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title: "Why not Tebex or escrow?"
description: "Why Asphyxia is sold through Polar instead of Tebex, and why it is not an escrowed resource."
---

> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.asphyxia.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Why not Tebex or escrow?

Most FiveM resources are sold through Tebex and protected with FiveM's escrow
system. Asphyxia uses neither.

This page explains both decisions and what they mean for you as a customer.

## Why not Tebex

We sold through Tebex for over three years before starting Asphyxia.

**The fees are high.** Tebex takes a significant cut of every sale on top of the
payment processor's fees. That cost ends up either in the price or in reduced
development time.

**It limits support.** Payouts, refunds, customer records and the checkout all
sit behind another company's dashboard and rules. When a customer had a problem,
we frequently could not fix it directly.

Asphyxia checks out through Polar.sh instead. Your license is issued to your
Discord account immediately after checkout, and we support you directly. See
[Purchase](/website/purchase).

## Why not FiveM escrow

**Escrow does not reliably protect code.** It is designed to stop people reading
a resource, but working methods to unpack escrowed resources are openly
available.

That matters more for an anti-cheat than for most resources: anyone who can read
it can work out what it looks for and build around it. Escrow would offer the
appearance of protection while handing cheat developers the file they most want.

Asphyxia is protected differently. The decisions that matter — whether a player
is cheating, whether a license is valid, what an admin may do — are made on your
server and our API rather than in code shipped to players.

**Escrow also does not support FiveM Enhanced.** An escrowed Asphyxia could not
run on Enhanced servers at all, so it was never an option.

## What this means for you

| | |
| :--- | :--- |
| Buying | Through Polar.sh checkout on [Purchase](/website/purchase), not a Tebex store |
| Your license | Tied to the Discord account you sign in with |
| Support | Directly from us on [Discord](https://discord.asphyxia.dev) |
| Refunds | All purchases final, except where required by law |
| FiveM Enhanced | Supported |

> **Note**
>
> Your license is checked against our API rather than by a file on your server.
> Copying the resource folder to another server does not create a second license —
> see [License](/website/license).

Source: https://docs.asphyxia.dev/website/why-not-tebex/index.mdx