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Forge
The loader classic modded Minecraft is built on — long mod lists and heavyweight packs live here. Pick the version your mods expect, from 1.12.2-era classics to the current release, and the matching server build installs itself.
Play together on PC, console & mobile
Minecraft Server Hosting
On-demand hosting for you and your friends with instant setup — you pay for the time your server spends online: it wakes when someone joins and sleeps when everyone leaves.
No credit card. About 10 hours to try.
Built for the way
you actually play.
Your world runs while friends are online and sleeps when it's empty — here's how that works, and who it's for.
01
A server for every crew
Keep a separate one for each group or game — no per-server fee and no subscription to manage.
02
Online while you play
It runs the whole time anyone's on, then sleeps once everyone's gone — back right where you left it next time.
03
Pay for minutes online
Empty for a few minutes and it goes to sleep — hourly charges run only while it's online.
Weekend & evening crews
You and a few friends play in bursts — a weekend, an evening — then nothing for days.
Made for stop-and-start play — pile in for a weekend, vanish for two weeks, and nothing is lost or wasted in between.
Streamers & community events
A subscriber night, a Discord event, or a launch brings a crowd for a few hours.
Hand a single address to your whole stream or Discord, let the crowd pour in for the night, then shut the event server down when it's over.
Modpack & modded crews
You want a specific modpack or mod list — without editing config files or hunting for the right loader.
Bring the exact pack your crew's been arguing about — the modded setup is handled, so you just play.
PC, console & mobile together
Some friends are on Bedrock, some on Java — and getting everyone onto one server is the hard part.
Everyone piles into the same world — phone, console, or PC, nobody left out.
Solid where it counts
done right, done for you
The unglamorous parts of running a Minecraft server, handled — so you get straight to the game with your friends.
Performance that's all yours
A server close to your players for low latency, with dedicated CPU, RAM, and disk that are yours alone — never shared with another world — so it runs smoothly with no lag, even on a big modpack.
Free daily backups
Every world is backed up automatically each day, with the last seven a single click from restored — a weekend of building is always safe.
Real support in Discord
Get help from a real person in our Discord — usually the founder himself. Drop a message and you'll hear back.
Join the DiscordLocked to your crew.
Decide exactly who gets in with a whitelist, and keep your world private — it's yours and your friends', and nobody else's.
One person
behind the lantern.
aleksei · running pixly
Every host handed me the same bad deal: rent muscle that idles all week — or save money and play through the lag.
I wanted to stand up a world for my friends in a few minutes — on whatever version we felt like that night, with whatever mod list we'd been arguing about — and change a setting from a screen instead of editing files over SSH at midnight. What I kept being sold was the trade-off: pay for a strong box that sits empty six days out of seven, or pay less and watch chunks stutter the moment everyone logged on. I refused to pick.
So I built the thing that didn't exist — hosting that's genuinely yours while you play, then gets out of your way (and stops charging you) the moment everyone logs off.
It's me running this — no support desk between us. If something rubs you the wrong way, find me in our Discord or write to me directly. I read every message myself, and the ones that point out what's broken are the ones that built this.
— Aleksei
founder · pixly
Console and phone friends,
playing right alongside you.
Pixly is Minecraft hosting with a Java server and Bedrock crossplay built in — so friends on console, phone, or tablet join the same world as everyone on Java, with no extra account or computer needed.
pixly.gg/world/cozy-glade · settings
Turn it on with one switch.
It lives in your server settings.
Bedrock cross-play
Let console & mobile players join
Flip it on and we set up Geyser and Floodgate for you — no second server to run, and nothing for your friends to download.
One Java server, Bedrock crossplay on.
Java friends paste the plain address — cozyglade-7x.pixly.gg. Console and phone friends paste the Bedrock one — …pixly.gg:25571.
That’s the only difference. Everyone spawns into the exact same world — same builds, same chat, same evening — whatever they’re playing on.
Plays on
- Switch
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- iPad
- Android
- Windows
Find a mod. Add it.
It's running next time you play.
Modded Minecraft hosting that stays out of your way: paste a Modrinth link or pick one of the popular ones, and a mod or plugin lands on your server in a click. It downloads and sets itself up the moment the server starts — nothing to unzip, drop into a folder, or match up by hand.
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paste a Modrinth link to add any other
Or grab a whole modpack.
Browse the popular packs, or paste a link to the one you have in mind. We set up the full pack — every mod and config it ships with — and lock in the exact build, so a surprise update never breaks the world you’ve been playing.
Every loader, ready to go.
Pick one — setup comes with it.
Choose the server type your mods or plugins need and set any Minecraft version — snapshots, betas, even old alphas — with the right Java build picked automatically.
NeoForge
Forge's actively developed successor, where most new Forge-style mods land on Minecraft 1.20.1 and later. If a modern pack lists NeoForge in its requirements, this is the one to pick.
Fabric & Quilt
Lightweight and usually first to support each new Minecraft release — snapshot servers welcome. Quilt, the Fabric-compatible fork, is available as its own server type when a mod calls for it.
Paper & plugins
Paper runs plugins rather than mods: everything installs server-side, so players join with a completely stock client. Prefer a fork? Purpur, Pufferfish, Leaf, and Folia are here too.
Pay by the pixel.
Cheap hosting that bills only for the time you play.
The rate below is the real one — today’s live price for the size and region you choose, the same from your first minute to your thousandth. The monthly figures are estimates from how much you play: you’re billed per hour only while players are online. For the numbers behind both billing models, see how much a Minecraft server costs per month.
FROM
$0.07/hr
per hour online
N. Virginia…
Pick a size
No player limit on any size — the counts show what plays smoothly, and you set your own max.
No “upgrade for backups.”
You get the whole thing.
- No player limit — sizes set CPU & RAM, not a cap — you choose max players
- No storage cap — disk grows automatically with your world, pay only for what you use
- NVMe SSD storage — worlds live on fast NVMe SSDs — quick chunk loads and saves
- Full mod & plugin support — every loader, every version — 120k+ Modrinth mods in one click
- Any modpack supported — whole packs from Modrinth in a click, or hand-pick your own
- Daily backups, free — restore any of the last 7 days
- One-switch crossplay — Java, console & mobile friends in one world
- Bring your existing world — drag in your save and it loads on your next start, free
- Your own address — name.pixly.gg, yours to keep
- DDoS protection — always on, so a flood can't knock your world offline
Trial hours
Your trial: about 10 awake-hrs on Meadow. Top up to pick a bigger size.
Pick the region nearest your friends — pricing updates live above.
Questions?ESTIMATED BILLMeadow · N. Virginia
~$0.99/ mo
Estimated for weekend play · ~10 active hrs/mo
If you play more
Weekend
~5 hrs a session, a weekend or two a month
$0.99/mo
10¢/hr
Regular
~5 hrs a session, a few nights a week
$2.99/mo
7¢/hr
Every evening
~4 hrs a session, just about nightly
$8.49/mo
7¢/hr
All figures are estimates — you pay per hour your world is awake, not a fixed monthly plan, so your real cost tracks your uptime.
WHEN YOU LEAVE
No hourly charge.
Just a small storage fee for your server's data while it sleeps.
WHEN YOU COME BACK
Back the moment they join.
A friend joins and you're playing again — no new charge until someone's on.
AN “ACTIVE HOUR”
Only hours with players.
Charged by the minute, totted up by the hour. No surprise math, no add-ons.
Top up only what you'll useNo credit card to tryPause anytime — one clickNo setup fee
Meadow, Village, Town, Kingdom, Realm
Real questions
from real players.
If it isn't here, email us — we actually reply.
New to Pixly? Read the step-by-step setup guide.
Sign in with Google and give your world a name — that's the setup. You get an address that never changes, like cozyglade-7x.pixly.gg, to drop into Minecraft and share with your group. Keep one world or several, for different groups or games, and you're only ever charged for the one people are actually on. Pixly is a pay-as-you-go Minecraft game server hosting service — everything runs on our hardware, nothing on yours.
Yes — an SMP (survival multiplayer) is exactly what Pixly hosts best. Start a private SMP for your crew with the whitelist on, or open it to your community, Discord, or viewers. The world stays up while people play, sleeps when it's empty, and daily backups cover the whole season.
Billing counts the minutes your server is actually up, at the per-hour rate shown above. The moment a friend joins it comes online in about a minute; once the last player leaves it goes to sleep on its own and the hourly charge stops — while it sleeps you pay only a small storage fee for your world's data. There's no monthly fee ticking away whether you play or not.
It follows the hours you actually play, not a flat plan — hourly billing is at its best for occasional play. A couple of weekends a month on a small server comes to just a few dollars; a heavier modpack or a packed event night costs more, but only while it's running. Top up your Pixly Wallet with any amount and draw it down as you go — use the calculator above to price your own world and play pattern.
Top up your Pixly Wallet whenever you like with a one-time payment by card or crypto — there's no subscription and no renewal price hikes. A light month costs a light amount.
No card needed to start. Every new account comes with about 10 hours of play on a small server to try — enough to spin one up and get a few friends in straight away. When the trial hours run low, top up any amount you like; there's no subscription and no surprise auto-charge.
No. Your world is saved and waiting, and it comes back exactly as you left it the moment someone joins. On top of that, every world is backed up automatically once a day, and you can roll back to any of the last seven days if a build goes wrong or a mod misbehaves.
Yes — Java and Bedrock crossplay works on Pixly. Pick a Paper, Fabric, Quilt, or NeoForge world, then flip the Bedrock cross-play switch in Settings — Pixly auto-installs the Geyser crossplay bridge for you, no manual setup. Bedrock players join from the Servers screen on their device using the Bedrock address and port shown on the Connection card.
Pick any loader when you make the world (Vanilla doesn't take mods), and run any Minecraft version, from the latest down to the old ones. Add mods or plugins from the Mods tab — search Modrinth or paste a link — or drop in a whole modpack the same way. They set themselves up on the next start, and the right Java version is chosen for you.
Nothing to install. Your world runs on Pixly's servers, not on your PC, so friends can hop in whenever it's awake — your own computer can stay off. Share the address from your world's Connection card; they open Multiplayer in Minecraft, paste it in, and hit Join. That's the whole of it on their side.
~10 hours to try · no card needed
Your server is
minutes away.
Name it, pass the address to your friends, and you're all in moments later. It stays up while you're playing and winds down when everyone leaves — so what you pay tracks the time you're actually together in the game.
~10 trial hours included