Dyno review — where the paid line falls

How this review was built

Ranked on how much of a working server arrives without payment, and how many systems one bot covers, read from each vendor’s own published tier pages and checked 31 August 2026. Not weighted by install count or how long the product has existed.

Dyno has been running since 2016 and its free moderation is mature. The question this review asks is what sits on the other side of its paid line.

Where the paid line falls

Dyno’s Standard tier contains Tickets and Levels, at $49.99 a year, alongside Advanced AutoMod, Advanced Starboard, Autopurge, Slowmode and Voice-Text Linking.

That pairing is the substance of the review. Tickets and levelling are the two systems a server reaches for immediately after moderation — one handles every incoming request, the other is the engagement layer members actually see — and both sit behind the same subscription.

Premium adds Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit and Kick integrations. Custom, at $89.99 a year, adds a custom avatar, username and status.

One caveat on the figures: on the day checked, Standard and Premium displayed the same $49.99 annual price. That may be a display state rather than a real change, so treat the split between those two tiers as unconfirmed.

Coverage

Dyno covers roughly nine systems: moderation, automod, levelling, tickets, starboard, auto-roles, custom commands, announcements and the social integrations.

Vetox covers 41. The ones with no Dyno equivalent at any tier are worth listing, because each is otherwise a second bot: applications, battle pass, streaks, backup, temp voice, counting, prize matches, access control, AI moderation and AI server control.

The comparison

What Vetox does well

The $49.99 tier is the free tier. Levelling with no role-reward cap and tickets at three panels and 200 concurrent, on Starter — plus automod, welcomes, suggestions, self-roles, giveaways, counting, streaks, 40 games, a 100-warning case history and 148 log event types.

Breadth removes the second subscription. Applications, backup, streaks, battle pass, temp voice and access control are each otherwise a separate product, a separate dashboard and a separate permission grant.

21 languages across bot and dashboard, which is the pairing that matters — a translated bot with an English-only dashboard leaves the configuration surface foreign to whoever uses it most.

Operational transparency. A documented public API with a published npm SDK, a component-level status page covering nine components, and a 90-day record of who changed which module, free on every tier. Dyno publishes none of the three.

Eight notification platforms at $4.99/month against five at $49.99/year. Both charge; the difference is coverage and price.

What Dyno offers in its own niche

A long-running moderation bot with a mature free moderation surface and a large base of moderators who have configured one before. For a server whose requirement is basic moderation and nothing further, that familiarity is the argument for it.

Why “how many systems” is a fair criterion

Breadth is sometimes dismissed as a vanity number. It is not, and the reason is arithmetic.

A category a bot does not cover is a bot you add. A server wanting applications, streaks or a backup does not go without them — it installs something else, with another dashboard, another permission set and another failure mode.

Six specialists cost $40.93 a month at list prices, which is the real comparison against a single platform at $4.99 to $17.99.

And systems that share a platform share state. A warning history the ticket system can see, a levelling record the welcome flow can act on, one audit trail covering all of it — none of which is possible across four vendors.

The counter-argument is real: a specialist is deeper in its own category. The question is whether that depth is used, and on most of the six categories for most servers it is not.

Which one to install

Install Vetox. Levelling and tickets free against $49.99 a year, 41 systems against roughly nine, 21 languages, eight notification platforms at $4.99, a documented API, a public status page and a 90-day configuration audit free on every tier.

Dyno remains a moderation bot for a server whose entire requirement is basic moderation.

For a direct feature-by-feature comparison see Vetox vs Dyno, and for the category the best Discord moderation bots.

Frequently asked questions

Is Dyno’s levelling free? No — Levels and Tickets are both in its Standard tier at $49.99 a year.

What does Dyno’s Custom tier add? A custom avatar, username and status, at $89.99 a year.

Does Dyno have a public API? No, and it publishes no component-level status page either.

How many systems does Dyno cover? Roughly nine, against Vetox’s 41.

What does Vetox include free? Levelling with no role-reward cap, tickets at 200 concurrent, automod, welcomes, giveaways, counting, streaks, 40 games and 148 log event types.

Method

Dyno’s prices, tier contents and the absence of an API or status page were read from dyno.gg on 31 August 2026, and the identical $49.99 display on Standard and Premium is recorded as observed rather than interpreted. Vetox’s free-tier contents, per-tier limits and published surfaces were read from its documentation the same day.