FREE MINECRAFT HOSTING · NO SLOT CAP · NO CARD
Minehut's free tier is built around a ten-player cap and a server that sleeps when the last person leaves. AxentHost has no slot limit at all, gives you up to 16 GB of RAM, keeps running while your credits last, and hosts thirty other games on the same account.
Java, Bedrock & every loader Online in ~40 seconds Keep your existing world
| Free to use | Yes | Yes |
|---|---|---|
| Player slot limit | Unlimited | 10 on free |
| RAM on the free offer | 2-16 GB | ~1 GB |
| Server keeps running when empty | No | Yes |
| Number of games hosted | 30+ | 1 |
| Full file access | Yes | Limited |
| Minecraft Java & Bedrock | Java + Bedrock | Java only |
| Shared team balance & rights | Yes | No |
| AXENTHOST | MINEHUT |
01 - WHY PLAYERS SWITCH
Minehut is a great place to publish a small server to a big audience. It is a harder place to run a private world for a large group of friends.
A slot cap is the fastest way to turn a good night into a queue in your own Discord. On the free Minehut tier, ten is the number.
We never sell or cap slots on any game. The only real ceiling is how much RAM you are running, and you control that directly.
ON AXENTHOST
Unlimited slots
ON MINEHUT
10 on free
Sleeping servers are fine for a build session and awful for farms, redstone, or a group spread across timezones.
The only thing that stops an AxentHost server is running out of credits - and you decide when that happens.
ON AXENTHOST
Runs while credits last
ON MINEHUT
Sleeps when empty
A roughly one-gigabyte free allocation rules out most modpacks and struggles with a large, long-lived world.
Claim credits and run anything from 2 to 16 GB, changing between sessions in seconds rather than upgrading a plan.
ON AXENTHOST
2-16 GB
ON MINEHUT
~1 GB free
A curated plugin list keeps things safe and simple, but it also means the config you want to edit may not be reachable.
Every config, jar and world folder is yours here, in the browser or over SFTP with Premium - and the same credits run Palworld, Rust or Terraria when the group moves on.
ON AXENTHOST
Full files, 30+ games
ON MINEHUT
Curated, Minecraft only
02 - THE HONEST PART
Minehut has something we do not: a genuinely large built-in player base browsing for servers to join. If that is what you are after, stay.
STAY ON MINEHUT IF…
SWITCH TO AXENTHOST IF…
03 - MIGRATION GUIDE
Roughly five minutes for a normal survival world. Your builds, your seed, your inventories - all of it comes with you.
Open your Minehut server, go to Backups (or Files) and download the world as a .zip. Keep it somewhere you can find it - this is your only copy for the next few minutes.
Sign up, claim your credits and create a server on the same game version and the same loader you were running. Matching the version is the one step people skip and regret.
Open the file manager, delete the freshly generated world folder, and upload your zip into the server root. Unzip it in place - the panel does it for you, or use SFTP with Premium for very large worlds.
Open server.properties and set level-name to the exact folder name you just uploaded. Save it. That is usually all the configuration a migration needs.
Free Minecraft Server
level-name=my-minehut-worldDrop your plugins or mods and their config folders in, hit start, watch the console for a clean load, and share the new address with your friends.
BEFORE YOU START
Keep a local copy of your world zip until you have logged in and confirmed everything is there. Always.
Match the Minecraft version and loader exactly. Opening a 1.20 world on 1.21 can permanently change chunks.
Very large worlds are far happier over SFTP than through a browser upload - that is one of the reasons Premium includes it.
Drop your world in the Discord migration channel and someone from the team will walk you through it, usually within the hour.
Ask on DiscordThe same five steps work for the other free hosts and any provider that lets you download a world folder.
04 - NOT JUST MINECRAFT
Minehut is Minecraft, and Java at that. When your group moves to Palworld for a month or wants a Rust wipe, the same AxentHost credits and the same panel cover it.
See every game we host free05 - FAQ
Yes, and without the slot cap. You claim credits - fifteen an hour on the web, up to thirty more from the mobile apps - and five credits run one gigabyte of RAM for an hour.
None. We do not sell slots on any game. How many friends can play at once is a function of your RAM, which you control.
No. It runs until the credits run out. Farms keep ticking and friends in other timezones can hop on whenever they like.
Yes. Forge, NeoForge, Fabric and Arclight are all available, and you can put up to 16 GB behind them if you claim enough credits.
Yes. Download the world from their file manager, create a matching server here, upload it and point level-name at it. The guide above walks through all five steps.
Yes. Bedrock Dedicated Server and PocketMine are both available, and GeyserMC gives you Java and Bedrock players on the same world.
No ads, twenty-five credits per hourly claim, a twelve-hour spin cooldown, up to three servers per game, SFTP, and teams of ten. The hardware is identical either way.
No slot cap, no sleeping world, up to 16 GB of RAM and no card. Keep your Minehut server while you try it.