Hamz Development sells a standalone FiveM CAD for $55 one-time. The pitch is simple: pay once, install on your server, get lifetime updates.
If a CAD is the only piece of software your community will ever need and you have someone willing to host it, $55 is a low number. We will not pretend otherwise.
For every other community, Sovura is the better long-term call. Here’s why.
What you actually get for $55
Hamz CAD is one product. A standalone CAD that you install on your own infrastructure.
What you don’t get:
- A helpdesk
- A whitelist application system
- A community website builder
- A department roster panel
- A unified permission system across any of those
- A team running the infrastructure for you
- Hosted backups
- Updates pushed automatically
Each one of those is something a serious roleplay community needs. Hamz does not ship them.
The encrypted lock-in
Like every paid FiveM script vendor, Hamz ships license-protected, encrypted code. That means:
- You cannot read or modify the source. The code is encrypted. You buy the right to run it.
- License validation is online. Your install checks in with Hamz’s license servers. If those servers go down or get shut off, your install is at risk.
- You cannot patch bugs yourself. When something breaks, you wait for Hamz to ship a fix.
- If Hamz stops shipping, you are stuck on whatever version you last got. “Lifetime” is the marketing word. The license is to a version, not to a future.
This is not unique to Hamz. It is how the encrypted FiveM script market works. We covered the full case in our post on lifetime licenses.
Sovura’s commitment is different. We publish a written Continuity Promise: if we ever sunset, you get six months notice, full data export, and either a successor operator, an open-source self-host edition, or a free self-host license with source code. For Founding Members, this is part of the purchase agreement.
What you also pay for, that nobody talks about
The $55 number leaves out the rest of the stack:
- A VPS to run the CAD on. Roughly $20 a month, $240 a year.
- A Discord ticket bot premium tier. $5 to $10 a month, $60 to $120 a year.
- A community website on Wix or Webflow. Around $300 a year.
- A whitelist application system. Another $60 to $120 a year.
Real annual cost for a community running Hamz plus the surrounding stack: $700 to $850 a year, four separate vendors, four separate logins, four separate admin surfaces.
What Sovura ships instead
One product. One login. One bill. We host it.
Sovura Pro at $29 a month annual ($348 a year) ships:
- Computer aided dispatch with realtime live map
- A real helpdesk with SLAs, satisfaction ratings, agent presence
- Whitelist applications with eleven field types and Discord webhook triggers
- A block-based community website on your custom domain
- Department roster, duty sessions, ranks, callsigns, badges
- 46 scoped capabilities, signed webhooks with delivery logs
You sign up. It works. We patch it. We back it up. We ship updates without you redeploying anything.
The five-year math
| Hamz stack | Sovura Pro | Sovura Founding | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software cost | $55 once | $1,740 over 5 years | $299 once |
| VPS / hosting | ~$1,200 over 5 years | included | included |
| Other tools (helpdesk, site, apps) | $2,000+ over 5 years | included | included |
| Backups | your job | included | included |
| Security patches | your job | included | included |
| Lock-in risk | encrypted, single vendor | none | none |
| Real five-year cost | $3,000+ + your time | $1,740 | $299 forever |
Sovura wins on every line that matters once you account for what your community actually needs.
The Founding answer to “buy once forever”
The instinct behind a $55 lifetime CAD is real. People want to own software, not rent it.
We respect that. Founding Membership is $299 once for the lifetime of Pro. Hosted forever, every module included, every future module shipped to you free.
The difference between Founding and a Hamz lifetime license:
- We are the team building the product, not selling it and walking away.
- The team is paid by ongoing subscriptions, so updates keep coming.
- We host it. FiveM compatibility is our problem, not yours.
- If the platform pivots beyond FiveM, your access pivots with it.
Thirty spots. Counting them down on the pricing page.
The bottom line
If your community runs forever on a $20 VPS, never grows past needing a CAD, and you trust Hamz’s license servers to outlive your community, $55 once works.
For everyone else, Sovura is the better play. One product, one bill, one login, every module included, hosted by a team that ships every week.
Start free → — every module unlocked, no card required.