Comparison guide
The best FiveM anticheat in 2026
Nearly every FiveM anticheat publishes a page called this, and on every one of them, the vendor wins. This is the same page shape with one difference: each competitor figure links to the source it came from, anything a source could not confirm says so instead of guessing, and we name no winner — because no one in this market can prove one.
How to read this comparison
- No independent benchmark of detection rates exists in this market. Every “99.9%” you will see is unaudited, so this page makes no accuracy claim for any product — Sculk included.
- The only figures that can be checked are price and community size. Both are in the table below, each linked to its source and stamped with the date we read it.
- Read the named pages before you buy: each Sculk vs … comparison names at least one place that product beats Sculk.
At a glance
Cheapest monthly plan (converted to AUD at the mid-market rate), what each offers free, and public Discord membership. Read on 2026-09-27 from the sources named on each product's comparison page. Prices and counts change — verify before you rely on a row.
| Product | Cheapest / mo | Free / trial | Public Discord |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sculk this site | A$24.99 | public demo + 14-day money-back | none published |
| Raven AC | ~A$28 | none found | 3,647 |
| BlackGuard | ~A$28 | 7-day trial (card required) | 11 |
| Reaper AC | ~A$36price unverified — store blocked the check | none found | 8,845 |
| Fiveuxe | ~A$55 | none, by its own choice | 298 |
| FiniAC | ~A$57 | demo panel only | 52,581 |
| FiveGuard | ~A$73 | a separate free MIT resource | 58,471 |
| Electron AC | ~A$73–85price unverified — sources conflict | demo dashboard | 21,167 |
| WaveShield | ~A$81 | none found | 83,202 |
Why we name no winner
The FiveM anticheat market has a measurement problem: there is no public, independent test of what any of these products actually detects. Every “#1”, every “99.9%” and every “zero false bans” is a vendor describing its own work. Some of those vendors' own troubleshooting docs list common false bans — which is normal, and the opposite of zero.
So the honest ranking signals are the ones a buyer can verify: price, what you get for free, how large the community is (a proxy for “will this still exist next month”), and how transparent the vendor is about limits. On price, Sculk is the cheapest paid plan here. On community size, Sculk is last — we are new, and we publish no member count because we have none to publish.
Where Sculk fits
- A published catalogue, not a percentage. Sculk lists 143 detections across 32 subsystems, and every entry states what it watches and what it cannot see. No competitor on this page publishes a list; FiniAC says it will not.
- The cheapest paid plan. A$24.99/month, with a yearly plan (A$99.90) below every competitor's lifetime price. A public demo and a 14-day money-back window as the substitute for a trial.
- A public demo. Click through a read-only dashboard on clearly-labelled sample data before you pay.
- Honest about shared bans. Bans shared between servers arrive as a review signal naming the player and the evidence — never an automatic block. Sculk does not sell a global ban network.
Named comparisons
Frequently asked
- What is the best FiveM anticheat in 2026?
- There is no independent, public benchmark of FiveM anticheat detection rates — Electron's own comparison page states this. Community size is the proxy buyers use, and on that measure WaveShield leads this set with 83,202 public Discord members, followed by FiveGuard and FiniAC. On price, Sculk is the cheapest paid plan at A$24.99/month. Which matters more depends on your server; this page gives you the sourced figures so you can decide.
- How much does a FiveM anticheat cost in 2026?
- Cheapest monthly plans range from about A$25 (Sculk) to about A$81 (WaveShield) across the products on this page. Several also sell quarterly or lifetime licences. Prices change — each figure in the table above is linked to the page it came from, checked on 2026-09-27.
- Why does this comparison not name a #1?
- Because no vendor can prove it. Every competitor's own comparison page ranks itself first, and none has an independent test. Sculk publishes a detection catalogue that states what each check can and cannot see instead of an accuracy percentage — so we would rather give you the sourced facts than a claim we cannot back.
- Can a server-side anticheat detect an ESP overlay or a DMA cheat?
- No. A server-side resource cannot see an external overlay drawn on the player's screen, a DMA device reading memory, or an attached debugger. Products that promise otherwise are selling a detection they do not have. Sculk's honest answer is the same as BlackGuard's: those are the hard cases for any server-side system.
- Do any FiveM anticheats offer a free option?
- Some. FiveGuard links a separate MIT-licensed resource; Electron, FiniAC and BlackGuard offer a demo or a timed trial. WaveShield, Fiveuxe, Raven and Reaper offered none in the sources checked. Sculk has no free tier: it offers a public read-only dashboard demo, observation mode, and a 14-day money-back window instead.
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