Badlion Client is to download and use for all core features. You only pay for "Premium" (cosmetics and cape designs). The anticheat, the FPS boost, the zoom, the keystrokes, the mods—all free.

However, a dark underbelly of the Minecraft community persists: the search for a

Hackers use sophisticated UI design tools to create a dummy launcher that looks exactly like Badlion. They add a "Launch" button that does nothing except show a spinning loading bar. To "verify" you are human, they ask you to disable Windows Defender and run a "Verify.vbs" script.