Minecraft Server Tools
RAM & Plan Calculator
Tell us how you plan to run your server and we'll work out the RAM, cores and storage it needs — plus the exact plan that fits.
Server platform
Players
Plugins
View distance
Chunks loaded per player. 10 is the vanilla default — dropping to 8 is the cheapest way to save RAM on busy servers.
Extras
4GB
Recommended RAM
vCores
2
Storage
8 GB
Where the RAM goes
Server base1.0 GB
Players1.5 GB
Plugins625 MB
Extras0 MB
JVM overhead630 MB
Your plan
Ares
4 GB · 40 GB NVMe · 2 vCores
$9.00/mo
$0.45
per player, per month
How we calculate this. An estimate: server base, plus an average per plugin or mod, plus RAM per player scaled by view distance, plus 20% JVM overhead. Real usage depends on which plugins or mods you run — a couple of heavy ones can cost more than twenty light ones, so always leave headroom.