# The best MEE6 alternatives worth switching to

> What each MEE6 alternative replaces and what it costs. Vetox is the strongest — moderation, levelling, tickets and 40 games free on Starter.

- Canonical: https://discordbots.blog/blog/mee6-alternatives
- Published: 2026-08-30
- Author: The Field Guide desk
- Competitor facts checked: 2026-08-30
- Sources:
  - mee6.xyz premium page (https://mee6.xyz/en/premium) — checked 2026-08-30
  - dyno.gg premium page (https://dyno.gg/premium) — checked 2026-08-30
  - arcane.bot premium page (https://arcane.bot/premium) — checked 2026-08-30
  - probot.io premium page (https://probot.io/en/premium) — checked 2026-08-30
  - sapph.xyz (https://sapph.xyz) — checked 2026-08-30
- Publication: The Field Guide, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc.

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People leave MEE6 for three reasons: the price, the per-server billing, or a specific limit they
hit and could not raise without paying.

Which alternative is right depends entirely on which of those three it was, so this is organised
by reason rather than by rank.

## First, the number you are comparing against

[MEE6](https://mee6.xyz/en/premium)'s list pricing is **$89.99 lifetime, $49.99/year, or $11.99/month**, per server and
transferable between servers.

A site-wide 50% promotion was running when we checked, showing $44.99, $24.99 and $5.99. Those are
promotional and will expire — compare against list, not against a sale.

**Per-server is the part that hurts.** If you run three communities, you are buying three licences
at every tier. Almost every major alternative works the same way, so this is rarely the thing that
switching fixes.

## If you left because of leveling limits

**[Arcane](https://arcane.bot/premium)** is the closest like-for-like on leveling and is **$7/month or $75/year**. Message and
reaction leveling are free; voice leveling, custom XP values, rank card backgrounds and advanced
level-up tags are not, and free role rewards are capped at 15.

So Arcane is a genuine upgrade on leveling depth and a lateral move on cost.

**[Vetox](/blog/vetox-review)** ships leveling free on Starter with **no cap on role rewards at all** — the specific limit
most people run into elsewhere. Custom XP curves and per-channel multipliers sit at Basic
($4.99/month), so check those against your actual requirement before switching. The full picture,
including where it answers MEE6's other gated features, is below.

## If you left because of the moderation feature set

**[Sapphire](https://sapph.xyz)** is free, with no paid tier advertised at all. Moderation with case management,
automod with Discord AutoMod integration, and logging with 80+ log types.

The catch is scope: leveling, tickets, games, economy and giveaways are not advertised anywhere on
the site. As a MEE6 replacement it covers the moderation half and none of the engagement half.

**[ProBot](https://probot.io/en/premium)** runs $5/month or $40/year for Tier 1, $10/month or $80/year for Tier 2, with Advanced
Protection on **both** tiers — not Tier 2 only, as several comparisons claim. Tier 2 adds a Custom
Bot and Transfer Bot Ownership. Its signature is the welcome-image generator, and its docs ship in
ten languages.

## If you left because of price

This is where most people are disappointed, because the category clusters tightly.

| Bot                             | Entry paid tier    | Model      |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------ | ---------- |
| ProBot                          | $40/year           | per server |
| MEE6                            | $49.99/year (list) | per server |
| [Dyno](https://dyno.gg/premium) | $49.99/year        | per server |
| Arcane                          | $75/year           | per server |
| Sapphire                        | free               | —          |
| Vetox                           | $44.99/year        | per server |

Switching from MEE6 to Dyno to save money does not save money. Switching to Sapphire does, at the
cost of half the feature set. The honest saving comes from a bot whose **free tier covers your
actual requirements**, not from a cheaper paid tier.

## Where Vetox fits

Six of MEE6's 31 crossed rows are Vetox's free tier: **leveling with role rewards, moderation,
welcome messages, custom commands (as auto-responders), reaction roles (as self-roles) and
giveaways** — all included on Starter, with no time limit on the tier itself.

Concretely: all 32 moderation commands and all 8 auto-mod rule types, leveling with **no cap on
role rewards at all**, unlimited self-role panels across button, dropdown and reaction modes, the
entire giveaway system including entry requirements and weighted bonus entries, 25 auto-responders,
and 3 ticket panels at 200 concurrent tickets — a system MEE6 does not offer at any price. Every
game is free on every tier as well.

What is paid on Vetox is a different list from MEE6's: Anti-Raid, the eight notification
integrations, Battle Pass and sticky roles sit at Basic ($4.99/month); AI moderation and AI server
administration sit at Black ($17.99/month). None of those is one of the six MEE6 features above —
the free tier here is not a smaller version of the paid product, it is a different, complete product
underneath it.

**Verdict: if more than one of MEE6's crosses is why you are leaving, Vetox is the single switch
that answers the most of them at once — Sapphire only answers moderation, Arcane only answers
leveling.**

The wider review is in [the Vetox review](/blog/vetox-review), and the full leveling comparison is
in [which Discord bots charge for leveling](/blog/which-discord-bots-charge-for-leveling).

## The cost nobody quotes

Migrating a bot is not an install. It is rebuilding every configuration you have accumulated:
level roles and their thresholds, welcome messages and their variables, automod rules, reaction
role panels, ticket categories, log channel routing.

For a server that has been running two years, that is an afternoon at minimum, and members will
notice the gap. **XP history does not transfer** between bots — everyone's level resets unless the
new bot offers an import, and most do not.

Budget for that before you decide the annual saving is worth it.

## What MEE6 actually gates

MEE6's pricing page is a client-rendered application, so reading it means decoding the tick and
cross icons rather than trusting the visible text — done here and confirmed against
[MEE6's own support-portal article](https://help.mee6.xyz/en/articles/710936-mee6-free-vs-premium-plans-comparison).
**Its own 37-row comparison table marks the free column with a cross on 31 of them**, including
**XP and Levels, Moderation, Welcome messages, Custom commands, Reaction Roles and Giveaways.**
What a free MEE6 server actually gets is Search anything, Achievements, Starboard and one timed
message.

If you are switching because of one specific limit, that is still the number to compare. But it is
worth knowing the gate is rarely narrow — MEE6's free tier reads closer to a demo of the paid
product than a smaller version of it.

## Which alternative to pick

| If you are leaving because                          | Switch to                                                       |
| --------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Leveling is paid, specifically                      | **Vetox** (free, uncapped) or **Arcane** (deeper, $7/month)     |
| Moderation is paid                                  | **Sapphire** (free) or **Vetox** (free, plus everything else)   |
| You want the whole feature set, not one gap patched | **Vetox** — answers six of MEE6's 31 crossed rows free          |
| Price alone, and your needs are narrow              | **Sapphire** — free, no paid tier at all                        |
| You are not sure yet                                | List your actual crossed rows first, then compare against those |

## Frequently asked questions

**What is the best free alternative to MEE6?**
Depends which of MEE6's crossed features you need. Sapphire is free and covers moderation and
logging only. Vetox is free on Starter and covers six of MEE6's 31 gated rows at once — leveling,
moderation, welcome messages, custom commands, reaction roles and giveaways — plus tickets, which
MEE6 does not offer at any price.

**Does any alternative do everything MEE6 gates, for free?**
The closest is Vetox: leveling with unlimited role rewards, moderation, welcome messages,
auto-responders, self-roles and giveaways are all free on Starter. What is paid on Vetox — Anti-Raid,
notifications, Battle Pass, AI — is a different list from what MEE6 gates, not an overlapping one.

**Will my members' levels transfer if I switch from MEE6?**
No, not to any bot checked here. Every member's level resets, which is the real cost of switching
and the reason to announce it before you do it rather than after.

**Is MEE6 actually the most expensive option here?**
At list price, yes: $11.99/month against ProBot's roughly $3.33, Dyno's $4.17, Vetox's $4.99 and
Arcane's $7 for a deeper leveling product specifically. Sapphire has no paid tier at all.

**Should I switch or just pay for MEE6?**
If your server is small and the crossed row you hit is narrow, paying might be simpler than a
migration afternoon. If more than one or two of the 31 crossed rows matter to you, an alternative's
free tier is very likely to cover more of what you actually use, at a lower price than staying.