Open-source projects and non-commercial game communities get permanent free access to the full platform - in exchange for attribution and a once-a-year confirmation that nothing has changed.
The programme exists for projects that genuinely give their work away. If money flows anywhere - donations, ranks, Tebex stores - the paid plans are the right home, and they start at $0 too.
Permanent free access across all four products. Not a 30-day trial, not a free-until-we-change-our-minds promise - it does not expire unless the conditions are broken.
Upload files via API, get instant public URLs, and serve them from a global CDN. Drop-in for Discord webhook uploads. Hobby limits: 25 GB storage, 100k files, 500k requests/mo.
Ingest, store, and query application and game-server logs. Keep events for debugging, audit trails, and player dispute evidence.
Build and archive moderation cases with file evidence, chat logs, and timeline events. Keeps your staff team organised.
Build player application forms for whitelist, staff, or community roles. Response tracking and status management included.
One custom domain for your CDN and one upload portal are included at no charge. These are normally paid add-ons.
Limits match the published Hobby tier and rise whenever we raise it. Open to discussing raised limits for larger projects - email [email protected].
The grant is permanent unless one of these breaks. We do not police every applicant line-by-line - we trust your application, and we revoke when something is clearly off.
No revenue inside the org. No paid tiers, no donation stores, no Tebex, no Patreon perks tied to the project or server. Voluntary tips with zero in-game or in-product return are fine.
A mention of ServerOps.gg somewhere publicly visible on your project. For OSS that is usually the GitHub README credits section; for communities it could be a website footer, server-list description, or in-game MOTD. The format is flexible - we are after credit, not banners.
Once a year we send a one-question email: is anything different? Confirm with one click. If you do not respond within 30 days the grant pauses; reply and it lights back up immediately.
If the project takes funding, opens a store, or otherwise becomes commercial, let us know. Honest self-reporters get a discounted conversion path onto the paid plans, not a surprise invoice.
The free org must be separate from any paid commercial work by the same person or team. A free dev-tool by someone who also runs a paid SaaS is fine. A free server that is a feeder for a paid sibling server is not.
Fill in the form below. Takes about three minutes.
A human reads it - usually within 5 business days.
Once approved, the dashboard tells you exactly what to add and where.
Same product, same docs, same SDKs. No watermarks, no rate-limit traps.
A single yes/no to confirm nothing has changed.
Pick your path at the top of the form. The fields adapt to what we actually need. You can apply before or after creating an account - we will link them either way.
Yes. The grant does not expire on a clock. It only ends if one of the five conditions stops being true: the project takes funding, becomes commercial, or does not respond to the annual email. We do not reserve the right to cancel for any reason.
Sponsorship of the maintainers (GitHub Sponsors, OpenCollective towards salaries) is fine. Selling a closed-source pro tier, a hosted SaaS of the OSS, or paid plugins puts you into commercial territory - the paid plans with a discount for honest self-reporters are the right place.
Yes, as long as there is genuinely no in-game return - no rank, no priority queue, no cosmetic, not even a Discord role. The moment a donation maps to anything in the game, the community has paid elements and is no longer eligible.
It is how new people find us. Paid customers pay with money; free orgs pay with credit. A mention of ServerOps.gg on a server list, a README, or a footer is a fair trade for permanent infrastructure.
After 30 days of no response the grant pauses - uploads return 402, but nothing is deleted. Reply to the email and it is back on the same day. After 12 months of no response we treat the grant as abandoned and archive the data per our standard retention policy.
Yes. The grant lives on a normal ServerOps org, so flipping to a paid plan is one click. If you self-reported a commercial change first, you get the conversion discount automatically.