Versa vs Wick
Wick is one of the oldest and largest anti-nuke bots on the market — millions of servers and a long track record of stopping raids and nukes. This is an honest comparison: where Wick genuinely leads, and where Versa differs, without spin.
Where Wick genuinely leads#
Per their official docs: a Quarantine system instantly isolates an attacker with zero permissions (only the owner or a trusted admin can release them manually), Panic Mode locks the whole server down the moment something looks wrong, imaging-based backups for more precise restoration, explicit protection against vanity URL changes, and a Join Gate + CAPTCHA verification system to filter suspicious accounts on join. Their published numbers: 900,000+ servers, 40M+ raids and 9.8M nukes stopped.
Feature-by-feature comparison#
| Feature | Versa | Wick |
|---|---|---|
| Instant detection & punishment for mass channel/role delete/create and mass kick/ban |  | |
| Automatic channel/role restoration available by default, no subscription needed | from incident snapshot, free for everyone | precise "smart backup" (imaging) is a paid feature — the free tier relies on memory with lower reliability per their docs |
| Detecting a vanity URL change and stopping whoever made it |  listed in settings but not currently functional — being fixed | quarantine only — no documented automatic revert of the link itself |
| How the attacker is stopped: in-place quarantine vs. immediate removal (ban/kick) | Immediate full removal — faster and simpler, but no review step before it happens | In-place quarantine at zero permissions — allows manual review before final removal, but needs a human to close it out |
| Role-level protection exceptions (not just specific named users) | user-level only, currently | not explicitly documented in our sources |
| Public, cross-server registry (standalone site) linking "who added a bot" to "the bot that later destroyed a server" | | not documented — incident handling appears server-scoped |
| Option for a single-server dedicated bot instance | | not documented as a publicly available option |
| CAPTCHA / Join Gate verification filtering suspicious accounts on join | | |
| Protection against mass webhook creation/deletion | available by default for every server | a paid (Premium) feature per their docs |
| Detecting dangerous permissions (Administrator...) granted to any role | available by default for any role | "Strict Mode" for any role is a paid feature — the free tier only monitors @everyone |
| Detection of malicious/scam links and NSFW images | scam links + image scanning via Sightengine | also unwraps shortened links and detects IP grabbers |
| Detection of dangerous roles auto-assigned via a specific invite link | | not explicitly documented in our sources |
| Detection of attempts to disarm the bot itself (OAuth re-invite, or manually removing its role) | | not explicitly documented in our sources |
Speed & architecture#
What we can confidently state is only Versa's own design — we don't have reliable data measuring Wick's actual response time to publish a fair, direct speed comparison. Here's what we know about our own system:
- Executor identification via direct gateway push (no REST call) instead of waiting on an audit-log fetch, in most cases.
- Stripping dangerous permissions and executing the punishment run in parallel, not sequentially.
- The single-server dedicated instance option removes the precautionary priority wait applied on the shared multi-server bot.
- Deliberate, engineered request pacing to avoid a full Cloudflare ban at the server's IP level — an engineering detail rarely called out explicitly as a feature by any bot in this space.
What's free vs. what's paid?#
| Versa | Wick | |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum paid plan | Fully free for core protection | ≈ $5.99/month for Premium |
| Mass webhook & emoji protection | free | requires Premium |
| Precise channel/role restoration | free | "smart backup" (imaging) requires Premium |
| Dangerous permission detection for any role (not just @everyone) | free | "Strict Mode" requires Premium |
Note: Versa also has paid plans (a dedicated single-server bot instance, and other features) — the difference here is that full core protection (not a limited version) is entirely free with us, while several core protection modules require Premium with Wick.
A fair, best-effort comparison
Information about Wick reflects its official documentation (docs.wickbot.com) at the time this page was written. Bot features change constantly, and some internal implementation details aren't publicly documented by either side. If you notice something outdated or inaccurate, reach out via our official support server and we'll correct it right away.
Also see Versa vs Security Bot, or the full protection feature overview.