# Vetox vs Giveaway Boat > Giveaway Boat prints bot vote links inside free giveaway messages. Vetox gives giveaways free on every tier, gated by a real levelling system. - Canonical: https://discordbots.blog/blog/vetox-vs-giveaway-boat - Published: 2026-08-31 - Author: The Field Guide desk - Competitor facts checked: 2026-08-31 - Sources: - giveaway.boats (https://giveaway.boats/) — checked 2026-08-31 - giveaway.boats — premium (https://giveaway.boats/premium) — checked 2026-08-31 - giveaway.boats — commands (https://giveaway.boats/commands) — checked 2026-08-31 - Publication: The Field Guide, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc. --- ## The distinction that decides which bot you need Giveaway Boat is a feature-maximal giveaway specialist, and the depth is real: weighted bonus entries per role, layered required and blacklisted roles, message-count requirements across two time windows, a level gate, and a first-come "first N to participate" mode — more entry-requirement machinery than anything else examined in this research. It also runs its own levelling and message-counting system purely to power those gates, so a level requirement works without a second bot. Vetox's giveaway entry requirements are free on every tier and run on a real, full leveling system rather than one built solely to gate giveaways — and the whole system, at every tier, is free with no premium feature at all. The decision comes down to whether your server wants Giveaway Boat's single-purpose entry logic, or whether a giveaway system with zero paywalls, connected to leveling you already use for other reasons, covers what you actually run giveaways for. ## How this comparison was built Every capability and price below was read from Giveaway Boat's own site and documentation on 31 August 2026. It is **not** weighted by install count or App Directory position — the comparison covers entry-requirement depth, free-tier caps, and what a server's members actually see in a giveaway message. ## What Vetox covers Giveaways sit inside a 41-system platform rather than as a standalone product: - **Giveaways** — entirely free on every tier: entry requirements, bonus entries, templates, drops, a public web page, and all 5 commands, with no premium-only feature anywhere in the system. - **Leveling** — a full system with unlimited rank rewards, feeding a real min-level gate into giveaways rather than a purpose-built counter. - **Moderation, tickets, self-roles and 40 games** — free or partly free on Starter. - **Dashboard configuration** for giveaways, in 21 languages, alongside everything else on the platform. ## What Giveaway Boat does well Giveaway Boat's entry-requirement model is its own specialism, and it is worth stating plainly rather than as a footnote. A giveaway can require **weighted bonus entries per role** (a Twitch follower role worth +2 entries, a booster role worth +3), a **required role**, a **requirement-bypass role**, a **blacklisted role**, **message-count thresholds measured over two separate windows** — messages sent today and messages sent this month — a **level requirement** served by its own built-in levelling system, and a **first-come mode** that awards the prize to the first N participants rather than a random draw. Shipping its own levelling specifically to power level-gated entries is a sound engineering answer to a real dependency problem: a level requirement works without needing a second bot's API. The free tier is genuinely capable too — 25 winners, a 100-day maximum duration, 10 templates, scheduling, a change logger, and a full web dashboard, all free — and white-label bot branding starts at $3/month, cheap relative to comparable offerings elsewhere. **What is worth stating precisely, because a server's members see it directly:** Giveaway Boat's free giveaway messages **print the bot's own vote links**, and removing them is listed as a premium-only row on its own comparison table. A member entering a giveaway on the free tier sees a prompt to vote for the bot on a listing site inside the giveaway itself. Repeating giveaways, reaction-based entry (free is button-only), timed winner roles, and auto-closing the winner announcement thread are also premium-only. ## Where the two differ | Category | Vetox | Giveaway Boat | | ----------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Free-tier giveaway caps | **100 active, 10 templates, 500 blacklist — same on every tier** | 25 winners, 100-day duration, 10 templates free; 100 winners, 1-year at Premium | | Entry requirement depth | Bonus entries, requirement roles | **Deepest found** — weighted bonus entries, message counts, level gate, first-come | | Level-gated entry | Powered by Vetox's **full leveling system** | Powered by a **purpose-built levelling system**, shipped only to gate giveaways | | Vote links in free messages | **None, at any tier** | **Printed on free tier**; removal is premium-only | | Reaction-based entry | Not applicable — button/dropdown/reaction across the self-roles system | **Premium only** — free is button-only | | Repeating giveaways | Not offered as a distinct scheduling mode | **Premium only** | | Moderation, tickets, leveling | 41 server systems, free or partly free on Starter | Not offered — single-purpose beyond its own levelling and message counter | | Entry paid price | $4.99/mo Basic | $3.00/mo Tier I (1 server) | ## Pricing compared Giveaway Boat's Premium is $3.00/month for Tier I, $5.00/month for Tier II (both cover 1 server, with an unexplained difference between the two on its own pricing page), and $10.00/month for Tier III, covering 3 servers. Vetox's Starter tier is $0 and includes the full giveaway system, with no premium-only giveaway feature at any tier; Basic is $4.99/month or $44.99/year and unlocks Anti-Raid and the Battle Pass elsewhere on the platform; Max is $7.99/month or $69.99/year; Black, which adds AI, is $17.99/month or $149.99/year. ## What each gives you before you pay Giveaway Boat's free tier is capable but capped and carries the vote-link caveat: 25 winners, 100-day duration, 10 templates, 5 required/bypass/blacklist roles, scheduling and a dashboard, with bot vote links printed in the giveaway message. Vetox's giveaway system has **no premium-only feature at all** — 100 active giveaways, 10 templates, and 500 blacklist entries are the same limits on the free Starter tier as on the $17.99/month Black tier, with no vote links, ever. ## Vetox's leveling-to-giveaways link in depth The structural difference worth understanding is not giveaway feature count — it is what powers a level requirement underneath it. Giveaway Boat built its own levelling system from scratch specifically because giveaway entry needed one; it has no rank cards, no XP events, no streaks, and exists only to gate entries. Vetox's giveaway level gate draws on the platform's real leveling system — the same one tracking `/rank` cards, unlimited rank rewards, XP Events (scheduled double-XP windows), Streaks with tiered freezes, and a Battle Pass at Basic. A server running a level-gated giveaway on Vetox is gating against the same progression its members already see and care about elsewhere on the server, rather than a second, giveaway-only number nobody tracks between events. Giveaways also connect to Vetox's logging — 148 event types free on Starter — so entry, winner selection and reroll activity is recorded in the same audit trail as everything else on the server, rather than a giveaway-specific log a staff team has to check separately. ## Which to choose **Choose Giveaway Boat if** entry-requirement depth is the priority — weighted bonus entries, dual message-count windows, a first-come mode — and a vote-link prompt on the free tier is an acceptable trade for that depth. **Choose Vetox if** you want a giveaway system with zero paywalls and no vote-link prompts at any tier, tied to a leveling system your members already use for other reasons, alongside moderation, tickets and 40 free games. ## Frequently asked questions **Does Giveaway Boat's free tier really show vote links to members?** Yes — its own comparison table lists vote-link removal as a premium-only feature, meaning free-tier giveaway messages carry them by default. **Does Vetox's giveaway system have any paid features?** No — entry requirements, bonus entries, templates, drops, the public web page and all 5 commands are identical across every tier, including Black. **Which has deeper giveaway entry requirements?** Giveaway Boat — weighted bonus entries, dual message-count windows, a level gate and a first-come mode form an entry-requirement model that is its whole specialism. **Can Giveaway Boat gate entries by level without another bot?** Yes — it ships its own levelling system specifically to power level-gated entries, so it does not depend on a separate leveling bot's data. **Is reaction-based giveaway entry free on Giveaway Boat?** No — free tier is button-only; reaction entry requires a paid tier. **How many active giveaways can a free Vetox server run?** 100, with 10 templates and a 500-entry blacklist — identical limits on every tier, including Black. **Does Giveaway Boat's own levelling system compete with a server's main leveling bot?** It can — a server already running Vetox's leveling for general progression and Giveaway Boat's levelling purely to gate entries ends up tracking two separate XP counters for two different purposes, worth knowing before assuming one leaderboard reflects the whole community's activity. ## Method Every capability and price above was read from Giveaway Boat's own site and documentation on 31 August 2026.