Free Minecraft
server hosting

A free Minecraft server on AxentHost is a real server, not a trial. You get 2 to 16 GB of RAM, up to 20 GB of NVMe storage, no player slot limit and no credit card field. It runs on credits you claim for free. Five credits buy one gigabyte of RAM for one hour. A 2 GB Minecraft world costs 10 credits an hour, and the hourly claims are worth up to 45. And unlike most free hosts, it does not go to sleep when the last player leaves.

There is no plan to reach and no card to enter. You register with an email or a Discord account, claim credits, and spend them on hardware. The exchange rate is fixed and public: 5 credits = 1 GB of RAM for 1 hour. Minecraft runs comfortably on 2 GB for a small group. That puts a vanilla or lightly-modded world at 10 credits an hour.

Against that, an hourly claim on the site is worth 15 credits. The Android and iOS apps add up to 30 more an hour through rewarded videos. A daily spin, offerwalls and referrals sit on top. So a 2 GB world is paid for by the web claim alone, and five credits an hour are left to bank towards more RAM.

The honest part: the credits are what keep it free, so you do have to keep claiming them. If your balance reaches zero, the server is powered off cleanly and a backup of your world is kept. Nothing is wiped, nothing resets. Claim again, restore, and carry on. Advertising and Premium members pay the rest of the bill on our side. There is no hidden limit on your world.

No. AxentHost has no idle sleep and no start queue. Your world stays online while it is credited, whether anybody is connected or not. A friend in another timezone can join at three in the morning without you being awake to press start. There is also nothing to wait behind. You press start and the server comes up in about forty seconds, at peak hours as much as at dawn.

This is where the free hosts usually differ. It is worth being precise about it rather than writing "24/7" and moving on. Aternos pauses your server when the last player disconnects, and queues you behind other people's servers when the platform is busy. Minehut sleeps free servers the same way. On AxentHost, only an empty credit balance stops a Minecraft server. That is a number you can see and top up, not a policy waiting to catch you out.

You pick the RAM yourself, between 2 and 16 GB, and change it between sessions. The price is linear, so the hourly cost is easy to work out in advance:

• 2 GB - 10 credits/h. Vanilla or a handful of plugins, a few friends. Covered by the web claim.
• 4 GB - 20 credits/h. A plugin survival server, a bigger group, world pre-generation.
• 6 to 8 GB - 30 to 40 credits/h. Most modpacks, or a public server with plenty of chunks loaded.
• 12 to 16 GB - 60 to 80 credits/h. Heavy modpacks and large communities.

Storage scales with it, up to 20 GB of NVMe. That is more than enough for a modpack plus its backups. Say a modded playthrough needs 8 GB for a fortnight and 2 GB afterwards. Push it up, restart, and drop it back down when you are done. The change takes effect on the next start, and nothing in the world is touched.

As many as you want. We do not sell player slots, and there is no plan to move up to. There is no 10-slot ceiling on free like Minehut's, and no plan-based slot count like Nitrado's. You set max-players yourself in server.properties. The only real limit is how much RAM the world runs on and how heavy your mods are.

In practice that means the size of your Discord, not the size of your wallet, decides who gets in. If the server starts to struggle, add a few gigabytes of RAM for a few more credits an hour. There is no bigger plan to buy.

Both editions run on AxentHost. You can create a pure Java server, a pure Bedrock server, or a single world that both can join. Crossplay uses the GeyserMC variant. We run it as a one-click server type with 96 supported versions. The friend who only has a phone, a tablet or a console plays in the same world as everyone on PC.

Java players connect with the normal address. Bedrock players use the same host, with the Bedrock port shown in your panel. The full walkthrough is in our guide to creating a crossplay server with Geyser.

Free does not mean vanilla-only. AxentHost runs 11 Minecraft server types across 785 installable versions. Vanilla for a clean world. Paper, Purpur, Folia and Spigot forks for plugins. Forge, NeoForge and Fabric for mods. Bedrock, PocketMine-MP, GeyserMC and Arclight on top. You choose the type and the version when you create the server. You can switch either one later from the panel without losing your world.

Modpacks install in one click from CurseForge and Modrinth. The usual plugin stack - EssentialsX, LuckPerms, WorldEdit - works out of the box on Paper. Anything else you drop in yourself. The file manager gives you the whole server directory, mods and plugins folders included, editable in the browser. See every Minecraft server version we run.

We wrote these comparisons ourselves, including the rows where the other host wins. We re-check them from time to time.

• AxentHost vs Aternos - no start queue, no sleep when the server empties, and 30+ games instead of two.
• AxentHost vs Minehut - no 10-slot cap on free, 2 to 16 GB instead of about 1, and full file access.
• AxentHost vs FalixNodes - no queue, no idle sleep, and RAM you resize yourself.
• AxentHost vs Nitrado - genuinely free, with no card required to create your first server.

The full feature-by-feature table puts all four side by side on their free offering.

Most people never need to pay. Premium deliberately unlocks nothing about the hardware: the CPUs, the NVMe disks and the network are identical for everyone. What it buys is time and convenience. No ads. 25 credits in a single hourly claim instead of 15. A spin every twelve hours instead of every twenty-four. Up to three servers per game, SFTP for bulk uploads, and teams of ten sharing one balance.

If you want to test that before deciding, do it the other way round. Create the free server first and register in about forty seconds. Run your world for a week on claims alone. Upgrade only if the claiming becomes a chore.