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Sloth Lee vs MEE6 — an honest comparison.
Discord's most-installed bot. Long history, massive feature surface, and pricing that scales aggressively per-server.
Our take
MEE6 was first and earned its install base honestly. The trade-off: a crowded UI, premium features paywalled per-server (it costs more if you run more communities), and a moderation philosophy that leans on stacked automation rules. Sloth Lee starts with a quieter floor and unlocks complexity only when you ask.
Pick MEE6 when…
- You want leveling, music, and Twitch alerts in one bot today, not next quarter.
- Your community already runs on MEE6's level XP system and migration cost outweighs the rest.
- You only need it on one server and brand recognition matters to your members.
Pick Sloth Lee when…
- You manage 2+ servers — Sloth Lee's pricing is per-account, not per-server.
- You want moderation that's calm by default rather than aggressively automated.
- You care about a built-in support inbox, GDPR self-serve, signed webhooks, and a real audit log out of the box.
- You don't want a paywall in front of features the floor of moderation needs (timeouts, audit log, raid protection).
Side-by-side, by category
Pricing
Multi-server pricing
Sloth Lee leadsPer-account. Pay once, use across all your servers.
Per-server. Each premium server adds to your bill.
If you only run one server it's a wash; for any operator with two or more it's a meaningful difference.
What's gated behind premium
Sloth Lee leadsFree tier includes audit log, raid protection, custom commands, and timeouts. Premium adds advanced AutoMod ML, AI tools, multi-server bulk ops, and unlimited tickets.
Premium gates several baseline moderation surfaces (full audit, advanced AutoMod, custom embeds, leveling roles).
Moderation
Default moderation philosophy
Different productsQuiet floor. Three rules, examples, consequence ladder. Mods deviate from defaults when needed.
Stacked rules out of the box. Lots of toggles, lots of opinions.
Genuinely different products here. If you want maximum knobs MEE6 has more of them.
Audit log
Sloth Lee leadsFull per-action audit log on the free tier. Filterable, exportable.
Premium-gated for the deep version.
AI moderation
Sloth Lee leadsVADER sentiment + OpenAI moderation API + ML phishing detector + churn prediction. AutoMod review queue with approve/reject.
Pattern-based AutoMod with limited ML.
Both improve over time. We've leaned in further on this; MEE6 is catching up.
Setup
First-run experience
Sloth Lee leadsSetup wizard walks new admins through the 6 things that matter. ~5 minutes for a usable baseline.
Dashboard with everything visible at once. More learning curve.
Brand familiarity
They leadNew brand, new visual identity. Members may not recognise it.
Iconic. Members have seen MEE6 elsewhere; trust signal is built-in.
Leveling, music, social alerts
They leadLeveling shipping in the next month; music + native YouTube/Twitch alerts on the v3 roadmap.
Built-in, mature.
If these are your primary use case today, MEE6 is the more complete answer.
Data & Trust
GDPR self-serve
Sloth Lee leadsExport and delete are one-click in your account hub. Both work for everyone, not just EU users.
Available on request via support.
Webhook signing
Sloth Lee leadsHMAC-SHA256 on every outbound webhook. Per-subscription rotating secret.
Webhooks supported but unsigned in standard tier.
Public security disclosure
Sloth Lee leadssecurity.txt + public advisories index + safe-harbour policy.
Email contact, no public advisories index.
Community
Active install base
They leadSmaller; growing.
Millions of servers. Massive community of plugin makers and tutorials.
Direct support contact
Sloth Lee leadsEmail reaches a human within 1 business day. Discord's a faster channel still.
Help center + tickets; response time varies by tier.
AI Intelligence
AI server template generation
Sloth Lee leadsDescribe your community in a sentence; AI generates roles, channels, categories, AutoMod config, welcome message — all coherent + matched to detected vibe.
Static templates picked from a list (or none).
/aigen generate <description>
AI server diagnostician
Sloth Lee leads/aidiagnose runs a 3-layer audit (structural + behavioural + AI narrative) and produces prioritised findings with one-click fix buttons.
No equivalent.
AI personality detection
Sloth Lee leadsDetects formality / energy / warmth / edge from server signal, then tailors all generated content (welcome, channel topics, mod-action DMs) to match.
Static templates regardless of community vibe.
AI live coaching for mods
Sloth Lee leadsReal-time tactical alerts: mod-action bursts, join velocity, AutoMod concentration, coverage gaps. Throttled, mutable, with feedback loop.
No equivalent.
AI migration assistant
Sloth Lee leadsDetects competing bots installed in your server + generates a structured migration plan with honest gaps + side-by-side rollback notes.
Migrating to/from is your problem.
AI predictive health (weekly digest)
Sloth Lee leadsReal-data weekly digest: member flow, activity trends, mod-team load, AutoMod hit-rate. Prioritised recommendations.
No equivalent.
AI rule-of-thumb advisor
Sloth Lee leads12-entry curated KB + LLM fallback for novel questions. Specific actionable answers, not hedging.
No equivalent.
AI welcome-message variants
Sloth Lee leads/aiwelcome generates 3 personality-tailored variants per server. Operator picks the one that fits.
Single static welcome template.
AI channel-topic generator
Sloth Lee leads/aitopics suggests topic-line descriptions for empty channels in bulk, personality-aware.
No equivalent.
AI action explainer in audit log
Sloth Lee leadsEvery mod action gets a one-liner explanation with offence-count context. 'timeout — 3 prior infractions in 7 days; ladder step 2; sentiment declining'.
Audit log shows only the bare action.
AI color theming
Sloth Lee leads/aitheme generates coherent role-color palettes from a base color, family, or detected personality.
Pick role colors individually.
Trust score system
Sloth Lee leadsPer-member 0-100 score combining tenure + activity + violations + mod feedback. Drives auto-elevation, slowmode bypass, review-queue priority.
No equivalent.
Sentiment-based auto-cooldown
Sloth Lee leadsChannels auto-engage slowmode when VADER sentiment trends hostile (sustained 3+ min). Releases on recovery.
Manual slowmode only.
Onboarding funnel analytics
Sloth Lee leadsPer-cohort completion rate per onboarding step. Identifies the biggest drop-off point — 'where do you lose people'.
No equivalent.
Role-play simulation
Sloth Lee leads/aisimulate predicts what permissions/ladder steps would do without applying them. Pure analysis.
Test in production or risk it.
Collaborative multi-admin sessions
Sloth Lee leads/aicollab opens a shared wizard session. Multiple admins propose changes; quorum + conflict detection.
One operator at a time.
Scheduled maintenance reminders
Sloth Lee leads8 curated reminders across weekly/monthly/quarterly cadences. Auto-posts to your mod channel.
Set your own calendar reminders.