An honest comparison
AVC or another VC bot?
The other auto-voice bots are good products, built by people who care about Discord. The difference is how you pay for them, and what happens if you ever want to leave.
Did you know? AVC was one of the first dynamic voice channel bots, running since 2018. Being open source, we've fed many of our competitors, and we're quite proud of that.
Side by side
No competitor is named here on purpose. "A typical paid voice bot" describes the common model, not any one project.
| AVC | A typical paid voice bot |
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| Source code | Yes, open source under AGPL-3.0 in a public repo | Usually closed |
| Self-hosting | Yes, the same code we host, free forever, no special setup | No, rarely or never |
| Feature access | Yes, every feature on every server | The good stuff sits behind a paywall |
| What you pay for | Your total member count, nothing else | Unlocking features |
| Voting to unlock | Never. Nothing here is gated behind a vote | Common, some features unlock by voting monthly |
| Free tier | Yes, free forever under 100 members, plus a full free year for bigger servers | No, a limited free plan |
| Growing past a tier | No interruptions. Early reminders, then a 60-day grace where everything keeps working | Varies |
| Cancelling | Yes, one click, no retention maze | No, varies |
| Leaving | Yes, your settings live in your server, take them or the code with you | No, varies |
| Running more than one server | Unlimited servers on one subscription, billed by their combined member count | Priced per server, or in fixed server-count brackets |
Try it and decide for yourself
Caveats
It's not all sunshine and rainbows
We're a small team
AVC is built and run by a handful of people who spend all day on Discord. You get real answers from real humans, but we're not a hundred-person company and we won't pretend to be.
Support is the support server
Everyone gets community support in the same place, usually quick but not a guaranteed reply at 3am. Mythic gets priority. Above that the plan is quoted rather than listed, and so is the way we support it: a server that big is a conversation before it is a subscription.
Subject to Discord's Shenanigans
We've been running this bot since 2018. The one thing that keeps haunting us is Discord's own attitude to the bot API. Sometimes things break, and we do our best to fix them as soon as possible. We'll keep you posted in the #status channel of our support server.