Best FiveM anticheat in 2026: an honest comparison

Short answer: a FiveM anticheat is a server-side resource that detects and blocks cheats on your GTA V roleplay server. In August 2026 the credible options are FireAC (free and open source), Pegasus AC and Raven AC in the budget band, and FiveGuard at 45 EUR per month or 125 EUR lifetime, FiniAC, WaveShield and Electron in the premium band. None of them replaces a human reviewing the evidence, and that gap is what FiveMonitor fills.

Why should you trust this FiveM anticheat comparison?

Every anticheat vendor publishes its own best FiveM anticheat page, and every one of those pages concludes that the best option happens to be the product it sells. This comparison is different for one simple reason: FiveMonitor does not sell an anticheat, has no affiliate deals with any of the products below, and earns nothing regardless of which one you choose. We build a monitoring panel that works alongside all of them, so our only interest is that you pick the anticheat that genuinely fits your server. Every price in this guide carries the source and the date it was checked, every capability is attributed to the vendor that claims it, and where a number is a marketing claim rather than a verifiable fact, we say so explicitly. That is the whole method: facts, dates, sources, and no horse in the race.

How this page is maintained. Vendors are welcome to send corrections, and we act on them: this guide was updated on 20 August 2026 after Electron pointed out that our Electron pricing was out of date. Corrections about a vendor's own product are labelled as the vendor's statement when we cannot confirm them on their public site. Claims a vendor makes about a competitor are not published as fact — we either verify them at the source or leave them out. FiveMonitor has no commercial relationship, affiliate deal or sponsorship with any product on this page; if that ever changes, it will be disclosed in this paragraph before anything else on the page changes.

What can a FiveM anticheat actually do (and not do)?

A FiveM anticheat is a server resource, often with a client component, that watches for behaviour a legitimate player should not produce: blacklisted events and triggers, suspicious entity spawns, forbidden explosions or injected menus. When it matches something on its lists, it can kick, ban or flag the player automatically. What it cannot do is see everything. Cheats run on the player's machine, outside the server's authority, and cheat developers update their tools as fast as anticheat developers update their detections; it is a permanent arms race, not a solved problem. That is why no anticheat on this list, free or paid, stops everything, and why detection-rate figures are marketing claims you cannot independently verify. The realistic outcome of a good anticheat is fewer and less disruptive incidents, not zero incidents.

• What they do well: block blacklisted triggers and events server-side, automate bans for obvious cases, and add screenshot-based checks. FiveGuard and Pegasus both advertise AI menu detection based on screenshots, according to their sites.
• What they document per ban: Raven AC states that every ban ships with a screenshot and a runtime trace attached, as listed in July 2026.
• What they cannot guarantee: detection of private or paid cheats, or the accuracy of their own marketing. WaveShield's "99.9% detection" and "15,000+ servers", and Electron's "#1 FiveM Anticheat", are their claims as listed in July 2026, not audited figures.
• What none of them replace: human judgement on player reports, evidence review and ban appeals.

How do you choose the best FiveM anticheat for your server?

The best FiveM anticheat for a 300-player city and the best one for a 20-player community project are rarely the same product, which is why searching for the best FiveM anticheat 2026 without context leads mostly to vendor pages. Start from three variables: budget, server size and how your staff actually work. Budget decides whether 45 to 60 EUR per month is trivial or painful, and whether a lifetime licence pays for itself. Server size decides how much automated filtering you need before humans get involved: with 200 concurrent players you cannot manually review everything, while with 30 you probably can. Staff workflow decides which panel features matter, because some teams live in a web dashboard while others handle everything in-game. Match those variables against the products below and the shortlist usually collapses to two or three candidates you can trial before committing.

• Small community (under ~50 players): a free stack, or a budget subscription such as Pegasus AC (around 16 EUR/month) or Raven AC ($17.99/month), prices as of July 2026.
• Growing server: mid-range subscriptions with a proper web panel, such as Reaper AC ($25/month) or FiniAC (from 34.99 EUR/month), as of July 2026.
• Established city: the premium tier of FiveGuard, WaveShield or Electron, where a lifetime licence can beat a year of subscription payments.
• Review-heavy staff teams: prioritise multi-screen tooling, such as FiniAC's 16-screen MultiStream, Electron's multi-screen watching with session replay, or WaveShield's DVR recording, each per its vendor's site.

Is there a good free FiveM anticheat?

Yes. FireAC is the reference free FiveM anticheat in 2026: open source, published on GitHub as AmirrezaJaberi/FIREAC, and free to run on any server. Its limits are structural rather than hidden. It is configured and managed through an in-game menu, there is no web panel, and there is no vendor support team behind it; updates and help come from the community, at the community's pace. That makes it a genuinely good starting point for a new server with no budget, and a poor fit for a large city that needs dashboards, staff roles and someone answering tickets. If you go free, combine it with tools you already have: txAdmin ships free with FXServer and covers bans, restarts and player management, and free scripts can cover evidence gathering while your budget is zero.

• FireAC: free, open source, in-game menu, no web panel.
• txAdmin: free with FXServer; player management, per-player playtime in its Players list, bans and restarts, but no screen viewing.
• fl_spectate and RAGE_SpectateMenu: free GitHub scripts for an admin-only in-game spectate camera; no web access and no video recording.
• screenshot-basic: free; sends still screenshots to a Discord webhook.
• WX txAdmin Logs and jhag01/txAdminLogs: free webhook scripts that push txAdmin actions to Discord.

How much does a FiveM anticheat cost in 2026?

Prices below were re-checked on 20 August 2026. FiveM anticheat pricing runs from completely free to roughly 50 EUR per month, with lifetime licences between about 125 and 250 EUR. Figures come from each vendor's own website unless the row says otherwise, and they can change without notice, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a promise.

Two patterns are worth noting. First, monthly pricing splits into a budget band of roughly 16 to 25 EUR or USD and a premium band of roughly 35 to 50, and the premium band is where multi-screen panels, replay and recording features concentrate. Second, lifetime licences typically cost the equivalent of three to six months of the same product's subscription, so they pay off quickly for servers that plan to stay, but they are worth nothing if the vendor disappears, a risk you should price in.

One caveat applies to every row: detection-rate claims cannot be verified by anyone outside the vendor. When a product advertises a figure such as "99.9% detection", treat it as marketing rather than measurement. Nobody runs a public, independent benchmark of FiveM anticheats, and neither do we.

Every FiveM anticheat in this comparison, one by one

The table above is the quick answer. This section is the detail per product, so you can jump straight to the one you are evaluating. Everything here is either published on the vendor's own site with the date we checked it, or explicitly labelled as something the vendor told us and we could not verify.

FiveGuard

Verified on fiveguard.net on 20 August 2026: 45.00 EUR per month or 125.00 EUR lifetime, with no other tier on the public pricing page. It advertises a browser admin panel with player lookup and trust scores, a live 2D map with watch zones and teleport mode, anti-aimbot and silent-aimbot checks, safe events verification, and ban evasion protection. Its FAQ states resource monitor usage of roughly 0.01 ms to 0.04 ms, and claims 13,000 customers and continuous operation since 2022. One detail worth knowing before you buy: FiveGuard's own FAQ says support for GTA V Enhanced is on hold because cfx-game-view in NUI is broken, which is what breaks game screenshots and screen recording. That limitation is not specific to FiveGuard; it affects anything that captures a player's screen through NUI.

Electron

At electron-services.com, not to be confused with Electron.js. Its site lists Monthly, Quarterly and Lifetime plans without publishing prices; the vendor told us in August 2026 that these are 45 EUR per month and 150 EUR lifetime. Its published features are a web panel, user lookup across every Electron server, a live in-game map, an in-game admin menu, Monitoring for watching several player screens at once, and full session replay. The vendor also tells us its bans carry a screenshot and a video, that its menu detection is called antiMenuOCR, and that Monitoring reaches 36 simultaneous screens and shipped in 2024; none of those three is published on its site, so treat them as the vendor's word. Session replay is the feature that genuinely separates it from the rest of this list.

Raven AC

$17.99 per month or $149.99 lifetime, per ravenac.net in July 2026. Its distinguishing claim is evidentiary: every ban ships with a screenshot and a runtime trace attached, which matters if your staff handle appeals. It also advertises under 0.5 ms of overhead with 200+ players; that figure is the vendor's and nobody outside can verify it. Sits in the budget band alongside Pegasus.

Reaper AC

$25 per month, per its site in July 2026, with no lifetime option listed. Its headline feature is monitoring an unlimited number of players simultaneously, which is unusual at that price: most products that advertise multi-screen watching sit in the 35 to 50 EUR band. Worth a look if watching many screens at once is your main need and your budget is tight.

FireAC

Free and open source, published on GitHub as AmirrezaJaberi/FIREAC. Configured through an in-game menu, with no web panel and no vendor support team; updates and help arrive at the community's pace. It is a genuinely reasonable starting point for a new server with no budget, and a poor fit for a large city that needs dashboards, staff roles and someone answering tickets. Pair it with txAdmin, which is already free with FXServer.

WaveShield

49.99 EUR per month or 250 EUR lifetime, per waveshield.xyz in July 2026, which makes it the most expensive lifetime licence on this list. Its differentiator is DVR recording. Its marketing claims "99.9% detection" and "15,000+ servers"; both are the vendor's figures, and as with every product here, no independent party benchmarks FiveM anticheat detection rates.

FiniAC

34.99 to 49.99 EUR per month, subscription only, per fini.ac in July 2026. Built around its Apollo dashboard, whose MultiStream shows 16 simultaneous player screens with voice audio. If your team reviews roleplay situations rather than just banning obvious cheaters, that is the most directly useful feature in this comparison.

Pegasus AC

Around 16 EUR per month, per pegasusac.net in July 2026, which makes it the cheapest paid option with a panel. It advertises AI screen detection based on screenshots, the same broad approach FiveGuard describes. Its configuration file is notably large, which is flexibility if you want to tune it and friction if you do not.

FiveGuard vs Electron: which one fits your server?

FiveGuard vs Electron is the most common head-to-head in this space, and the honest answer is that they compete on different strengths. FiveGuard, verified on fiveguard.net on 20 August 2026, costs 45.00 EUR per month or 125.00 EUR lifetime, and pairs its web panel with a live 2D map, anti-aimbot checks, safe events and player trust scores. Electron, at electron-services.com and not to be confused with Electron.js, lists Monthly, Quarterly and Lifetime plans on its site without showing prices; the vendor told us in August 2026 that these are 45 EUR per month and 150 EUR lifetime. It also markets itself as the "#1 FiveM Anticheat", which is a slogan rather than a measurable fact.

Correction, 20 August 2026. An earlier version of this guide said FiveGuard's lifetime licence cost roughly half of Electron's, using a price of $199 to $229 for Electron. Electron contacted us to say that figure was out of date. With the numbers above the gap is about 17%, not half, so price is not the deciding factor between these two. What separates them is that Electron ships session replay and multi-screen Monitoring, which matter to teams that review incidents after the fact.

Which FiveM anticheat fits your profile?

There is no single winner, but there is usually a best fit per profile, and matching profile to product is more honest than crowning a champion. The mapping below follows only from documented prices and features on each vendor's site as of July 2026, not from detection claims nobody outside the vendor can test. Read it as a starting shortlist: pick the one or two products whose trade-offs match your situation, run them on a real server with real players for a few weeks, and judge them on the incidents your staff actually deal with. An anticheat that looks worse on paper but fits your team's workflow will serve you better than a longer feature list your moderators never open. With that caveat, here is where each product objectively stands out.

• Tightest budget with a web panel: Pegasus AC at around 16 EUR/month or Raven AC at $17.99/month, as of July 2026.
• Lifetime licence preference: FiveGuard has the cheapest verified lifetime at 125.00 EUR, followed by Raven at $149.99, Electron at a stated 150 EUR and WaveShield at 250 EUR.
• Replay and recordings: Electron with session replay, or WaveShield with DVR recording, per their sites. Electron also tells us its bans carry a screenshot and a video, and that its menu detection (antiMenuOCR) reads the player's screen the same way Pegasus and FiveGuard advertise; neither claim is published on its site, so both are the vendor's word.
• RP situation review: FiniAC, whose Apollo dashboard and MultiStream show 16 simultaneous player screens with voice audio, per fini.ac. Electron's own Monitoring feature also watches several screens at once, and the vendor tells us it reaches 36 and that it shipped the idea first, in 2024; its public site describes the feature without naming a number.
• Watching many players at once on a budget: Reaper AC advertises unlimited simultaneous player monitoring for $25/month.
• Evidence attached to every ban: Raven AC, which also claims under 0.5 ms overhead at 200+ players; that figure is theirs.
• No budget at all: FireAC, free and open source.

Why is detection alone not enough?

Because every ban that matters ends with a human decision. An anticheat can flag, kick and auto-ban the obvious cases, but the reports that consume your staff's time still need someone to look at what the player is actually doing before acting. That review layer is where FiveMonitor lives, and it is not an anticheat: it detects nothing and bans nobody. It is a web panel that shows you live video of any player's screen; capture runs on the player's client and streams to the panel, with 0% impact on server FPS and zero load on the server itself. Your staff can verify a report with their own eyes, watch several suspects at once in the multi-player monitor, and gather evidence before deciding. Detection plus human review beats detection alone, whichever anticheat from this list you end up running.

FiveMonitor works alongside every product above, or on a server with no anticheat at all. You can watch players live, track playtime from txAdmin, and give staff their own Discord logins as sub-users. See everything it does on the features page; plans start at 9.99 EUR/month on pricing, with Pro at 15.99 EUR/month for unlimited players.

Pick your anticheat, then add the eyes

Whichever anticheat you choose from this comparison, someone on your team still has to review reports and evidence, and that is the layer FiveMonitor covers. Create your account and start the 7-day free trial, no card required, and watch your first player's screen live within minutes.