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Your server starts when someone joins and stops when everyone leaves. You pay for the hours in between, and the first 10 GB of storage are free.

Servers run on our own AMD Ryzen 9 bare metal in the EU.

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Pay only when you're playing

A Minecraft server that starts when someone joins and stops billing when everyone leaves.

Pick 2 to 32 GB of RAM and pay only for the hours your group actually plays. Idle auto-stop puts an empty server to sleep and wake-on-join brings it back when a friend connects. Storage is billed separately and the first 10 GB are free, so a sleeping server costs €0.

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Verify your account and we drop 1000 credits in your wallet: about 25 hours on an 8 GB server, or 50 hours on 4 GB. No card required.

Got a friend already on VoxelRun? Sign up through their link and you both pocket 2000 extra credits on the first top-up.

Bare metal

AMD Ryzen 9, NVMe storage

EU-hosted

GDPR-friendly by default

Usage-based cost

Compared with monthly hosts

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Survival SMP

running

8 GB RAM

€0.04 / hour

survival.voxel.run

ATM10 Modpack

stopped

16 GB RAM

€0.00 / hour

first 10 GB of storage free

Family crossplay

running

4 GB RAM

€0.02 / hour

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1000 free credits to start
Refer a friend → 2000 credits each
AMD Ryzen 9 bare metal
EU data residency
Your own yourname.voxel.run
Secure checkout by Paddle
DDoS-protected network
Free 30-day backups
1000 free credits to start
Refer a friend → 2000 credits each
AMD Ryzen 9 bare metal
EU data residency
Your own yourname.voxel.run
Secure checkout by Paddle
DDoS-protected network
Free 30-day backups

How it works

From zero to a running server in three steps.

No setup wizards. No commitment. No hidden fees.

01

Top up credits

Buy a credit pack through Paddle's secure checkout, our Merchant of Record. Credits never expire and there's no minimum.

02

Pick your RAM, hit Start

Move one slider from 2 to 32 GB. There's no queue and nothing to provision, so your world is usually joinable in about half a minute.

03

Pay by the hour

We bill while the server is running. Stop it any time. Your world stays put — we keep free backups for 30 days.

Pricing

Simple pricing. No tricks.

One rate at any size: 5 credits per GB of RAM per hour, billed by the minute and only while the server runs. The first 10 GB of storage are free; extra storage is €0.10/GB per month.

8GB

Paper with a plugin stack, or a lighter Fabric pack.

  • 8 GB of RAM reserved for you — a hard limit, not a share
  • ≈ 7 GB JVM heap; the rest is held back for the server process
  • CPU scales with the RAM you pick — more RAM, more CPU weight when the machine is busy
  • 10 GB persistent storage included — free
€0.04/ hour

40 credits / hr

≈ €2.40 runtime + €0.00 disk = €2.40 a month at 2 h/day.

Compute is capped at €20.00/month at this size — leave it running nonstop and you'll never pay more.

Idle auto-stop puts the server to sleep when nobody is playing, and wake-on-join starts it again when someone connects. You pay for the hours in between.

Start with 8 GB

The machine underneath

Your own slice of real hardware.

Not a cloud VM that gets sliced thinner every quarter. One machine we own and operate, in the EU, with your RAM fenced off from everyone else's.

Bare metal, not a cloud slice

Your world runs on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X we own. The RAM you pick is a hard container limit — nothing else on the machine can take it.

NVMe, and the disk is yours

Fast NVMe storage with a hard per-server quota, so a neighbour filling their disk can never fill yours.

EU-hosted, GDPR by default

Compute and live worlds stay in the EU. Backups are stored separately in Hetzner Object Storage in Falkenstein, Germany.

A hostname, not an IP and a port

Every server gets its own yourname.voxel.run, with an A record and a Minecraft SRV record. Your friends type one name, even when the port isn't 25565.

Basic DDoS protection at the network level.

Features

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

True pay-as-you-go billing

Per-minute metering. Stopped means €0 of compute, every time — and a monthly cap means even running nonstop never costs more than a flat-rate host.

No queue, no provisioning

There's nothing to spin up — the server image already sits on the machine's NVMe. Most worlds are joinable in about half a minute, whatever size you pick. A big modpack's first launch takes longer while it installs itself.

Free backups, 30-day retention

One-click world exports kept for 30 days. We also snapshot if your balance hits zero, so your world is never lost. Download the zip and take it anywhere.

Web file manager

Edit configs, drop in mods and plugins, browse logs. No SFTP gymnastics.

Live console + RCON

Real-time log streaming with command history. Send anything from /op to /reload.

Wallet alerts

Email — or a Discord ping, if you connect a webhook — before your balance runs low, so your friends never get kicked mid-raid.

Plugin & modpack ready

Vanilla, Paper, Spigot, Fabric, Forge — all supported by the standard itzg/minecraft-server image.

Share with friends

Invite friends by email and pick exactly what each of them can do — start/stop only, console, files, backups, or full access. Or drop a wake link in your group chat: one button that starts the server, no account needed. Billing and deleting stay yours.

Pick your flavour

Whatever Minecraft you play.

Switch server type with one click. We pull the right image for you.

Paper

Highly optimized fork of Spigot. Plugin-compatible, drop-in faster.

Favorite modpacks — one click to play

Popular packs that ship a ready-to-run server pack. Click one and your server is live.

All the Mods 10 - ATM10

The top pack of 2026 with around 500 mods! Tons of quests and a proper endgame.

Create this server

DeceasedCraft - Urban Zombie Apocalypse

Explore, loot and shoot your way through cities overrun by the infected in this zombie apocalypse modpack. Master the tech tree, craft better and stronger equipment, and eventually brave the radioactive Wasteland to find the cure.

Create this server

Better MC [FORGE] BMC4

Version 1.20.1 | A Proper Vanilla+ Modpack | Don't play Vanilla play this!

Create this server

Prominence™ II: Hasturian Era

Lore-rich RPG | Explore the Kingdom of Vaaz with voiced NPCs, along with a new custom Questing System, Custom Gear, Bosses, Talent Tree and more!

Create this server

RLCraft

A modpack specially designed to bring an incredibly hardcore and semi-realism challenge revolving around survival, RPG elements, and adventure-like exploration.

Create this server

All the Mods 10: To the Sky ATM10SKY

Starting with only a tree, fill the void with large amounts of technology and magic!

Create this server

HORROR - Into The Backrooms - Found Footage (dweller)

The classic VHS backrooms experience, but in Minecraft!

Create this server

SkyFactory 4

The ultimate skyblock modpack! Watch development at: darkosto.tv/SkyFactoryLive

Create this server

VerityCraft - A Realistic Horror Experience with Verity

A complete horror modpack featuring Verity and much more!

Create this server

NightfallCraft - The Casket of Reveries

Souls-like RPG modpack w/ Unique Story Line and Quest!

Create this server

SkyFactory 5

The void is your canvas and you are the artist! Watch development at: darkosto.tv/SkyFactoryLive

Create this server

All the Mods 11 - ATM11

Super early alpha for 26.1.2

Create this server
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Why VoxelRun

Hosting designed around how you actually play.

An empty server should cost nothing

Other hosts charge for empty servers all month. We don't. Idle auto-stop ends the billing when everyone logs off, and wake-on-join brings the server back the moment someone connects.

Your friends can join in two minutes

From login to a running world, not a 30-minute setup wizard. Modpacks install with one variable.

Your data is yours, full stop

Free backups. Free downloads. No lock-in. Take your world to another host whenever you want.

Questions you'll definitely ask

Frequently asked questions

No. We bill in 60-second increments while the server is running. Stop it after 5 minutes? You pay 5 minutes.

Guides & comparisons

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Better with friends

Bring a friend, both pocket 2000 credits.

Share your personal link. When they top up for the first time, 2000 credits drop into both wallets — about 50 hours on an 8 GB server.

See how it works

Ready when you are

Start your first server in minutes.

Sign up, verify your account, use your free credits, and start a server from the dashboard.

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