FiveM anticheats, compared
Eight anticheats side by side, rated on features, evidence for your staff, value for money and transparency. October 2026 edition.
The verdict in brief
- Winner
- Electron Anticheat (8.5) — Session replay, live viewing and video with every ban, all as standard.
- Best lifetime deal
- FiveGuard (7.9) — €125 one-off for a mature panel with trust scores and a live map.
- Best for staff teams
- FiniAC (7.8) — MultiStream of 16 players at once and a TrustScore built on 30+ variables.
- Best on a budget
- Raven AC (7.3) — A screenshot and runtime trace with every ban, from $17.99 a month.
- Best free option
- FireAC (6.5) — Open source and a decent first layer for new servers.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Electron Anticheat | FiveGuard | WaveShield | FiniAC | Reaper AC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session replay | |||||
| Live monitoring | Plus plan only | From Plus plan | |||
| Interactive live map | 2D map | Basic map | |||
| Reputation lookup | |||||
| Dev licence | From Plus plan | ||||
| Resource use1 | 0.04 ms | 0.10 ms | 0.07 ms | 0.06 ms | 0.06 ms |
| Cost for the first year2 | €149.99 | €125 | €250 | €293.92 | $300 |
| Our score | 8.5 | 7.9 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 6.4 |
- Resource use as measured by Electron on electron-services.com/compare; not independently verified. FiveGuard itself states 0.01–0.04 ms.
- The cheapest way to cover one year: the lifetime licence for Electron Anticheat, FiveGuard and WaveShield; FiniAC Core billed half-yearly (−30%); Reaper at $25 a month.
All eight at a glance
| Tier | Replay | Live viewing | Screenshots | Open source | GTAV Enhanced | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electron Anticheat | 8.5 | Premium | €45 | €149.99 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Supported |
| FiveGuard | 7.9 | Premium | €45 | €125 | No | Plus plan | Yes | No | On hold |
| FiniAC | 7.8 | Mid-range | €34.99–49.99 | — | No | Yes | Yes | No | Not stated |
| Raven AC | 7.3 | Budget | $17.99 | $149.99 | No | No | Yes | No | Not stated |
| Pegasus AC | 6.9 | Budget | €16 | — | No | No | Yes | No | Not stated |
| WaveShield | 6.8 | Premium | €49.99 | €250 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Not stated |
| FireAC | 6.5 | Free | Free | Free | No | No | Limited | Yes | Not stated |
| Reaper AC | 6.4 | Mid-range | $25 | — | No | Yes | Limited | No | Not stated |
Prices from the vendors' websites (July–August 2026) and possibly changed since. Electron doesn't publish prices; its figures were provided by Electron.
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The reviews
1. Premium
Electron Anticheat
Our winner. No other anticheat gives your staff this much evidence and visibility: session replay, live viewing and a live map all come as standard. And at €150 for lifetime, it's €100 cheaper than WaveShield too.
Read the full Electron Anticheat reviewPros
- Session replay: reconstruct exactly what a player did on your server
- Live monitoring of up to 16 player screens with audio, no add-on needed
- A screenshot and video with every ban, plus menu detection via OCR
- Interactive live map and player lookup across every server running Electron Anticheat
- Framework-independent: ESX, QBCore, Qbox, vRP, custom and hybrid setups
- In-game admin menu to revoke bans, spectate players and spawn vehicles
- Monitoring, session replay, the dev licence and 24/7 Discord support are in the plans; detection updates apply automatically
- Low overhead (around 0.04 ms, according to Electron)
Cons
- Prices aren't on the website; you have to ask Electron
- The detection list and the 0.04 ms figure come from Electron itself; nobody has tested them independently
- Best for
- Any serious server, from a growing community to a big city
- Key features
- Session replay, Multi-screen monitoring, Live map, Screenshot + video per ban, Menu OCR, Player lookup, In-game admin menu
- GTAV Enhanced
- Supported on Legacy and Enhanced builds, according to Electron
- Price source
- Provided by the vendor; prices aren't listed on the website.
- Website
- electron-services.com
2. Premium
FiveGuard
The cheapest verified lifetime licence in the premium segment, with a mature panel. Keep an eye on its Enhanced status, though.
Pros
- Lifetime for €125, the best value at the top end
- Anti-aimbot, silent-aim checks, safe events and ban-evasion protection
- Web panel with player lookup, trust scores and a live 2D map with watch zones
- Active since 2022, claims 13,000 customers; low resmon (~0.01–0.04 ms)
Cons
- GTAV Enhanced support is on hold while cfx-game-view doesn't work in NUI
- Its source code has turned up on leak forums in the past
- Monitoring only comes with the Plus plan
- Best for
- Established servers that want to pay once
- Key features
- Anti-aimbot, Safe events, AI menu detection, Trust scores, Live 2D map, HWID bans
- GTAV Enhanced
- On hold (NUI screenshots don't work yet)
- Price source
- Verified on fiveguard.net (August 2026).
- Website
- fiveguard.net
3. Mid-range
FiniAC
Strong for teams: MultiStream and TrustScore take a lot of the guesswork out of moderation. A shame there's no lifetime option.
Pros
- MultiStream: watch 16 players live at once, including Mumble audio (Plus and up)
- TrustScore built on 30+ variables, plus recursive alias and spoof detection
- Event Security against item spawns, dupes and money injection
- Clear, published pricing tiers, a live demo panel and a REST API
Cons
- Subscriptions only, no lifetime option
- The best aimbot detection and MultiStream start at the Plus plan
- Deliberately publishes no detection list (understandable, but hard to assess)
- Best for
- Staff teams that want to judge situations live
- Key features
- MultiStream 16×, TrustScore, Event security, REST API, Detection clips, RedM support
- GTAV Enhanced
- Not stated
- Price source
- Core €34.99 · Plus €39.99 · Ultimate €49.99 per month. Quarterly −20%, half-yearly −30%.
- Website
- fini.ac
4. Budget
Raven AC
Surprisingly strong evidence for a budget price: every ban comes with a screenshot and a runtime trace.
Pros
- Screenshot and runtime trace with every ban, worth a lot in appeals
- Low monthly price and a lifetime option
- Claims under 0.5 ms overhead with 200+ players
Cons
- The performance claim can't be verified independently
- Fewer staff tools than the premium options
- Best for
- Small to mid-sized servers that want evidence with every ban
- Key features
- Screenshot per ban, Runtime trace, Lifetime
- GTAV Enhanced
- Not stated
- Price source
- ravenac.net, July 2026.
- Website
- ravenac.net
5. Budget
Pegasus AC
The cheapest paid option that comes with a panel. Expect some configuration work.
Pros
- Cheapest paid anticheat with a web panel
- AI screen detection based on screenshots
Cons
- A large config file that takes time to tune properly
- No lifetime licence that we know of
- Best for
- Newcomers on a small budget who still want a panel
- Key features
- AI screen detection, Web panel
- GTAV Enhanced
- Not stated
- Price source
- pegasusac.net, July 2026 (approximate).
- Website
- pegasusac.net
6. Premium
WaveShield
Broadly capable, with handy DVR recordings. But it has the most expensive lifetime licence and a '99.9%' claim nobody can check.
Pros
- Claims 15,000+ servers
- Broad detection package: aimbot, triggerbot, speed, teleport, god mode, ESP, noclip and Lua injection
- DVR recordings to review incidents
Cons
- The most expensive lifetime licence in this comparison (€250)
- '99.9% detection' is a marketing claim with no independent test
- GTAV Enhanced status not communicated
- Best for
- Servers that mainly want recordings (DVR) to look back on
- Key features
- DVR, Real-time monitoring, Live map, Reputation lookup
- GTAV Enhanced
- Not stated
- Price source
- waveshield.xyz, July 2026.
- Website
- waveshield.xyz
7. Free
FireAC
A decent, transparent starting point for new servers, but no match for modern mod menus on a busy city.
Pros
- Free and open source: you can read every line
- Basic checks: god mode/health, noclip, super jump, explosion spam, injection
- ESX, QBCore and standalone, with an in-game admin menu (F9 or /fireac)
Cons
- No web panel and no vendor support
- Updates depend on the community; no aimbot detection
- Screenshots only through a separate discord-screenshot dependency
- Best for
- New servers with no budget, as a first layer
- Key features
- Open source, In-game panel, Basic detections
- GTAV Enhanced
- Not stated
- Price source
- Free and open source (AGPL-3.0).
- Website
- github.com/AmirrezaJaberi/FIREAC
8. Mid-range
Reaper AC
Stands out for monitoring an unlimited number of players at a low price. But little has been published to judge it on.
Pros
- Monitor an unlimited number of players at the same time
- Sharp monthly price
Cons
- No lifetime option
- Few published details on detection and tooling
- Best for
- Growing servers that want to watch many players at once
- Key features
- Unlimited monitoring, Web panel
- GTAV Enhanced
- Not stated
- Price source
- Vendor website, July 2026.
- Website
- reaperac.com
How we score
There's no independent test of detection rates, and we didn't run one either. Figures like "99.9% detection" come from the vendors themselves. Our scores are an editorial judgement based on public information: the vendors' websites and documentation, and independent overviews. We don't use affiliate links.
- Features
- Detection modules, protection of server events, web panel, APIs and framework integrations.
- Evidence & staff tools
- Screenshots, video, replays and live viewing. A ban without evidence can't be backed up in an appeal.
- Value for money
- Monthly price, any lifetime licence, and what the cheapest plan already includes.
- Transparency
- Published prices, verifiable claims, open source and track record, such as leaked source code.
- Final score
- The average of the four sub-scores.
More than an anticheat
Read the guideMost of the damage on FiveM servers isn't done by clever cheats, but by server events that blindly trust the client. That makes an anticheat the last layer, not the first:
- Don't trust the client. Check prices, items, distances and rate on the server.
- Only run clean resources. Leaked scripts often contain backdoors, and those get past any anticheat.
- Use an allowlist. An application or Discord check keeps most throwaway accounts out.
- Give your staff good tools, such as txAdmin and an admin menu with tight permissions.
- Log economy and admin actions, so you can look back and roll back.
- Then pick an anticheat that catches menus, aimbots and injectors and gives your team evidence.