Credits and plans
What credits are, what plans cost per GB of memory, boosts, free credits, and the refund rule. Prices are defaults and may change.
You pay for plans and boosts with credits. Credits are a balance with us: they are not money and cannot be cashed out. Only you can spend them, in the panel; your AI never can.
These prices are defaults and are not final.
Credits
100 credits = $1. Credits never expire.
| Credits | Price | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 500 | $5 | None |
| 1,000 | $10 | None |
| 2,750 | $25 | +10% |
| 5,750 | $50 | +15% |
Buying credits is not available yet. During testing, credits come from us and from playing.
If you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian to pay.
Plans
Each server has its own plan, priced by memory.
- Free: 2 GB of memory and about 5 GB of disk, 0 credits. One free server per account.
- Paid: any size from 3 GB to 12 GB, at 190 credits ($1.90) per GB a month. For example 3 GB is 570 credits ($5.70), 4 GB is 760 ($7.60), 8 GB is 1,520 ($15.20) and 12 GB is 2,280 ($22.80). Paid servers do not use your free slot.
Paid sizes come in three named bands: Stone (3 GB), Iron (4 to 7 GB) and Gold (8 to 12 GB). Diamond and Netherite are not on sale; their sizes and prices are not set.
| Free (2 GB) | Stone (3 GB) | Iron (4 to 7 GB) | Gold (8 to 12 GB) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price a month | 0 credits | 570 credits ($5.70) | from 760 credits ($7.60) | from 1,520 credits ($15.20) |
| Sleeps after the last player leaves | 5 minutes | 15 minutes | 30 minutes | 60 minutes |
| Backups kept | last 3, plus a known-good copy | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days |
| Boost price | 250 credits | 225 credits | 200 credits | 175 credits |
| Disk | 5 GB | 20 GB | 40 GB | 60 GB |
| Archived after 30 days unused | yes | no | no | no |
Every paid size also gets: first place in the wake queue, AFK players keep it awake, world pre-generation, a custom domain, no "hosted free" line, and hub cosmetics. Paid disk sizes and up to 10 paid servers per account are defaults, for review.
Everyone gets the same full panel, plugins, console, files and AI connection, free or paid. No plan has a player limit; memory is the limit.
Changing size
Pick a size with the slider when you make a server, or later with Change size on the server's plan page (Settings, then Plan and size, or Change plan on its Overview).
- More memory applies at once. You pay the difference for the days left, for example 4 GB to 6 GB with half a month left costs 190 credits ($1.90).
- Less memory, or going back to Free, starts when the paid month ends.
- If your balance is too low, the panel says how many credits you need and nothing changes.
Renewing and ending
- Auto-renew on the plan card is off by default. With it on, the plan renews from your balance each month.
- Cancel plan keeps the plan until the renewal date, then the server moves to Free. Nothing is deleted.
- We warn you 7 and 3 days before a plan ends, by email and in the panel.
- If a server holds more than the free 5 GB when it moves to Free, it cannot start until you free space or renew.
Boosts
A boost pins your server at the top of the hub's list for 3 days, marked "Boosted". It costs 250 credits ($2.50) for 3 days on a free server, less on paid sizes (see the table). There is no limit on boosted places. See Your server in our hub.
Free credits
- Daily streak: a day counts when your linked Minecraft account joins our hub or any of our servers (link it with /claim). Each day pays 5 credits, and every 7th day 20 more. Collect them on the Credits page. Miss a day and the streak steps back 2 days, not to zero.
- Votes: each player vote for your server in the hub pays you credits (amount not final). Your own votes do not count.
Limits (defaults, for review): 30 earned credits a day, 400 a month, and at most 1,000 earned credits at once. Extra is not paid. Only verified accounts earn, and earned credits cannot be given away.
The Credits page
Open Credits at the top of the panel: your balance with its dollar value, free credits earned against each limit, your play streak, the price slider, Upcoming renewals (each marked Covered or Not covered), the bundles, and the history of every credit in and out.
Premade setups
All premade setups are free during the beta. See Premade setups.
Refunds
Credits are not refundable. One exception: a purchase made without a parent's permission. You or a parent can ask for the unspent credits back within 60 days of the purchase; a person checks it. After 60 days, or for credits already spent, there is no refund. To ask, write to us through Bugs and ideas in the panel. In the EU, checkout asks you to give up the 14-day right to cancel.
A chargeback removes that purchase's unspent credits and drops your servers to the free limits. Nothing is deleted. Please write to us first.