The Best MEE6 Alternatives in 2025
MEE6 was the default Discord bot for years. It handled leveling, moderation, and automation — and most server owners installed it without thinking about alternatives.
Then MEE6 increased its prices and moved key features behind a premium paywall. Since then, a wave of alternatives has emerged.
Here are the best ones.
Why People Are Looking for Alternatives
MEE6's free tier now limits:
- The number of level-up rewards
- Custom bot prefix
- Advanced automod rules
- Welcome message customization
For servers that relied on these features, MEE6 Premium became necessary. At current pricing, that's a significant annual cost — especially for community servers that don't monetize.
Alternatives by Feature
For Leveling
Arcane The most direct MEE6 leveling replacement. Clean interface, similar XP system, level roles, leaderboards. The free tier is significantly more generous than MEE6's.
Setup: Add Arcane, configure XP multipliers per channel, set level roles. Done in 15 minutes.
Atlas Full-featured server management bot with competitive leveling. Atlas combines leveling with moderation and utility, reducing the number of bots you need.
Tatsu Tatsu adds a game-like economy system alongside leveling. Members earn currency, buy items, and compete. Better for engagement-focused servers than pure growth-tracking.
For Moderation
Carl-bot Carl-bot is simply better than MEE6 for moderation. More flexible automod rules, better logging, more granular permission controls. It's free for most use cases.
If you're using MEE6 primarily for moderation, switch to Carl-bot. There's no comparison.
Dyno A clean, beginner-friendly moderation bot with a web dashboard. Good for servers that want simplicity over power.
For Welcome Messages
Carl-bot handles this excellently — custom welcome images, embedded messages, DM welcomes. All on the free tier.
YAGPDB also has powerful welcome message templating with conditional logic.
For Automod
Discord's Native AutoMod (free, built-in) handles most basic automod needs. Combine with Carl-bot's automod layer for advanced configurations.
The Recommended Replacement Stack
If you're moving away from MEE6, this combination covers everything:
| Function | Bot | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | | Leveling | Arcane | Free | | Moderation | Carl-bot | Free | | Automod | Discord native + Carl-bot | Free | | Welcome messages | Carl-bot | Free | | Reaction roles | Carl-bot | Free |
Total cost: $0. And in most cases, this stack outperforms MEE6 Premium.
Migration Steps
- Add Carl-bot and Arcane to your server
- Configure Arcane leveling to match your current XP rates
- Set up Carl-bot moderation and logging
- Recreate your welcome message in Carl-bot
- Set up reaction roles in Carl-bot
- Test everything in a staff-only channel
- Remove MEE6 and announce the change to members
Members will notice the leaderboard reset if you switch leveling bots. Announce this in advance and frame it as a fresh start. Some servers run a transition period where both bots are active before removing MEE6.