What Easy Anti-Cheat is

Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) is an anti-cheat service from Epic Games that game publishers license and ship inside their multiplayer games to detect and block cheating. Easy Anti-Cheat is offered as part of Epic Online Services and is integrated through the Epic Online Services SDK. Players become familiar with Easy Anti-Cheat because a game they installed uses it.

Who publishes Easy Anti-Cheat

Epic Games publishes Easy Anti-Cheat and offers it as the anti-cheat service inside Epic Online Services. Easy Anti-Cheat keeps its own site at easy.ac, and its integration documentation lives on Epic's developer site.

Pricing and licensing

Easy Anti-Cheat has a free tier and paid tiers. Free Easy Anti-Cheat services cover cheat prevention, detection, enforcement and player reporting at no cost, under the Epic Online Services licensing agreement and SDK with no separate agreement required. Paid tiers named Core, Fortified and Premier add deeper detection layers and dedicated support; the services page lists current tiers.

Platforms and availability

Easy Anti-Cheat client protection covers Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Deck, and is compatible with crossplay on console. Easy Anti-Cheat does not support Android or iOS. Easy Anti-Cheat works with Unreal Engine, Unity, or a custom engine and ships inside the Epic Online Services SDK, so there is no separate player-facing download.

Disambiguation

Easy Anti-Cheat is not something players buy or install, and Easy Anti-Cheat is not the Epic Games Store or the Epic Games Launcher, so a game on any storefront can use it. Bans are not issued by Easy Anti-Cheat itself: When Easy Anti-Cheat flags an account for cheating, the game publisher may then decide to suspend or ban it, and appeals go to the publisher or the Easy Anti-Cheat appeal form. Easy Anti-Cheat is a service within Epic Online Services rather than a separate product to buy, and its own pages, including player support and ban appeals, live at easy.ac.

What Easy Anti-Cheat does on a player's PC

Easy Anti-Cheat runs only while a protected game runs: It does not run at boot or in the background—it starts and stops with the protected game. Easy Anti-Cheat collects limited technical data while the game runs to identify cheats, plus hardware identifiers to prevent ban evasion. Cheat detection data is generally deleted within 30 days unless it is part of a specific investigation. Easy Anti-Cheat is regularly audited by third-party vendors.