Astroworld vs Minehut

Side by Side

Right-hand column: what that host publishes. It changes without telling us. Middle column: read from our own price list.

Ten slots, and a server that sleeps

Minehut publishes its own limits clearly, which makes this an easy comparison to write honestly. Free is free, with no card and no playtime limit, and the free tier comes with ten player slots. Servers sleep when they are empty and wake up when somebody tries to join. Their paid steps are where those two loosen: more slots up to no cap, memory up to 14 GB, room for more plugins, and on the top plan a server that runs around the clock instead of sleeping. So the real question is not free against paid, it is which paid. Ours starts at 4 GB in Mini from €6.99 a month with 2 vCPU named on the page, no cap on how many people can be on at once, and no sleeping to switch off, because there is none. The sleeping is worth one more line, because it sounds harmless. A server that wakes when somebody joins is fine for a survival world. It is not fine for anything that has to keep running while nobody is watching, which is most of what people build once they get good: farms, timers, a scheduled restart, a plugin that posts to Discord.

The memory guide has those rows in full.

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Summary

Ten slots and a sleeping server is a genuinely good free tier, and for a small group that plays together it may be all you ever need. Compare us with their paid steps rather than their free one: that is where you are choosing between two bills, and where a stated core count, memory that does not have to be bought a gigabyte at a time, and no slot cap start to matter.