[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":82},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site":3,"blog-post-en-fivem-anticheat-free-vs-paid":15,"blog-slug-site":45,"blog-scripts-en-fivem-anticheat-free-vs-paid":51},{"site":4,"contact":10,"seo":13,"payment":14},{"name":5,"host":6,"default_locale":7,"locales":8},"X3D Developer","fivem.x3d-developer.com","th",[7,9],"en",{"discord_invite":11,"email":12,"line":12},"https:\u002F\u002Fdiscord.gg\u002FNA5kPVynFv","",{"google_site_verification":12,"bing_site_verification":12},{"bank_name":12,"account_name":12,"account_no":12,"promptpay_id":12},{"post":16,"html":22,"others":23,"productSlugs":43},{"slug":17,"title":18,"description":19,"date":20,"updated":21},"fivem-anticheat-free-vs-paid","FiveM anticheat, free vs paid (2026): from a small server to a 2,000-player city, without false bans or server lag","Free FiveM anticheat options (event checks, sv_scriptHookAllowed, ban lists) against paid ones (FiveGuard, WaveShield, X3D Anti-Cheat): what each detects, what it costs, where false positives come from, at what server size a paid one pays off, and what an anticheat must do and must never do on a 1,000–2,048-player city so it does not lag the server, plus a free anti-exploit checklist to do first.","2026-09-24","2026-10-14","\u003Cp>"Which free FiveM anticheat is good" gets asked every week. The honest answer: \u003Cstrong>free ones stop some things, paid ones stop more, but the best one is the one that never bans an innocent player.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A server that false-bans loses players faster than a server with a few cheaters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a 1,000–2,048-player city the numbers make this sharper: cheaters at just 1% = \u003Cstrong>20 online at any moment\u003C\u002Fstrong>, and a false-positive rate of only 0.5% of daily deaths = \u003Cstrong>a dozen innocent bans a day\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Evidence before the ban is not a bonus, it is mandatory, and the anticheat itself must not become the thing that lags the server once you reach two thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"free-anti-exploit-work-to-do-before-buying-anything\">Free anti-exploit work to do before buying anything\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Validate every important event server-side\u003C\u002Fstrong>: money, items, weapons, distance, elapsed time. Never trust client values. This is 80% of dupe prevention and it is a script problem, not an anticheat problem\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>A core that locks the economy before restarts\u003C\u002Fstrong>: the last 10 minutes before a txAdmin restart is the biggest dupe window. \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fproducts\u002Fes-extended\u002F\">ESX Legacy Core — X3D Build\u003C\u002Fa> (free) closes it and logs every money\u002Fitem change to a table and Discord webhooks\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ccode>sv_scriptHookAllowed 0\u003C\u002Fcode>\u003C\u002Fstrong> in \u003Ccode>server.cfg\u003C\u002Fcode>, disabling the ScriptHook most cheat menus need\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>No leaked scripts\u003C\u002Fstrong>: half of them carry backdoors that let outsiders run commands on your server. Read \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Fcheck-safe-fivem-scripts\u002F\">how to check a FiveM script is safe\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Require Discord + Steam\u003C\u002Fstrong> on join and store every identifier, so a ban is hard to evade\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Rate-limit events\u003C\u002Fstrong> in resources that move money, against \u003Ccode>TriggerServerEvent\u003C\u002Fcode> spam\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Fol>\n\u003Cp>With all six done, a small server where players know each other barely needs a paid anticheat. At 2,000 players, items 1 and 6 stop being a checklist and become the rule for vetting every script: a bought script that trusts client values becomes a dupe hole the moment there are 2,000 players, and every event needs a rate limit because 20 modified clients are 20 spam sources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the layer-by-layer version with server.cfg settings and example code, read \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Ffivem-server-security-without-anticheat\u002F\">basic FiveM server security without an anticheat\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-free-anticheats-can-do\">What free anticheats can do\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Block forbidden events and basic weapon\u002Fvehicle blacklists\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Identifier ban lists\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Detect known-name foreign resources\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>What they \u003Cstrong>cannot\u003C\u002Fstrong> do: detect god mode \u002F speed hacks without false positives (needs grace periods on spawn and revive) · detect renamed injectors · capture evidence screenshots · HWID bans · Discord-role queues · global bans. They are also usually unmaintained; a FiveM update silently breaks the checks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"which-fivem-anticheats-are-there-paid-options-on-the-market\">Which FiveM anticheats are there? Paid options on the market\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"table-scroll\">\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Strength\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Know before buying\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Fthead>\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>FiveGuard\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Most complete, HWID bans, best known\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Expensive (subscription per server), very long config, easy to misconfigure into false bans, English support\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>WaveShield\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Strong injector detection\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Also expensive, support via an international Discord\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fproducts\u002Fx3d-anticheat\u002F\">X3D Anti-Cheat\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Evidence before the ban\u003C\u002Fstrong>: the player's screenshot attached to the Discord embed, admins alerted in-city, humans decide · auto-ban only for certain cases · HWID ban · Steam+Discord Account Lock · Discord-role queue · protect any resource with two lines · ESX Legacy + standalone · Thai and English support\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>BETA price, one-time 599 THB, 7-day free trial · still BETA, bug reports welcome\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fproducts\u002Fx3d-replay\u002F\">X3D Replay\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>The evidence layer next to an anticheat\u003C\u002Fstrong>: records every player and lets admins watch the minute around an incident back in game, with pressed keys and macro flags · ESX Legacy + oxmysql\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>BETA price, one-time 599 THB, 7-day free trial · not an anticheat, it does not ban anyone\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"where-false-positives-come-from\">Where false positives come from\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>God mode on spawn\u002Frevive\u003C\u002Fstrong>: the game briefly sets full health; an anticheat without a grace period bans everyone who dies\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Speed hack during script teleports\u003C\u002Fstrong>: garages and housing warp players; the script's own events must be whitelisted\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Vehicles\u002FNPCs spawned by scripts\u003C\u002Fstrong>: the anticheat must separate server-created entities from client-created ones. The X3D Build fires \u003Ccode>esx:serverEntityCreated\u003C\u002Fcode> so \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fproducts\u002Fx3d-anticheat\u002F\">X3D Anti-Cheat\u003C\u002Fa> whitelists them automatically\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>High ping \u002F low FPS\u003C\u002Fstrong> make positions jump; good systems average over seconds, not one sample\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>Ask the vendor how they handle these four before buying. If they cannot answer, do not enable auto-ban.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"at-2-000-players-the-anticheat-must-not-eat-the-server\">At 2,000 players the anticheat must not eat the server\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>An anticheat that is fine for 64 players can be the heaviest resource on a 2,000-player server. Ask the vendor these four questions before buying, and measure with \u003Ccode>profiler record 500\u003C\u002Fcode> before and after \u003Ccode>ensure\u003C\u002Fcode> at peak hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>How do you detect without looping over every player every tick?\u003C\u002Fstrong> A server-side loop checking position, health or weapons for 2,000 players every 100 ms is the biggest hitch on the server. Systems that survive this scale detect on the client and send only suspicious cases up with evidence, and validate events server-side in an event-driven way\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Evidence must not block the main thread.\u003C\u002Fstrong> 20 cases an hour × a screenshot each must upload to Discord or storage asynchronously, never inside the game tick\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>A role-based join queue.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A 2,048-slot city is full every night with 500–1,000 people waiting. A queue ordered by Discord role (donors, staff, regulars) is a feature used every day, not a bonus\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>The ban list must live in a database.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Tens of thousands of identifiers and HWIDs in a JSON file loaded on every join is needless slowness, and someone has to watch the log 24\u002F7: the admin team is part of the "anticheat" at this scale\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Fol>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"at-what-size-does-it-pay-off\">At what size does it pay off\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"table-scroll\">\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Size\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003Cth>Recommendation\u003C\u002Fth>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Fthead>\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Under 32 players who know each other\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>The six free steps plus the X3D Build audit log\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>32–128, open to the public\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>A paid anticheat that \u003Cstrong>captures evidence\u003C\u002Fstrong> for admins; start with the 7-day trial\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>128–500 with real money circulating\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>Anticheat + HWID ban + role queue + full audit log, and someone reading the log daily\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>1,000–2,048 (a city)\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003Ctd>All of the above + proof via profiler that it does not hitch at 2,000 + evidence before every ban + ban list in a database + admin shifts on the log 24\u002F7. Enable auto-ban only for cases that went 7 days at peak without a false positive\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"faq\">FAQ\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Two anticheats at once?\u003C\u002Fstrong> Not recommended: duplicate checks, frame cost and conflicting bans. Pick one and configure it well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Does an anticheat stop a backdoored leaked script?\u003C\u002Fstrong> Partly (foreign resource detection, rate limits), but a backdoor inside a script you \u003Ccode>ensure\u003C\u002Fcode> yourself is out of scope. Do not run leaks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Does X3D Anti-Cheat support QBCore?\u003C\u002Fstrong> Currently ESX Legacy and standalone (single-file bridge). Details on the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fproducts\u002Fx3d-anticheat\u002F\">product page\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>X3D Anti-Cheat on a 2,000-player server?\u003C\u002Fstrong> Use the 7-day free trial on the live server at peak, measure with \u003Ccode>profiler\u003C\u002Fcode> before and after ensure, and run it in alert-only mode (no auto-ban) first. The X3D team supports Thai and English and tunes values from your server's profiler output. No anticheat, ours included, should have auto-ban enabled at two thousand players without going through that step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The free structural anti-exploit scripts (economy-locking core, server-checked usable items, gang jobs that check distance at the end) are in the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-fivem-scripts\u002F\">free FiveM scripts post\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",[24,29,34,38],{"slug":25,"title":26,"description":27,"date":28,"updated":21},"fivem-server-security-without-anticheat","Basic FiveM server security without an anticheat — server.cfg hardening, anti money-dupe scripting and ban evasion (up to 2,000 players)","A free FiveM server security guide to do before you buy an anticheat: harden server.cfg (sv_entityLockdown, sv_filterRequestControl, networked sounds and phone explosions, sv_scriptHookAllowed), block the game events cheaters use to give or strip weapons and kick players out of vehicles, write economy scripts where the server decides the money so dupes stop, lock the economy before restarts, tie Discord and Rockstar license together against ban evasion, and keep logs that scale to a 2,000-player city.","2026-10-03",{"slug":30,"title":31,"description":32,"date":33,"updated":21},"open-fivem-server-budget","How Much Does It Cost to Open a FiveM Server, and What Do You Need? From 32 Players to a 2,000-Player City (2026)","The essential scripts to launch a FiveM server in 2026 with budgets at three scales: starter 32–64, public 128–500, and a 1,000–2,048-player city (Element Club Platinum, dedicated hardware, separate voice and database, staff). Which parts free scripts cover, which are worth paying for, and which must be rewritten once you reach two thousand players.","2026-09-15",{"slug":35,"title":36,"description":37,"date":21},"fivem-replay-system","FiveM Replay Script: watch any player back in game to settle reports and catch macros (ESX)","X3D Replay is a FiveM replay system for ESX that records every player automatically and lets admins watch it back in game with four cameras, a kill timeline, pressed keys and script usage. Covers privacy consent, storage, BETA price and the 7-day trial.",{"slug":39,"title":40,"description":41,"date":42,"updated":21},"fivem-scripts-guide","FiveM Scripts Explained: Types, ESX vs QBCore vs Standalone, and How to Choose","A plain-language guide to FiveM scripts: the main categories (HUD, jobs, casino, anti-cheat, map cleanup), framework differences, and a checklist for picking scripts that won't lag your server.","2026-09-16",[44],"x3d-anticheat",{"site":46,"contact":48,"seo":49,"payment":50},{"name":5,"host":6,"default_locale":7,"locales":47},[7,9],{"discord_invite":11,"email":12,"line":12},{"google_site_verification":12,"bing_site_verification":12},{"bank_name":12,"account_name":12,"account_no":12,"promptpay_id":12},[52],{"id":53,"slug":44,"name":54,"summary":55,"price_thb":56,"license_mode":57,"cover_key":58,"cover_url":59,"category_slugs":60,"tags":62,"latest_version":76,"latest_released_at":77,"published_at":78,"has_docs":79,"config":80,"rent_price_satang":81},"ff948fa9-6fc5-410e-b952-ee88b15f0c9d","X3D Anti-Cheat","BETA pricing, join the testing. Evidence-first anti-cheat: Discord embeds with screenshots, HWID bans, Steam\u002FDiscord account lock, two-line event guard.",59900,"shop_license","public\u002Fproducts\u002Fx3d-anticheat\u002Fcover\u002Fd90612eed4448164.jpg","\u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Fmedia\u002Fpublic\u002Fproducts\u002Fx3d-anticheat\u002Fcover\u002Fd90612eed4448164.jpg",[61],"anticheat",[63,64,65,61,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75],"esx","standalone","แอนตี้โกง","ป้องกันแฮก","กันโกง","HWID ban","กันโปร","ภาพหลักฐาน","ล็อกบัญชี Steam Discord","แบนเครื่อง","คิวยศ Discord","กัน event สแปม","แอนตี้โกง ESX","1.0.0","2026-09-16T09:45:51.78533Z","2026-09-16T09:46:00.05928Z",true,"owners",12000,1792316317103]