Active Sim Racing Pedals Compared: Are They Worth It?

Three brands make an active sim racing pedal in October 2026. Simucube sells the ActivePedal Ultimate and Pro and has announced a cheaper Sport for early 2027. Simagic has the P-ACTIVE on pre-order at $999. MOZA sells the mBooster at $759 and it ships now. Is one worth it? For a driver who races one or two cars, usually not yet. For someone who jumps between cars and sims every week, it is the only pedal that can be all of them.

Checked on 15 October 2026 against simucube.com (ActivePedal Ultimate and Pro product pages in the Europe and US stores, the ActivePedal Sport page), simagic.com (the P-Active Pedal (Pre-Order) page), us.mozaracing.com and mozaracing.com (the mBooster Active Pedal product page, the mBooster landing page and the mBooster Pedal Set page) and MOZA's support article "mBooster Telemetry Force Feedback Support List". I have not driven any of these pedals. Everything below is what the makers publish, plus what a brake pedal has to do for a racing driver.

I have already covered two of these on their own: the Simucube ActivePedal range and the Simagic P-ACTIVE. This piece puts all of them side by side and answers the question I keep seeing on r/simracing: should you buy one, and which.

Every active pedal you can buy or pre-order

I looked for any other motor-driven pedal on an official maker's store. I found none beyond these five. Hydraulic and load cell pedals with a vibration motor bolted on are not active pedals, so they are not here.

Prices are the ones each official store showed on 15 October 2026, in the currency it showed. Simucube's Europe and US product pages do not say whether tax is included. Simucube also sells an Ultimate "add-on" (for a second or third pedal) at €2,158.80 or $2,059. MOZA lists the mBooster Pedal Set with a CRP2 throttle, plate and extended plate at $949 (sale, $999 list).

Two gaps jump out. MOZA does not publish a maximum pedal force, only the range of its load cells, so "200 kg" is a sensor number, not what the motor can push back with. And Simagic still publishes no travel figure. For a brake, both of those are numbers I want before I spend the money.

Who each one suits

Simucube ActivePedal Ultimate. The reference, and priced like it. Adjustable arm, offset adjustment, two passive pedal inputs and a five year warranty. It makes sense if you already run Simucube gear, you want the heaviest brake, or you coach and need one pedal to feel like many cars.

Simucube ActivePedal Pro. The same idea with a fixed arm, 110 kg and a three year warranty. 110 kg is more brake than most drivers will ever set. If you want Simucube now and not in 2027, this is the sensible one.

Simucube ActivePedal Sport. The short, light one at 250 mm and 3.4 kg. 100 kg and 60 mm of travel. It fits rigs where the longer pedals do not. The catch is time: you cannot buy it until early 2027.

Simagic P-ACTIVE. The obvious pick for anyone on a Simagic P1000 or P2000, because the adapters are in the box. $999 and a November ship date put it ahead of the Sport on timing. The missing travel figure and game list are why I would wait for the first hands-on reports.

MOZA mBooster. The cheapest way to an active brake today, and the only one you can order and have in a few days at a sub-$800 price. It is built to sit next to a CRP2 throttle. If your rig is already MOZA, it slots in. If your rig is not, MOZA says it connects directly to PC and works with "almost all branded bases".

What an active pedal does that a load cell cannot

A load cell pedal measures how hard you push. The feel comes from whatever you push against: springs, elastomers, a hydraulic cylinder. Want it stiffer or longer? You change parts, and then it stays that way for every car.

An active pedal has a motor where the springs were. That changes two things.

The feel becomes a setting. Force, travel and the shape of the curve live in software and can change per car. Simucube's Sport page shows the force curve drawn in Tuner. Simagic says the P-ACTIVE can recreate spring, elastomer and hydraulic feel. MOZA says Pit House adjusts rebound, stroke, damping and friction, and that the mBooster can go "from a road car's throttle to an F1 car's brake".

The pedal can talk back. Because the motor moves the pedal, the game can change the force you are pushing into. Simucube puts it simply on the Sport page: a vibration kit can only buzz a passive pedal, while the active pedal changes the force itself, so ABS comes through as a pulse under your foot.

Here is what each maker lists as effects.

Simucube's Ultimate and Pro pages list motor vibration, ABS, traction control, RPM and G-force effects, and Tuner adds lock-up where the game supports it. Simucube describes its Brake Lockup effect as scaling with car speed and how hard the wheels lock.

Why this matters for brake feel

In a real single seater or GT3 car, the brake pedal hardly moves. You brake with pressure. You hit the peak hard and early, then you bleed it off as you turn in, and that release decides whether the car rotates or pushes wide.

Your leg learns that force. A load cell gave sim racers that, and it is still the biggest single step you can make on pedals.

What a load cell cannot give you is anything coming back. In a road car with ABS you feel the system through the pedal. In a race car without ABS, you feel the front going light and the car starting to slide before you see it. A passive sim pedal stays silent while you lock a wheel. An active pedal can tell you, through the same foot that caused it.

Does that make you faster? No maker can promise that, and I would not trust one that did. What it can do is teach you where the limit sits, if the effect is tuned well. Tuned badly, it is noise under your foot. Start with the effects low and turn them up only when you can tell what each one means.

Game support, maker by maker

All three are PC products. None of the official pages I checked lists PlayStation or Xbox support for the active pedal.

Simucube. The pedal shows up in Windows as a normal USB controller, so it works as a pedal in any PC racing game. The telemetry effects need a game Tuner supports. Simucube's game setup list runs automatically with iRacing, Assetto Corsa, ACC, Assetto Corsa EVO, RaceRoom, Le Mans Ultimate and EA Sports WRC, and has guides for Automobilista 1 and 2, rFactor 1 and 2, the F1 games, Forza Horizon 6, Forza Motorsport, BeamNG.drive and more. Brake threshold vibration and clutch bite point work in every game.

MOZA. MOZA publishes the most useful document of the three: a table of 37 titles with a tick for each effect. Brake threshold vibration and clutch bite point are ticked for every title. The rest varies, and it varies more than you would guess.

So if Le Mans Ultimate is your main sim, MOZA's own list says you get no ABS effect through the mBooster today. If you race the F1 games, no ABS either. That is the kind of thing to check before you buy, not after. The list on MOZA's support site is dated 29 May without a year on the page.

Simagic. No game list on the P-ACTIVE page. Simagic names seven effects and says setup is in SimPro. Until it publishes which games feed which effect, I would treat game support as unknown.

Is an active pedal worth it?

My honest verdict, by type of driver.

You are on a potentiometer pedal. No. Buy a load cell brake first. MOZA's SRP2 starts at $149 on its store, and the jump from measuring travel to measuring pressure is bigger than anything an active pedal adds on top. My best sim racing pedals guide covers every budget.

You have a good load cell or hydraulic brake and race one or two cars. Probably not. Your leg already knows the pedal. The money is better spent on seat time or coaching.

You switch between GT3, prototypes, single seaters and road cars every week. Yes, this is where an active pedal earns it. A real F2 brake and a real road car brake have nothing in common, and a passive pedal has to be one or the other.

You want ABS and lock-up under your foot. Yes, as long as your main sim feeds the effect. Check the maker's list for your game first.

You are on a budget but want active now. The MOZA mBooster at $759 is the cheapest you can have this month. Know that MOZA does not publish a maximum force.

You can wait a few months. Wait. The P-ACTIVE ships on 18 November and the Sport opens in early 2027. Independent tests of both will tell you more than any spec sheet.

You want the reference, money aside. The Simucube Ultimate. Five year warranty, the most adjustment, the longest track record of the five.

One more thing nobody can tell you yet: how the force builds through the stroke on each pedal. That is what decides how a brake feels. Peak kilograms do not.

Building a full set around one active pedal

Nobody needs three motors. Put the active pedal on the brake and keep a passive throttle and clutch.

• Simucube. The Co-Pedal is Simucube's passive throttle or clutch, and the Ultimate and Pro have two passive pedal inputs. Simucube's Sport complete set (Sport, Co-Pedal, Link Hub) is €1,280 excl. VAT.
• Simagic. The P-ACTIVE comes with P1000 and P2000 adapters, and Simagic says its base plate also takes third-party throttle and clutch pedals.
• MOZA. The mBooster Pedal Set pairs it with a CRP2 throttle for $949. CRP2 owners need the mBooster extension plate, $35 on sale. MOZA also lists a CRP2 clutch for a three-pedal setup.

FAQ

What is the cheapest active sim racing pedal?

The MOZA mBooster, at $759 on MOZA's US store on 15 October 2026 ($799 list). The Simagic P-ACTIVE is $999 on pre-order, and the Simucube ActivePedal Sport is $1,199 excluding tax from early 2027.

Which active pedal has the most force?

On paper, the Simagic P-ACTIVE with a 180 kg software limit, then the Simucube ActivePedal Ultimate at 170 kg. MOZA does not publish a maximum force for the mBooster, only a 0 to 200 kg sensor range.

Do active pedals work on PlayStation or Xbox?

None of the three makers lists console support for its active pedal. Treat them as PC pedals.

Does the MOZA mBooster do ABS in Le Mans Ultimate?

Not according to MOZA's own support list on 15 October 2026. It ticks RPM, brake threshold vibration, clutch bite point, LongAccelG and gear shift vibration for Le Mans Ultimate, but not ABS.

Is an active pedal better than a hydraulic pedal?

It is more adjustable and it can play effects. A hydraulic brake cannot change its feel per car. Whether it feels better is a question for back to back testing, and nobody has done that with all five yet.

Are active pedals worth it for beginners?

No. Get a load cell brake first. An active pedal makes sense once you know what you want from a brake and drive many different cars.