A novel power factor detector for three-phase non-sinusoidal load currents is proposed. It eliminates the disadvantage of conventional detectors, which can measure only the power factor of linear load. This novel detector fully uses the three-phase characteristic to achieve instantaneous response while using in the balanced three-phase linear loads. Therefore, the transient response of the proposed detector is very fast when compared with that of the conventional detectors. Moreover, the proposed detector possesses excellent input-to-output steady state performance. Theoretical analysis, hardware implementation, and some experimental results are also detailed in this manuscript.