Compare
An honest comparison
The other auto-voice bots are good products, built by people who care about Discord. This page is not about who has more features. It's about how you pay and what happens if you ever want to leave. Here's the difference, plainly, so you can decide for yourself.
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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Server size, your 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 |
The other side
Where we're still honest with you
A comparison that only lists our wins would not be much of a comparison. Here's the fair other half.
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. XL gets priority, and XXL runs on its own infrastructure with direct contact. We would rather under-promise here than invent a response time we cannot keep.
Still rolling out
The bot, the dashboard and checkout all work today. Editing your server settings from the web, instead of from Discord, is the next piece, and it is arriving in the open like everything else.
Try it and decide for yourself
The best comparison is a live one. Add AVC to your server, make a voice channel, and watch it work.