Indifferent Broccoli vs Survival Servers

Indifferent Broccoli8.6Visit Survival Servers8.5Visit

Higher score Indifferent Broccoli #7 in Factorio Server Hosting 8.6/10 2-day free trial · price varies by game Free trial✓ 2 of 4 features Visit Broccoli

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Survival Servers #8 in Factorio Server Hosting 8.5/10 Per slot · rentals from 3 days ✓ 3 of 4 features See Survival Servers

• Indifferent Broccoli fits best

  Duos and trios who want no memory ceiling

• Survival Servers fits best

  Players who want factory analytics in the panel

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Side by side

Feature	Indifferent Broccoli 8.6/10 Visit ↗	Survival Servers 8.5/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.6	8.5
Ranking	#7 in Factorio Server Hosting	#8 in Factorio Server Hosting
Best for	Duos and trios who want no memory ceiling	Players who want factory analytics in the panel
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	$5.99/mo (best)	$16.95/mo
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	✓ (best)	Not checked yet
Features Indifferent Broccoli 2/4 · Survival Servers 3/4
Space Age named	✓	✓
One-click mods	—	Not checked yet
Automatic backups	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
DDoS protection	✓	✓
Specs
Price per GB RAM	2-day free trial · price varies by game	Per slot · rentals from 3 days
Priced by	Per slot	Per slot
Entry RAM	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Entry slots	1 slots	8 slots (best)
Server locations	6 locations	8 locations (best)
Money-back window	7 days	Not checked yet
Control panel	Indifferent Broccoli panel (in-house)	Survival Servers panel (in-house)
Our review
Pros	RAM is uncapped on every tier; you pay for players, not gigabytes Two-day trial without a card, then a 7-day refund window The page names Space Age, and the six-player tier is marked recommended	Switchboard draws a live factory map and production graphs in the browser A world-generation editor sets ore and terrain before the save starts Space Age support stated, with a web console for commands
Cons	Six regions is the second-shortest location list in this directory Mods come off the portal through file access, not a panel installer No RAM figure to compare, so price per GB cannot be checked	$16.95 for eight slots is the second-dearest entry in this directory Eight locations, all chosen before checkout rather than moved later No RAM figure published, so the plan cannot be sized by memory
Our verdict	Indifferent Broccoli sells Factorio by the head and leaves memory alone. One player is $5.99 a month, two $6.99, four $9.99, six $12.99 and marked as the recommended tier, then $15.99, $18.99, $20.99 and $24.99 as the group grows to… Read the review →	Most panels give a Factorio server a start button, a stop button and a file tree. Survival Servers builds something rather more interesting on top. Its Switchboard layer draws a live map of the factory in the browser, charts production… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Indifferent Broccoli — where it wins

  • RAM is uncapped on every tier; you pay for players, not gigabytes
  • Two-day trial without a card, then a 7-day refund window
  • The page names Space Age, and the six-player tier is marked recommended

  Where it doesn't

  • Six regions is the second-shortest location list in this directory
  • Mods come off the portal through file access, not a panel installer
  • No RAM figure to compare, so price per GB cannot be checked

• Survival Servers — where it wins

  • Switchboard draws a live factory map and production graphs in the browser
  • A world-generation editor sets ore and terrain before the save starts
  • Space Age support stated, with a web console for commands

  Where it doesn't

  • $16.95 for eight slots is the second-dearest entry in this directory
  • Eight locations, all chosen before checkout rather than moved later
  • No RAM figure published, so the plan cannot be sized by memory

• Indifferent Broccoli8.6/10 · 2-day free trial · price varies by game

  Player-count pricing from $5.99 with uncapped RAM, a two-day card-free trial and a 7-day refund.

  Visit BroccoliFull verdict →
• Survival Servers8.5/10 · Per slot · rentals from 3 days

  A live factory map, production graphs and a world-gen editor in the panel, from $16.95 for eight slots.

  See Survival ServersFull verdict →