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, comprehensive comparison covering every one of our protection features — not just what sets us apart — specifically against Wick.

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, CAPTCHA/Join Gate verification on join, and quarantine (not reverting) on a vanity URL change. Their published numbers: 900,000+ servers, 40M+ raids and 9.8M nukes stopped.

1. Backup & restoration#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Automatic, scheduled daily full-server backup	free — channels, roles, permissions	requires Premium per their docs
On-demand manual backup command	free	requires Premium per their docs
Automatic instant restoration of deleted channels/roles at the moment of attack	from an incident snapshot, free	precise (imaging) restore is paid — the free tier is less reliable per their docs

2. Join & onboarding protection#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Detection of dangerous roles auto-assigned via a specific invite link (Invite Auto-Role)		not explicitly documented in our sources
Preventing dangerous permissions from being auto-granted via Onboarding (Customize Community) questions		not explicitly documented in our sources
Anti-raid (suspicious mass join)		"Join Raid"
CAPTCHA / Join Gate filtering suspicious accounts (no avatar, new account, unauthorized bot...)

3. Core anti-nuke#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Instant detection & punishment for mass channel/role delete/create/update
Instant detection & punishment for mass kick/ban
Anti-abusive mass member Prune		not explicitly documented in our sources
How the attacker is stopped: in-place quarantine vs. immediate removal (ban/kick)	Immediate full removal — faster and simpler, no review step before it happens	In-place quarantine at zero permissions — allows manual review, but needs a human to close it out

4. Defending the bot itself#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Preventing unauthorized bot additions		via Join Gate
Detecting attempts to disarm the bot via OAuth re-invite while already a member		not explicitly documented in our sources
Detecting manual removal of the bot's own role		not explicitly documented in our sources

5. Permissions & webhooks#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Protection against mass webhook creation/deletion	available by default	a paid (Premium) feature
Detecting dangerous permissions (Administrator...) granted to any role	available by default for any role	"Strict Mode" for any role is paid — free tier is @everyone-only
Protection of channel permission overwrites from unauthorized changes		not explicitly documented in our sources

6. Message content#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Detection of malicious/scam links and NSFW images	scam links + image scanning via Sightengine	also unwraps shortened links and detects IP grabbers
Removing other-server invite links (advertising) from messages		"Advertisement" is part of their Heat system — unclear if it operates at the same message-content level
Mass-mention-in-one-message protection		part of their Heat system
Restricting the allowed content type per channel (images-only, links-only...)		not explicitly documented in our sources

7. Server identity#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Protection of the server's name/icon from unauthorized changes		Backups cover general server settings, but active protection (detect+revert) isn't explicitly documented
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

8. Advanced role protection#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Interlinked role-group protection (smart multi-attempt escalation)		not explicitly documented in our sources
Automatic re-application of punishment roles (mute/jail) if removed without authorization		not explicitly documented in our sources
Preventing specific roles from being given to members blocked from them		not explicitly documented in our sources
Role-level protection exceptions (not just specific named users)	user-level only, currently	not explicitly documented in our sources

9. Public registry & architecture#

Feature	Versa	Wick
Public, cross-server registry (standalone site) linking "who added a bot" to "the bot that later destroyed a server"		incident handling appears server-scoped
Option for a single-server dedicated bot instance		not documented as a publicly available option
A custom command-permission system independent of Discord's own permissions	/cmd command	not explicitly documented in our sources

10. 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.

11. What's free vs. what's paid?#

	Versa	Wick
Minimum paid plan	Fully free for core protection	≈ $5.99/month for Premium
Backups (automatic + manual + precise)	fully free	requires Premium per their docs
Mass webhook & emoji protection	free	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, including backups, is entirely free with us, while several core modules at Wick (backups, webhooks, any-role dangerous permissions) require Premium.

Also see Versa vs Security Bot, or the full protection feature overview.