Which anti-cheat software does PUBG: Battlegrounds use?

PUBG: Battlegrounds uses BattlEye anti-cheat software.

BattlEye is a third-party anti-cheat system designed to detect cheating tools and abusive exploits in online games. PUBG uses it as part of its effort to protect multiplayer matches from software that alters game data, manipulates memory, or gives players an unfair advantage. The system works alongside the game’s own online services rather than serving as a gameplay mode or ordinary security setting.

BattlEye was first released in 2004 as an anti-cheat system for Battlefield Vietnam. It later became associated with several prominent multiplayer titles, including Arma 3, DayZ, Destiny 2, War Thunder, and PUBG: Battlegrounds. Its technology can perform checks at both user and kernel levels, allowing it to look for suspicious processes and known cheat behavior.

Players sometimes mix up BattlEye with Valve Anti-Cheat, PunkBuster, or Easy Anti-Cheat because all are widely used anti-cheat products. Those systems belong to different technology families and are not interchangeable names. In the context of PUBG’s documented anti-cheat protection, BattlEye is the canonical answer.