Loritta ships with more moving parts than most Discord bots you will ever add: an economy called Sonhos, mini-games, leveling, moderation, welcome images, and a Portuguese-first dashboard that can feel dense on the first pass. That breadth is the appeal, and also the reason server owners start looking at Loritta alternatives. The dashboard defaults to Portuguese, the feature list grows every quarter, and the bot’s uptime tracks the health of a single project team. If your desktop Discord community is English-first, needs firmer moderation guarantees, or wants a cleaner surface for reaction roles and welcomes, moving to a more focused bot pays off fast. This list covers seven multipurpose Discord bots that run alongside the Discord desktop client on Windows, macOS, and Linux, span free-forever to premium tiers, and give you a realistic exit path.
Quick comparison
| App | Best for | Free plan | Starting price | Standout feature |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loritta | Portuguese-first servers with a playful economy | Yes | Optional donation tiers | Sonhos economy and mini-games |
| MEE6 | Turnkey leveling with a polished dashboard | Yes, capped | Around $12 per month | Rank cards and Twitch alerts |
| YAGPDB | Server operators who want scripting freedom | Fully free | Free | Custom Command scripting engine |
| Dyno | Broad moderation on a small budget | Yes | Roughly $5 per month | Layered automod filters |
| Carl-bot | Reaction roles and tags done properly | Yes | Roughly $8 per month | Tag templates and reaction-role builder |
| ProBot | Welcome cards that actually look good | Generous | From about $4 per month | Image welcomer and detailed logs |
| Sapphire | An all-in-one free bot with a dashboard | Fully free | Free | Full feature set at no cost |
| Vexera | Music-first servers with light moderation | Yes | A modest monthly fee | Multi-source music player |
Why people leave Loritta
The most common trigger is language. Loritta’s dashboard and command labels default to Portuguese, and English translations lag behind new features. Moderators in mixed-language servers spend extra time cross-checking labels or waiting for updates that other multipurpose bots ship day one.
Feature sprawl is the second reason. Loritta bundles economy, mini-games, leveling, moderation, welcome cards, and utility commands under one bot. Every configuration screen touches ten adjacent systems, which pushes small teams toward specialised bots they can lock down individually.
Third, uptime and support turnaround follow the team’s calendar. Loritta is run by a small crew, and while status incidents are resolved openly, larger communities want the redundancy that comes from bots with paid on-call rotations.
Finally, Loritta transitioned to closed source in May 2026. Self-hosters who ran their own fork can no longer follow the main branch, so the choice narrows to staying on the hosted bot or migrating to something else. Most people picking this list are in that last group.
MEE6 – Best for turnkey leveling and a polished dashboard
MEE6 is the bot most new Discord admins meet first. The web dashboard walks through leveling ranks, welcome messages, and auto-moderation without ever touching a slash command. Leveling roles, custom rank cards, and Twitch or YouTube alerts are the parts that hold up best against Loritta.
Where it falls short: MEE6 moved welcome messages behind its premium tier a couple of years ago, and pricing sits higher than most single-server budgets can justify.
Pricing:
- Free: leveling, basic auto-moderation, limited custom commands
- Paid: Premium runs around $12 per month per server, with discounts on multi-server plans
- vs Loritta: costlier once you pay for welcomes, but setup time is measurably shorter
Migrating from Loritta: Export your XP thresholds and role rewards from Loritta’s dashboard, then rebuild them in MEE6’s Levels tab. Welcome text pastes over cleanly. Reaction roles need a rebuild since MEE6 uses a different picker.
Download: MEE6
Bottom line: Pay for MEE6 when you want the dashboard to do the work and can absorb the sticker price.
YAGPDB – Best for scripting freedom at zero cost
YAGPDB (Yet Another General Purpose Discord Bot) is the deepest free option in this list. Its Custom Commands engine lets moderators write short expressions that read message content, roles, timers, and API responses, then react with any Discord action. Automod, reaction roles, and reminders all live behind the same scripting surface.
Where it falls short: The learning curve is real. Non-technical moderators bounce off the templating language, and the dashboard shows more toggles than most people want on day one.
Pricing:
- Free: every feature, no server cap, no paywalled commands
- Paid: there is no premium tier
- vs Loritta: cheaper by definition, and more configurable, at the cost of a longer setup
Migrating from Loritta: Rebuild economy or game logic as Custom Commands, or drop those features entirely. Moderation and reaction roles port over quickly once a moderator learns the syntax.
Download: YAGPDB
Bottom line: Pick YAGPDB when at least one person on the team is happy writing five-line scripts.
Dyno – Best for moderation on a small budget
Dyno has been a moderation staple for years, and the reason is coverage. Automod filters handle spam, invites, mass mentions, caps, and link lists, all tuned per channel. The dashboard groups commands by module, so you can leave leveling off entirely and keep the bot focused on enforcement.
Where it falls short: Leveling and economy modules exist but feel minimal next to Loritta or MEE6. Music was removed years ago and has not returned.
Pricing:
- Free: full moderation stack, basic custom commands, autoroles
- Paid: Premium starts at roughly $5 per month, with tiers for one, three, or five servers
- vs Loritta: less breadth, meaningfully cheaper, and more predictable under load
Migrating from Loritta: Automod rules map one to one. Copy your banned-word list, invite filters, and role hierarchy across. Community-facing modules such as economy stay on Loritta or move to a second bot.
Download: Dyno
Bottom line: Use Dyno when moderation is the reason you were on Loritta in the first place.
Carl-bot – Best for reaction roles and tag templates
Carl-bot’s reaction-role builder is the most-copied feature in the Discord bot space, and Loritta’s own version is a lighter take on it. Tags let you save reusable message templates that trigger by keyword or command, which is useful for support servers that answer the same questions daily. Automod and logging round out the offering.
Where it falls short: No built-in economy or mini-games, and the free plan caps the number of reaction-role menus.
Pricing:
- Free: reaction roles, tags, automod, logging, up to the free-tier limits
- Paid: Premium sits at roughly $8 per month and lifts the menu and tag caps
- vs Loritta: better at reaction roles specifically, weaker on economy and community games
Migrating from Loritta: Rebuild reaction-role menus in Carl-bot’s dashboard, then import Loritta’s autoresponders as tags. Moderation config carries over cleanly.
Download: Carl-bot
Bottom line: Choose Carl-bot when your Loritta usage centered on role menus and support macros.
ProBot – Best for welcome cards and detailed logs
ProBot’s welcome image editor is the closest match to Loritta’s own welcome art tools, and the free version already looks polished. Detailed audit logging, per-channel moderation, and a generous free tier keep it in serious contention for community servers that care about first impressions.
Where it falls short: Games, economy, and leveling are lighter than what Loritta ships. The mobile-heavy dashboard can feel awkward on ultrawide desktop displays.
Pricing:
- Free: welcome images, moderation, logging, custom commands with generous limits
- Paid: Premium starts around $4 per month and unlocks larger welcome images, more auto-messages, and priority servers
- vs Loritta: better welcome cards for less money, weaker on community games
Migrating from Loritta: Copy welcome art dimensions and text placement into ProBot’s editor. Moderator log channels map directly. Point community games to a second bot if you still want them.
Download: ProBot
Bottom line: Move to ProBot when welcomes and logging are the parts of Loritta your community actually notices.
Sapphire – Best for an all-in-one free bot with a dashboard
Sapphire pitches itself as a fully free multipurpose bot, and the feature list backs that up: leveling, reaction roles, automod, tickets, custom commands, and an English-first dashboard. It runs in more than 1.7 million servers, which puts it in the same reliability tier as the paid names.
Where it falls short: No music playback and no built-in economy or mini-games. Newer AI-assisted setup tools are absent.
Pricing:
- Free: every listed feature, with no per-server paywall
- Paid: there is no paid tier
- vs Loritta: comparable breadth on moderation and roles, missing on economy and audio
Migrating from Loritta: Rebuild automod, reaction roles, and welcome text through Sapphire’s dashboard. If Loritta’s economy or games mattered, pair Sapphire with a second, smaller bot dedicated to that.
Download: Sapphire
Bottom line: Sapphire is the safest zero-cost migration if you can drop the games and economy features.
Vexera – Best for music-first servers with light moderation
Vexera runs music playback that keeps time and quality when other free music bots stutter, and pairs it with a lean moderation layer. If your server centers on listening parties, coding music, or gameplay lobbies, Vexera fills that slot better than any of Loritta’s built-in audio commands.
Where it falls short: Moderation coverage is thinner than Dyno or Carl-bot. Economy and games do not exist.
Pricing:
- Free: music playback, kick or ban, basic filters
- Paid: a modest monthly fee unlocks higher-quality streams, longer queues, and priority servers
- vs Loritta: cheaper if music is your primary use case, and less crowded to configure
Migrating from Loritta: Keep Vexera as your audio bot and pair it with one of the moderation-heavy picks above. Loritta’s economy and games do not translate here, so warn your community if those channels will go quiet.
Download: Vexera
Bottom line: Add Vexera for audio and layer another bot for admin work.
How to choose
Start with the reason you are leaving. If Loritta’s Portuguese-first dashboard is the friction, MEE6 and Sapphire ship English-first configuration and lose nothing on the moderation basics. Community operators who paid Loritta for background image customisation usually land on ProBot, which spends its entire product roadmap on welcome cards and image logging.
If your server admins are comfortable writing short scripts, YAGPDB is the fastest way to recreate the odd, specific automations Loritta collected over the years. The scripting engine is deeper than any competitor here, and the entire bot stays free forever. That combination is rare.
For a moderation-first migration, Dyno covers the widest range of automod rules at the lowest price. Carl-bot is the pick when reaction roles and tag templates are the parts of Loritta you actually used. If you split the two roles, Dyno for enforcement and Carl-bot for interactivity, you cover more ground than Loritta did without touching a premium tier.
Music-heavy servers should keep audio on a dedicated bot. Vexera holds up on quality and integrates without conflicting with the moderation stack above. That layered setup, one bot per job, is how large Discord communities usually end up running things anyway.
FAQ
Is Loritta still active in 2026?
Yes. The hosted bot is online and being updated, though Loritta transitioned from open source to closed source in May 2026. Running your own fork is no longer straightforward, which is what pushes some server owners toward the alternatives on this list.
Which alternative is the closest match to Loritta’s economy and games?
None of these picks try to replicate Sonhos and the mini-game catalogue exactly. Sapphire and MEE6 come closest for casual leveling and role progression, while YAGPDB can script small currency systems if your team is comfortable with its expression language.
Do these bots work on macOS and Linux desktop Discord?
Yes. Discord bots run inside the server itself, not on your machine. Any bot listed here works from the Discord desktop client on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and from the web app in a browser. There is nothing to install locally.
Can we run more than one of these bots side by side?
Yes, and it is the recommended path for larger servers. Most communities layer a moderation bot with a welcome bot and a music bot rather than relying on one multipurpose install. Just make sure the automod ranges do not overlap, or you will get duplicate warnings and mutes.
Which alternative is fully free with no premium tier?
YAGPDB and Sapphire are the two picks with no paid plan at all. Every other bot on this list has a free plan that covers small servers, with premium unlocking image welcomes, custom branding, or higher command limits.
