MEE6 alternative — honest comparison with Gait

One of Discord's most-installed all-in-one bots, best known for leveling, welcome messages, and rule-based moderation.

Pricing snapshot

As of May 2026:

Free tier: Free tier covers the core plugins: Moderator (word filters, ban/kick/mute, audit logs), Levels/XP, Welcome & Goodbye, Custom Commands, Reaction Roles, and several others, configured from the MEE6 web dashboard.
Paid: MEE6 Premium (per-server): $5.99/month, $24.99/year ($2.08/month equivalent), or $44.99 lifetime. All three are per-server, transferable, with a 7-day refund window. Premium unlocks the gated plugins; see mee6.xyz/en/premium.

	MEE6	Gait
Detection capability	MEE6's Moderator plugin evaluates message content against admin-configured word and behavior rules inside a single server. Gait scores accounts by aggregating behavioral signals (timing, lifecycle, content rhythm) across every server that runs Gait, so an automated account betrays itself through cross-server patterns even when its messages in any one server look innocuous.	Behavioral signals across servers; never message content.
Accuracy trade-offs	Rule-based filters like MEE6's are high-precision on the exact strings they target and miss everything else; they have no notion of 'this account is probably automated.' Gait's heuristic scorer is designed to surface automation patterns that rule-based content filters miss. It produces graded scores per account (0.00 to 1.00, across five bands from confirmed_human to confirmed_automated) rather than binary verdicts, so moderators decide the threshold and the action, and requires at least 25 data points before scoring to avoid acting on thin signal.	Tunable per-guild thresholds; admin feedback loop.

Plug-and-play setup through a web dashboard — admins can enable plugins (Levels, Welcome, Moderator, Custom Commands, Reaction Roles, Giveaways, etc.) without writing code or running slash commands.
Broad feature surface in a single bot: leveling/XP, custom commands, welcome messages, social alerts, polls, giveaways, invite tracking, and AI image/text generation all live behind one install.
Very large install base and long operational history, so most Discord moderators already know the dashboard and recovery paths.

Moderation is rule-based: the Moderator plugin acts on word lists and per-message rules (see help-center articles 'How To Automatically Remove Bad Words' and 'Automoderator is not punishing users correctly'). It does not model an account's behavior over time to decide whether it is automated.
Detection is single-server only — MEE6 has no visibility into how the same account behaves in other servers, so a bot account that stays under each server's rule thresholds individually is not flagged.
The public help center's Moderator collection (6 articles) does not describe behavioral anti-raid, account-age scoring, or coordinated-account detection; capability there is unknown beyond keyword/word-filter automod.

Small or mid-sized community that wants leveling, welcome messages, custom commands, and basic keyword automod from a single well-known bot, and is not specifically being targeted by coordinated bot accounts.
Server that needs MEE6-specific features Gait does not provide — XP/ranks, Reaction Roles, giveaways, social alert posting, or AI image/text generation.

Medium-to-large server seeing repeated raid waves or steady drips of suspicious accounts that pass MEE6's word filters because their messages are individually benign.
Multi-server community (network, partner servers, alt-server) that wants the same suspect account flagged everywhere it appears, not just in the server that first noticed it.
Servers that want accountable moderation actions: every alert includes the per-account score, the offending account's Discord identity, and an explanation of why it was flagged — rather than a binary 'message matched a filter' event.

Install Gait from usegait.dev and add it to your server — Gait is designed to run alongside MEE6, not replace it.
Run /gait setchannel in the channel where you want behavioral alerts to land (a private moderator channel is recommended).
Leave MEE6 enabled for the features you already use (Levels, Welcome, Custom Commands, Reaction Roles, etc.); Gait only adds the behavioral bot-detection layer MEE6 does not provide.