How much does a modded Minecraft server cost?

A light modpack runs on Starter with 8 GB from €10.95 a month. Larger packs want 12 GB or more, which starts at €14.95 a month on Standard. Check what the pack asks for before you choose.

Is it cheaper to pay for a longer term?

Yes. The 24 month term has the lowest monthly price. On Starter the difference with paying month to month is €48.00 over two years.

Does a server in Poland cost more?

No. Warsaw runs the Performance line on a Ryzen 9 7950X and costs the same as the Performance line in Germany. There is no surcharge for the location.

Is there a free trial?

Not as a button in the order form. Contact our team, tell us what you want to run, and we can set up a free trial for you.

How Much Does a Minecraft Server Cost per Month?

Q: How much does a Minecraft server cost per month?

From €3.95 a month for 2 GB to €83.95 for 96 GB on a 24 month term. Month to month the same sizes cost €4.95 to €93.95.

Minecraft server prices per size

The table shows the Standard line, which runs in Germany, the United Kingdom and three locations in the United States. The first column is the price you see on the plan cards. Each amount links to the order page for that size.

Plan	Memory and CPU	24 months	12 months	6 months	Month to month
Camp	2 GB, 1 vCPU	€3.95	€4.45	€4.75	€4.95
Mini	4 GB, 2 vCPU	€6.95	€6.95	€6.95	€7.95
Starter	8 GB, 2 vCPU	€10.95	€11.95	€11.95	€12.95
Standard	12 GB, 3 vCPU	€14.95	€14.95	€15.95	€16.95
Premium	24 GB, 4 vCPU	€20.95	€21.95	€22.95	€23.95
Ultimate	48 GB, 6 vCPU	€41.95	€43.95	€45.95	€46.95
Dedicated	96 GB, 9 vCPU	€83.95	€87.95	€90.95	€93.95

Prices per month in euros. The same amounts are on the plan cards and on the order pages.

Take Starter as an example: paying month to month instead of committing for 24 months adds up to €48.00 over those two years. On Camp the gap is €24.00. If you are not sure the server will still be running next summer, month to month keeps the commitment to a single month.

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The Performance line: faster CPU, higher price

From 4 GB up there is a second line on an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Germany or an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with DDR5 in Warsaw, both on Enterprise NVMe. Minecraft does most of its work on one thread, so a faster core shows up as smoother ticks on busy survival worlds and heavy modpacks. It costs more from Starter up:

Plan	Memory and CPU	Standard line, 24 months	Performance line, 24 months
Mini	4 GB, 2 vCPU	€6.95	€6.95
Starter	8 GB, 2 vCPU	€10.95	€13.95
Standard	12 GB, 3 vCPU	€14.95	€20.95
Premium	24 GB, 4 vCPU	€20.95	€41.95
Ultimate	48 GB, 6 vCPU	€41.95	€83.95
Dedicated	96 GB, 9 vCPU	€83.95	€167.95

Camp has no Performance line, so it is not offered in Poland.

Poland has no location surcharge: a server in Warsaw costs the same as the Performance line in Germany. Minecraft hosting in Poland has the delivery times and the rest of the details.

What makes a Minecraft server cost more

Memory. The biggest factor. A vanilla world for a few friends runs on 2 to 4 GB, a large modpack wants 12 GB or more. How much RAM a server needs helps you pick without guessing.
The processor line. The Standard line shares a server processor, the Performance line puts you on a Ryzen 5900X or 7950X. Same memory, different speed per tick.
The term. 24 months is the lowest monthly price, month to month the highest. 12 and 6 months sit in between.
Bedrock players. A Crossplay plan runs Java and Bedrock together and costs €2.00 a month more than the Java plan of the same size.

Player count is missing from that list on purpose. Ten friends building one base use less than four players exploring in four directions, so the number of players tells you little on its own.

What it costs per player

Plenty of groups share the bill. Mini with 4 GB at €6.95 a month comes to €1.39 each for five friends. Starter with 8 GB for a group of ten is €1.09 each. One person pays the invoice, and the others can get their own access to the panel through staff access without sharing a password.

What is in the price, and what is not

Every plan comes with the same tools, with no add-on to pay for:

An address your friends type without a port number
A console and a file manager in the browser
One click installs for plugins and modpacks
Help moving your world over from another host

A free website for your server comes with the plans from 8 GB up: Starter, Standard, Premium, Ultimate, Dedicated, Titan. Hosting is not refundable, so cancelling stops the next payment and the server runs until the end of the period you paid for. The full list of what the panel does is on features.

What a Minecraft server at home costs

The server software itself is free. Mojang offers the Java server as a download, and Paper, Fabric and Forge cost nothing either. On your own PC you pay in other ways: the electricity of a computer that has to stay on whenever someone wants to play, a router port opened to the internet, your home IP address in the hands of every player, and your upload speed shared with everything else in the house.

For a weekend with friends who are online at the same time, that is often fine. For a world people join whenever they like, it is usually cheaper in hassle to rent. A free Minecraft server at home or a hosted one walks through both.

Written and checked by the Lodehost team, last reviewed on 24 September 2026.