# Vetox vs Security Bot > Vetox and Security Bot compared on protection depth, what each gives away free versus charges for, and configuration auditing. - Canonical: https://discordbots.blog/blog/vetox-vs-security-bot - Published: 2026-08-31 - Author: The Field Guide desk - Competitor facts checked: 2026-08-31 - Sources: - securitybot.gg (https://securitybot.gg/) — checked 2026-08-31 - securitybot.gg — premium (https://securitybot.gg/premium) — checked 2026-08-31 - docs.securitybot.gg — full documentation export (https://docs.securitybot.gg/llms-full.txt) — checked 2026-08-31 - Publication: The Field Guide, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc. --- ## The distinction that decides which bot you need Most bots in this category give automod away free and charge for anti-nuke. Security Bot does the opposite: anti-nuke and anti-raid — the defenses against a rogue administrator and a mass join — are free and form the product's entire identity, while Anti-Spam, Anti-Mention and Anti-Ghost Ping sit behind a paid plan. A server assuming the usual shape will be surprised either way it reads this bot. The question worth asking before installing either product is what "free protection" actually covers on each — because the two answers are inverses of each other. ## How this comparison was built Every capability and price below was read from Security Bot's own site and its published `llms-full.txt` documentation export on 31 August 2026. It is **not** weighted by install count or App Directory position — both bots are compared on what a server actually gets, at what price, with how much configuration. ## The comparison | Category | Vetox | Security Bot | | --------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Free tier includes anti-nuke style protection | **Yes — 20 rule types**, all punishments, undo, whitelist | **Yes** — 10 monitored actions, 10 dangerous permissions, per-trigger toggles | | Free tier includes chat automod | **Yes — all 8 rule types, all 4 action types** | **No** — Anti-Spam, Anti-Mention, Anti-Ghost Ping are all premium | | Join-rate anti-raid | Basic ($4.99/mo) | free → paid (Advanced Anti-Raid is premium) | | Recovery after an incident | Server Backup at Max ($7.99/mo) | "Automatic Server Recovery" (paid) | | Configuration auditing | **Yes, free — Dashboard Watcher, 500 entries / 90 days, every system** | Not documented — logs cover breaches and punishments, not settings changes | | Web dashboard | **Yes**, every page, 21 languages | Yes, scope not fully documented | | Server feature systems | **41** | Security and moderation only | | Entry paid price | $4.99/mo Basic | $3.49/mo (pricing page) or $3.50/mo (docs) — the two disagree | | Public API | 494 documented paths, published npm SDK, webhook verification | none found | ## What Security Bot does well Security Bot's anti-nuke is unusually precise about what it does, and precision is worth crediting. It monitors **10 specific actions** — banning, kicking, channel deletion and creation, role deletion and creation, bot additions, dangerous permission grants, dangerous role assignments and member pruning — against **10 named dangerous permissions**, with counters that reset every 10 minutes and per-trigger enable/disable. Its **Beast Mode** is a genuinely distinct layer from per-user anti-nuke tracking: where anti-nuke watches one actor, Beast Mode is a server-wide escalation state that, once tripped, punishes anyone performing a dangerous action until 60 minutes of quiet pass. That is two different escalation models rather than one, and it is a real architectural choice. The bot also ships a **safe-moderation permission layer** — staff can be granted `/ban`, `/kick` and `/mute` through Security Bot's own system rather than through Discord's native permissions, so every staff action still counts against the anti-nuke limits. That closes a gap most anti-nuke products leave open, where whoever can moderate can also nuke. Its **anti-raid** scoring combines account age, join speed, avatar presence and "normal join" status into one number, with published recommended thresholds for three security postures — publishing the actual numbers rather than leaving them opaque is unusually direct for this category. ## What Vetox does well Vetox splits the same underlying problem — insider risk versus outside risk versus message-level abuse — differently, and prices the pieces in the opposite order from Security Bot. **Protection is free on Starter, and it is broad.** Twenty distinct rule types cover mass channel and role deletion, permission changes, mass bans and kicks, webhook and emoji abuse and the rest, with every punishment type, an undo path, a whitelist, per-role overrides, per-command limits and a dedicated log channel. That is the anti-nuke half of the problem, at no cost. **Chat automod is also free on Starter** — all 8 rule types and all 4 action types, with exclusions and exclusive-channel settings — which is the half Security Bot charges for. Where Security Bot's free tier leaves message-content abuse uncovered until a subscriber pays, Vetox's free tier covers both halves; the paid line sits somewhere else entirely. **Anti-Raid is the paid half, at Basic — $4.99/month.** It combines two independent join-time defenses on one configuration surface: a join-rate detector that counts how many accounts younger than a set age joined inside a rolling window and fires a single action — mute, kick or ban — when the count crosses a threshold, and **Join Guard**, which screens every join individually against up to 10 named conditions, each combining up to 5 rules with AND/OR logic, and runs whether or not a raid is in progress. Account age, avatar, banner and username shape are all available as rules, so the screen is expressive rather than a single toggle. ### The gap Security Bot's own documentation confirms Security Bot's published logging covers anti-nuke breaches, anti-raid detections, Beast Mode activations, punishments and moderation actions — a full account of what happened to the server. It has no documented record of who changed the bot's own settings. That matters specifically because Security Bot's whole product premise is defending against a rogue or compromised administrator, and an administrator who edits the protection's own thresholds before acting leaves no trace in the system built to catch them. **Vetox's Dashboard Watcher** records every setting change made through the dashboard, free on Starter, retained for 500 entries over 90 days, across all 41 server systems — not just protection. The contrast is not about depth of anti-nuke logic; it is about whether the bot that watches your administrators also watches itself. ### Breadth beyond security Security Bot's documentation, read in full, covers exactly one domain: security and moderation. There is no levelling, no tickets, no welcome system, no giveaways and no notifications anywhere in its published feature set. Vetox's protection and automod sit alongside **39 other server systems** — tickets with a free application-review queue, giveaways, self-roles, a seasonal battle pass, server backup at Max, and notifications from 8 platforms at Basic — all governed by the same command-management layer and the same Dashboard Watcher audit trail. A server buying Security Bot for its anti-nuke still needs a second bot, or several, for everything else a community runs. ## Pricing compared Vetox's Starter tier is $0 and includes chat automod and protection indefinitely. Basic, which adds Anti-Raid, is $4.99/month or $44.99/year. Max, which adds Server Backup, is $7.99/month or $69.99/year. Black, which adds AI, is $17.99/month or $149.99/year. Security Bot's own published prices disagree with each other: its pricing page shows **$3.49/month** for Security Premium (bundles of 1, 3 or 7 servers) and **$11.99/month** for Premium+, while its own documentation states **$3.50/month per server** and **$8.50/month per custom bot**. Neither figure is presented here as more current than the other — a reader comparing prices should check the live checkout before committing, because the two vendor surfaces are roughly $3.50 apart on the higher tier. ## Which one to install Security Bot suits a server whose specific threat model is a compromised or rogue moderator, and who wants that single problem solved free with a tightly scoped, well-documented product. Vetox suits a server that wants insider protection and message-level automod both covered free from day one, alongside everything else a community runs — moderation, leveling, tickets, games and notifications — through one dashboard that also records who changed what, and when. ## Frequently asked questions **Is Security Bot's anti-nuke really free?** Yes — anti-nuke, anti-raid and Beast Mode are all free according to the vendor's own documentation. What is paid is chat automod: Anti-Spam, Anti-Mention and Anti-Ghost Ping. **Does Vetox's free tier include anti-nuke-style protection?** Yes — 20 rule types covering mass deletion, permission changes, mass bans and kicks, and webhook and emoji abuse, all free on Starter, with every punishment type and an undo path. **Which bot records who changed its own settings?** Vetox, free on Starter — Dashboard Watcher covers every dashboard change across all 41 systems. Security Bot's documented logging covers breaches and punishments, not settings history. **Does Security Bot have moderation beyond anti-nuke?** It ships 11 documented moderation commands (ban, kick, mute and related actions) through its own permission layer. It has no levelling, tickets, welcome, giveaways or notifications. **Which is cheaper for anti-nuke protection alone?** Security Bot, since its anti-nuke and anti-raid are free. Vetox's equivalent — Protection — is also free on Starter, but its join-rate Anti-Raid layer requires the $4.99/month Basic tier. **Can an administrator with a high enough role defeat either bot's protection?** Security Bot's anti-nuke exempts anyone at or above its own role in the hierarchy, and the documentation does not describe a settings-change log to catch that person editing the protection first. ## Method Every capability and price above was read from Security Bot's own site and its published `llms.txt` / `llms-full.txt` documentation export on 31 August 2026. Where the pricing page and the documentation disagree, both figures are shown and neither is presented as settled.