FiveM Hosting Comparison
Every FiveM host will sell you slots. The differences that actually decide whether your city survives its first year are further down the page: what happens to the database, who owns the licence key, and how many machines your data lives on.
Why this page has no price table
Game hosts change tiers and promotions constantly, so a table of competitor prices is out of date within a quarter, and demonstrably wrong to any reader who clicks through. What does not change quickly is the model: how a host charges, what is bundled, and what happens when hardware fails. Compare on those, then check today’s prices yourself.
The five questions worth asking any host
Slot pricing vs resource pricing
Most game hosts bill per player slot, which is a proxy for the resources a slot implies. Flux bills for the CPU, RAM and disk your server actually gets, and the slot count is simply what that hardware comfortably serves.
Is the database included?
A roleplay server is a database with a game attached. Many hosts sell MySQL as an add-on or expect you to bring your own; every plan here includes MariaDB plus the operator that keeps it synced across nodes.
One machine or several?
Conventional hosting puts your city on one server in one data centre. On Flux the app is placed on independent nodes and the database is mirrored between them, so a single failure is not a restore-from-backup event.
Who holds the licence key?
The cfx.re key should be issued to you, not to the host. Check this before buying anywhere: if the server is registered to the provider, leaving means rebuilding your identity as well as your city.
Root access and control panel
Dedicated boxes give you root and total freedom. Managed game panels give you convenience. Flux sits closer to the panel end: full control of the server, resources and database, no control over the host OS.
Where Flux is genuinely different
The app is deployed across independent nodes on a decentralized network rather than into one provider’s rack, and the MySQL database is fronted by an operator that keeps it in sync between them. For a roleplay server that is the difference that matters, because the disaster that kills communities is data loss, not downtime.
- Flat resource pricing: 32 slots $9.91, 48 slots $13.28, 64 slots $16.39 per month
- MariaDB and the sync operator included in every plan, not sold as an add-on
- Your cfx.re key, your resources, your database, portable at any time
- txAdmin available from the first minute, on its own address
- No contract, billed monthly
Where it is not the right choice
If you need root on the host, want to colocate unrelated services on the same machine, or run a server small enough that a shared budget plan covers it, a conventional VPS or game panel is a better fit. This is managed infrastructure: excellent at removing the database and deployment work, deliberately not a general-purpose box you can do anything with.
See the plans
Live pricing and resources come straight from the Flux Marketplace. Choose 32, 48 or 64 slot servers with txAdmin and a synced MySQL database included.
Frequently asked questions
What should I compare when choosing a FiveM host?
Whether MySQL is included or an add-on, whether the cfx.re licence key is registered to you or the host, how many machines your data lives on, whether you get txAdmin, and whether pricing is per slot or per resource. Raw slot price is the least informative number on the page, because it says nothing about what happens when the hardware fails.
Is per-slot pricing bad?
Not inherently, because it is a simple proxy for resources. It becomes misleading when two hosts quote the same slot count on very different hardware, or when the database, backups or panel access are billed separately. Comparing the CPU, RAM and disk behind the slots is the like-for-like check.
How much should a 64-slot FiveM server cost?
It depends far more on the resources behind the slots than on the number itself. On Flux a 64-slot plan is $16.39/month for a 12GB game server, a 2GB synced MySQL database and the sync operator, which is 6.5 vCores and 50GB of disk across the three. Cheaper quotes elsewhere are usually thinner hardware, a database you supply, or a shared machine. Budget for the Cfx.re side too: 64 slots requires an Element Club Argentum subscription on your licence key, $15/month paid to Cfx.re, on top of whatever the host charges. Any comparison that quotes a 64-slot price without it is comparing the wrong number.
Can I migrate between FiveM hosts?
Yes, provided the licence key is yours. A FiveM server is a resources folder and a MySQL database, both of which are portable: export the dump, copy the folder, point the new server at them. The only genuine lock-in in this market is a host that registered the cfx.re key to themselves.
Does decentralized hosting mean slower?
No. Your server runs on a specific node with its own CPU and RAM, exactly as it would in a data centre; what is distributed is where those nodes are and how the database is replicated between them. Latency is decided by node location, which is selectable, not by the network being decentralized.
Keep reading
- How to host a FiveM serverArtifacts, MySQL, txAdmin, the cfx.re key and the ports, in the order that works.
- A ZAP-Hosting alternativeHow a decentralized host differs from an official Cfx.re partner.
- A GPORTAL alternativeRegion choice, database inclusion and what happens when a machine fails.
- ESX server hostingWhat ESX actually demands, and why its CPU profile changes the tier you need.
- Server not showing in the listThe five causes in order, including the 48-slot ceiling that hides a healthy server.