# Discord bot market statistics > Discord bot market statistics from 104 products checked on 30 August 2026 — directory size, ranking order, pricing, free tiers and API coverage. - Canonical: https://discordtools.blog/blog/discord-bot-statistics - Published: 2026-08-30 - Author: The Index desk - Facts checked: 2026-08-30 - Sources: - Discord App Directory — category counts (application-directory-static API) (https://discord.com/discovery/applications) — checked 2026-08-30 - Discord Developer Documentation — Auto Moderation (https://docs.discord.com/developers/resources/auto-moderation) — checked 2026-08-30 - MEE6 — pricing (https://mee6.xyz/en) — checked 2026-08-30 - Statbot — pricing (https://statbot.net/) — checked 2026-08-30 - Arcane — premium (https://arcane.bot) — checked 2026-08-30 - Ticket Tool — pricing (https://tickettool.xyz/) — checked 2026-08-30 - Streamcord Pro — pricing (https://streamcord.io/pro/) — checked 2026-08-30 - Wick — premium (https://wickbot.com/premium) — checked 2026-08-30 - Xenon — pricing (https://xenon.bot/) — checked 2026-08-30 - Lurkr documentation (https://lurkr.gg/docs) — checked 2026-08-30 - Cakey Bot — premium (https://cakey.bot/premium) — checked 2026-08-30 - Koya — pricing (https://koya.gg/en) — checked 2026-08-30 - Sapphire — limit increase and branding (https://sapph.xyz/limit-increase) — checked 2026-08-30 - Publication: The Index, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc. --- Discord's own App Directory lists **10,121 apps under Moderation and Tools**, MEE6 ranks **21st** in it, and a single-purpose colour-role bot outranks MEE6. Entry paid prices cluster between **$2.99 and $7.99** across nine different billing units, and **a quarter of the products examined publish no price at all**. ## What this page is Every figure below comes from a study of **104 Discord bot products examined in depth**, plus roughly 190 more catalogued, carried out on and around **30 August 2026**. Each number names its source. Where a figure is Discord's own, it is marked as such. Where it is a vendor's published price, it is a **list** price on the date checked, not a promotional one. Where something could not be determined, that is stated rather than estimated. **This is a sample, not a census.** Discord's directory lists more than ten thousand apps in one category alone. ## How big the market actually is Discord's App Directory publishes its own category counts through `/api/v9/application-directory-static/categories`, which answers an unauthenticated request. Read **30 August 2026**: | Category | Apps | | ------------------------ | ---------- | | **Moderation and Tools** | **10,121** | | Social | 2,782 | | Games | 1,597 | | Utilities | 1,240 | | (unnamed category 7) | 481 | | Entertainment | 54 | Everything in the directory is Discord-verified by definition, which makes these counts and the ordering the closest thing to an authoritative index that exists — it is Discord's own, not a vendor's self-reported figure. **One structural fact worth knowing before you look.** The public page at `discord.com/discovery/applications` is now **entirely games and Activities** — promoted games, puzzle games, card games, watch-together, social activities, and a four-item "Bot Games" row. A logged-out visitor is shown **no moderation, utility or server-management apps at all**. The catalogue is still public, but it lives behind the JSON API rather than on that page. ## What Discord's own ranking shows The top 25 in Moderation and Tools, in Discord's order, read 30 August 2026: > FlaviBot · TTS Bot · carl-bot · Arcane · Dyno · Bloxlink · DISBOARD.org · Mimu · Maki.gg · > Make it a Quote · Ticket Tool · Invite Tracker · Koya · ProBot · Loritta · Appy · Confessions · > Phoenix · Color-Chan · DraftBot · MEE6 · Tickets v2 · Security · Giveaway Boat · Statbot Four things in that list contradict the standard English listicle. **MEE6 ranks 21st.** The bot every "best Discord bots" article leads with is not what Discord itself surfaces first. **Color-Chan outranks MEE6.** A single-purpose colour-role bot sits at 19. **A text-to-speech bot ranks 2nd**, and a server-discovery listing ranks 7th — neither of which is a moderation bot in any ordinary sense. **DraftBot, a French all-in-one with its own dashboard and full documentation, ranks 20th** — above MEE6 — and is absent from essentially every English-language source. So is RaidProtect. The French-speaking market has two products at scale that English coverage does not mention. Ranks 36 and 38 are **link-filter bypass tools**, verified and listed inside Discord's own moderation category. Any anti-scam claim has to survive tools that are themselves directory-listed. ### Installed-server figures These are **the directory's own reported figures**, read from Discord's API on 30 August 2026. They are what Discord publishes, not an independent audit, and one vendor's site disagrees with the directory by about 6,000. | Product | Category | Servers, as listed | | ------------------- | --------------- | ------------------ | | **counting** | Counting | **1,280,000** | | **Color-Chan** | Colour roles | 839,000 | | **NotifyMe** | Notifications | 362,000 | | **StickyBot** | Sticky messages | 326,000 | | **Embed Generator** | Embeds | 283,000 | | **SlashBot** | Self-roles | 228,000 | | **AutoReacter** | Auto-reactions | 46,800 | | **StreakBot** | Streaks | 20,800 | | **Glue Stick** | Sticky messages | 14,400 | | **Notify** | Notifications | 7,600 | The point of that table is not any single row. It is that **single-purpose bots reach install numbers that the all-in-one narrative does not account for.** A counting bot is on 1.28 million servers. ## Pricing ### The range Entry paid tiers across the products examined run from **$1 per month** to **$149 per month**, and the top and bottom are both instructive. | Product | Entry paid price | Billing unit | | ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | **Lurkr Max** | **$1.00/mo** | per user | | Countr, Zira | $1.00–$2.00/mo | per server / per 30 days | | Reminder Bot | $2.00/mo | per server | | Streamcord Pro, Tickets, Vetox Membership Silver | $2.99/mo | per server / per account | | Giveaway Boat Tier I | $3.00/mo | per server | | Security Bot | $3.49/mo | per server | | Ticketer | $3.49/mo | per server | | AutoReacter+ | $3.99/mo | per server | | **Vetox Basic** | **$4.99/mo** | per server | | Cakey Bot, Points, Circle, Embed Generator | $4.99/mo | per server | | Wick, ProBot, Atlas, StickyBot | $5.00/mo | per server | | Xenon Premium 1 | $5.99/mo | **per account, unlimited servers** | | Arcane | $7.00/mo | per server | | Ticket Tool, Carl-bot, Apollo, Vetox Max | $7.99/mo | per server | | PeakBot | $8.25/mo | per server | | Engagerly Premium | $9.99/mo | per server | | MEE6 | $11.99/mo | per server | | Statbot, full set | $14.95/mo | per server | | **Vetox Black** | **$17.99/mo** | per server | | Engagerly Ultimate | $19.99/mo | per server | | sesh Pro | $24.99/mo | per server | | Xenon Vault | "starting at $25/mo" | per account | | **CyberSentinel** | **$49.00–$149.00/mo** | **priced by member capacity** | Prices cluster hard between **$2.99 and $7.99**. Everything above $12 is either an analytics product, a security product priced by member count, or a platform tier. ### Nine billing units, and why headline prices do not compare | Unit | Examples | | ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Per server | Most of the market — MEE6, Streamcord, Ticket Tool, Arcane, Zira | | Per account, unlimited servers | Xenon, SassGuard's top plan, MonitoRSS | | Per account with a server allowance | Carl-bot 1/2/3/5, VoiceMaster 1/3/10, Security Bot 1/3/7, Cakey Bot's Custom Bot 10 | | Per transferable membership | Apollo — activated on one server at a time | | Per bot instance | Modmail, VibeBot, Tickets Whitelabel | | **Per moderator** | Doogle — $6.99 / $12.99 / $29.99 for 10 / 20 / 50 daily searches | | **Per member count** | Sapphire branding €5–€15 by server size; CyberSentinel $49–$149 | | Consumable applied to a server | Mimu keys, Loritta premium keys, ActivityRank tokens, Countr slots | | Metered by usage | DeGore scans; SfwBot, Server Maker, BuildMyDiscord and Moderator Bot credits | **A $5 subscription covering unlimited servers and a $5 subscription covering one are not the same product**, and a comparison table that renders them as the same number is wrong. Currencies observed: **USD, GBP, EUR, BRL and SAR.** Any total mixing them is a mixed total; none is converted here. ### What a specialist stack costs Six categories, using the best-regarded specialist in each rather than a strawman. List prices, 30 August 2026: | Need | Specialist | Per month | | ------------------------- | ------------- | ----------- | | Moderation and protection | Wick | $5.00 | | Levelling | Arcane | $7.00 | | Tickets | Ticket Tool | $7.99 | | Giveaways | Giveaway Boat | $3.00 | | Notifications | Streamcord | $2.99 | | Analytics | Statbot | $14.95 | | **Total** | | **$40.93** | | **Per year** | | **$491.16** | Substituting the cheapest credible option in each category — Security Bot, Lurkr, Tickets, Giveaway Boat, Streamcord and Statbot's Top Picks bundle — still costs **$26.44 a month, $317.28 a year**. Extending to twelve bots by adding backup, temp voice, applications, reaction roles, reminders, events and alt detection reaches **$57.91 plus £8.98 per month**, plus one product whose price exists only inside the Discord client. **That mixed-currency total is itself a finding.** Two of the twelve bill in GBP, so there is no single correct dollar figure for a twelve-bot stack. A server owner assembling specialists cannot state what they are paying without doing a currency conversion. The caveat that must travel with the arithmetic: **the specialist stack buys depth.** Ticket Tool at $7.99 has sixteen per-panel configuration surfaces. Statbot at $14.95 has member and channel drilldowns. The comparison is about cost and coordination, not about specialists being worse at their one job. ### A quarter of the market publishes no price **Twenty-six of the products examined cannot be budgeted for from public information.** That is roughly a quarter of everything profiled, and the reasons vary: | Reason | Examples | | --------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | Price sits behind a login | UnbelievaBoat, Gaius Plus, SassGuard's token rate, SCNX | | Redirects to a membership platform | ActivityRank, Chip, YAGPDB, GiselleBot | | **Sold inside the Discord client only** | **Double Counter Pro, Points** | | Never published at all | MEE6 Pro, Miki Premium, Suggestions Bot, DISBOARD | | Price readable, benefits undocumented | GiveawayBot ($1 and $5, with no stated difference), OwO Patreon | Four things a buyer therefore cannot find out: 1. **Whether the upgrade is worth it.** Zira publishes "bigger limits" with no numbers. Giveaway Boat renders an **identical benefit list** at $3 and at $5. 2. **What a unit of AI buys.** Vendors publish an allowance and refuse to publish what one unit costs. One vendor's own pricing page contradicts its own FAQ by a factor of ten on exactly that question. 3. **What happens on renewal.** MEE6 and Koya both display a first-period price roughly half the renewal. 4. **What stops working without votes.** Five vendors vote-lock part of the free tier, and **not one publishes which commands are affected.** ### Promotions running on 30 August 2026 | Product | List price | On display | | -------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | **MEE6** | $11.99/mo · $49.99/yr · $89.99 lifetime | $5.99 first month · $24.99 first year · $44.99 lifetime | | **Koya** | €4.99/mo · €11.99/mo Pro | €2.49 · €5.99 first month | | **Statbot** | $14.95/mo | $8.97/mo — "Mega Sale", 40% off | | **Maki** | $7 and $10/mo | 30% off a first purchase, coupon-gated | | **Dank Memer** | $3.99/mo entry | $1.49 for a 15-day trial, plus numbered bundles $9.99–$59.99 | Two details worth recording as method rather than as news. Koya's sale counted down **from "1 days, 8 hours" to zero within the same browsing session**. And ten vendors advertise annual discounts of 16–40% as **standing structure rather than as a promotion** — reporting those as sales would be wrong. **Thirty named vendors showed no promotion at all**, including Dyno, ProBot, Carl-bot, Streamcord, Zira, Wick, Beemo, Ticket Tool, VoiceMaster, Apollo, Bloxlink, RoWifi and MonitoRSS. ## Where the free and paid line falls, by capability All figures below are counts of products **examined in this study**, with the sample size named. | Capability | Finding | Sample | | ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | | **Rule-based automod** | Free at 14; **charged for at 2** — MEE6 and Security Bot | 16 moderation bots | | **Logging** | **4 paywall some or all of it**, in four different shapes | 16 moderation bots | | **Anti-nuke** | Implemented as a product by **3** | 16 moderation bots | | **Configuration auditing** | **2** record who changed their own settings | 16 moderation bots | | **Real alt detection** | **1** — Double Counter | 16 moderation bots | | **Voice XP** | Paid at 2, absent at 2, free at 2 | 5 levelling specialists + Cakey Bot | | **Games** | **Every product examined gives its games away free** | 11 games and economy bots | | **Application analytics** | **1** — Tickety | 11 ticket and application bots | | **Ticket claiming** | Free at 4, **premium-only at 1** (Ticket Tool), absent at 2 | 11 ticket and application bots | | **Published transcript retention** | **3** state anything at all | 11 ticket and application bots | | **AI at any price** | **9 have none** | 16 all-in-one bots | | **Model disclosure** | **5 of 11 name their model precisely**; one uses model names as its pricing ladder | 11 AI products | | **Free analytics window** | **30 days**, arrived at independently by Statbot, Invite Tracker and Koya | analytics products | | **CSV export** | Premium at both Statbot and Invite Tracker | analytics products | | **Backup** | Absent from all 16 all-in-one bots; **4 dedicated products exist** | 16 all-in-one bots | | **Counting** | Absent from all 16 all-in-one bots; the standalone category is very large | 16 all-in-one bots | **The single clearest pattern: enforcement is given away, visibility is sold.** Four of sixteen moderation bots paywall logging. Nobody paywalls the ban command. **Three free tiers are shaped in ways a reader will not expect:** 1. **Security Bot** gives away anti-nuke and anti-raid and **charges for chat automod** — the inverse of everyone else. A free Security Bot server is protected from its own administrators but not from spam. 2. **BuildMyDiscord's free 600 credits are one-time, not monthly** — a trial wearing a free tier's clothes. 3. **SCNX's free tier requires an advertising check-in every 7 days** or the plan lapses. And one shaped right, which deserves saying: **Countr gates exactly two commands out of its entire codebase**, raises every ceiling on payment, removes nothing from the free tier, and vote-locks nothing. ## Discord's own platform limits From Discord's developer documentation, read 30 August 2026. These are platform facts, not a sample. | AutoMod limit | Value | | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | | Custom keyword rules per server | **6** | | Spam rules per server | 1 | | Keyword-preset rules per server | 1 | | Mention-spam rules per server | 1 | | Member-profile rules per server | 1 | | Preset wordsets available | **3** — profanity, sexual content, slurs | | Action types | **4** — block, alert, timeout, block interaction | | Kick or ban as an automated action | **Not available** | The six-keyword-rule cap is the single most consequential number in the platform, and it is the reason the third-party automod market exists. Full treatment in [AutoMod versus third-party bots](/blog/discord-automod-vs-bots). ## Developer APIs | Finding | Value | | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------- | | Products publishing a public REST API | **13** | | Using a **single guild-bound token** instead of scopes | 11 of 13 | | With a **named scope or permission model** | **2** — Kiai and Vetox's Vito API | | Publishing their rate limit as a number | 5 | | With outbound webhooks | **3** | | With a **vendor-maintained npm SDK** | **2 competitors** — `kiai.js` and `unb-api` | | Publishing an API version and deprecation policy | **1** — RoWifi | | Highest published rate limit | **Lurkr, 1,500 requests per minute** | | Most expensive API access | **sesh, $24.99/month** | | Cheapest paid API access | **$2.99/month** | The count of APIs rose on every research pass — from none, to three, to six, to nine, to twelve, to thirteen. That is a lesson about absence claims rather than about the market. Detail in [which Discord bots publish a developer API](/blog/discord-bot-api-comparison). ## Localisation | Product | Interface languages | | ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Vetox** | **21** | | **InviteManager** | 23 registered, **19 genuinely translated** | | **Cakey Bot** | **17**, with the bot's own output localised, not just the site | | **VoiceMaster** | 16 | | **TempVoice** | 13 | | **ErensiBOT** | 7, and it geo-routes to Arabic | | **RaidProtect** | Documentation in 5 languages | | **Five levelling specialists** | **Not one publishes a count** | Cakey Bot's figure is the most rigorously checked in this study, because its translations are in a public repository: an English source of **1,551 keys**, every one of the 16 target locales holding **1,538** — a uniform 13-key lag rather than a ragged one — with 96.0% to 99.8% of values differing from English, and sampled Arabic and Turkish reading as idiomatic human translation with interpolation placeholders preserved. **One claim this data does not support** is any Western product winning on language against a native-language incumbent. Zaman in Saudi Arabia, GBBOT in Brazil, ErensiBOT in Turkey, DraftBot and RaidProtect in France, Nekotina across Spanish and Portuguese — these products _are_ the language rather than translated into it, and several take local payment rails. ## Product mortality The category has a real attrition rate, and the standard listicle has not caught up. | Product | Status | | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Auttaja** | **Permanently ceased operation 24 March 2026.** Absent from Discord's directory | | **AltDentifier** | Site 301-redirects to `doublecounter.gg` — **but the directory listing is still live and Discord-verified** | | **Polaris** | Every route serves a downtime message; open-sourced in 2024 | | **Suggester** | "R.I.P Suggester (2019-2025)" — its companion Threaded stopped too | | **IdleRPG** | Repository archived 2024-08-23; the site returns HTTP 530 | | **Vexera** | Music removed after a platform cease-and-desist on 10 July 2026 | The nuance in the AltDentifier row generalises: **a dead site does not mean a dead listing.** Checking one and not the other produces the wrong answer in both directions. ## Vetox, as a reference row Included because a comparison needs a fixed point with published numbers. | Measure | Value | | --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | Server-side feature systems | **41** | | Account-level systems | 9 | | Distinct invocable command surfaces | **89** (71 registered application commands) | | Log event types | **148** | | Protection rule types | 20 | | Auto-mod rule types × action types | 8 × 4 | | Notification platforms | 8 | | Application question types × workflow actions | 8 × 14 | | Cosmetic badge catalogue | 360 | | Colour templates | 49 | | Interface languages | 21 | | Prices, per server | $0 · $4.99 · $7.99 · $17.99 monthly | | Prices, per account | $2.99 · $4.99 · $7.99 · $14.99 monthly | **On breadth, this is the most complete product in the study, and the closest competitor found is Cakey Bot at 34 modules and 368 commands.** The rest of the named field sits considerably lower. Breadth is not the only measure that matters — the capability tables above show several products leading their category outright — but it is the one this study could count directly. ## Method and scope **Sample sizes by domain**, which every absence statement above is scoped to: | Domain | Products examined in depth | | ----------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | Moderation and security | 16 | | All-in-one | 16 | | Levelling and engagement | 13 assigned, 5 genuine competitors | | Tickets and applications | 11 | | Games, economy, giveaways | 11 | | Utilities, notifications, API | 14 | | AI and automation | 15 named products | | Ecosystem discovery | ~190 catalogued, not profiled | **Three method notes worth reusing.** **Enumerate a documentation site from its `sitemap.xml`, never from its navigation.** One vendor's audit-log feature was recorded as absent because the rendered nav omits the section it lives in; the sitemap listed three unrecorded feature pages. **Discord's App Directory API is the cheapest falsification tool available.** It answers unauthenticated requests, returns exact JSON, and settles listing, verification status and rank without a browser. **Every claim this study had to withdraw was an absence claim**, and every one failed the same way: the scope was wider than the evidence. "No Discord bot does X" is falsifiable by anyone with five minutes and a directory search. "Of the sixteen moderation bots we checked, two do X" is not.