> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://bettertickets.gg/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The best Discord bots in 2026

> A 2026 look at Discord bots for tickets, leveling and message building, what Ticket Tool, Mee6 and Discohook actually get right and where they don't, and how better tickets approaches the same problems.

Three questions decide which bot you actually want: does it do what you need, does it get out of your way, and what's it cost past the free tier. Here's tickets, leveling, and message building, and where better tickets fits.

## Ticket and support bots

Ticket Tool runs \~4.6 million servers, the default answer to "what ticket bot." Free tier, Community $5/mo, Pro $12/mo (AI reply drafting, ticket triage, a branded knowledge base), Team/Enterprise from \$25/mo for multiple servers. Mature product, dated dashboard, thin analytics on the lower tiers.

better tickets is dashboard pages instead of slash commands. Specifics:

* Transcripts are signed on generation, `/verify` a `.html` later to prove it's untouched.
* Auto-close a ticket after no response, or if the member leaves. Set once per category.
* Claim, close, escalate, all from the ticket channel.
* Custom channel name templates, not `ticket-0001`.
* Staff permissions per category, not server-wide.
* Voice ticket cooldowns.

If you want AI reply drafting, use Ticket Tool, we don't have it. This is command config vs. dashboard toggles.

## Leveling bots

Mee6: $11.95-99/mo, $49.99/yr, or \$89.99 lifetime. That buys role rewards, custom level-up messages, XP rate tuning, rank card customization, most of which used to be free.

Free tier here, in full:

* Role rewards on level-up.
* Chat *and* voice XP.
* Your own curve, not a fixed formula.
* Role/channel XP multipliers.
* Ignored roles and channels.
* Rank cards, custom background.

[Plus and Max](/docs/premium) raise limits, they don't unlock anything disabled.

## Message and embed builder tools

Discohook exports portable JSON, and that's genuinely useful. The catch: it sends through a webhook, and nothing's listening on the other end, so no button ever does anything. No Components V2, no polls, no scheduled sends.

The [Message builder](/docs/messages/builder) is an actual bot:

* Components V2 blocks: text, dividers, galleries, sections with a thumbnail, containers, buttons, select menus.
* Live preview while you build.
* Buttons and menus work, because something's listening.
* JSON import/export still there.
* Reload and edit a message you already sent.

## What "up to date" means in the code

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Components V2, not legacy embeds">
    Rank cards and panels are `Container` → `Section` → `Thumbnail`, not an embed with an image field.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Modals with typed inputs">
    Ticket/application questions have a real input type: text, number, file (8MB cap), channel, user, role. A number question rejects letters before it's ever saved.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Blocks, not a JSON textarea">
    `text`, `divider`, `gallery`, `section`, `container`, buttons, selects, each with its own editor and live preview. Direct manipulation, no hand-edited JSON.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

Same shape everywhere: channel templates, submission messages, rank backgrounds, roleplay text, cooldowns, all dashboard fields with sane defaults.

## Picking one

<Steps>
  <Step title="Decide what you actually run">
    A moderation/music server needs different things than a support server with applications and jail.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the free tier honestly">
    What's gated vs. just limited. See [Premium](/docs/premium#which-tier-do-i-need).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Try it in one category first">
    See the [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart).
  </Step>
</Steps>

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/docs/quickstart">
    Live in five steps: invite, create a category, configure, send the panel.
  </Card>

  <Card title="FAQ" icon="circle-question-mark" href="/docs/faq">
    Staff permissions, transcript verification, prefixes and premium limits.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


## Related topics

- [Better tickets discord bot](/index.md)
- [Privacy Policy](/docs/legal/privacy.md)