Honest comparison

NexoraSMP vs the rest.

How our plugin stacks up against the popular alternatives. We tried to keep it fair. If we got something wrong, tell us in Discord and we'll fix it.

The plugin stack

One plugin or six?

To get what NexoraSMP gives you out of the box, the typical SMP setup ends up looking like this.

Typical setup

What you'd usually install for an SMP today.

6+
plugins
  • EssentialsX (homes, warps, kits, /tpa)
  • LuckPerms (permissions)
  • AdvancedBan (punishments)
  • ChatControl (chat filtering, anti-spam)
  • Anti-cheat (GrimAC / Vulcan)
  • Dashboard (PufferPanel, Pterodactyl panel)

NexoraSMP

Everything above, in one plugin file.

1
plugin
  • Combat, kits, custom items, bosses
  • Rituals, events, item-sets
  • Anti-cheat (packet-level)
  • Bans, mutes, kicks, warns, tickets
  • Staff suite (vanish, freeze, invsee)
  • Web control panel (10 pages)

What it means

Less stuff to manage and break.

  • One config to learn, not six
  • No plugin conflicts to chase down
  • One team to ask when something breaks
  • One file to update each Minecraft release
  • Built to play nicely with itself
  • Lower memory footprint overall
Feature by feature

The full table.

We picked the most popular plugin for each category. Some categories we don't try to replace, some we do better, some are a wash.

Feature NexoraSMP EssentialsX CMI AdvancedBan GrimAC
Homes & warps Yes Yes Yes No No
Kits with cooldowns Yes Yes Yes No No
Custom items & abilities Yes No Limited No No
Custom bosses Yes No No No No
Rituals Yes No No No No
Punishments (warn/mute/kick/ban) Yes Basic Yes Yes No
Staff vanish / freeze / invsee Yes Yes Yes No No
Tickets & reports Yes No Basic No No
Anti-cheat (movement) Basic No No No Best in class
Anti-X-ray (packet-level) Yes No No No No
Anti-crash / anti-spam Yes Basic Basic No No
Web control panel Yes (built in) No No No No
Live console in browser Yes No No No No
Live chat feed in browser Yes No No No No
YAML editor (in-browser) Yes No No No No
Folia native Yes Partial No Partial Yes
Required dependencies None None None None None
● Yes / built in ● Partial / basic ● Not supported
What we don't try to be: a movement anti-cheat. If you run a hardcore PvP server with kit warriors trying every cheat client out there, pair NexoraSMP with GrimAC. Our anti-cheat covers the things SMPs actually face (X-ray, crashers, spam, exploits) but movement-tracking is a whole speciality and Grim is genuinely the best at it.
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