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.
TL;DR
Carl-bot is a focused tool: moderation, logs, reaction roles, custom tags. It’s genuinely 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
Verify on Carl-bot →Nano: $4.99/mo or $49.99/yr per server. Carl-bot: $7.99/mo for 1 server on their Patreon (carl.gg lists no price). Carl-bot figures read on 2026-08-23. 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 2026-08-23. ⚠️ Patreon sets a separate price per currency rather than converting: the same tier reads €7.50 from a eurozone visitor, so the figure you see may differ. | $4.99/mo | $7.99/mo |
| Annual Carl-bot's Patreon offers annual billing advertised as 'Save 17%', but the toggle still rendered monthly figures on 2026-08-02, so no annual price could be observed. This page states none. | $49.99/yr | Not published |
| Lifetime (one-time) Both bots are subscription-only, with no one-time lifetime option. | ||
| Multi-server pricing Carl-bot's win. Their Patreon sells 2, 3 and 5-server tiers, and the slots move between servers freely. Nano bills every server separately with no bundle. | €12 / €15.50 / €22.50 |
What you get on the free tier
| Nano | Carl-bot | |
|---|---|---|
| Custom commands Pre-defined string 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 or button. 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). | 21 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 colors. 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 in 30 seconds.
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 unique / verify / reversed / binding / temporary. Nano's reaction-role surface is simpler, fewer dials.
- Multi-server pricing. Carl-bot's Patreon sells 2, 3 and 5-server tiers (€12, €15.50 and €22.50 per month) and the slots move between servers. Nano bills every server separately with no bundle, so past a couple of servers Carl-bot's structure costs less per server. Convert first, the currencies differ.
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 real 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, where Carl-bot's 2/3/5-server Patreon tiers win.
- Your reaction-role setup uses Carl-bot's advanced modes (binding, temporary, etc).
Frequently asked
Can Nano replicate my Carl-bot tags?+
Does Nano have logging like Carl-bot?+
What's the migration path?+
/admin setup autosetup, 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 actually cost?+
Does Nano have reaction-role modes like binding or temporary?+
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
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