Developer tools decision
Straye
A competent developer can build a useful self-hosted FiveM asset cache for their own needs, but reproducing a production-grade hosted product (global CDN, DDoS protection, commercial SLAs) is non-trivial.
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Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off60 h to build
$45/mo6 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Proxy requests for FiveM assets, cache assets on a backing store, serve cached assets with correct headers and invalidation.
What it still won’t have
- Hosted CDN edge presence and global POPs
- Built-in DDoS/protection and traffic absorption
- Commercial SLA, support, and packaged integrations
- Polished admin UI and usage analytics
- Any proprietary optimizations or custom caching infra
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Straye does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a lightweight FiveM asset caching proxy in Go or Node (recommend Go + Gin) that: 1) accepts incoming FiveM asset requests and uses a deterministic cache key based on upstream URL and content hash; 2) on miss, streams the upstream response into a persistent store (local filesystem or S3) while proxying bytes to the client; 3) serves cached objects with correct Content-Type, Cache-Control, and support for TTL + stale-while-revalidate; 4) exposes /metrics (Prometheus) and a minimal admin endpoint showing hit/miss rates and storage usage; 5) include Dockerfile, systemd unit and a Kubernetes Deployment manifest, health checks, structured logging, graceful shutdown, and retry/backoff on upstream failures; 6) include unit tests for cache-key logic and integration tests that run against a local object store (minio) and an HTTP upstream simulator. Out of scope: global CDN edge distribution, DDoS mitigation appliances, and paid SLA/support packaging.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- Evidence score52
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
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Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productStraye - High-Performance FiveM Asset Caching
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
