Sapphire’s moderation depth, plus levels, tickets and the rest
Sapphire is free and goes deep on moderation, automod, messages and logging. Kovu covers the same ground, then adds levels, tickets, giveaways and the rest of a community bot in one dashboard.
Kovu is free right now. Paid tiers will come later, and nothing is priced yet.
Feature by feature
What Kovu includes right now, what Sapphire includes for free and what its paid plans add. Each Kovu feature links to its how-to.
- Included
- Limited
- Not included
As of October 7, 2026 Sapphire’s columns come from its public website and docs on that day. Plans and features change.
Swipe the table sideways to see Sapphire’s columns.
| Feature | Kovu, right now | Sapphire free | Sapphire paid add-ons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderation | |||
| Moderation commands and cases | IncludedCase evidence, proof and predefined reasons | IncludedProof, verified proof and reason aliases | Included |
| Mass moderation | IncludedBy list, name or join time, with a preview | IncludedBy list, name, account age or join time | Included |
| Reports to moderators | IncludedAccept, Ignore and Block buttons | IncludedAccept or ignore, with actions | Included |
| Case views shared with another server | IncludedRead-only, once both servers agree | Included | Included |
| Ban, mute and warning appeals | IncludedUp to 10 forms on kovu.gg | IncludedOn appeal.gg | IncludedOn appeal.gg |
| Ban sync across servers | IncludedUp to 25 servers, each picks what it receives | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Automod | |||
| Automod filters | Included19 filters, word groups and a rule tester | Included12 modules with conditions and word groups | Included |
| AI moderation | IncludedUp to 5,000 checks a day | IncludedUp to 10 messages a minute | IncludedNo limit with Limit Increase |
| Extra actions for Discord’s AutoMod | Included | Included | Included |
| Join Guard | IncludedAccount age, avatars and generated names | IncludedSeven filters, including guild tags | Included |
| Logging | |||
| Action Log | Included88 log types, a channel per group | Included80+ log types | IncludedName and avatar changes with Custom Branding |
| Welcome | |||
| Welcome, leave and boost messages | IncludedRole messages, random messages and delays | IncludedRole messages, random groups and delays | Included |
| Welcome images | IncludedA card designer with layers | IncludedDynamic images with layers | Included |
| Join Roles | IncludedSync to members already in the server | IncludedDelays, bot roles and sync | Included |
| Reaction Roles | IncludedReactions, buttons and dropdowns | IncludedReactions, or buttons and menus from Messages | Included |
| Role connections | Included | Included | Included |
| Custom roles for boosters | IncludedName, color, and an icon from boost level 2 | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Levels | |||
| Levels and level roles | IncludedVanity leaderboard links | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Tickets and support | |||
| Tickets | IncludedTranscripts members can read on the web | Not includedIts docs suggest the Ticket Tool bot | Not included |
| Suggestions | Included | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Feeds | |||
| Twitch, YouTube and TikTok | IncludedLive stream updates and auto publish | IncludedLive stream updates and auto publish | Included |
| A role while members stream | IncludedTwitch and Kick, with an optional live post | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Kick, Reddit, Bluesky, RSS and podcasts | Included | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Community | |||
| Giveaways | Included100 at once, up to 50 winners | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Starboard and polls | IncludedSeveral boards, scheduled native polls | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Auto threads and a pin archive | Included | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Reputation, bump reminders and a server digest | Included | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Commands in any server or DM | IncludedMembers add Kovu to their own account | Not includedNot in Sapphire’s docs | Not included |
| Customization | |||
| Message templates with buttons and menus | IncludedSend by webhook, schedule or auto-reply | IncludedSend by webhook, schedule or automate | Included |
| Edit the bot’s own replies | IncludedMessage kits you can share | IncludedMessage kits you can share | Included |
| Sticky messages | IncludedUp to 50 | Included | Included |
| Automations | IncludedUp to 25 rules, and your AI app can write them | LimitedTemplates sent on keywords | LimitedTemplates sent on keywords |
| Custom Commands | IncludedUp to 500 | LimitedNo arguments yet | LimitedNo arguments yet |
| Your own bot name, avatar and status | IncludedYour own bot, or a profile per server | Not included | IncludedCustom Branding |
| API and AI | |||
| Set up your server from an AI app | IncludedClaude, ChatGPT and other MCP apps | Not included | Not included |
| Public API | IncludedAPI keys with scopes | Not included | Not included |
| Languages | |||
| Languages | Included9 languages: site, dashboard and bot replies | LimitedEnglish, with community message kits | LimitedEnglish, with community message kits |
What it costs
Kovu is free right now. Paid tiers will come later, and nothing is priced yet.
Limit Increase
$2.99 a month or €12.00 a year
Every feature limit set to unlimited. Sapphire also raises a single limit for free, on request in its support server.
Custom Branding
€5.00 a month or €55.00 a year
Your own bot name, avatar, status and About Me, hosted separately, for servers under 1,000 members.
Custom Branding
€8.00 a month or €88.00 a year
The same, for servers of 1,000 to 30,000 members.
Custom Branding
€12.00 a month or €132.00 a year
The same, for servers of 30,000 to 100,000 members.
Custom Branding
€15.00 a month or €165.00 a year
The same, for servers over 100,000 members.
Sapphire itself is free, and each add-on covers one server. Sapphire lists Limit Increase in US dollars a month and in euros a year, and Custom Branding in euros. Prices are before tax, in the currency Sapphire uses, as it listed them on October 7, 2026. See Sapphire’s current prices
Your Kovu bill
Right now
- Your own bot identity$0.00Name, avatar, banner, bio and status
- The highest limits$0.00500 custom commands, unlimited reaction-role menus
- Every automod filter$0.00Phishing links, zalgo, spoilers, AI toxicity
- Custom welcome images$0.00Rendered with your members’ avatars
- Web transcripts and appeals$0.00Tickets, modmail and ban appeals on kovu.gg
- Giveaways up to 50 winners$0.00And up to a year long
- Every feed platform$0.00Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Reddit, Bluesky, RSS and podcasts
- Analytics and exports$0.00Activity charts and config backups
Total
$0.00
No card, no trial.
There are no prices or dates yet. We’ll announce both on kovu.gg before anything changes for your server.
What Kovu adds
Kovu’s own additions, in every server.
- Server manager
- Roles, permissions and channel overwrites from the web, with guardrails and one-click undo.
- Security suite
- Web verification, anti-raid lockdowns and anti-nuke quarantine.
- Support tools
- Modmail with anonymous replies, ticket claims and ratings.
- Community extras
- Achievements, invite tracking, suggestions, birthdays, scheduled polls, sticky messages, temp voice and stat channels.
- A home for members
- Profiles, a leaderboards hub, server pages and privacy controls on kovu.gg.
- A calmer dashboard
- Simple and Advanced modes, hidden modules, a Needs you list and ⌘K search across every setting.
- Case evidence, mass actions and reports
- Cases keep the member’s deleted messages and the proof you add. /mass deals with a raid at once after a preview, members report messages to your team, and linked servers can see each other’s cases.
- Appeals on kovu.gg
- Up to 10 appeal forms for bans, mutes and warnings, with a conversation with the member and blocks after a rejection.
- Your own wording
- Change almost any Kovu reply, with embeds and buttons, and share it as a kit. Message templates can be scheduled, sent by webhook and carry role buttons.
- Channel and role helpers
- Auto threads, auto publish, a pin archive, bump reminders, a server digest, /rep, and role connections that give a role while members have certain others.
- Kovu in members’ own apps
- Members can add Kovu to their Discord account and use /fun, /search, /remind and /poll create in any server or DM.
- Song requests for streamers
- Viewers request songs from Twitch or Kick chat, and Kovu adds them to your Spotify queue.
- Automations and webhooks
- When something happens, Kovu checks your conditions, then gives roles, sends messages or posts to your own webhook. Build a rule on the dashboard, or ask your AI app to write it.
- Server Networks
- Servers you trust share bans, case lookups and roles, with a trail of who banned whom, where and why.
- Roles for streamers, supporters and boosters
- A role while members stream on Twitch or Kick, roles for your Twitch and Kick subscribers, and a role each booster names and colors.
- Events and help forums
- RSVPs, reminders and attendance for your Discord events, and a solved workflow for help forums that thanks whoever answered.
Moving from Sapphire
No downtime for your members. Run both bots side by side until Kovu is set up the way you like.
Add Kovu next to Sapphire
Both bots can sit in your server while you set Kovu up. Nothing changes for members yet.
Turn on what you used
Set your staff roles in Bot Settings, then turn on the Kovu module for each Sapphire feature you used. The list below says which is which.
Switch off each Sapphire feature as you go
Once a Kovu module is set up, turn off the Sapphire feature it replaces, so members don’t get two welcomes and your log channel doesn’t get every event twice.
Remove Sapphire when you’re ready
Keep it until everything you need runs in Kovu. Then remove it from the server.
Bringing your setup over
Kovu can’t read Sapphire’s settings, so you set up the modules you use yourself. Most have a Kovu match with the same options, and two things come over directly:
- Your word lists
- Export a word group from Sapphire’s automod as text or JSON, then use Import words on a Kovu word group. Kovu reads Sapphire’s lists.
- Messages Sapphire posted
- Paste a message’s link into Kovu’s Message Embedder and Kovu copies its text and embeds, ready to edit and send. Buttons and menus need setting up again.
Once Kovu is set up
- Server templates
- Save a server’s roles, channels, settings and Kovu setup as a template, then apply it to any server you manage or share it with a link. You see a preview first, nothing is deleted, and you can undo it for 14 days.
- Backup and import
- Once one server is set up, save a backup, restore it later or copy the whole setup to another server you manage. You see every change before it’s applied.
- Custom commands and autoresponders
- Export and import them as a file, to copy them between servers or edit them in bulk.
- Embeds
- Paste a message’s JSON, from an embed builder or another server, into the Message Embedder.
What Kovu doesn’t have
- Little at the module level, as far as we checked: each Sapphire module in its public docs has a Kovu match.
- appeal.gg, Sapphire’s appeal site, which also works as a bot of its own next to other moderation bots. Kovu’s appeals are for servers that use Kovu.
- Sapphire’s long track record. Kovu is newer.
What maps to what
Sapphire’s name for each feature, and the Kovu module that does it.
- Moderation
- Moderation
- Auto Moderation
- Automod
- AI Moderation
- AI moderation
- Join Guard
- Autoban
- Appeals (appeal.gg)
- Appeals
- Logging
- Action Log
- Welcome Messages
- Welcome & Leave
- Join Roles
- Autoroles
- Reaction Roles
- Reaction Roles
- Role Connections
- Role Connections
- Message templates
- Message Embedder
- Default messages
- Messages
- Sticky messages
- Sticky Messages
- Custom Commands
- Custom Commands
- Social Notifications
- Feeds
- Custom Branding
- Bot Identity
- General Settings
- Bot Settings
Where Sapphire is the better pick
No bot is best at everything. If one of these matters most to your server, Sapphire may suit you better.
- Free, with prices you can see
- Sapphire is free, and its add-ons only lift limits or rebrand the bot, at published prices. Kovu is free right now, and its paid tiers aren’t priced yet.
- Years at scale
- Sapphire says it runs in over 1,800,000 servers. Kovu is newer.
- More AI moderation on busy servers
- Sapphire checks up to 10 messages a minute for free, with no limit on Limit Increase. Kovu checks up to 5,000 messages a day per server.
- Help from people who know it
- Detailed docs and guides, and community message kits in other languages. Kovu’s help center is newer.
What this page says about Sapphire comes from its public website on October 7, 2026. Plans change, so check sapph.xyz before you decide.
Sapphire is a trademark of its owner. Kovu isn’t affiliated with Sapphire.
Try Kovu next to Sapphire
Add Kovu, set it up at your own pace and keep Sapphire until you’re sure. The help center covers every module.