Welcome to Zenith
Zenith is a modern roleplay framework for FiveM. Lightweight. Modular. Built on ox.
It gives you everything a server actually needs — characters, an economy, jobs, metadata and permissions — in one clean, predictable core, without the bloat of an all-in-one framework or the grind of wiring everything together yourself.
Zenith is in active development and has not been publicly released yet. These docs are going live early so the community can follow along — expect them to grow quickly as features land. Nothing here is final, and the API is still settling.
Why Zenith exists
Most frameworks make you choose between two extremes:
- Do-everything frameworks ship hundreds of features you'll never use, tangle your server in deep dependency chains, and make even small changes risky.
- Bare-bones frameworks hand you a blank slate and leave you to rebuild the basics — characters, money, jobs — before you can write a single line of actual gameplay.
Zenith sits deliberately in the middle. The core is small and complete: it covers the fundamentals every serious server relies on, and then gets out of your way. Everything beyond that is a module you opt into — never a tax you pay by default.
What's in the core
The Zenith core focuses on the systems every roleplay server depends on:
- Characters — creation, selection, and lifecycle management.
- Economy — cash, bank, and account balances with a consistent model.
- Jobs — assignable roles with grades and permissions.
- Metadata — flexible per-character data for anything your systems need to track.
- Permissions — a clear, centralized model for who can do what.
Each of these is exposed through a single, documented, predictable API — so you spend your time building features, not reverse-engineering the framework.
Built on the ox ecosystem
Zenith is designed from the ground up to work with the tools the modern FiveM community already trusts. Instead of reinventing inventories, targeting, or database access, it integrates natively with:
- ox_lib — shared utilities, UI, and helpers.
- oxmysql — fast, reliable database access.
- ox_inventory — a full-featured inventory system.
- ox_target — modern interaction and targeting.
Because Zenith speaks these tools' language out of the box, there's no glue code to write and no compatibility layer to babysit.
Modular by design
Every system outside the core is a self-contained module. You enable only what your server uses, and you can extend, replace, or disable any module without the core noticing. That keeps your server lean, your updates painless, and your codebase easy to reason about as it grows.
Coming from QBCore or ESX
Migrating a live server is hard, so Zenith doesn't ask you to do it all at once. A compatibility bridge lets many of your existing QBCore and ESX resources keep running while you move to Zenith at your own pace — adopting it gradually instead of rebuilding everything overnight.
Who Zenith is for
- Server owners who want a solid, maintained foundation without the weight of a monolith.
- Developers who value a clean API, clear documentation, and predictable behavior.
- Communities who care that their framework is open-source and here to stay.
Zenith is released under the GPL-3.0 license — free and open-source, with no paywalls and no escrow. Read it, fork it, and ship it.
What's next
As the framework approaches release, this documentation will expand to cover installation, configuration, the full core API, module development, and migration guides. For now, this page is your starting point.
Follow development and get release announcements on the Zenith Discord and GitHub.