Wick alternative — honest comparison with Gait

A Discord security bot focused on real-time anti-raid, anti-nuke, and verification — a perimeter defense layer rather than a behavioral classifier.

Pricing snapshot

As of May 2026:

Free tier: Free tier includes basic moderation, anti-spam filters, and community support.
Paid: Wick paid plans: Standard $4.99/month or $49.99/year (per-account — auto-mod, verification, detailed logs, lockdown); Diamond $9.99/month or $99.99/year (per-server — advanced anti-spam, advanced anti-raid, anti-advertisement, anti-NSFW/malicious-link filtering). See wickbot.com.

	Wick	Gait
Detection capability	Wick defends the perimeter in real time — it gates joins with captcha/verification and watches privileged actions for nuke attempts. Gait works behind that perimeter: it scores accounts that are already in the server by aggregating behavioral signals (timing, lifecycle, content rhythm) across every server running Gait, so a patient automated account that passed verification still surfaces through its cross-server behavioral pattern.	Behavioral signals across servers; never message content.
Accuracy trade-offs	Wick is decisive at the gate (verified or not, raid-rate exceeded or not) and is not designed to judge a settled account's automation likelihood over time. Gait's heuristic scorer produces graded per-account scores (0.00 to 1.00, across five bands from confirmed_human to confirmed_automated) rather than binary verdicts, requires at least 25 data points before scoring, and leaves the threshold and action to moderators. The two are complementary: Wick stops the door rush, Gait classifies who got in.	Tunable per-guild thresholds; admin feedback loop.

Purpose-built real-time perimeter defense: anti-raid join-rate controls, press-to-enter verification, and custom captcha gates that stop a raid at the door before accounts can act.
Anti-nuke protection by monitoring privileged actions — bans/kicks, channel and role create/delete, and webhook create/delete — to catch a compromised admin or rogue bot mid-incident.
Strong fit for security-first servers: link filtering (advertisement, NSFW, malicious) and lockdown tooling are first-class rather than add-ons.

Wick's anti-raid is threshold- and gate-based at the perimeter (join rate, verification, captcha). Once an account clears verification, Wick is not continuously scoring whether that established account behaves like automation over time.
Detection is single-server: Wick reacts to events inside the server it protects and does not correlate the same account's behavior across other communities.
Verification gates and captcha stop unsophisticated raids well, but a patient automated account that solves the captcha and then behaves slowly is outside Wick's reactive model.

Server under active or anticipated raid/nuke threat that needs a verification gate, captcha, and privileged-action monitoring right now — this is Wick's core purpose and Gait does not provide captcha gates or anti-nuke protection.
Security-first community that wants link filtering, lockdown, and a hardened join flow as first-class features.

Catching automated accounts that solve verification and then behave subtly over time — the case Wick's gate-and-threshold model is not built to score.
Multi-server community that wants a suspect account flagged everywhere it appears, not just inside the one server Wick is protecting.
Moderators who want a graded per-account behavioral score with the account's Discord identity and an explanation, layered on top of Wick's perimeter defense.

Keep Wick installed — Gait is complementary to Wick, not a replacement. Wick guards the perimeter; Gait classifies behavior behind it.
Install Gait from usegait.dev, add it to your server, and run /gait setchannel in your moderator channel.
Let Wick continue handling verification, anti-raid, and anti-nuke; use Gait's behavioral scores to review accounts that passed the gate but look automated over time.