costs
Two prices per row, because there is only one honest way to show this. The left one is what you pay a month on a twenty-four month term, which is the number this market advertises. The right one is what the same server costs if you want to leave whenever you like.
| Plan | Memory | Processor | On 24 months | Month to month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini | 4 GB | 2 vCPU | €6.99 a month | €8.49 a month |
| Starter | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | €8.79 a month | €10.99 a month |
| Standard | 12 GB | 6 vCPU | €13.59 a month | €16.99 a month |
| Premium | 24 GB | 8 vCPU | €23.99 a month | €29.99 a month |
| Ultimate | 48 GB | 12 vCPU | €47.99 a month | €59.99 a month |
| Enterprise | 64 GB | 16 vCPU | €67.99 a month | €84.99 a month |
| Dedicated | 96 GB | 18 vCPU | €87.99 a month | €109.99 a month |
What you actually need, and what that comes to
The table above is what things cost. This one is which row you are on. It is our own memory guide with the plan the chooser picks for each line, so the price next to it is the price of the server we would actually put you on.
| What you are running | Memory it wants | Plan | Cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanilla 1-5 playersLightweight survival or creative with friends | 2-4 GB | Mini | €6.99 a month |
| Vanilla 10-20 playersSmall community with plugins like EssentialsX | 4-8 GB | Starter | €8.79 a month |
| Light modpack (50 mods)Create, Cobblemon, or similar packs | 4-6 GB | Starter | €8.79 a month |
| Medium modpack (100-200 mods)All the Mods Lite, Better MC | 6-8 GB | Starter | €8.79 a month |
| Heavy modpack (300+ mods)All the Mods 10, RLCraft, Enigmatica | 8-12 GB | Standard | €13.59 a month |
| Large community (50+ players)Networks, events, or public servers | 16+ GB | Premium | €23.99 a month |
Notice what moves the number: mods, not people. Twenty players on a vanilla world sit two rows below five players on a heavy pack, and that is the single most useful thing to know before you spend anything.
What is included, so you can compare like for like
A backup every night on every plan, 10 of them kept, and the one that rolls off waits another 7 days in a bin you can restore straight out of. DDoS protection. A free subdomain to give your players. Our own panel, not a stock one. The AI Copilot, with credits included on every plan. None of that is an upgrade, which matters when you put two hosts side by side: a cheaper monthly price with backups sold separately is not a cheaper server.
And the case for paying nothing
Free Minecraft hosting exists, it works, and for a group that plays together on the same evenings it may be all you ever need. What it costs you is not features but availability: a queue when the capacity is busy, and a server that stops or sleeps once the last player leaves. The day that starts to hurt is the day this page becomes relevant, and not before. Aternos compared in full and Minehut compared in full, both with their own published limits rather than ours.
Questions about what a Minecraft server costs
How much does a Minecraft server cost per month?
On this host it runs from €6.99 a month for 4 GB and 2 vCPU up to €87.99 for 96 GB, on a twenty-four month term. Month to month the same sizes are €8.49 and €109.99. Across the market a small survival server for a handful of friends is a few euros a month and a modded server for a community is tens of euros; the number that moves the price is memory, because that is what a Minecraft server eats.
Is there a free Minecraft server?
Yes, and for a lot of groups it is the right answer. Free hosting is real hosting, paid for with shared capacity, so what you give up is uptime rather than features: you wait in a queue when it is busy, and the server stops or sleeps once nobody is on it. That is fine for a group that logs on together and it stops working the day something has to keep running while nobody watches. There is a full page on how the free hosts compare, built out of what they publish about themselves rather than out of what we would like you to think.
Why is the price all about RAM?
Because that is what runs out first. A Minecraft server keeps the loaded part of the world, every entity in it and everything your plugins hold in memory, and when it runs short it spends its time collecting garbage instead of ticking. Processor matters for what happens inside a tick, storage for how fast chunks load, but the number that decides whether your server feels fine or feels broken is almost always memory. That is why the first thing to work out is how much RAM you actually need, and the price follows from the answer instead of the other way round.
What costs extra?
Nightly backups do not: every server gets one every night, you keep 10 of them, and the one that rolls off waits another 7 days in a bin. The panel does not, DDoS protection does not, a free subdomain does not, and the AI Copilot does not, because every plan comes with credits included. What does cost extra is a bigger disk than the plan carries, a server in a region further from Europe, and a handful of optional add-ons, all priced on the configuration screen before you pay.
Why is the monthly price higher than the advertised one?
Because the advertised one is the twenty-four month rate, which is how this market prices. On Mini that is €6.99 against €8.49 month to month, so the longer term is about 18% cheaper per month. A term is charged for the term, so pick the length you actually want before you look at the number.
When do I need to pay for a bigger plan?
When the thing you are adding is memory-hungry, not when more people join. Twenty people on a vanilla world is cheap; five people on a three hundred mod pack is not. A modpack, a big plugin list and a world that has been explored for a year all push memory up, and player count pushes processor up long before it pushes memory. Rather than guess, answer four questions and get the size, which takes about a minute and costs nothing.
Does it cost anything to move my server here?
No. A Minecraft world is a folder, so it uploads through the file manager, and your plugins and their config files come with it as long as the server software matches. There is no migration fee and nothing to arrange in advance.
Where to go from here
Answer four questions and get the size How much RAM you actually need All host comparisons Everything included with every plan How the nightly backups work The AI Copilot and its credits View plans and prices Ask us a question first
Every amount on this page is read from our own price list when the page is built, so it moves when the prices move instead of being written down twice. The memory column comes from the same guide the chooser uses. Written 31 August 2026.