Levels, an economy and full moderation, free right now
Tatsu is built around fun: server score, a global economy, pets and homes. Kovu has levels, an economy and reputation too, plus the automod, logging, tickets and security tools Tatsu’s docs don’t list.
Kovu is free right now. Paid tiers will come later, and nothing is priced yet.
Feature by feature
What Kovu includes right now, what Tatsu 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 Tatsu’s columns come from its public website and docs on that day. Plans and features change.
Swipe the table sideways to see Tatsu’s columns.
| Feature | Kovu, right now | Tatsu free | Tatsu server subscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moderation | |||
| Moderation commands and cases | IncludedCases with evidence, appeals and /mass | LimitedBan, kick and prune; no warnings or mutes documented | LimitedBan, kick and prune; no warnings or mutes documented |
| Purge messages | IncludedFilters by member, bots, words and more | IncludedUp to 100 at a time | IncludedUp to 100 at a time |
| Mass moderation | IncludedBy list, name or join time, with a preview | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Reports to moderators | IncludedAccept, Ignore and Block buttons | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Ban, mute and warning appeals | IncludedUp to 10 forms on kovu.gg | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Automod | |||
| Automod filters | IncludedA rule tester and an AI toxicity filter | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Anti-raid and anti-nuke | IncludedLockdowns, quarantine and web verification | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Logging | |||
| Server logs | Included88 log types, a channel per group | LimitedJoins and leaves, kicks and bans, voice and nicknames | LimitedJoins and leaves, kicks and bans, voice and nicknames |
| Welcome | |||
| Welcome and goodbye messages | IncludedCustom welcome images | IncludedText and embeds, in one channel | IncludedText and embeds, in one channel |
| Autoroles | IncludedUp to 50 | Included | Included |
| Levels | |||
| XP and levels | IncludedMessage and voice XP, with boosts | IncludedServer score, plus global XP across servers | Included15% or 25% more XP for every member |
| Leaderboards | IncludedA public web leaderboard with your own link | IncludedWeekly, monthly and global rankings | IncludedWeekly, monthly and global rankings |
| Level roles | IncludedUp to 100 | LimitedUp to 10 | IncludedUp to 20, or 40 on Server Premium |
| Reputation | Included/rep with a leaderboard | IncludedGlobal, once a day | IncludedGlobal, once a day |
| Roles members claim with their level | IncludedDiscord’s Linked Roles: level, XP, rep or achievements | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Tickets and support | |||
| Tickets | IncludedClaims, ratings and modmail | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Feeds | |||
| Stream, video and social alerts | IncludedTwitch, Kick, YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky and RSS | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Community | |||
| Reaction Roles | IncludedButtons and dropdowns | IncludedReactions, plus a self-roles command | IncludedReactions, plus a self-roles command |
| Economy | IncludedShop: up to 100 items | IncludedA server store with roles and badges, plus global credits | IncludedMore store listings |
| Giveaways | IncludedLevel and account-age requirements | LimitedPrizes in server score, points or items | LimitedPrizes in server score, points or items |
| Virtual pets and homes | Not included | IncludedTatsugotchi pets and housing | IncludedTatsugotchi pets and housing |
| Commands in any server or DM | IncludedMembers add Kovu to their own account | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Customization | |||
| Custom Commands | IncludedUp to 500 | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Embed builder | IncludedUp to 200 | LimitedFor greetings, logs and role messages | LimitedFor greetings, logs and role messages |
| Timed messages | IncludedUp to 100 | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| Your own bot name, avatar and status | IncludedYour own bot, or a profile per server | Not includedNot documented | Not includedNot documented |
| 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 | IncludedServer rankings, store and users, at dev.tatsu.gg | IncludedServer rankings, store and users, at dev.tatsu.gg |
What it costs
Kovu is free right now. Paid tiers will come later, and nothing is priced yet.
Server Plus
$4.99 a month
Every member earns 15% more XP and credits and finds tokens 15% more often. Up to 20 leveled roles, and more store listings.
Server Premium
$8.99 a month
Every member earns 25% more XP and credits and finds tokens 25% more often. Up to 40 leveled roles, and more store listings.
Each server subscription covers one server. Tatsu also sells subscriptions for your own account, from $4.99 a month, with cosmetic items and XP perks. Prices are in US dollars before tax, as Tatsu listed them on October 7, 2026. See Tatsu’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 Tatsu
No downtime for your members. Run both bots side by side until Kovu is set up the way you like.
Add Kovu next to Tatsu
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 Tatsu feature you used. The list below says which is which.
Switch off each Tatsu feature as you go
Once a Kovu module is set up, turn off the Tatsu feature it replaces, so members don’t get two welcomes or two level-up messages.
Remove Tatsu 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 Tatsu’s settings, server score or points, so levels and balances start fresh. Each Tatsu feature listed below has a Kovu match, and setting up the ones you use takes an afternoon:
- An AI assistant to do the setup
- Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Kovu, tell it what Tatsu does in your server, and it turns on and sets up the matching modules. You see every change first and can undo it.
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
- A global economy, pets and homes that follow members to every server with Tatsu.
- Global XP and profile cards that carry across servers.
- Weekly and monthly leaderboards.
- An import for Tatsu’s levels.
What maps to what
Tatsu’s name for each feature, and the Kovu module that does it.
- Ban, kick and prune
- Moderation
- Notifications & Logs
- Action Log
- Greeting messages
- Welcome and Announcements
- Server join roles
- Autoroles
- Self roles
- Joinable ranks
- Reaction roles
- Reaction Roles
- Server score and leveled roles
- Levels
- Server points and store
- Economy
- Reputation
- Reputation
- Giveaways
- Giveaways
- Remindme
- Reminders
- Search commands
- Search
Where Tatsu is the better pick
No bot is best at everything. If one of these matters most to your server, Tatsu may suit you better.
- A global economy and pets
- Tatsu’s credits, its store of more than 2,000 items, Tatsugotchi pets and homes follow members to every server with Tatsu, with new items every two weeks. Kovu’s economy is per server.
- Profiles across servers
- Tatsu’s profile cards, global XP and reputation go wherever its members go. Kovu’s levels and reputation belong to each server.
- Weekly and monthly leaderboards
- Tatsu ranks members by the week and the month as well as overall. Kovu’s leaderboards are all-time.
- Prices you can see today
- Tatsu publishes its prices. Kovu’s paid tiers aren’t priced yet, so you can’t plan around a number.
- Years at scale
- Tatsu says it runs in more than 1,350,000 servers. Kovu is newer.
What this page says about Tatsu comes from its public website on October 7, 2026. Plans change, so check tatsu.gg before you decide.
Tatsu is a trademark of its owner. Kovu isn’t affiliated with Tatsu.
Try Kovu next to Tatsu
Add Kovu, set it up at your own pace and keep Tatsu until you’re sure. The help center covers every module.