Minecraft server cost per month by RAM
A Minecraft server costs €1.60 a month for 2 GB and €51.20 for 64 GB at Cheapest Minecraft Hosting, which charges €0.80 per GB at every size. At Lodehost and Astroworld Hosting the price per GB falls as the plans get bigger, and daily backups are included:
| RAM | Astroworld Hosting | Lodehost | Cheapest Minecraft Hosting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 GB | No Java plan of this size | €5.95 Camp | €1.60 Mini |
| 4 GB | €7.95 Mini | €7.95 Mini | €3.20 Starter |
| 8 GB | €12.95 Starter | €12.95 Starter | €6.40 Plus |
| 12 GB | €16.95 Standard | €16.95 Standard | €9.60 Builder |
| 16 GB | €40.95 Advanced Performance | No Java plan of this size | €12.80 Pro |
| 24 GB | €23.95 Premium | €23.95 Premium | €19.20 Crew |
| 32 GB | No Java plan of this size | No Java plan of this size | €25.60 Guild |
| 48 GB | €46.95 Ultimate | €46.95 Ultimate | €38.40 Realm |
| 64 GB | €62.95 Enterprise | No Java plan of this size | €51.20 Empire |
Each price is the lowest monthly price for a Java plan of that size, paying month by month, in Germany or, for plans that only run there, in Poland. At 4 GB the Performance line, with reserved Ryzen 9 threads, costs the same €7.95 as the standard line at both hosts. From 8 GB it costs about €2 per GB, against about €1 to €1.60 per GB on the standard line.
Minecraft server cost by number of players
A Minecraft server for 5 players costs from €3.20 a month on vanilla, for 10 players from €6.40 with plugins and for 20 players from €9.60 with plugins, because the price follows the RAM the group needs:
| Players online | Vanilla | Plugins | Modded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 5 | 4 GB, €3.20 €0.64 per player | 8 GB, €6.40 €1.28 per player | 8 GB, €6.40 €1.28 per player |
| 6 to 10 | 8 GB, €6.40 €0.64 per player | 8 GB, €6.40 €0.64 per player | 12 GB, €9.60 €0.96 per player |
| 11 to 20 | 12 GB, €9.60 €0.48 per player | 12 GB, €9.60 €0.48 per player | 16 GB, €12.80 €0.64 per player |
| 21 to 30 | 12 GB, €9.60 €0.32 per player | 24 GB, €19.20 €0.64 per player | 24 GB, €19.20 €0.64 per player |
| 31 to 50 | 24 GB, €19.20 €0.38 per player | 32 GB, €25.60 €0.51 per player | 32 GB, €25.60 €0.51 per player |
| 76 to 100 | 48 GB, €38.40 €0.38 per player | 64 GB, €51.20 €0.51 per player | 64 GB, €51.20 €0.51 per player |
Each cell is the smallest plan that holds the RAM of our rule, at the lowest monthly price of the three hosts, and that price split over the players online at the busiest hour. Every lowest price is at Cheapest Minecraft Hosting. With daily backups included, the standard line at Lodehost and Astroworld Hosting costs €12.95 for 8 GB and €23.95 for 24 GB. A bigger group pays less per head: ten players with plugins pay €0.64 each, a hundred about €0.51.
How much does a Minecraft Realm cost?
A Minecraft Realm costs US$3.99 a month for Realms on Bedrock, with you and 2 friends online at once, and US$7.99 a month for Realms Plus on Bedrock or a Java Realm, with you and 10 others online, in the US store. Friends play for free, you can invite up to 10,000 of them, and a 30-day free trial comes first.
Per player, a full Java Realm of 11 costs about US$0.73 each. An 8 GB server for the same 11 players with plugins costs €6.40 a month, about €0.58 each, and it runs plugins, mods and Java with Bedrock in one world, which a Realm cannot. When you stop paying for a Realm, you have 18 months to download its worlds. The full comparison is on Minecraft Realms alternatives.
How much does it cost to run a Minecraft server from home?
Running a Minecraft server from home costs nothing for the software, so the cost is the power the PC uses: watts times hours, divided by 1,000, is the kWh, and the kWh times your price per kWh is the cost. Two examples at €0.30 per kWh:
- Evenings only: a PC that draws 60 watts for 4 hours a day uses 7.2 kWh in 30 days, which costs €2.16.
- Around the clock: the same PC running 24/7 uses about 43 kWh in 30 days, about €13, more than the 8 GB plan above.
A plug-in power meter shows what your own PC draws. A home server also has costs that money does not fix: it is offline when the PC is off, your upload speed caps how many players it serves, and every player sees your home IP address. The steps are in how to make a Minecraft server.
How much does a modded Minecraft server cost?
A modded Minecraft server costs from €6.40 a month for up to five players with a few Fabric or Forge mods, and from €12.80 for a big modpack such as All the Mods 10, because mods need RAM before anyone joins:
- Your own mods on Fabric, Forge or NeoForge: about 8 GB for five players and 10 GB for ten, so €6.40 and €9.60 at the cheapest host.
- A light modpack: about 11 GB for five players, so a 12 GB plan at €9.60.
- A large pack like ATM10: about 13 GB for five players and 18 GB for ten, so €12.80 for 16 GB or €19.20 for 24 GB.
A big pack also runs its machines on one main thread, which is where reserved CPU threads earn their price. See modpack server hosting and ATM10 server hosting for the plans.
How much does a Minecraft Bedrock server cost?
A Minecraft Bedrock server costs from €1.60 a month for 2 GB at Cheapest Minecraft Hosting, which charges the same for Java, Bedrock and crossplay at every size. A Bedrock world needs about as much RAM as vanilla Java: about 4 GB for five players and 6 GB for ten. Astroworld Hosting sells Bedrock plans from €5.95 for 2 GB, and a crossplay plan, with Java and Bedrock players in one world, costs €2.00 a month more than the Java plan of the same size at Astroworld Hosting and Lodehost.
How much does a 24/7 Minecraft server cost?
A 24/7 Minecraft server costs the same as any paid plan, from €1.60 a month for 2 GB, because paid hosts keep every server running day and night. Free hosts stop a server when nobody is online, and a server on your own PC pays for power every hour it runs: about €13 a month in the 24/7 example above. More on servers that never stop: 24/7 Minecraft server hosting.