Real hardware, panel access, unlimited storage and backups. Win a free slot in the weekly giveaway, or run a permanent server from $2 a month. Minecraft today, more games soon.
Every plan runs on the same hardware with the same panel, unlimited storage and unlimited backups. Paid plans differ in RAM, CPU and how far you can push modpacks and versions.
Slots reset every week. Sign up while they're open, and if you're drawn it's yours for a full week.
More room for your crew. Never expires, never resets, cancel whenever you like.
Bring the whole server online. Heavy modpacks, big player counts, no babysitting.
Prices in USD, billed monthly through Stripe. Orders available in the US & Canada. Refunds handled case by case — message staff in Discord.
Storage and backups are unlimited on every plan; the panel's default disk allocation is 10 GB (Free), 20 GB (Standard) and 40 GB (Pro).
Sign up for a free slot while slots are open, or pick Standard or Pro and pay through Stripe. Free slots go into a weekly draw of 15.
Choose Paper, Fabric or Vanilla and your subdomain. Setup is automatic — the server installs itself and comes online.
Manage your server from the Pterodactyl panel: console, config files, restarts and backups. Share the address and go.
No feature paywalls between tiers other than resources, versions and modpacks. Everything below applies whether you're paying $5 or nothing at all.
Live console, start and stop controls, and a file editor for every config in your server directory.
Paper, Fabric and Vanilla install themselves — no jar hunting, no startup flags to guess at. Java is kept current for you.
Big worlds, long render distances and years of chunks. Storage isn't the thing we charge you for.
Snapshot before every risky build or mod update, keep as many as you want, restore from the panel in a couple of clicks.
Your server gets a name.soups.lol address, so friends type a name instead of an IP.
Nothing injected into your MOTD, no forced plugins, no vote-gate. It's your server and it looks like it.
Staff answer in Discord the same day, alongside a community that's usually faster. No ticket queues.
If a free slot expires the server is suspended, not deleted — world, mods and settings are kept. Ask staff for a full copy any time.
Monthly billing, no contract, no minimum term. Stop paying and the server stops — your data is still there if you come back.
Free slots run the latest Minecraft release with limited modpack support. Paid plans can run a custom version with unlimited modpack support.
Need a version or a pack that isn't in the picker? Ask in Discord — we set it up by hand.
Ask about a version →Plugin-friendly and fast. The default pick for survival and SMP servers.
Lightweight mod loader. Where most modern modded packs live.
Exactly what Mojang ships. Nothing added, nothing changed.
Picking a pack from a list, without touching files. Until then, staff install packs for you and you edit configs from the panel.
Minecraft is the only game live today. Other game types are next — the Discord gets the announcement first.
One US Central location, dual Xeons, SAS storage and DDoS filtering on every plan — including the free ones.
Advertised entry and top-end monthly prices across the hosts people usually compare us against, rounded to the nearest dollar, with the RAM you get at each end and whether you can try before you pay.
Competitor prices are advertised monthly rates collected by hand and change often — check each host for current pricing.
Sign up on this site while slots are open — first come, first served. Once the week's slots fill up, everyone who signed up goes into a randomized draw, and fifteen people get a server for the full week.
Winners are emailed every week. It's the same panel, hardware, unlimited storage and backups as a paid plan, with nothing held back.
When a slot expires the server is suspended rather than wiped. Win again, or upgrade to a paid plan, and it picks up exactly where you left off.
First come, first served while the week's slots are still open.
Once the slots are gone, everyone signed up is shuffled into a random order.
15 people are emailed every week, and their servers go live for seven days.
Soup's Servers has been running since 2021 and has gone through a few different iterations, each one aimed at the same thing: the best possible cheap and free hosting.
That means no sales team, no upsell funnel and no support tickets that go nowhere. Everything happens in Discord, and staff answer the same day.
Anything not covered here gets answered in Discord, the same day.
Sign up for a free slot right here on the site — it's first come, first served while the week's slots are open. Once they fill up, everyone who signed up is randomized, and 15 people are emailed each week. Those servers are fully functional and last the full one-week period.
Setup is automatic and usually very quick — the server installs itself and comes online without you doing anything. We're still gathering exact timing data.
Your server is suspended, meaning you'll no longer have access to it — but your world and all of your mods and settings are maintained. If you win another slot, or decide to purchase a server, it will be like nothing ever happened. You can also request a copy of your whole server to host yourself, or with another host, by contacting a member of staff.
Free slots run the latest release. Paid plans can run a custom version — ask in Discord and staff will set it up for you.
Paid plans have unlimited modpack support; free slots are limited. You can edit any existing file from the panel, but file uploads are disabled, so staff install packs for you. One-click modpack installs are planned. For a pack that is not listed, ask in Discord.
Free slots allocate 2 cores and 2 GB of RAM. Standard is 4 cores and 4 GB, Pro is 8 cores and 8 GB. All plans get unlimited storage and unlimited backups on dual Xeon E5-2680 v4 nodes with SAS storage, 2 GbE networking and DDoS protection, hosted in US Central.
Paid plans are billed monthly in USD through Stripe checkout. There is no contract or minimum term — cancel any time. Orders are available in the US and Canada. Refunds are handled case by case in Discord.
Yes. Every server gets a free subdomain in the form name.soups.lol, so friends can connect with a name instead of an IP.
Minecraft is the only game live today. More games are planned, and the Discord gets the announcement first.
Everything happens in the Discord. Staff answer the same day and the community is often faster. There is no ticket system to wait on.
Grab a free slot, or run a permanent server from $2 a month. Either way you're a few minutes from a world.
