Respawn's Numbers vs Ours
Respawn announces ban totals; nobody can check them — there is no official banned-account list. We publish our own independent detections from the same windows, permanently.
| Announced | Window (UTC) | Official bans | Our detections | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2026@apexlivecomms | Aug 26, 2026 – Oct 2, 2026 | 8,609 | 739top-750 ladders | Post |
| Apr 24, 2026@apexlivecomms | Apr 2, 2026 – Apr 24, 2026 | 28,267 | 13top-750 ladders | Post |
| Apr 2, 2026@apexlivecomms | Feb 10, 2026 – Apr 2, 2026 | 73,591 | 18top-750 ladders | Post |
Sep 2, 2026: In our latest ban wave, over the past 7 days alone (at the time of writing this): • 8,609 players were banned for cheating • 290 DMA-related bans • 76 Titan Controller bans • 267 bans tied to a newly detected cheat provider
Apr 24, 2026: DMA
Apr 2, 2026: PC - 70,242, Console - 3,349, XIM/Titan - 2,911, HWID Spoofer - 4,405, DMA - 1,103, Other Cheating - 37,051
How to read this table
The two columns measure different populations by design. Official counts cover every banned account game-wide, across all ranks and modes. Our detections cover only the top-750 ranked ladders on each platform — the slice we watch around the clock. Our number should always be far smaller; what matters is that it moves with the official numbers, and that ours comes with named accounts, timestamps, at-ban RP, and a published reversal rate — none of which any official announcement includes.
Official numbers are entered by hand from Respawn/EA posts (typically @apexlivecomms), each linked to its source. Our detections are counted from the same UTC windows in our ban event log, which also powers the wave archive.