CheatDetector vs Grace Anticheat
CheatDetector
luketv.netGrace Anticheat
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| Figure | CheatDetector | Grace Anticheat |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Anti-Cheat Plugins | 7.7 (#9) | 7.4 (#19) |
| Spec score · Minecraft anti-cheat plugins | 7.0 (#31) | 7.6 (#19) |
| Compatibility | It supports Paper 1.21.1+ and 26.1+ or compatible forks including Purpur and Folia, and requires PacketEvents. | The standalone listing specifies Paper support for Minecraft Java Edition versions 1.19.x, 1.20.x, and 1.21.x. |
| Enforcement | The listing says the first offense kicks with a warning and the second permanently bans. | Configuration supports rubber-banding on hard alerts, kicking on action alerts, and optional automatic bans, disabled by default. |
| Purpose | CheatDetector identifies installed cheat mods on Minecraft players when they join a server. | Grace is an anticheat for Java Minecraft servers that targets closet cheating and ghost cheating, and also handles blatant hacking. |
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In their own words
CheatDetector
CheatDetector has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Grace Anticheat
Grace Anticheat is a free, self-hosted anticheat for Java Minecraft servers. It targets closet cheating, ghost cheating and blatant hacking through rules-based detection and statistical analysis of player behavior. Servers can run a proxy arrangement with a Velocity plugin and Paper companion plugin, or choose a standalone Paper plugin without Velocity. The proxy setup requires Velocity 3.3.0 or later, Paper 1.19 or later and Java 21 or later; the standalone listing covers Minecraft Java 1.19.x, 1.20.x and 1.21.x. Grace can alert staff in-game and send formatted Discord webhook embeds. Configuration supports teleporting players back on hard alerts, kicking on action alerts and optional automatic bans, disabled by default. Staff commands expose engine status, evidence summaries, alert controls, violation history and configuration reloads. Grace is beta 0.1.0 and actively developed. Its API and related components are open source, while detection logic, model weights and threshold tuning are closed source.