Best FiveM Inventory Scripts in 2026: ox_inventory vs qs-inventory vs qb-inventory

Your inventory is not just a grid of items. It is the spine that almost every other system plugs into. Weapons, drugs, crafting, shops, stashes, vehicle trunks, evidence lockers, and your whole economy all talk to the inventory layer.

That is why swapping inventories later is painful. Item definitions, metadata keys, and the exports other scripts call against all change. Pick the inventory first, then buy scripts that already support it.

Three things separate a good inventory from a liability:

• Framework fit. It must support your framework (ESX, QBCore, or QBOX) cleanly, not through a fragile community patch.
• Metadata. Per-slot metadata is what makes serialized weapons, durability, registered IDs, and unique items possible.
• Server-side validation. Item moves, shops, and stashes must be validated server-side or you are handing duplicators an open door.

ox_inventory by Overextended is the script most new servers should start from. It is free, open source, and the de facto standard for modern builds.

What it gives you:

• Slot plus weight inventory with full per-slot metadata for item uniqueness.
• Weapons as items, including attachments and an ammo system with special ammo types.
• Stashes and containers, personal or shared, registerable from any resource, plus container items like backpacks and bags.
• Server-side validation and logging for purchases, item movement, and item creation or removal.
• Broad framework support across ESX, QBCore, and QBOX through ox_core.

The tradeoffs are real. It expects you to live in the Overextended ecosystem (ox_lib, ox_target), the default UI is functional rather than flashy, and a lot of configuration is code-first. For a builder who is comfortable in Lua, that is a feature. For someone who wants drag-and-drop polish on day one, it is friction.

Quasar's qs-inventory (Advanced Inventory) is the paid route, and it is built around being complete out of the box rather than a starting point you extend.

What stands out:

• Hotbar system that respects cooldowns, ammo, durability, and job restrictions so players can hotkey food, radios, or weapons.
• Crafting framework with 3D crafting tables, recipes, cooldowns, XP and level gates, and job restrictions, editable in-game in real time.
• Unified shop ecosystem powered by Quasar Advanced Shops, so buying and selling happen inside the same interface instead of fragmented menus.
• Weapon and attachment handling plus a weapon wheel toggle for specific modes.
• ESX and QBCore integration with documented exports and events, designed to drop into an existing economy.

The reason to pay is breadth and finish. You get the inventory, crafting, and shops as one coherent system with a polished UI, rather than assembling three resources and styling them yourself.

qb-inventory is the inventory that historically shipped with QBCore. It is slot based, checks weight and slot limits when adding items, and it works.

The honest 2026 read: it is legacy. It is QBCore-only, lighter on features than both ox_inventory and qs-inventory, and most active QBCore servers have either moved to ox_inventory or are running a modernized fork.

Keep qb-inventory if you have a stable server, a deep web of scripts already wired to it, and no appetite for a migration right now. Do not pick it fresh in 2026. If you are starting today, start from ox_inventory or qs-inventory instead, because the wider script ecosystem is moving with them.

Match the inventory to your situation, not to a leaderboard.

• New server, tight budget, comfortable with config: start with ox_inventory. Free, supported, and almost everything in the modern ecosystem already targets it.
• You want crafting, shops, and a polished hotbar without assembling them yourself: go qs-inventory. You are paying to skip the integration work.
• You plan to grow into a serious, populated server and want one vendor for inventory plus the systems around it: qs-inventory pairs cleanly with the rest of the Quasar stack, which keeps support and updates under one roof.
• You are on QBCore today with a working qb-inventory and many dependent scripts: stay put for now and plan a migration to ox_inventory or qs-inventory rather than rushing it.

Whatever you choose, confirm the other scripts you want already support that inventory before you buy them. That single check prevents most regret.