What is upvotePower on a FiveM server?
upvotePower is the numeric score the Cfx.re server list uses to order every server. It combines a server's accumulated upvotes with a recency weighting, so it rises with new votes and decays as old ones age. It is exposed publicly in the server-list API, which is how tracking sites read it.
A single number decides your position
When the FiveM client renders the server browser, it is not sorting by player count, by uptime, or by how good the server is. It sorts by upvotePower. Everything else on the card — the player count, the banner, the tags — only matters after a player has already seen you.
How the score behaves
Think of it as a balance that leaks. Every upvote adds to it; time removes from it. A server that gains votes faster than the decay rate climbs. A server that gains them at exactly the decay rate holds. A server that stops gaining them falls, no matter how large its lifetime total is.
This is why established servers with big communities still run promotion campaigns. They are not chasing growth — they are paying the maintenance cost of the position they already have.
Where the number comes from
The value is published in the server-list API alongside the hostname, player count, tags and locale. Any tracker, including this one, reads it from the same endpoint the game client uses. There is no private version of the figure, and no way to see a server's upvotePower that the server owner cannot also see.
Reading the gaps
The useful way to use the number is comparative. If you sit at 400 and the server above you sits at 1,900, you need 1,500 to swap places — assuming they stand still, which they will not. Our comparison pages put two servers' figures side by side precisely so the gap is a number rather than a guess.
What it does not measure
upvotePower says nothing about roleplay quality, staff response times, or whether a server is worth your evening. It measures visibility. A superb server with low upvotePower is invisible; a mediocre one with high upvotePower is on page one. That asymmetry is the whole reason a promotion market exists.