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title: "How much does a Valheim server cost? — TickServ"
description: "4 friends, 6 hours a week: about €0.78 a month for a Valheim server — €0.03 per started hour on 8 GB, and €0 while it is off."
url: https://tickserv.com/cost/valheim
site: "TickServ (https://tickserv.com)"
lang: en
generated: 2026-08-28
---

# How much does a Valheim server cost?

**Short answer** — A Valheim server for 4 friends playing 6 hours a week costs about €0.78 a month: €0.03 per started hour on 8 GB of RAM, and nothing at all while the server is off.

No subscription to sign, no setup fee. You top up a prepaid wallet, and the server bills only while it runs.

We bill by the started hour: a session of 2 h 10 is billed as 3 hours. The figures below assume your play time is your billed time — a session that runs over rounds up to the next hour.

## What you pay, by play time

On 8 GB at €0.03/h — the size we recommend for this game. One line per rhythm.

| Play time | Billed hours | You pay |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2 h a week | 9 h a month | €0.26 |
| 4 h a week | 17 h a month | €0.52 |
| 6 h a week | 26 h a month | €0.78 |
| 10 h a week | 43 h a month | €1.30 |
| 20 h a week | 87 h a month | €2.60 |
| 40 h a week | 173 h a month | €5.20 |
| Running non-stop | 730 h a month | €21.90 |

Prices include VAT. A stopped server costs €0.

## Shared vCPU or dedicated CPU?

The same Valheim server, on two levels of machine. The shared vCPU is what most groups run; the dedicated CPU is for heavy mods and crowded servers. The price follows the machine, never the game.

| Performance | RAM | vCPU | Price / hour | At 6 h a week |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eco | 8 GB | 4 | €0.03/h | €0.78 |
| Dedicated CPU | 16 GB | 2 | €0.13/h | €3.38 |

## When does a monthly plan become cheaper?

Past 400 h a month (around 92 h a week), a fixed monthly plan at about €12.00 costs less than we do. Below that you pay less here — and nothing at all during the weeks nobody plays.

“Monthly plan” is a market benchmark: what a host billing a fixed monthly fee asks for a comparable server, taken at the low end of what we measured. It is not our price, and it is not a quote from them.

## Does the number of players change the price?

No. The bill is the same whether one friend joins or all of them: what you pay for is the machine and the hours it runs. More players simply means picking more RAM.

## How the bill works

- Each started hour of running time is billed at the hourly rate of the RAM you picked.
- A stopped server costs nothing, and it stops on its own once nobody is playing.
- You pay from a prepaid wallet, topped up when you choose, from €5.
- The welcome credit needs a registered card — an imprint, which is never charged.
- Your world is kept between sessions at no extra cost, and it is never deleted for non-payment.
- One paid option exists: timestamped backups at €0.10 per 30 days, which keeps 5 archives instead of 1.

## Every price for Valheim

| Performance | RAM | vCPU | Price / hour | At 6 h a week |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eco | 4 GB | 2 | €0.02/h | €0.52 |
| Eco | 8 GB | 4 | €0.03/h | €0.78 |
| Eco | 16 GB | 8 | €0.05/h | €1.30 |
| Eco | 32 GB | 16 | €0.10/h | €2.60 |
| Dedicated CPU | 8 GB | 2 | €0.10/h | €2.60 |
| Dedicated CPU | 16 GB | 2 | €0.13/h | €3.38 |
| Dedicated CPU | 32 GB | 4 | €0.26/h | €6.75 |

Prices incl. VAT. You choose RAM and performance at creation. No subscription.

- [The Valheim server page](https://tickserv.com/games/valheim) (markdown: https://tickserv.com/games/valheim.md)
- [Every game, side by side](https://tickserv.com/cost) (markdown: https://tickserv.com/cost.md)

— TickServ, https://tickserv.com/cost/valheim