Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Aternos

Aternos

With Aternos, you can run your own Minecraft server for free.

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Aternos are Glowstone, PaperMC, and Cuberite. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Glowstone Landing Page
1

Glowstone

A fast, customizable and compatible open source Minecraft server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Online Services 3 social mentions
PaperMC Landing Page
2

PaperMC

Paper is a fork of the Spigot server implementation (which is itself a fork of CraftBukkit). Paper strives to bring improved performance, more features, and more APIs for developers to build awesome plugins with.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Gaming 178 social mentions
Cuberite Landing Page
3

Cuberite

A custom Minecraft compatible game server written in C++.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Online Services 7 social mentions
Sponge Landing Page
4

Sponge

The purpose of the Sponge project is to create a plugin development framework for Minecraft.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Cloud Hosting #Online Services 5 social mentions
Geyser Landing Page
5

Geyser

A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock edition.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Hosting #Cloud Hosting 235 social mentions
Serverspace.io Landing Page
6

Serverspace.io

Serverspace offers automated, simple, and affordable cloud infrastructure to everyone. Get started building your cool digital stuff right now.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- $4.95 / Monthly (1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD, 50 Mbps Bandwidth)
#VPS #Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage 3 social mentions
Pufferpanel Landing Page
7

Pufferpanel

It's made for hosting your Minecraft server. It's open source.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Group Chat & Notifications #Realtime Backend / API 5 social mentions
Magma Forge Landing Page
8

Magma Forge

Magma combines the functionality of both PaperMC and Minecraft Forge, allowing for the use of boths plugins and mods on one single server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Group Chat & Notifications #Cloud Hosting 3 social mentions
DomainRacer Landing Page
9

DomainRacer

Best, Reliable, Affordable, Cheap Hosting Platform. Business Hosting with 99.99% uptime, Unlimited Disk, Bandwidth, Domains, Reseller Hosting, Reliable and Low Cost. Limited Time 60% OFF, Best Hosting Provider 2023.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free Trial
- $0.99 / Monthly
#Web Hosting #Domain Registration #Hosting 93 user reviews
Vesta Control Panel Landing Page
10

Vesta Control Panel

– What I love about Vesta is that it's fast and easy to use
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Hosting #Control Panels #Server Management 6 social mentions
Application Management Panel (AMP) Landing Page
11

Application Management Panel (AMP)

AMP is an easy to install, self-hosted, web-based management panel for game servers. It supports dozens of applications including Minecraft, CS:GO, Rust, 7 Days to Die, Starbound, Factorio and many more. Supports both Windows and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Realtime Backend / API #VPS 2 social mentions
Linux Game Server Managers Landing Page
12

Linux Game Server Managers

The command line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of dedicated game servers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Group Chat & Notifications #Realtime Backend / API 31 social mentions