Dyno vs Wick vs Supervisor: rules, security, or AI moderation

Dyno and Wick get compared a lot, usually by servers that have just been raided and are working out what to install. They are less alike than the comparison suggests: Dyno is a general purpose bot with an excellent rule engine, and Wick is a security bot built around anti-nuke.

This post resolves that first, from both products' own documentation, then covers a third layer that neither is designed to provide.

Everything about Dyno and Wick is from their own docs, checked on 29 August 2026. We make Supervisor, so treat that section accordingly.

The short answer

• Pick Dyno if you want broad, countable moderation rules and general purpose modules, and your threats come from ordinary members.
• Pick Wick if your threat is structural: nukes, rogue admins, raid floods, or you need a verification gate and the ability to restore a wrecked server.
• Add Supervisor if the harm is in what legitimate members are saying, which neither a threshold nor a heat score reads.

At a glance

Dyno vs Wick: the differences that actually matter

They are not solving the same problem

This is the thing to settle before comparing features.

Dyno moderates members. Its nineteen automod filters watch what people post: All Caps, Bad Words, Chat Clearing Newlines, Duplicate Text, Character Count, Emoji Spam, Fast Message Spam, Image Spam, Invite Links, Known Phishing Links, Links, Links Cooldown, Mass Mentions, Mentions Cooldown, Spoilers, Masked Links, Stickers, Sticker Cooldown and Zalgo Text.

Wick protects the server. Its documentation calls anti-nuke "the critical feature that differentiates Wick from all other Discord Bots", and it monitors channel and role creation and deletion, bans and kicks, and webhook creation and deletion. Its target is the rogue admin or compromised account, not the member posting too many emojis.

If someone with permissions starts deleting channels, Dyno does not notice. If someone posts a wall of zalgo text, Wick's heat system notices but does not have a dedicated filter for it.

Two different anti-spam philosophies

Both handle spam, and the mechanisms are genuinely different.

Dyno uses fixed thresholds. Fast Message Spam triggers on x messages in a 5 second window in a single channel. Mass Mentions on x mentions in one message. Image Spam on multiple images within 10 seconds. You set the numbers.

Wick uses Heat, an accumulating score that decays over time. Its docs describe it as "an adaptive algorithm that adjusts to the user's current actions and scales properly with an increase in members and their activity", with a machine gun overheating analogy. Heat comes from message repetition, emojis, characters, new lines, mentions with @everyone weighted heavily, attachments, inactivity in quiet channels, blacklisted words and links, advertisement, NSFW websites and malicious websites. Wick claims it "rarely generates false positives, unlike conventional methods".

The heat model is mechanically better for spam, because a burst of genuine excitement cools off while sustained abuse accumulates, where a fixed threshold punishes both identically. Dyno's model is more predictable and easier to explain to your moderators.

Enforcement

Both ban and mute. Dyno offers Warn, Delete, Auto Mute, Auto Ban, Instant Mute and Instant Ban, with Auto actions on a violation count, and free-tier limits of 3 autopunishments, 14 day mutes and 3 month bans. Wick has Ban, Kick, Timeout, Purge, Quarantine, Sanitize, Lockdown and Warn, with Auto Timeouts that escalate and a Multiplier making each punishment harsher so raiders cannot wait out a fixed cap.

Wick's quarantine is the more interesting mechanism, because it strips power rather than removing the person, which is the right response to a suspected compromised admin.

Verdict on Dyno versus Wick

They are complementary more than competitive, and most servers with both problems run both.

If forced to choose: pick Dyno if your incidents are members misbehaving, since it has far more tools for that and a much larger module set beyond moderation. Pick Wick if your incidents are attacks, because nothing Dyno offers protects against a nuke, and no amount of automod matters once your channels are deleted.

Full breakdowns: what Dyno costs, our Dyno review and Wick review.

Where both hit the same ceiling

Different mechanisms, same blind spot.

Dyno's filters are strings and counters. Its own Banned Words modes make the trade-off explicit: exact mode misses fr33 n1tr0, and wildcard mode banning "hi" also matches "high". Counters ask how many, never what.

Wick's heat is a rate and behaviour model. Its docs say the system is "completely message based" in the sense of counting message events and their properties. A single calm, correctly spelled message sent at a normal pace generates almost no heat regardless of content.

So the message that does the most damage in a healthy server, one carefully written sentence aimed at one person, is invisible to both. Neither classifies harassment, threats, scams or self-harm as categories. Neither weighs conversation context. Neither reads what is inside an image.

What Supervisor adds, and what it does not

Supervisor reads what a message means rather than matching strings or measuring rate: 16 labels including harassment, hate, threats, scams, spam, sexual content, self-harm and illegal activity, conversation context and implicit moderation for ambiguous messages, image and video moderation, and over 100 languages. Billed per account at £13.99 a month, or about £4.99 on the three year cycle, so one subscription covers every server.

What it does not do, and against these two the list is long:

• No anti-nuke, no panic mode, no backups, no restore, no quarantine, no verification. Wick's entire category is absent.
• No counters, thresholds or heat. Emoji spam, caps percentages, newlines, character limits and message rates are not measured, so Dyno's whole filter list has no equivalent.
• No bans or kicks. Delete, Timeout and Warn only, where both others can ban.
• No maintained phishing link detection. Its link filter covers Discord invites, media, Nitro gifts and your own domain lists, where Dyno ships Known Phishing Links and Wick scores malicious sites.
• No modules. Three slash commands.
• No free tier for new accounts, where both others are free at the level most servers use.

The pairings in depth: Supervisor vs Dyno and Supervisor vs Wick.

So which should you use?

Just been raided: Wick, and turn on Discord AutoMod, which is free and blocks messages before they post.

Members misbehaving, no structural threat: Dyno, free, and spend the afternoon configuring it.

Both problems: both bots. They overlap very little and neither replaces the other.

Moderators spending their time on harassment reports rather than spam: that is the case where neither tool is reading the problem, and a layer that reads meaning is what closes it. Keep the rule engine for countable work and the security bot for the perimeter.

Running several servers: Dyno is per server and Wick's Premium is per server too, with VIP advertising 12 premium servers. Supervisor is one subscription for the account.

There is a related piece on Wick alternatives that covers what does and does not replace the security layer, and one on Dyno alternatives.

For developers and platforms

Dyno and Wick are Discord bots, so neither helps you moderate your own product. Supervisor has a REST API with SDKs for Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust and Java, plus a Platform API for provisioning moderation to your own users. The API reference has the endpoints and rates.

Whichever layers you run, test what gets through them on your own content. Paste a message that gets past a keyword filter into the live demo and watch it get caught, or add Supervisor to your server.