No queues, no ads, no credit card. A 2 GB server for up to 5 friends, live in under a minute, on the same panel our paid plans use. When the trial ends, your world is saved for 7 more days.
No credit card · Live in under 30 seconds · One trial per account
A real dedicated game server with 10 GB of storage — not a browser toy.
Live console, file manager, settings, backups — the same panel paid plans use.
Paper, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and more, with mod installs from the panel.
One toggle, and friends on consoles and phones join the same world via GeyserMC.
Your server gets a free address friends can join — no port forwarding, ever.
Trial ends, world stays. Upgrade to keep it, or download the backup and leave.
Email or Google — no credit card, no payment details, nothing to cancel later.
Choose the trial in the create wizard, pick your version and world settings.
The server deploys, you get a join address, and your friends are in.
Most "free Minecraft server hosting" is free forever and pays for itself with your time: queues at peak hours, servers that sleep the moment everyone logs off, and ads on every page. That model works — Aternos has run on it for over a decade — but it's a trade, not a gift.
We made the opposite trade. Your free server runs at full speed with none of that, for 2 days. It exists so you can find out what a paid-grade server feels like — invite your friends, install some mods, break things in the console — before spending anything. If you want $0 forever instead, that's a legitimate choice: we compared the free-forever hosts honestly here.
| SpawnFort free trial | Free-forever hosts (Aternos, Minehut…) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ✓ Free for 2 days, then from $6.99/mo | ✓ Free forever |
| Time limit | 2 days (world saved 7 more) | ✓ None |
| Queue to start your server | ✓ None — deploys in under a minute | Common at peak hours |
| Server sleeps when empty | ✓ No — it runs until the trial ends | Yes, and waking it takes minutes |
| Ads | ✓ None | Ad-funded panels and pages |
| Credit card required | ✓ No | ✓ No |
| What it's for | ✓ Testing a paid-grade server before spending anything | ✓ Long-term hosting at $0, if you accept the trade-offs |
The server pauses and your world is kept for 7 days. Upgrade to any plan — from $6.99/month for 2 GB — and you keep the same world, settings and join address, moved onto reserved resources with no player having to relearn an address. Or download your world backup from the panel and take it anywhere. Either way, nothing you built is held hostage.
Yes — for 2 days, with no credit card and no payment details of any kind. It's a full server (2 GB RAM, up to 5 players) on the same panel paid plans use, not a throttled demo. We're upfront that it's a trial, not free-forever hosting: after 2 days the server pauses, and your world is kept for 7 more days in case you upgrade.
No. You register with an email address or a Google account, pick the free trial in the create wizard, and the server deploys. There is nothing to cancel afterwards, because we never took a payment method.
A 2 GB RAM server for up to 5 players with 10 GB of storage, running on shared trial hardware. You get the full panel: live console, file manager, one-click version and mod installs, backups, and a free join address you can share with friends.
The server pauses and your world is saved for 7 more days. Upgrade to any paid plan (from $6.99/month) and you keep the same world, settings and join address on full reserved resources. You can also download your world backup from the panel during the trial — no lock-in.
Yes — the trial supports the same server types as paid plans (Paper, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and more) with one-click mod installs from the panel. Be realistic about 2 GB of RAM though: vanilla and light mod setups run fine, but heavy modpacks like ATM or RLCraft need 6–8 GB, which means a paid plan.
Yes. Crossplay is one toggle in the settings: Java players join normally, and Bedrock players on phones, tablets and consoles join through GeyserMC on the same world.
Yes — Aternos, Minehut and FalixNodes run genuinely free-forever servers, funded by ads and upgrades. The trade-offs are queues at peak times, servers that sleep when nobody is online, and limited performance. If $0 forever is the requirement, those are the honest picks — our free trial is for testing what a paid-grade server feels like before spending anything.
Because we don't fund free servers with ads or queues. Free-forever hosts cover their hardware costs by making you wait and watch ads; we'd rather give you a real server at full speed for 2 days than a throttled one forever. One trial per account keeps it fair.
A real server for you and 4 friends, live in under a minute. No card, no queue, nothing to cancel.
One free trial per account. Trial servers run on shared hardware and may briefly be at capacity — if so, try again a little later. Not affiliated with Mojang, Aternos, Minehut or FalixNodes.