The Discord moderation bot for serious staff teams.
Arkanis is the moderation, cases, identity, AutoMod, and audit layer for Discord communities where moderation has real consequences. Free for the basics. Pro at £7.99 per month for the depth.
What is a Discord moderation bot?
A Discord moderation bot helps staff teams keep a community healthy. The core jobs are issuing warnings, mutes, kicks, and bans, filtering bad messages with AutoMod, logging moderation actions, and giving staff a dashboard to review history.
Arkanis covers all of that. It adds cases and modmail, capability-based permissions for staff roles, identity verification, an audit trail with reason text and actor identity, and game-server integration. The Discord-side commands and the web dashboard share the same capability checks, the same audit log, and the same data model.
What Arkanis does as a Discord moderation bot.
The standard surface, plus the parts that are missing from a typical bot.
Warnings, mutes, kicks, bans
The standard moderation surface with one difference: every action carries a structured reason, actor identity, and audit-log entry. Reversible actions (mutes, warnings) are clearly distinguished from destructive ones (bans, mass-purge) at the UI level. Confirmation gates protect the destructive path.
Strike weights and escalation
Strikes are not just a counter. Each strike has a weight, an expiry, and a reason. Cumulative weight crosses thresholds that trigger automatic sanctions if you want them, or that surface for staff review.
AutoMod with eleven filter types
Word, regex, mention spam, attachment spam, spam detection, caps, emoji, duplicate-message, link, invite, and an actions stack. Free tier ships three rules. Pro removes the limit and unlocks strike, mute, and stricter sanctions on rule match.
Cases and Support Inbox
Member-facing case panels open private case channels under a Support Inbox category. Staff claim, assign, transcript, and close. Pro adds modmail: a member DM to the bot starts a case, which staff handle from the same dashboard. No DMs relayed back as messages; cases live in their own channels.
Capability-based permissions for staff
Forty-plus capabilities map to dashboard actions and Discord commands. Roles get assigned capability sets. View-as-role lets admins preview the dashboard as a target role before applying it. The same capability check gates a Discord slash command and its dashboard equivalent.
Audit trail with reason and actor
Every staff action logs the actor, the target, the action type, a structured reason, the source (Discord or dashboard or REST or MCP), and the timestamp. The audit log is filterable, plain-English templated, and exportable. This is what makes moderation defensible weeks later.
Risk scoring (Pro)
A composite 0-100 score per member, built from eight components: strike weight, warning velocity, ban proximity in friend graph, identity trust, age signals, and more. Surfaces the next problem account before it becomes a fire.
Identity verification
Steam, Xbox, and game-server ID linking via OAuth. Cross-server player lookup follows the linked identity across every guild that opted in. Knowing who someone actually is changes how moderation decisions get made.
What separates Arkanis from a typical Discord moderation bot.
Four things that matter for serious staff teams.
It is a control plane, not a bag of features
Arkanis is built around staff workflow first. Cases, modmail, audit, permissions, identity. The features all sit inside the same control plane so context follows the moderator instead of fragmenting across five bots.
Every action is audited with a reason
Discord’s built-in audit log records that an action happened. Arkanis records who, what, why, when, from which surface, against which target identity. Weeks later, when someone appeals, you can answer "why was I banned" with the reason text the actor typed at the time.
Staff permissions are capability-based
Junior moderators get warning + mute + view. Senior moderators add ban + case-claim. Admins get the destructive surface plus configuration. The capability set is auditable, gated server-side and client-side, and visible via the view-as-role dashboard preview.
Free is a real product, not a demo
Rule enforcement, basic cases, AutoMod, identity verification, the full dashboard, and the complete audit trail are free forever with no member-count cap. Pro adds depth (modmail, unlimited AutoMod, risk scoring, enforcement rules, REST API, Claude Control, game-server features). Both tiers are governance-grade.
Free for the basics. £7.99 per month for the depth.
Free covers rule enforcement, basic cases, AutoMod, identity, audit, and full dashboard access. Pro adds unlimited AutoMod, modmail, risk scoring, enforcement rules, REST API, Claude Control, and game-server features. £79.99 per year is two months free.
Common questions
What is a Discord moderation bot?+
A Discord moderation bot helps staff teams keep a community healthy. Core jobs are issuing warnings, mutes, kicks, and bans, filtering bad messages with AutoMod, logging moderation actions, and giving staff a dashboard to review history. Arkanis covers all of that and adds cases, identity verification, capability-based permissions, an audit trail with reason text and actor identity, and game-server operations.
Is Arkanis free?+
Yes. Rule enforcement, basic support cases, AutoMod, identity verification, full dashboard access, and complete audit logging are free forever. Modmail cases from member DMs, unlimited AutoMod, risk scoring, enforcement rules, REST API, Claude Control, and game-server features sit behind Pro at £7.99 per month or £79.99 per year.
How is Arkanis different from a general-purpose Discord bot?+
General-purpose Discord bots add features in many directions: levels, music, custom commands, polls. Arkanis is narrower and deeper. We focus on moderation, cases, identity, audit, and game-server ops, and we go further on staff workflow than a multi-purpose bot does. If you need a thirty-feature utility bot, we are not it. If you need a real staff control plane, we are built for that.
Does Arkanis support AutoMod?+
Yes. The free tier ships with three AutoMod rules. Pro removes the rule limit and unlocks strike, mute, and other automated sanctions on rule match. Eleven filter types are available: word, regex, mention spam, attachment spam, spam detection, caps, emoji, duplicate-message, link, invite, and a configurable actions stack.
Will my staff see the same view in Discord and the dashboard?+
Most staff workflows have both Discord and dashboard surfaces. Staff who prefer Discord can do much of their work there; staff who want richer browsing get the dashboard. Setup, billing, and some admin surfaces stay dashboard-only. The same capability checks gate both surfaces, and the same audit log records both. View-as-role lets admins preview exactly what a given role sees before they assign it.
Does Arkanis work for non-gaming Discord communities?+
Yes. The core moderation, cases, identity, AutoMod, and audit features have nothing to do with game servers. Game-server integration (RCON, Pterodactyl or Pelican, SFTP logs) sits behind Pro and is invisible if you do not turn it on. Arkanis can be used purely for governance without enabling any game-server features.
Try it on your own server.
Sign in with Discord, pick a server, and Arkanis is live on the free plan in under five minutes. No credit card. No member-count caps.
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