FREE GAME HOSTING · NO CARD · NO MONTHLY BILL
Nitrado is a capable paid host with a very large game catalogue. The difference is simple: there is no free way in, and player slots are something you buy. On AxentHost you claim credits, spend them on RAM by the hour, and never see a slot upsell.
Java, Bedrock & every loader Online in ~40 seconds Keep your existing world
| Free to use | Yes | No |
|---|---|---|
| Credit card required | Never | Required |
| RAM on the free offer | 2-16 GB | By plan |
| Player slot limit | Unlimited | By plan |
| Scale RAM & disk yourself | In seconds | Upgrade |
| Number of games hosted | 30+ free | 100+ paid |
| Shared team balance & rights | Yes | No |
| Mobile app to manage & earn | Manage + earn | Manage only |
| AXENTHOST | NITRADO |
01 - WHY PLAYERS SWITCH
This is a paid host against a free one, so the honest framing is: what do you give up, and what do you stop paying for?
Nitrado rents you a server by the month or the day. That is a fine model when a server is a long-term commitment, and an expensive one when your group plays a game hard for three weeks and then moves on.
Credits are earned, not billed. Play for a month, stop for two, come back - nothing lapsed and nothing renewed while you were away.
ON AXENTHOST
Free, credit-funded
ON NITRADO
Monthly rental
On most paid hosts the slot count is part of what you are buying, so inviting more friends means moving up a tier.
We never sell slots. RAM is the only thing that decides how many people your world can carry, and RAM is something you can add between two sessions.
ON AXENTHOST
Unlimited slots
ON NITRADO
Slots by plan
Needing more headroom on a rental usually means an upgrade, a proration and sometimes a migration window.
Move between 2 and 16 GB in seconds. Spend more credits per hour while the modpack is fun, drop back down when it is not.
ON AXENTHOST
2-16 GB, in seconds
ON NITRADO
Change your plan
Splitting a paid server between five people is a group-chat argument about who pays and who gets reimbursed.
Teams pool everyone’s claimed credits into one balance, and you hand out per-server rights individually. Nobody has to front the money.
ON AXENTHOST
Pooled credits
ON NITRADO
One payer
02 - THE HONEST PART
Nitrado is a real business with real support and a catalogue we do not match. If your needs sit in that gap, pay them - we would rather say so.
STAY ON NITRADO 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 Nitrado 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-nitrado-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
Nitrado hosts more games than we do - that is genuinely their advantage. The difference is that every game on our list runs off the same free credit balance, with no per-game invoice.
See every game we host free05 - FAQ
Free, with no clock. 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. Advertising and optional Premium subscriptions pay for the hardware.
Our free and paid accounts run on identical hardware - same CPUs, same NVMe storage, same network. We are not going to claim a like-for-like benchmark against another provider we do not operate.
No. Their catalogue is larger. We host more than thirty of the most-played multiplayer games; if yours is not on our games page, Nitrado may genuinely be your answer.
Yes. Download the world folder from their file manager or FTP, create a matching server here, upload it and point the config at it. The five steps above cover it.
No, on any game. Slots are never something we sell. RAM is the only real constraint on how many friends can join.
Yes. Premium is 4,99 € for the first month, then 8,99 €, and credit packs exist if you would rather buy time than earn it. Neither is required to run a server.
If you need a contractual SLA or a dedicated machine, a paid host is the right tool. Our Pro platform covers monthly-billed servers if you want that from us instead.
No card, no plan, no renewal date. Spin up the same game you are renting today and see whether free is enough.