ProBot earned its place by doing a lot. It is one of the broadest "kitchen sink" bots on Discord - auto-responder, embeds, leveling, economy and credits, autoroles, logging, color roles, self-assignable roles, temporary channels, starboard, automod, tickets, and music - and it reportedly powers around 10 million servers. Its signature is genuinely good: customizable welcome images that make a new member's first impression feel designed rather than default.
So why look for an alternative? Not because ProBot is bad. It is because its value is split across two separate paid axes that confuse owners, full anti-raid protection sits behind a subscription, and the everyday experience nudges you toward upgrades. This is an honest breakdown of how ProBot is priced, what stays free, and why Rally Bot gives you the same broad feature set - welcome images included - in one bot with no premium tier at all.
ProBot's pricing has two axes, not one
Most bots have a single free-vs-premium line. ProBot has two. There are per-server tiers - Prime at around $2.50 a month and Premium at around $9.99/month (cheaper billed annually), where Premium adds full anti-raid and a personalized bot - and, separately, per-user "memberships" (Silver, Gold, Diamond) that unlock economy perks. Figuring out which upgrade does what, and who pays for it, is its own small project.
What ProBot does well
Give credit where it is due. ProBot's strengths are real, and any honest alternative should match them rather than pretend they do not matter. ProBot earned its place by doing a lot - it is one of the broadest "kitchen sink" bots on Discord, covering auto-responders, embeds, leveling, economy and credits, autoroles, logging, color roles, self-assignable roles, temporary channels, starboard, automod, tickets, and music. Its signature feature is genuinely good: customizable welcome images that make a new member's first impression feel designed rather than default. ProBot reportedly powers around 10 million servers, meaning it is battle-tested and familiar to a lot of members. The question is not whether ProBot is capable. It is whether you should have to navigate two separate paid axes and put anti-raid protection behind a subscription to run a healthy community.
- Welcome images - the headline feature. ProBot's welcome cards are clean, customizable, and a big part of why people install it in the first place.
- Breadth - very few bots cover this many modules. If you want one bot that touches almost everything, ProBot has historically been a strong pick.
- Scale - around 10 million servers means it is battle-tested and familiar to a lot of members.
The question is not whether ProBot is capable. It is whether you should have to navigate two paid axes - and put anti-raid behind one of them - to run a healthy community.
Where ProBot's model gets in the way
- Two things to buy. Server tiers improve the server-wide experience; memberships improve a person's economy standing. They do not overlap cleanly, and new owners routinely upgrade the wrong one for what they actually wanted.
- Anti-raid is premium. Basic automod is free, but full anti-raid protection - the thing you most want the moment a raid hits - lives on the Premium tier. Raid defense is not a luxury feature, and gating it is the friction owners feel most.
- Upgrade pressure. When core safety and economy depth are spread across tiers and memberships, the day-to-day experience leans on prompts to pay. That is the nature of a bot whose revenue depends on it.
None of this makes ProBot a bad bot. It makes it a bot whose best parts are rationed - and that is exactly the gap a genuinely free all-in-one fills.
Rally Bot - the free all-in-one ProBot alternative
Rally Bot was built as a complete server-management and community platform from day one: no premium tier, no per-user memberships, no anti-raid paywall. Everything is configured from one clean web dashboard. In a single install you get the broad, ProBot-style feature set:
- Moderation, automod, and logging - spam, link, and word filters, tiered moderator roles, warnings, timeouts, kicks, bans, anti-raid newcomer screening, and full audit logging.
- Leveling - XP for both messages and voice activity, level-up role rewards, and leaderboards.
- Economy - currency, a shop, daily rewards, and games, with leaderboards - no per-user membership to unlock the good parts.
- Reaction and auto roles - self-serve role panels (buttons, dropdowns, reactions) and automatic roles on join.
- Welcome and goodbye - customizable join and leave messages, including welcome images - the ProBot signature, free.
- Tickets - support panels with categories, staff claim, and transcripts.
- Giveaways - one-click button entry, multiple winners, requirements, and automatic draws.
- Creator notifications - go-live and new-upload alerts with custom messages and role pings.
- Music, polls, starboard, suggestions, temporary voice channels, and server stats - and more.
Rally Bot strengths
- The same broad ProBot-style feature set - welcome images, economy, autoroles, tickets, temp voice, starboard, music - all free
- Anti-raid newcomer screening included free, not gated behind a premium tier
- One web dashboard and one price (free), instead of server tiers plus per-user memberships
- Installing it lists your server on Rally's activity-ranked discovery platform
Honest limitations
- No direct ProBot data import - members start fresh on levels and economy balances
- Newer than ProBot, so less name recognition (the feature set more than makes up for it)
Why it is free, and why it stays free
Rally earns through server discovery - boosts and featured placements - not by charging for bot features. There is no business reason to ever paywall anti-raid, lock economy perks behind memberships, or charge for welcome images, which is exactly what happens on bots whose revenue depends on it.
Discovery bonus: installing Rally Bot also lists your server on Rally, a Discord discovery platform ranked by real community activity rather than bump counts. Your server's engagement signals directly influence how often it surfaces to new members. ProBot has no equivalent.
Add Rally Bot to your server - free, no credit card, no memberships, no locked features.
Rally Bot vs ProBot
| Feature | ProBot | Rally Bot (Free) |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome images | ✅ Signature | ✅ Free |
| Welcome / goodbye messages | ✅ | ✅ |
| Leveling / XP | ✅ | ✅ (incl. voice) |
| Level-up role rewards | ✅ | ✅ |
| Economy | ✅ (perks via memberships) | ✅ Free |
| Reaction / auto roles | ✅ | ✅ |
| Color / self-assignable roles | ✅ | ✅ |
| Moderation + automod | ✅ | ✅ Full |
| Audit logging | ✅ | ✅ |
| Full anti-raid | ✅ Premium | ✅ Free |
| Tickets | ✅ | ✅ |
| Temporary voice channels | ✅ | ✅ |
| Starboard | ✅ | ✅ |
| Giveaways | Limited | ✅ |
| Creator notifications | Limited | ✅ |
| Music | ✅ | ✅ |
| Polls, suggestions, server stats | Partial | ✅ |
| Server discovery listing | ❌ | ✅ (on Rally) |
| Web dashboard | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pricing model | Free + per-server tiers (~$2.50 / ~$9.99) + per-user memberships | Free |
The pattern is clear: ProBot covers a lot, then splits the best parts across server tiers and per-user memberships, with anti-raid on the premium side. Rally Bot does the whole job - welcome images included - in one free bot, and adds discovery on top.
How to switch from ProBot to Rally Bot
Step 1: Add Rally Bot to your server - you will need Manage Server permission. Add Rally Bot here.
Step 2: Configure from the dashboard. Start with the modules you relied on most in ProBot - usually moderation, welcome, and leveling - all in one place.
Step 3: Rebuild your welcome image. Recreate the welcome card that made ProBot worth installing. Rally Bot's welcome images are free, so there is no tier to buy to keep them.
Step 4: Turn on anti-raid screening. This is the upgrade that used to cost you - enable newcomer screening so a raid hits a wall instead of your members.
Step 5: Set up economy and roles. Recreate your currency, shop, and self-assignable roles. There are no per-user memberships, so every member gets the full experience by default.
Step 6: Remove ProBot once you have verified Rally Bot is handling everything. There is no need to run both beyond a brief testing window.
Communication tip: frame the switch as an upgrade. Members keep the welcome cards and economy they know, and they gain anti-raid protection and music that previously sat behind a tier or a membership - all without anyone needing to pay.
The bottom line
ProBot is broad and capable, and its welcome images are a genuine highlight. The catch is the model around them: two paid axes to understand, anti-raid behind Premium, and economy depth behind per-user memberships. Rally Bot gives you the same broad feature set - welcome images, economy, autoroles, tickets, temporary channels, starboard, music, and full anti-raid screening - in one genuinely free bot with a single dashboard and no memberships.
If welcome images are why you came to ProBot, the Discord welcome message guide walks through designing a first impression that converts. For the wider landscape, see the best Discord bots in 2026 guide, and if you are weighing the other big names, the MEE6 alternative guide compares the most common paid bot (MEE6 Premium runs around $12 a month) the same way.
Add Rally Bot to your Discord server - free forever, no tiers, no memberships, no locked features. Then browse active gaming communities, anime servers, and community servers on Rally to see what a well-run server looks like.