Stop paying rent on an empty world.
Servers metered in 12-minute increments. Start one when your friends are online, stop it when they log off, and pay nothing at all for the days nobody plays.
No card required · ≈7 hours of play on the 8 GB tier
Billing stopped. Nothing accrues while the server is off.
Server stopped. Session total $0.00. Billing rate is zero while stopped.
Demo runs at 60× speed. Real billing uses these exact 12-minute increments.
Two evenings a week costs about $17 a month.
That is six hours a week on the 8 GB tier, at $0.65 an hour. The month your group drifts off to another game, the same server costs you nothing, because there is nothing to bill.
- played per week
- 6 hrs
- per week
- $3.90
- per month
- $16.90
- a month you skip
- $0.00
Three things to know
- 01
Put credit on the account
Top up whenever you like — there is no subscription to cancel. $5 lands on your account free when you sign up, which is roughly seven hours on the 8 GB tier.
- 02
Start a server
Choose a version, a flavour, and a region. It is accepting connections in under two minutes, and the first 12-minute increment is charged as it boots.
- 03
Stop it when you are done
Hit stop, or leave idle shutdown on and it stops itself 10 to 15 minutes after the last player disconnects. Your world stays exactly where it was. Billing goes to zero.
Three sizes, billed by the increment
The 12-minute increment is the unit you are actually charged. Everything else in this table is derived from it.
Starter Pack | Most chosenFriend Group | Modded Kingdom | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per hour | $0.40 | $0.65 | $0.80 |
| Per 12 minbilled unit | $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.16 |
| Hours on $5 credit | 12.5 hrs | 7.7 hrs | 6.3 hrs |
| CPU | 2 vCPU | 4 vCPU | 4 vCPU |
| Memory | 4 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB SSD | 50 GB SSD | 100 GB SSD |
| Players | 2–4 | 4–8 | 8+ |
| Best for | Vanilla survival, light plugins | Plugin servers, steady framerate | Heavy modpacks, events, automation |
| Start Starter Pack | Start Friend Group | Start Modded Kingdom |
Starter Pack
$0.40/hr- Per 12 min
- $0.08
- Hours on $5 credit
- 12.5 hrs
- CPU
- 2 vCPU
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 25 GB SSD
- Players
- 2–4
- Best for
- Vanilla survival, light plugins
Friend Group
$0.65/hr- Per 12 min
- $0.13
- Hours on $5 credit
- 7.7 hrs
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 50 GB SSD
- Players
- 4–8
- Best for
- Plugin servers, steady framerate
Modded Kingdom
$0.80/hr- Per 12 min
- $0.16
- Hours on $5 credit
- 6.3 hrs
- CPU
- 4 vCPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 100 GB SSD
- Players
- 8+
- Best for
- Heavy modpacks, events, automation
What is already working
Shipped and in use today. We would rather list eight real things than twenty aspirational ones.
Start and stop on demand
No reservation, no warm-up window. Boot when the group is online.
Versions and flavours
Pick your Minecraft version and server type at creation. Mods and plugins supported.
Backup and restore
Snapshot on demand, roll back from the dashboard when an experiment goes sideways.
US and EU regions
us-east-1 or eu-west-1, chosen per server so latency lands where your players are.
Self-healing checks
Health checks catch most crashes and bring the server back without you noticing.
Idle shutdown
On by default. Stops an empty server so it cannot quietly drain your credit.
Resize in one click
Move between tiers as your world grows. The same world, at a new rate.
SFTP file access
Reach the server files directly for configs, datapacks, and manual modpack work.
Four screens, no learning curve
The whole product is a handful of screens. Here they are, unretouched.
Server Management Dashboard
Every server, its state, and what it has cost you so far — on one screen. Start and stop from the same row.
Quick Server Setup
Pick a version, a flavour, and a region. The price per hour is shown before you commit, not after.
Server Details & Monitoring
Live performance and player activity per server, with the configuration you can change while it runs.
Real-time Cost Tracking
Where the credit went, broken down by server and by hour, with your remaining balance up top.
Your first seven hours are on us.
$5 of credit lands on your account at signup. No card, no trial countdown, no plan to remember to cancel.
Create accountThe things people ask before signing up
Billing & credits
How the meter works and what happens to money you have not spent.
Pre-paid credit, drawn down in 12-minute increments while a server runs. Starting a server charges the first increment immediately; after that you are charged once per 12 minutes until you stop it. On the $0.65/hr tier, each increment is $0.13.
At start, then every 12 minutes of runtime. Nothing accrues while a server is stopped — there is no idle fee, no reservation fee, and no monthly minimum.
Yes. Unused pre-paid credit is refundable on request. Promotional credit, including the $5 signup bonus, is not.
Your server
Versions, mods, sizing, backups, and the settings that save you credit.
Yes. You choose the version and the server flavour at creation time. Large modpacks want more memory — the 16 GB tier exists for exactly that.
4 GB handles a small vanilla group with light plugins. 8 GB is the sweet spot for 4 to 8 players on a plugin server. Go to 16 GB for heavy modpacks, big builds, or automation-heavy worlds.
Yes, in one click. Resizing up or down keeps your world; you just start billing at the new rate.
You create backups on demand and restore them yourself from the dashboard. We also keep periodic internal backups as a safety net — those are reachable through support if something goes badly wrong.
By default, yes. Idle shutdown stops the server 10 to 15 minutes after the last player disconnects so it stops drawing credit. Someone has to start it again from the dashboard before players can rejoin.
Reliability & support
What happens when something breaks, and who picks up.
We monitor server health continuously and target high availability. We are still scaling the platform, so occasional maintenance windows happen and we announce them in Discord.
Most crashes are recovered automatically by our self-healing checks. If yours does not come back, restart it from the dashboard. If it still will not run, contact support and we will read the logs and restore your latest backup if it comes to that.
Email support during business hours, plus a Discord where you will usually get a faster answer. Critical incidents are monitored outside hours.