Apex Hosting review

Apex advertises a first-month price, then a higher recurring one

Apex's pricing page (8 Nov 2026) lists three RAM plans with a banner offering 25% off a first order with the code APEX25.

Source: Apex pricing page, 8 Nov 2026. The page also shows a Monthly/Quarterly toggle labelled "-10%". The quarterly prices were not captured, so none are stated here.

Taking the 8 GB plan month to month for a year, the arithmetic is $20.99 + 11 x $27.99 = $328.88, against $335.88 at the recurring rate (12 x $27.99). The promotion saves $7.00 in total, so Apex is a month-one saving rather than a lower long-term price.

Other games carry a "25 %" label with a "from" price on the home page: Palworld from $8.99, Valheim and Project Zomboid from $5.99, 7 Days to Die from $5.99, Rust from $11.24. The page does not say whether those figures are before or after the 25%, so treat them as unconfirmed starting points. The Apex plans for Palworld, Valheim, Project Zomboid and 7 Days to Die have no separate price table on the pages read. Apex lists "Unlimited Slots" on every server. For the cheaper end of the market see the cheapest game server hosting guide.

The CPU depends on the city, and the pages disagree about the EX plan

Apex's server specs page says its hardware "has slight variations per region", and the table it gives is wider than that.

• EX Series: Ryzen 9 5900X at 4.8 GHz (US and EU), Ryzen 7 5800X at 4.7 GHz (Australia and Singapore), on NVMe RAID1.
• Several cities (New York, Miami, Vint Hill, Singapore, Amsterdam) list Ryzen 9 7950X at 4.5 GHz with DDR5.
• Other rows list Xeon Gold 6348, an E-2288G, an E-2176G with SSD (São Paulo), an i7-7700K (Sydney) and DDR3 Xeon E5 machines with SSD (Tel Aviv).

The page has a "Legacy Hardware" tab, and the extracted text does not show which rows sit under it. It also does not say which plan lands on which machine in a city that lists several.

The pricing page adds an inconsistency. Its EX Series header reads "Ryzen 9 7950X Ryzen 7 5800X (AU)", while the paragraph below it and the specs page say Ryzen 9 5900X for the US and EU. Apex also states "4 Dedicated vCores" for EX and "Shared" vCores for its standard Ryzen servers, with 16 GB DDR4 on EX. The standard plans have no stated vCore count.

On DDoS protection, none of the pricing, home, specs or Terms pages read on 8 November 2026 mentions it. This review therefore states nothing about Apex's DDoS protection and does not know whether it exists as a published commitment. The SLA page targets 99.99% monthly availability on "reasonable commercial efforts" and says customers "may be eligible" for one month of service credit if it is missed, which must be requested within 30 days. Emergency and scheduled downtime are excluded, and the SLA page is dated "06/10/20".

Apex describes its service on the home page as "Lag-free". That is marketing copy, and this review does not repeat it as fact.

Apex merged with MCProHosting

MCProHosting's own home page (8 Nov 2026) says "We've merged with ApexHosting!". Its login areas address "an MCProHosting or ApexHosting customer", and its footer shows an Apex Hosting copyright for 2013-2025 and links its Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and SLA to Apex's own documents. The site still shows a "Starting at $5.99" price with no period or currency.

MCProHosting's migration announcement, dated 25 April 2024, says "all servers are being switched over to Apex Hosting". The original post now returns an error, so this was read from an Internet Archive capture of 15 January 2025. It says customers who do not move "will automatically be switched by our team", and that the process "does not impact server files or existing billing information".

Neither page says which terms applied to a customer during or after the move, or whether an existing price carried over. The footer link shows that Apex's Terms are the ones MCProHosting's site points to today. It is not a statement that those Terms govern every former MCProHosting customer, and that remains unconfirmed. If you were moved across, ask Apex in writing which terms and which renewal price apply to your account.

The refund window is 7 days from server creation, with a "probable cause" condition

Apex's Terms of Service (undated, read 8 November 2026) set the window in one sentence: "All server plans are eligible for refunds within 7 days of the creation of the server in our database, this point is not marked by the time at which your initial payment is processed and may differ by several hours or days." The next sentence opens with "Refunds cannot be requested without probable cause". The Terms do not define probable cause, so ask what counts before relying on the window.

What those terms mean for a buyer, with Apex's own wording in quotation marks and this review's reading around it:

• Your 7 days may start before you expect. The window runs from when the server is created in Apex's database, and the Terms do not say how a customer can see that time. If you are close to the deadline, ask support for it.
• Closing a server does not claim your money back. In Apex's words, "Cancellation requests are not a refund request." The Terms require "a formal refund request ticket" within the 7-day period and say requests made later are not valid.
• A payment dispute ends the account. The Terms state: "Any accounts which initiate a chargeback or dispute on a payment will have their services automatically terminated and the account closed." If you want to keep the server, raise the problem with support first.
• Some spending cannot be reversed. The Terms make Modpack Creation, Plugin Installation and Bungee Setup purchases non-refundable once used. Credit from a downgrade and money added through "Add Funds" are non-refundable too, so don't leave money in the account that you may want back.
• PayPal needs its own check. You can cancel immediately or at the end of the billing period, through the billing area. Apex says it will try to cancel PayPal subscriptions, but that confirming this is "the client's responsibility", and it disclaims unintended automatic payments through Stripe or PayPal. Look at your PayPal account after cancelling.

Apex's pricing banner says "7 Day Money Back Guarantee" without the "probable cause" condition.

What the Terms say about heavy use, bots and testing

Apex's Terms contain no clause about benchmarking, load testing, bots or scanning, and that silence is not permission. The nearest provisions are these:

• "If we find your server using any sort of system to bypass limits put on your server(s) such as RAM or security your server is subject to being terminated without refund."
• A ban on any activity "which affects the ability of other people or systems to use Apex Hosting Services or the Internet", including DoS attacks.
• An "Unlimited Policy": bandwidth and space are described as unlimited, but Apex may ask you to delete "excessive files". It says it does not support "any custom jar file or files uploaded by the user", and that uploaded files that cause lag "are not the responsibility of Apex Hosting". Anyone planning a custom modpack should read that as a limit on what support will fix.
• A general right to terminate "upon any violation of these terms or any other basis if deemed needed", and liability disclaimers for data loss and disruption.

What Godlike's published comparison says, and what it cannot show

Godlike, which sells Minecraft hosting, published a comparison against Apex on 16 June 2026 (modified 17 June). Godlike is the other party in the comparison and earns money if you choose it.

Caveats from the article itself and from the circumstances: one 8 GB plan on each side, one run, Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge, 4 bots leaving spawn for 5 minutes, world seeds not standardised, and the article calls it "a controlled benchmark run, not a long-term statistical study". Godlike's own server was also well under 20 TPS. The article does not name the Apex location or state the run count, and a plan on another Apex machine could behave differently.

The article contradicts itself on the Apex CPU. Its summary says Apex "also ran on Ryzen 9950X3D powerful hardware", while its hardware table and later text give Ryzen 9 7950X. The recorded Apex first-month price of $20.99 equals the 8 GB first-month price on Apex's page now, but the hardware behind that plan may have changed in the nearly five months between the two dates. These figures say nothing general about Apex.

Honest downsides

• The recurring price is higher than the price on the button, and there is no multi-month price on the pages read.
• The refund needs "probable cause", starts at server creation and ends after 7 days.
• Hardware varies by city, and some listed machines are old or on SSD, with no plan-to-machine mapping.
• Standard plans do not state dedicated vCores.
• DDoS protection is not described on any page read.
• A chargeback ends the account.
• The only third-party benchmark found is from a competitor, and it contradicts itself on CPU.

What the planned protocol would check on Apex

The planned protocol would, only after written permission and with a paid plan, record which CPU a given city actually reports, tick time under a defined load, and whether the dedicated vCores on EX behave differently from the shared standard plans. The test rig page describes the intended setup, and ATM10 is the first heavy modded workload on the list. Nothing has been bought or run. Apex's Terms give no permission either way.

Next decision: if you are weighing Apex against its cheapest rival, read Apex Hosting vs Shockbyte, or return to the hosts hub. To judge location, see latency by region.