MEE6 vs Dyno vs Supervisor: engagement, control, or AI moderation

Most people arrive at this comparison choosing between MEE6 and Dyno, the two best known general purpose Discord bots. That is a real decision with a real answer, so this post resolves it first, then covers a third option that does a different job to either.

Everything below about MEE6 and Dyno comes from their own documentation and pricing pages, checked on 29 August 2026. We make Supervisor, so treat the third section accordingly.

The short answer

• Pick MEE6 if you want engagement features alongside moderation: levels, economy, giveaways, birthdays and social alerts across six platforms, with a solid warning-escalation ladder and a thorough audit log.
• Pick Dyno if moderation configurability is the priority. Nineteen automod filters against MEE6's eight, all free, with a full ban and mute ladder included.
• Add Supervisor if the messages hurting your community are not the countable kind, and both bots' filters are reading zero on them.

At a glance

MEE6 vs Dyno: the differences that actually matter

Automod depth

This is the clearest split. Dyno documents nineteen automod filters: All Caps at a default 70% threshold, 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. You can create several rules for the same filter with different actions.

MEE6 documents eight checks: Bad Words, Repeated Text, Server Invites, External Links, Excessive Caps at the same 70% default, a combined Excessive Emojis, Spoilers and Mentions check, Zalgo, and a separate Anti-Spam feature.

If you want to enforce a specific countable rule, Dyno probably has a filter for it and MEE6 probably does not. Dyno also gives you Known Phishing Links as a maintained detection, which MEE6 does not document.

Enforcement style

Both can ban and kick, and they escalate differently.

MEE6 escalates on accumulated warnings inside a time window, applying the first matching rule ordered by severity. Its own examples are ten warnings in fourteen days for a permanent ban, five in seven days for a three-day ban, and two in twenty four hours for a one-day mute. That is a graduated policy expressed in one place.

Dyno escalates per rule. Each filter gets Warn, Delete, Auto Mute, Auto Ban, Instant Mute or Instant Ban, with Auto actions firing after a violation count you set. Dyno's own documentation notes an important detail: the Automod Warn action "is not a ?warn and will not dm the user, be logged in the Modlog channel, appear on ?warnings or ?modlogs, or go toward any Autopunish settings", and automod violations expire after 5 minutes.

So MEE6 gives you one coherent ladder across the server. Dyno gives you finer control per rule but keeps automod warnings separate from its manual warning system. If you want an infraction history that everything feeds into, MEE6's model is simpler to reason about.

What you pay, and for what

Both are per server, which matters most if you run several.

MEE6 is £11.99 a month, £49.99 a year, or £89.99 once for lifetime, with the standard rates shown here in pounds because that is what it displayed to us. Its FAQ confirms per server licensing: "A subscription is valid for a single Discord server."

Dyno is $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year for Standard, described as "for one server of your choice", rising to $7.99 and $12.99 monthly for higher tiers.

Different currencies, so compare in whichever you actually pay in. What is comparable is what the money buys. Dyno's paid tier barely touches detection: Advanced Automod adds per-rule log channels and custom responses, while all nineteen filters and the full ban ladder are free. MEE6's paid tier is broader but also mostly not about automod, since its checks are free too. MEE6 alone offers a lifetime purchase.

Verdict on MEE6 versus Dyno

If moderation is the deciding factor, pick Dyno. More filters, finer control, everything that matters free, and phishing link detection MEE6 does not document.

If you want the server to do more than be moderated, pick MEE6. Levels, economy, giveaways, social alerts across Twitch, X, YouTube, RSS, Reddit and Instagram, and an audit log covering around two dozen event types. Dyno has modules too, but MEE6's engagement side is the reason most servers install it.

Detailed breakdowns either way: what MEE6 costs and what Dyno costs.

Where both hit the same ceiling

Whichever you pick, you inherit the same blind spot, because both are rule engines.

Word lists only catch what you wrote down. MEE6's Bad Words and Dyno's Banned Words fail on identical input: fr33 n1tr0, h8, 5c4m, h a t e, s.c.a.m, Cyrillic look-alikes, zero-width characters. Dyno's own documentation illustrates the trap neatly, since its wildcard mode matches inside other words, so banning "hi" also matches "high", while exact mode misses every evasion.

Counters measure volume, never meaning. Fast Message Spam, Mass Mentions, Excessive Caps, Repeated Text and Anti-Spam all ask how many and how fast. The single most damaging message in a server is usually one calm, correctly spelled sentence that trips nothing.

Neither classifies harm by category. There is no harassment filter, no threat filter, no scam filter, no self-harm filter in either product. Those become word lists you maintain, in every language your community speaks.

Neither weighs conversation context. "Do it then" and "nobody would miss you" read identically whether they follow a joke or an argument.

Switching between MEE6 and Dyno does nothing about any of that.

What Supervisor adds, and what it does not

Supervisor is an AI moderation layer rather than a general purpose bot. Instead of matching strings and counting events, it reads what a message means: 16 labels including harassment, hate, threats, scams, spam, sexual content, self-harm and illegal activity, conversation context and implicit moderation for messages that are ambiguous alone, image and video moderation that reads content rather than counting attachments, and over 100 languages without a word list per language. It is billed per account at £13.99 a month, or about £4.99 on the three year cycle, so one subscription covers every server you run.

What it does not do, and this list matters:

• No bans or kicks. Delete, Timeout and Warn are the whole set, so neither MEE6's warning ladder nor Dyno's Auto Ban has an equivalent.
• No counters. Caps percentages, emoji counts, newlines, character limits and message rates are not measured at all.
• No utility features. Three slash commands, no levels, no social alerts, no giveaways, no audit log suite, no autoroles.
• No free tier for new accounts, just a seven day trial and £0.25 of moderation on signup.
• It deletes after a message posts, where Discord's own AutoMod blocks before.

The detail on each pairing is in Supervisor vs MEE6 and Supervisor vs Dyno.

So which should you use?

Running one bot: Dyno if moderation control matters most, MEE6 if engagement features do. Both are free at the level most servers need.

Running one bot and unhappy with what gets through: the answer is not the other bot. Add a layer that reads meaning, and keep the rule engine for the countable work.

Running a network of servers: note that both MEE6 and Dyno multiply per server, while Supervisor is one subscription for the account. That changes the arithmetic quickly.

The setup we would actually recommend for a large, busy server: Discord AutoMod on for the free block-before-posting, MEE6 or Dyno for the countable rules and the enforcement ladder, and an AI layer for the messages that read as harmless to a counter. Three tools, three jobs, and none of them replacing another.

For developers and platforms

MEE6 and Dyno 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 the current rates.

Whichever you pick, test it on your own content rather than on a feature table. Paste a message that gets past a keyword filter into the live demo and watch it get caught, or add Supervisor to your server.