Why Indifferent Broccoli is one of our top picks

Founded by Jake Gaba during a break from Stanford GSB, Indifferent Broccoli has grown from a quirky side project into one of the most consistently recommended hosts on our network. The core idea hasn’t changed: focus on the human side of hosting, keep the panel simple, and back it all with support that reads like a real person wrote it — because it is. That approach has earned them a 4.5/5 Trustpilot score across 900+ reviews, with support speed and tone the most consistently praised factors by a wide margin.

What sets them apart from most budget hosts, though, is the pricing model itself. Rather than selling fixed RAM tiers that force an upgrade the moment your world grows, Indifferent Broccoli prices by slot, so your server always gets the memory it actually needs rather than hitting an artificial ceiling. The numbers speak for themselves at scale: a 32-player server runs just $24.99/mo, working out to roughly $0.78 per slot — genuinely competitive against hosts charging two or three times that for equivalent capacity. Billing quarterly, semi-annually or annually unlocks further discounts on top of that. Support is where they genuinely stand out from the pack — response times are consistently fast around the clock, and the team actually solves problems rather than reading from a script, which is the single most repeated theme across their Trustpilot reviews.

Hardware-wise, they run on a mix of Ryzen 9 9950X, Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel Xeon E-2288G processors — genuinely strong, current-generation silicon rather than the ageing hand-me-down hardware some budget hosts quietly run. Combined with the 2-day, no-card free trial, you can actually benchmark your own mod list and player count before committing, which is rare in this price bracket.

Is Indifferent Broccoli good for Palworld 1.0?

In one word, yes. Palworld’s dedicated server software has a well-documented memory leak, one Pocketpair themselves have acknowledged, where RAM usage climbs the longer the server stays online regardless of which host it’s running on. Because Indifferent Broccoli prices by player slot rather than a fixed RAM tier, a six-slot server simply draws whatever memory it needs instead of bumping against a ceiling set months earlier — a real advantage now that 1.0’s World Tree and Sky Islands content adds extra load.

Slots on this model do cost a little more than a bare-bones fixed tier, but what you’re paying for is a server that stays playable rather than one that quietly degrades. With that said, it is still a good idea to disable invader enemies and scheduling regular restarts since these two things are very good at eating away server resources if left unchecked — see our full Palworld 1.0 hosting comparison for the rest of the field.

The control panel, the Discord bot, and where the servers actually live

On the infrastructure side, Indifferent Broccoli currently advertises San Jose, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Washington DC and Montreal in North America, plus Frankfurt, Roubaix and Amsterdam in Europe. There is no advertised UK data centre, but Roubaix and Amsterdam are geographically close enough that UK players still model well in our latency test below. Singapore and India are also available for Asian players, although they are outside the UK, US and EU comparison used in this review.

What ping can you expect from Indifferent Broccoli?

Our distance-based model predicts roughly 10.5-15.1 ms across the UK’s 10 largest cities, 8.0-17.6 ms across the 10 largest US cities, and 8.0-34.0 ms across all 27 EU capitals when each player location is matched to Indifferent Broccoli’s geographically nearest advertised server node. These are modelled round-trip times rather than live ICMP measurements, so real-world ping can move higher or lower depending on ISP peering, congestion, game-server load and the exact physical data-centre facility.

Advertised locations used in the model

Sources and population sets: current server locations verified against Indifferent Broccoli’s official hosting site. UK city selection uses the latest UK-wide census city list published in the UK Government toponymic guidelines. US city selection uses the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates. EU coverage uses one capital from each of the EU’s 27 member states.

A few smaller details that add up

Slot-based pricing with uncapped RAM

Indifferent Broccoli currently charges $5.99/mo for 1 player, scaling to $24.99/mo for 32 players, with uncapped RAM across the listed plans. The price rises with the player limit rather than a fixed memory allocation, so the main restriction you are paying to increase is concurrent player capacity. The 6-player option is currently marked as their recommended plan, while larger servers become much cheaper on a per-slot basis.

Pricing checked September 23, 2026. Indifferent Broccoli states that these plans provide uncapped RAM and only the player count is limited. Game-specific availability and pricing can change, so verify the current selector before purchasing.

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