Free unless you make money using the tools.

Friends, clubs, schools and LANs where nobody earns money use everything for free. Not sure which you are?

Free

When nobody earns money from it: friends and communities, clubs, schools, charities and non-profit LANs.

Every feature, nothing held back
No server limit
No account or key needed

Install it free Get a free key (optional)

Making money with it?

From €28.99 a month

One license with everything for businesses, paid events and paid operators. Priced by your servers, cheaper per server the more you run.

Work out your price

Which one are you?

Find the setup closest to yours, and what it costs.

Free
A volunteer-run LAN charges entry. All entry fees and sponsor money go back into the event, and nobody is paid or takes profit.
Nobody makes money using the tools, so it’s non-commercial.
Free
A school runs a LAN for its students.
Schools are on the license’s list of organizations that use it free.
Free
A Discord community runs free weekly cups for its members.
Hobby and community use is free when nobody makes money from it.
Free
A charity runs a fundraiser tournament. Every euro goes to the cause.
Charities, schools and public bodies use it free.
€28.99 a month
A small LAN party run for profit uses the platform on 4 servers for one weekend.
The organizer makes money using the tools. Up to 5 servers is the base price. One month covers the weekend. Cancel after.
€90.99 a month
A freelancer uses CS2 Server Manager to run 34 servers (32 + 2 spares) for a paying client, once a year.
The freelancer makes money using the tools, so the freelancer pays, even if the event itself is free. One month covers the event. Spares count.
€36.99 a month
A company runs a CS2 tournament for its staff on 8 servers.
Any business using the tools needs a license, even for an internal event with no entry fee.
€364.99 a year
A streamer runs monthly community cups on 8 servers, paid for by sponsors.
Sponsor money makes it commercial. Monthly cups all year: yearly is two months cheaper.
€314.99 a year
An esports team runs practice and scrims for its players on 6 servers.
An esports team is a business, so it needs a license even when nobody pays to play.
€598.99 a year
A league charges team fees and pays its admins, on 20 servers.
Paid admins make it commercial. At 20 servers the whole price is 10% off.
€414.99 a year
A gaming café runs weekly tournaments and matchmaking on 10 servers.
A business running all year: yearly is two months cheaper than paying monthly.
€53.99 a month
A community runs its own matchmaking for about 2,000 players, peaking at 15 servers, and sells VIP.
Matchmaking needs about one server for every 10 players online. The VIP income makes it commercial.
Contact us, custom quote
A company sells hosted tournaments to many customers, or runs more than 500 servers.
Hosting or reselling Auto Tournament as a service is priced with you.

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Game servers at the same time

€598.99a year

~~€798~~Save €199

2 months free.

Purchase license€598.99 a year · 20 servers

For businesses. Non-commercial use is free.

Lifetime comes in packs of 5, 20, 50, 100 and 200 servers, a limited number of each. All termsMore than 500 servers? Contact us ↗

Prices in EUR. Prices exclude VAT. We're not VAT-registered, so no VAT is charged today. If we register, VAT is added to new purchases and renewals at the applicable rate.

Pricing v4 (October 2026). If a price doesn't fit your case, contact us ↗ and we'll work it out.

Not sure what you need?

Four quick questions tell you if you need a license, and which one.

You’ll probably run more servers than you think

A 16-team bracket needs 8 servers in round one. But the platform does more than the bracket, and every one of these is a game server too.

8 · Tournament matches
16 teams play 8 matches at once in round one
2 · Spares for failover
A dead server’s match moves to a spare and carries on
2 · Matchmaking
Teams that are knocked out keep playing 5v5 and wingman
1 · Practice and deathmatch
Warm-ups, lineups and deathmatch between rounds

13 servers, not 8. That’s €48.99 a month.

Everything is included

Every license has every feature. Free for non-commercial use too.

Tournaments
- Every common format
  Single and double elimination, Swiss, round robin, and shuffle with balanced teams
- Sign-ups and check-in
  Teams sign up with their lineup, check in, and get reminded
- Map veto in the browser
  Captains pick and ban from any device with a browser, with a turn timer
- Matches run by themselves
  A free server is picked, the match is loaded, the bracket moves on
- Hold a match or pause the bracket
  Instead of a walkover when a team is late
- Results with awards
  A results page and a public page for every match
Matchmaking
- Play queue
  5v5, 2v2 wingman and 1v1, each with its own map pool
- Parties
  Queue with friends, balanced teams, accept and cooldowns
- Ratings, XP and levels
  Rating per game, commends and a leaderboard
- Runs next to a tournament
  Servers are kept free for matchmaking while the bracket plays
CS2 stats and match analysis
- Demo analysis for every map
  Rating, KAST, trades, openings, clutches, aim, money and team buys
- 2D replay
  Radar replay with utility, the bomb, bullets, damage and the kill feed
- Round timeline
  Every round, kill and bomb plant on one line
- Import a match from its demos
  Stats for matches played somewhere else
- Demos and stats from the server
  GOTV demos and player stats for every map
Highlights
- Clips of every player’s best moments
  Picked from the demo and recorded on a gaming PC you choose
- Player, match and tournament reels
  With an intro, a kill feed, crowd reactions and music
Players and teams
- Player profiles
  A tab per game with rating, stats, map strength and highlights
- Teams
  Rosters, roles, starters and subs, invites and a team page
- Friends and chat
  Friends, direct messages, party invites, and match, team and party chat
- Reports and bans
  Players report, admins dismiss or ban
- Sign in with any account
  Steam, Discord, Google, GitHub, Twitch, Epic Games or your own login
Game servers
- CS2 Server Manager
  Many CS2 servers on one Linux machine, set up and kept up to date
- Ready Up match plugin
  Ready-up, knife round, pauses, round backups and crash recovery
- Practice and fun modes
  Practice mode, deathmatch, grenade lineups and Midas
- Updates never hit a live match
  CS2 and plugin updates wait until a server is idle
- Failover
  A dead server’s match moves to a free one from the last round
- Auto-scaling
  Servers start when matches wait and stop when they sit idle
More games and integrations
- Over 30 more games
  Valorant, League, Rocket League and more, with teams reporting results
- Discord bot built in
  Private channels per tournament and team, match cards, moving players and DMs
- Webhooks and a teams API
  Your event site gets live match updates, Discord too

Public prices, checked on 28 September 2026, each with its source. Where an alternative does something we don’t, it says so.

Bracket tools

Toornament, Challengermode

Toornament Community: €228 a year (€19 a month, billed yearly). Challengermode Core: from €718.80 a year (€59.90 a month, billed yearly).

Hosted brackets and sign-ups for hundreds of games, and Toornament handles paid registration, which we don’t. Toornament doesn’t install or run your game servers, handle ready-up and pauses, or record demos.

With 10 servers we’re €414.99 a year, and run your servers as well.

Sources, read 28 Sep 2026:Toornament pricing ↗Challengermode pricing ↗

start.gg

Registration and brackets

Free for organizers. A 6% platform fee is added on top of what players pay for online registration.

16 teams of 5 players at €25 each is €2,000 in entry fees. 6% of that is €120, paid by the players. We charge one fixed price and take no cut, but we don’t take registration payments at all.

With 10 servers, one month is €41.99.

Sources, read 28 Sep 2026:start.gg, January 2025 ↗

Free, do it yourself

MatchZy with G5API and G5V, eBot, LinuxGSM, Pterodactyl, Pelican

Free, including for commercial use.

Good tools, and a fair choice if you have the time. You connect the pieces yourself, and keeping them working after CS2 updates is your job.

Auto Tournament is free too, as long as nobody makes money using the tools.

Sources, read 28 Sep 2026:MatchZy ↗G5API ↗LinuxGSM ↗Pterodactyl ↗

Renting the servers

DatHost, FACEIT

DatHost: €0.33 per server-hour. FACEIT: free for organizers, on FACEIT’s own servers.

20 servers for 3 days at 12 hours a day is 720 server-hours: €237.60 at DatHost’s rate, or about €68 at a budget host (RespawnHost, about €0.094 an hour). Either way the servers run in their data centres, not at your venue.

With 20 servers, one month is €59.99. Most LANs run servers on their own hardware, so this is a price anchor, not what you’d spend.

Sources, read 28 Sep 2026:DatHost ↗RespawnHost ↗FACEIT, November 2023 ↗

Rules and licenses

The short version. The Commercial License Terms have the full wording.

A license allows no more than its number of game servers set up at any one time, spares included.
One license per licensee, priced by the most game servers running our software at the same time, whatever the game.
Monthly and yearly renew by themselves until you cancel. Cancel any time and the license runs to the end of the period you paid for.
Monthly and yearly include all updates while the pack runs. If you cancel, you keep commercial use of every version line (such as 1.4) that started on or before the last day you paid for, including its later patches (1.4.1, 1.4.2…). New minor and major versions (1.5, 2.0) need an active pack. Buying again restores them.
Need more servers? Change the server count in your account. You pay the difference for the rest of the period.
Every pack also covers events you operate for clients, such as a LAN that hires you to run its servers. The server limit applies at any one time, and we may ask which events you ran.
Every game server running our software counts: match servers, spares, practice and test servers.
More than 500 servers, or hosting for many clients at once: contact us for a custom quote.
Price changes apply to new purchases and renewals only, never to a running period or a founding supporter pack.
One license covers everything: the platform, CS2 Server Manager, Ready Up and the game packs.

Limited: first 35 or until 31 March 2027

Only for the first 35 buyers, or until 31 March 2027, whichever comes first.
Pay once. Commercial use of every version we release, for as long as we sell the software your pack covers, including new major versions and renamed successors of it: lifetime updates, no yearly fee.
Updates means every new version of the software in your pack: fixes, CS2 compatibility updates and new features.
Fixed packs of 5, 20, 50, 100, 200 servers, each with its own number of places. Need more servers later? Add them with a monthly or yearly license.
The license is for the named licensee and can't be resold or transferred.
If we ever stop selling it (not offered for a full year), you keep every version you have, nothing can lock you out, and we release a final build without the license check.
CS2 updates can break older versions; install our updates to stay current.
We never lock you out. A founding supporter license never stops the software; at most it shows a warning when a version is newer than the updates it covers.

If you make money using the tools, you need a license. Any of the following with the platform, CS2 Server Manager, Ready Up or a game pack needs one.

Paid hosting.
Selling or reselling Auto Tournament.
Events where the organizer makes a profit.
Use inside a business.
Being paid to set up or operate servers or tournaments for someone else, even for a flat fee, and even when that event is free.

Each project has one license. Only the projects under PolyForm Noncommercial need a license for commercial use.

PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0

Free for non-commercial use. Commercial use needs a license.

Auto Tournament platform ↗ (3.0 and later)
CS2 Server Manager ↗
Ready Up ↗ (the new native CS2 plugin)
Game packs ↗ (covered by every license; packs published before 24 September 2026 stay MIT)

MIT

Free for any use, including paid work. No license needed.

Auto Tournament platform 2.4.15 and older (released as MatchZy Auto Tournament)

Forks can't be relicensed. The full details are in the license reference ↗.

Licenses are sold to businesses and organizations, including clubs and associations, not to consumers. A license names who holds it, so we verify every buyer before sending the license confirmation.

The legal name of the company or organization, and your name
Organization number, and VAT ID if it has one
Country and billing address
Contact email and phone
Your website or social link. Paid operators: the clients you work for
The pack and period, which tools you’ll run, and how many servers you’ll set up (spares included)

We check the details before issuing the license. If something doesn't match, we'll ask, and we refund in full if we can't verify you.

Email [email protected] or use the buttons above, then:

Pay by card with the buttons above, or ask for an invoice by email. Either way you get an invoice.
By paying you accept the Commercial License Terms and Terms of Sale.
We verify the details you sent us and confirm your license by email within 2 working days.

Buy it before the event. Not sure which pack fits? Email and ask.

FAQ

For commercial use, yes: a license, from €28.99 a month for up to 5 servers. CS2 Server Manager needs a license for commercial use, on its own or with the platform. Personal use is free.

Yes. A license allows no more than its number of game servers set up at any one time, spares included. A spare that never gets used still counts.

Change the server count in your account. You pay the difference for the rest of the month, and less if you go down.

Contact us before you set them up. You upgrade to the next size and pay the difference, and we send an updated license confirmation. Above 500 servers, we work out a custom quote with you.

Monthly and yearly include all updates while the pack runs. If you cancel, you keep commercial use of every version line (such as 1.4) that started on or before the last day you paid for, including its later patches (1.4.1, 1.4.2…). New minor and major versions (1.5, 2.0) need an active pack. Buying again restores them. CS2 compatibility fixes ship as patches of the current version line. So after you cancel, you get them only for lines that started on or before the last day you paid for.

You pay once and get every new version, for as long as we sell the software your pack covers, including new major versions and renamed successors of it: fixes, CS2 compatibility updates and new features, with no yearly fee. The pack size is fixed; moving to a bigger size costs the difference between the founder prices. CS2 updates can break older versions; install our updates to stay current.

Founding supporters are covered. If we ever stop selling it (not offered for a full year), you keep every version you have, nothing can lock you out, and we release a final build without the license check.

Only when something is wrong with it. A monthly or yearly license that isn't paid keeps working for 13 days after the last day you paid for, with email reminders and a warning for your admins. Still unpaid after that, the software stops until it's paid. A key also stops on a second Auto Tournament install, and an old key stops a day after you make a new one. Your data is never deleted, and founding supporter licenses never stop.

No. Every license covers the game packs. There is no separate price for them.

The named licensee and its contractors, for the licensee’s own events and events it runs for clients. A freelancer working on someone else’s event is covered by that organizer’s license, or needs its own.

Yes. You make money using the tools, so you need a license, even when the event itself is free.

No. Only whoever sets up the game servers or the platform needs one, if their use counts as commercial.

Yes. Buy a month and cancel it right away. It runs to the end of the month and doesn’t renew.

The Auto Tournament platform up to 2.4.15 (released as MatchZy Auto Tournament) is MIT licensed and stays that way. Free for any use.

Free when nobody makes money using the tools: all entry fees and sponsor money go back into the event, and no organizer, volunteer or helper is paid or takes profit. Charities, schools and universities, public research, public safety or health and environmental protection organizations, and government bodies use it free. If you make money using the tools, you need a license: an organizer who makes a profit, any business, or a paid operator or contractor, even one hired by a zero-profit event.

If we notify you in writing that your use is commercial and unlicensed, PolyForm gives you 32 days (first notice only) to come into compliance: stop the commercial use or buy a license, and put right past use. To settle past use, we offer a back-dated license at the normal price plus 50%. If you don't come into compliance within 32 days, all your PolyForm licenses end and we may claim compensation under the Norwegian Copyright Act (åndsverkloven § 81).

Free unless you make money using the tools.

Free

From €28.99 a month

Which one are you?

Your price

Not sure what you need?

Does anyone make money using the tools?

You’ll probably run more servers than you think

Everything is included

Tournaments

Matchmaking

CS2 stats and match analysis

Highlights

Players and teams

Game servers

More games and integrations

Rules and licenses

FAQ

Does anyone make money using the tools?

Free unless you make money using the tools.

Free

From €28.99 a month

Which one are you?

Your price

Not sure what you need?

Does anyone make money using the tools?

You’ll probably run more servers than you think

Everything is included

Tournaments

Matchmaking

CS2 stats and match analysis

Highlights

Players and teams

Game servers

More games and integrations

What the alternatives cost

Rules and licenses

License rules

Founding supporter terms

What counts as commercial use

What’s licensed how

Buying a license: what we need and what happens next

FAQ

I only use CS2 Server Manager. Do I need a license?

Do spare servers count?

What if I add servers halfway through a month?

We need more servers than we planned. What now?

What happens when I cancel?

What does “lifetime updates” mean for a founding supporter pack?

What if Auto Tournament stops being sold?

Can a license lock me out?

Do game packs need their own license?

Who does the license cover?

I’m paid to run servers at a volunteer event. Do I need a license?

Do players or teams need a license?

Can I pay for just one event?

I'm on 2.4.x

When is an event free?

Using Auto Tournament commercially without a license?

I only use CS2 Server Manager. Do I need a license?

Do spare servers count?

What if I add servers halfway through a month?

We need more servers than we planned. What now?

What happens when I cancel?

What does “lifetime updates” mean for a founding supporter pack?

What if Auto Tournament stops being sold?

Can a license lock me out?

Do game packs need their own license?

Who does the license cover?

I’m paid to run servers at a volunteer event. Do I need a license?

Do players or teams need a license?

Can I pay for just one event?

I'm on 2.4.x

When is an event free?

Using Auto Tournament commercially without a license?

Does anyone make money using the tools?