Can Nano replicate my Carl-bot tags?

Only the simplest ones. Nano's custom commands today are plain pre-defined responses, with no variable substitution and no embed builder. If your tags use variables, conditionals, or embeds, that is a migration gap. Paste a critical tag in support and we'll tell you whether it can be ported.

Does Nano have logging like Carl-bot?

Nano logs 31 event types covering members, messages, channels, roles, voice, server, and moderation. Carl-bot's logging is a bit more granular in how channels split, but the same data is captured.

What's the migration path?

Add Nano, run /setup auto, configure modules from the dashboard, then remove Carl-bot once you’re happy. Run them side-by-side for a week if you want, they don’t conflict.

What does Carl-bot cost?

carl.gg does not say. Their Premium page lists features and two buy buttons, with no figure anywhere on it. The price sits on their Patreon, which read $7.99 per month for one server on 2026-10-05, or $6.63 per month billed yearly ($79.56 a year). Nano is $4.99 per month, or $49.99 per year.

Does Nano have reaction-role modes like binding or temporary?

Not currently. Nano's reaction roles are the simpler self-assign style. If you depend on Carl-bot's binding or temporary modes, that is a gap.

Carl-bot alternative

The Carl-bot alternative with tickets, giveaways, and free leveling.

Carl-bot is excellent at moderation, logs, and reaction roles, but it doesn’t do tickets, giveaways, economy, or mini-games, and it paywalls leveling entirely. Nano covers all of them, and Premium is $4.99/mo against the $7.99/mo Carl-bot lists on its Patreon.

See Nano pricing

Free forever on the core modules·Premium $4.99/mo per server·No credit card·7-day refund, no questions asked

TL;DR

Carl-bot is a focused tool: moderation, logs, reaction roles, custom tags. It is strong there, and its tag engine is unusually powerful. But if you want tickets, giveaways, an economy, mini-games, or free leveling without stitching together three bots, Nano covers all of it. On price, note that carl.gg publishes no figure at all: the $7.99/mo below comes from the Patreon their own buy button points at.

Side-by-side comparison

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Nano: $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr per server. Carl-bot: $7.99/mo, or $79.56/yr ($6.63/mo billed yearly), for 1 server on their Patreon (carl.gg lists no price). Carl-bot figures read on 2026-10-05. Check the link above before acting on them: prices change without notice.

Pricing per server

	Nano	Carl-bot
Monthly, 1 server carl.gg publishes no price. This is their Patreon, which their own 'Buy on Patreon' button links to, read 2026-10-05.	$4.99/mo	$7.99/mo
Annual Carl-bot's Patreon advertises yearly billing as 'Save 17%' and shows it as $6.63 a month, billed yearly, read 2026-10-05. Twelve times that is $79.56 a year, against Nano's $49.99.	$49.99/yr	$79.56/yr
Lifetime (one-time) Both bots are subscription-only, with no one-time lifetime option.	✕	✕
Multi-server pricing Carl-bot's win on convenience. Their Patreon sells 2, 3 and 5-server tiers a month, on one bill, and the slots move between servers freely. Nano bills every server separately with no bundle.	✕	$12.99 / $16.99 / $24.99

What you get on the free tier

	Nano	Carl-bot
Custom commands Pre-defined text responses triggered by a slash command. Carl-bot's tag engine is more powerful than Nano's and has no published cap.	50	No published cap
AutoMod rule types Automatic moderation on banned words, spam, links, or invites. Carl-bot doesn't publish a rule cap; Nano's AutoMod is not metered or gated, so free servers get all 8 rule types.	All 8	No published cap
Reaction roles Self-assignable roles via reaction, button or dropdown. Carl-bot's free limit is more than 12x Nano's, with modes (verify, reversed, binding, temporary) Nano doesn't offer, and their Premium raises it to 1,000 against Nano's 500.	20	250
Tickets Private support channels with staff routing. Carl-bot does not ship a ticket plugin.	✓	✕
Giveaways Time-boxed prize draws with role and level entry requirements.	✓	✕
Economy / shop Server currency, shop, and payouts tied to member activity.	✓	✕
Mini-games Casual in-channel games (trivia, wordle, chess, uno, and more).	16 games	✕
Leveling (text XP) XP per message with leaderboard and role rewards. Carl-bot's own free-vs-premium table lists Levels & XP as Premium-only; Nano includes it free.	✓	✕
Starboard Pins highly-reacted messages to a showcase channel.	1	✓
Welcome / farewell messages Customisable DM or channel post on member join and leave.	✓	✓
Logging Carl-bot's audit logging is unusually granular and has long been a strength. Nano logs 31 event types across members, messages, channels, roles, voice, server, and moderation.	31 event types	Granular

What you get on Premium

	Nano	Carl-bot
Custom rank cards Branded XP profile cards with custom backgrounds and colours. Carl-bot doesn't ship rank cards.	✓	✕
Voice XP Earn XP for time spent in voice channels alongside text XP. Carl-bot doesn't track voice activity.	✓	✕
Custom bot branding (name + avatar) Rename and re-avatar the bot per server.	✓	✓
Self-hosted custom bot (your own token) Nano lets you spawn a fully isolated bot under your own Discord application. Carl-bot's bot personalizer is a cosmetic rebrand of the shared bot.	✓	✕
Social-alert sources Nano covers more sources, but every one of them is Premium-only. Carl-bot covers Twitch and YouTube only, and gives both away on its free tier: 5 YouTube channels and 2 Twitch streams free, rising to 20 and 5 on Premium. Nano gives zero social alerts to free servers.	Twitch, YouTube, Reddit, RSS	Twitch + YouTube, free tier included
Automations / workflows Wire triggers to actions (e.g. role added → DM sent). Carl-bot has no equivalent module.	✓	✕
Achievements Server-defined badges members earn through activity milestones. Carl-bot doesn't ship achievements.	✓	✕
Sticky messages Carl-bot's sticky-message plugin pins a message to the bottom of a channel.	✕	✓
Music Neither bot ships music.	✕	✕

Convinced? Add Nano to your server.

Free forever on the core modules. Run side-by-side with Carl-bot while you compare.

Where Nano wins

Tickets, giveaways, economy, mini-games.Carl-bot doesn't ship any of these. With Nano you stop running 3 bots side-by-side.
Leveling on the free tier.Carl-bot's own comparison table lists Levels & XP as Premium-only. Nano includes text leveling free; rank cards and voice XP are Premium.
Modern dashboard.Slash-command-first, web dashboard for everything, no legacy prefix-command surface. Carl-bot's dashboard is functional but dates back to the prefix-command era.
True white-label.Premium runs Nano under your own Discord application token with isolated commands. Carl-bot's bot personalizer is rename + avatar.

Where Carl-bot wins

We're not going to pretend we beat them on everything. If these matter most to you, stay where you are. Switching won't help.

Tag engine.Carl-bot's tags are famously powerful: variables, conditionals, multi-block tags. Their homepage advertises them as "powerful enough to create Conway's game of life". If you've built complex tag chains, replicating them in Nano's custom commands won't be one-to-one.
Reaction-role modes.250 free reaction roles against Nano's 20, and 1,000 on Premium against Nano's 500, plus modes like verify / binding / temporary that Nano's panels do not have (Nano has toggle, add only, remove only and unique). Nano's reaction-role surface is simpler, fewer dials.
Multi-server bundles.Carl-bot's Patreon sells 2, 3 and 5-server tiers ($12.99, $16.99 and $24.99 per month) on one bill, and the slots move between servers. Nano is $4.99 per server, billed separately with no bundle. Per server the 5-server tier is level with Nano ($5.00 against $4.99); the 2 and 3-server tiers cost more ($6.50 and $5.66).

Choose Nano if…

✓You want tickets, giveaways, or economy without adding more bots.
✓Free leveling matters. You don't want to pay just to level your community.
✓You're an agency or partner network and want a full white-label.
✓You like a single dashboard for everything, slash-command-first.

Stick with Carl-bot if…

−You've built complex Carl-bot tags and don't want to migrate them.
−You need maximum logging granularity above all else.
−You run several servers and want one bill, with slots you can move between them.
−Your reaction-role setup uses Carl-bot's advanced modes (binding, temporary, etc).

Frequently asked

Can Nano replicate my Carl-bot tags?: Only the simplest ones. Nano's custom commands today are plain pre-defined responses, with no variable substitution and no embed builder. If your tags use variables, conditionals, or embeds, that is a migration gap. Paste a critical tag in support and we'll tell you whether it can be ported.
Does Nano have logging like Carl-bot?: Nano logs 31 event types covering members, messages, channels, roles, voice, server, and moderation. Carl-bot's logging is a bit more granular in how channels split, but the same data is captured.
What's the migration path?: Add Nano, run /setup auto, configure modules from the dashboard, then remove Carl-bot once you’re happy. Run them side-by-side for a week if you want, they don’t conflict.
What does Carl-bot cost?: carl.gg does not say. Their Premium page lists features and two buy buttons, with no figure anywhere on it. The price sits on their Patreon, which read $7.99 per month for one server on 2026-10-05, or $6.63 per month billed yearly ($79.56 a year). Nano is $4.99 per month, or $49.99 per year.
Does Nano have reaction-role modes like binding or temporary?: Not currently. Nano's reaction roles are the simpler self-assign style. If you depend on Carl-bot's binding or temporary modes, that is a gap.

Try Nano free, no credit card.

Add Nano to one server and see the difference. Run it side-by-side with Carl-bot while you compare.

✓Free forever on the core modules
✓Premium $4.99/mo per server
✓No credit card
✓7-day refund, no questions asked

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