The best StickyBot alternatives

StickyBot is the incumbent in its own narrow category — 326,000 servers by Discord’s own count, against 14,400 for the nearest sticky-only rival found in this research. People leave over three things stacked together: three free stickies with a header you cannot remove, prefix commands instead of slash commands, and a paid custom prefix.

What StickyBot gets right

Credit first, because two of its features are genuinely unmatched anywhere else checked in this research, Vetox included: sticky polls, and per-sticky webhook identity — a custom name and avatar on the sticky message itself, separate from the bot’s own. The reposting cadence is documented rather than hidden: the vendor states plainly that the sticky is reposted “every 15 seconds or 5 messages rather than after every message” specifically to comply with Discord’s own terms of service. Three stickies covers a real use case — rules, a format notice, an event banner — and the flat $5/month price carries a real yearly discount at $50/year. It also bundles a small utility set most single-purpose sticky bots don’t attempt — polls, Wikipedia and WikiHow lookups, Urban Dictionary, dice rolls and a coin flip — all free, operated by Botsy LLC.

The wall — a header you can’t remove, and a prefix you have to pay to change

Free stickies are plain text with an unremovable header. Every free sticky is prepended with a “Stickied Message” label the operator cannot turn off; removing it is explicitly a paid feature. No embeds, no polls, no custom name or avatar on the free tier either.

Commands are prefix-based, not slash commands — the default is ?, unusual for a bot operating in 2026 — and the custom prefix itself is a paid feature, which only makes sense as a paywall for a bot that is entirely prefix-driven to begin with.

Three stickies, then pay. For a server with more than a handful of active channels needing a notice, that ceiling arrives fast.

No dashboard. Every configuration change, including which channel gets which sticky, is typed as a chat command in the target channel.

The alternatives, compared

Carl-bot — sticky messages exist, but with zero free

Worth naming for contrast, not as a genuine upgrade path: Carl-bot’s sticky messages are entirely premium, with no free allowance at all — where StickyBot gives 3, Carl-bot gives 0. What premium buys there is a real ceiling: 1 sticky per channel, up to 15 per server, up to 25 saved templates, with durations from 1 minute to 365 days. It arrives inside a bot with genuinely strong free logging, automod and reaction roles elsewhere.

Verdict: only the pick if the broader Carl-bot feature set is the actual draw — on stickies alone it is a downgrade from StickyBot’s free tier.

Where Vetox fits

This is the answer to the unremovable header and the paywalled prefix specifically — it is not a claim that Vetox matches StickyBot’s sticky polls or its per-sticky webhook identity, both of which remain unique to StickyBot among the products checked here.

Free stickies carry no header text, ever. There is no “Stickied Message” label prepended on any tier — the sticky is exactly the content configured, from the same editor Embed Messages uses, supporting a full embed or a Components V2 layout rather than plain text alone. Both formats can carry buttons and dropdowns with their own responses, so a sticky message can be interactive rather than purely informational.

The repost trigger is conversation-aware, not a fixed count. Rather than StickyBot’s flat 15 seconds or 5 messages, the operator chooses whether the swap happens at the start of a fresh conversation, a fixed delay after it starts, or once the channel goes quiet — tunable between 1 and 120 seconds for the detection window and up to 300 seconds for the delete delay.

One sticky is free on Starter, rising to 3 on Basic ($4.99/month) and unlimited from Max — the same shape as StickyBot’s count but without the header restriction, and inside a dashboard rather than a chat-command surface. One active sticky per channel is the only structural cap on any tier, the same rule StickyBot applies with its own server-wide count.

Sticky Messages shares its editor with Embed Messages, so a panel built once can be reused as either a one-time send or a persistent sticky — see the full utility bot comparison for the wider category.

Migration friction

StickyBot’s stored stickies are plain text and do not export to an embed-based editor automatically — recreating them on any alternative here means re-typing the content into a richer format rather than importing it. The custom prefix, if changed from ?, has no bearing on any replacement bot’s command surface, since every alternative in this comparison uses slash commands.

Which alternative to pick

Frequently asked questions

Can I remove the “Stickied Message” header on StickyBot’s free tier? No. It is prepended to every free sticky and removing it requires the $5/month premium tier.

Does StickyBot use slash commands? No — it is entirely prefix-driven, with ? as the default prefix. Setting a custom prefix is itself a paid feature.

Is there a free sticky-message bot with no header text? Vetox’s Sticky Messages system gives 1 free sticky per server with no header ever added, rising to 3 on Basic and unlimited from Max.

Does Carl-bot include sticky messages for free? No — Carl-bot’s sticky messages are entirely premium, a stricter free tier than StickyBot’s 3.

What can StickyBot do that nothing else in this comparison can? Sticky polls and a per-sticky custom name and avatar via webhook — both are premium features unique to StickyBot among the bots checked in this research.

Method

Every capability, limit and price above was read from the vendor’s own site or command reference on 31 August 2026, including StickyBot’s premium page (read via its WordPress REST API where the marketing page itself was client-rendered) and its published command list. Carl-bot’s figures come from its own documentation.