5Mods vs Thunderstore

5Mods is a free web directory for GTA 5 car mods, scripts, tools, and other game files. Its categories cover modding tools, vehicles and paint jobs, weapons, scripts, players, maps, and miscellaneous mods. Visitors can browse latest, featured, most liked, most downloaded, and highest rated files. Filters include vehicle type, script hook, trainer, mission, skin, clothing, graphics, animation, and vegetation. Listings include version history, dependency tracking, and community comments, and the homepage links to a 5mods Discord server. Some parts of the site may require an account. Users can submit text, comments, images, videos, and other content; submissions may be publicly accessible, and the terms grant the site a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, and distribute them. The site may moderate or remove content. Its privacy policy allows anonymous visits and says personal identification information is collected when voluntarily submitted. Cookies and third-party interest-based advertising are used, and the service is provided as is.

Thunderstore is a mod database and API for developers to publish mods and for mod managers to download them. Its catalog lists over 110,000 mods across 300+ games. Thunderstore Mod Manager installs, updates, and manages mods for supported games; it supports profiles, profile export, direct downloads and installs, configuration editing, and updates for outdated mods. The official site directs users to download the manager for Windows, and the app is powered by the Overwolf Client, which is installed with it. Developers can use linked API and package-format documentation, a manifest validator, and a Markdown preview tool. The free plan is listed at free. Thunderstore directs users and developers to Discord for manager support, game requests, and rejected-upload review requests. Its privacy notice says nonessential cookies are applied only with consent and technical and usage data is generally retained for up to 30 days, with stated exceptions. It also says associated GitHub or Discord account details are not made public unless a user requests publication.