A free Minecraft server for you and your friends.

Sign in, press Create server, and you have an address to hand out. It sleeps when nobody is playing and wakes when someone joins.

What the free tier is

Minecraft 26.2

Java Edition, current version

1 server

per account

3 GB heap

3.5 GiB of memory in total

5 GB

of world storage

14 days

of backups kept

60 days

idle before a server is archived

Every new server starts with these plugins. Anything else is yours to add from the dashboard.

0.7.0-SNAPSHOT-8-8-2026

Installs and updates plugins from Dan's Plugins in-game with /dpm.

5.12.0

Lets players on newer Minecraft versions join your server.

5.12.0

Lets players on older Minecraft versions join your server.

Dan's Plugin Manager is from Dan's Plugins. Browse more plugins at dansplugins.com.

Your server starts asleep. It costs nothing while it sleeps and keeps its world.
When a player connects to the address, the server wakes: it is usually joinable in under a minute. You can also press Wake in the portal.
After 20 minutes with nobody online it goes back to sleep. Up to 12 servers can be awake at once across the whole service, so a wake can occasionally queue.
A server nobody has woken for 60 days is archived; deleting one always takes a backup first.