Boosteroid is a cloud gaming service where you play games you already own on Steam or Epic. Its catalog of supported titles has more than 2,000 entries, and the company runs 29 data centers for more than 8 million users in Europe and the Americas. One thing, though, sets it apart from the competition: it has servers directly in Czechia.
Server locations are the main reason to know about it
Boosteroid has expanded its infrastructure into the data center of CRA (Czech Radiocommunications), and its partners include Prague Gateway DC, the largest planned data center in Czechia. In the first quarter of 2026 it added more server capacity in France, Poland and Czechia.
Why this matters more than the price list: what counts in cloud gaming isn’t download speed but the time it takes your button press to reach the server and the picture to come back. That time grows with distance, and a faster plan from your internet provider won’t shrink it. So a server close to you beats a data center far away.
The comparison with GeForce NOW is one-sided here. NVIDIA doesn’t publish a list of its European data centers, and nothing in its materials indicates a server in Czechia or Slovakia.
You bring your own games
Boosteroid doesn’t sell content, it sells computing power. When a game in the catalog has the note “payment required,” you have to have bought it from an official distributor – on Steam, Epic or Xbox. Steam and the Epic Games Store are supported, along with some titles from Microsoft.
That puts it in the same category as GeForce NOW and a different one from Game Pass or the PlayStation Plus catalog, where games are included in the subscription price. If you subscribe to Boosteroid without owning a single game, you are paying for an empty computer. We compare both models side by side in the overview how cloud gaming works. A third route is paid channels with their own catalog, which is what Amazon Luna and the countries where it is available is built on.
What it costs and why nothing here is free
Boosteroid starts at €7.49 per month with an annual subscription. As of 11 September 2026, the monthly Ultra Pro plan was listed on the home page at a regular price of €14.89 and a sale price of €8.97. Longer periods and their exact terms only appear in the price list after you sign in, so we don’t list them here – the figures circulating on comparison sites aren’t publicly confirmed anywhere by the service.
| Plan | Price as of 11 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Annual subscription | from €7.49 per month |
| Ultra Pro monthly | €14.89, on sale €8.97 |
| Free version | doesn’t exist |
Prices are in euros. If you pay from an account in another currency, what you end up paying also depends on the exchange rate and your bank’s fees for foreign-currency payments.
Boosteroid has no free trial and no free tier. The company admits this openly in its help center, adding that this may change over time. In practice, it means you can’t test stream quality on your connection before you pay – and compared with GeForce NOW, where the Free tier runs permanently, that is a real disadvantage. If you just want to get a taste of the cloud, start somewhere else and come back to Boosteroid once you know this way of playing suits you.
What it runs on
There is an app for Windows, macOS and Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora), and you can also play directly in a browser. Other supported devices are Android phones, Android TV, LG TVs with webOS and Samsung TVs with Tizen, Chromebooks and Amazon Fire TV.
There is no native app on iPhone and iPad. You play through the browser and add a shortcut to the home screen via the Share menu, then launch the game from there. Xbox Cloud Gaming has the same limitation, so it isn’t a Boosteroid weakness, just the price of Apple’s rules.
A useful detail for playing in more than one room: a session in progress can be moved between devices. You start on your computer and continue on the TV from the same spot.
How it differs from GeForce NOW
| Boosteroid | GeForce NOW | |
|---|---|---|
| Servers in Czechia | yes, CRA data center | NVIDIA doesn’t publish them, no Czech server documented |
| Free tier | doesn’t exist | Free, permanent, with ads before playing |
| Length of a single session | unlimited | limited by tier |
| Monthly hour cap | Boosteroid doesn’t list any | 100 h on Performance and Ultimate |
| Where games come from | Steam, Epic, some games from Microsoft | Steam, Epic, Xbox |
Two rows of this table are worth more than the whole price list. Boosteroid doesn’t limit the length of a single gaming session, while on GeForce NOW the game kicks you out when the session runs out and you have to reconnect. And while NVIDIA caps paid tiers at 100 hours per month with a rollover of at most 15 unused hours, Boosteroid doesn’t list any monthly limit on hours played. For a player who spends long evenings on one game, this is a difference worth paying extra for. NVIDIA’s specific limits and prices are covered in the article on GeForce NOW tiers.
Who it is worth it for and who should skip it
It is worth it if you already have a Steam library and your computer can’t handle new games, if you play long sessions and the hour limits elsewhere hold you back, or if latency matters to you so much that you want the server as close as possible.
It isn’t worth it in three cases:
- You want games included in the subscription price. Boosteroid has no included catalog. That is what Game Pass or PlayStation Plus is for.
- You want to try it first. There is no free trial, so your first payment is also your first test.
- You mainly play competitively. A closer server reduces the delay, but doesn’t erase it. In a ranked shooter you will still be behind a player on their own PC.
If you are considering the cloud as a replacement for a console, add up the subscription for the whole time you plan to pay for it and put that next to a one-time purchase. A console you have paid for doesn’t stop working, and it still plays when the internet goes down – we covered the differences between the models in the comparison of Xbox Series X and Series S.
FAQ
No. Boosteroid sells the power of a remote computer, not a game library. When a title in the catalog has the note “payment required,” you have to own it on Steam, Epic or Xbox. Free-to-play games, of course, run just like they do at home.
It starts at €7.49 per month with an annual subscription, a no-commitment monthly plan costs more, and the Ultra Pro plan sits above that. Prices changed during 2026 and some offers were time-limited, so check the current amount directly in your account on boosteroid.com.
Neither. The company says so directly in its help center, noting that this may change over time. If you want to try cloud gaming without paying, you have to go for the Free tier on GeForce NOW.
Yes, but without a native app. You play in the browser, adding a shortcut to your home screen via the Share menu and launching it from there. Xbox Cloud Gaming handles iOS the same way.
It depends on what matters to you. Boosteroid has servers directly in Czechia, doesn’t limit session length and doesn’t list a monthly hour cap. GeForce NOW has a free tier, stronger hardware with up to 5K and 120 FPS, and the Install-to-Play feature. For long sessions Boosteroid comes out ahead, for picture quality NVIDIA does.
Information verified as of 11 September 2026. Boosteroid’s price list changed during 2026 and some offers were time-limited, so check the amount in your account before you pay. More articles about cloud services are published in the cloud gaming section on Gamers Together.