Bond vs Dyno
Dyno has one of the strongest free automod setups on Discord. Bond is an agent that manages the whole server in plain language. Where each one wins.
We build Bond. Everything about Dyno below comes from its own public pricing page, feature pages and FAQ as of August 2026.
The short version: Dyno's free automod is genuinely strong and it is the main reason to install Dyno. Bond is not an automod product; it is an agent that manages the whole server, moderation included, in plain language.
What Dyno is good at, honestly
Dyno's automod is mature and most of it is free. Word filters, link filters, invite filters, spam and mention floods, caps, image spam, with per-channel and per-role exemptions. It has been refined over years against real abuse, and it does not ask you to pay to block invite links.
That is not a small thing. Plenty of bots in this space put basic filtering behind a tier. Dyno does not, and if automod is the reason you are installing a bot, Dyno is a serious answer.
The rest of the product is a dashboard of modules in the familiar shape. As of August 2026 pricing runs from $5.99 to $7.99 per month, per server. Levelling is premium-only as of August 2026. Social alerts sit on the top tier.
One more thing from Dyno's own FAQ, worth knowing because people assume otherwise: it states that Dyno does not provide anti-nuke protection. If protecting against a compromised admin account is on your requirements list, that is a gap you should plan around rather than assume is covered.
Dyno has no AI features. It is a deterministic module bot and it is not pretending to be anything else, which is refreshing.
What Bond is
Bond is an agent that lives in your server. You mention @Bond and describe what you want in plain language. It plans, tells you what it is about to do, asks before anything it cannot undo, then acts.
@Bond time out anyone posting invite links for an hour and log it in #mod-log @Bond add an AutoMod rule blocking invite links, except for mods @Bond ban the user who just raided #general and clear their messages @Bond post in #mod-log every time someone is banned or unbanned, with the reason @Bond put a 30 second slowmode on #general for now @Bond which roles can ban or kick, and what changed in the audit log this week?
The last two are the ones that show the difference. Slowmode on demand and an audit question are not modules anywhere. They are just things you want to happen, and with an agent you say them.
Behind it is a tool catalog that reaches nearly everything Discord exposes: channels, roles and permissions, messages, members, moderation, threads, events, emoji, webhooks, voice, persistent data, and automation flows on event or schedule triggers.
Automod: the honest comparison
This is where Dyno wins and it is worth being precise about why.
Dyno runs its own filtering layer. It sees message content, applies its own rules, and acts. That layer is years old, tuned against real spam, and free.
Bond does not have its own message-filtering layer, and it cannot have one, because Bond does not hold Discord's Message Content intent. It cannot read the text of ordinary messages in your server. That is a deliberate privacy position and it has a direct consequence: Bond cannot be a content-scanning automod.
What Bond does instead is configure Discord's own native AutoMod, which runs inside Discord and does not require any bot to read your messages:
@Bond add an AutoMod rule blocking invite links, except for mods
Discord's native AutoMod is capable and it is improving, but as of August 2026 it is not as deep as Dyno's own filtering layer, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. If message-content filtering is the job, Dyno does it better.
Bond handles the moderation that is not content filtering: timeouts, kicks, bans, bulk cleanup, mod logging, slowmode, verification gates, permission audits, and anything that involves acting on people and structure rather than scanning text.
Side by side
| Dyno | Bond | |
|---|---|---|
| Automod content filtering | Its own layer, deep, mostly free | Configures Discord's native AutoMod; no own filtering layer |
| Reads member message content | Yes, that is how its automod works | No; does not hold the Message Content intent |
| Configuration | Dashboard modules | Plain language in Discord, or the same chat in a web dashboard |
| Levelling | Premium-only, as of Aug 2026 | Built on per-server data storage on request |
| Social alerts | Top tier | Not a feature |
| Anti-nuke | Its FAQ states it does not provide this | Not a feature; Bond's own actions are permission-bound and consented |
| AI | None | The agent is the product |
| Server structure work | Not the focus | Channels, categories, roles, permissions, bulk operations |
| Automations | Module settings | Event and scheduled flows described in a sentence |
| List price | $5.99 to $7.99/mo per server, as of Aug 2026 | Pro $7.99/mo, Max $19.99/mo; server plans $7.99 and $19.99; every feature free |
Our shorter take lives at /alternatives/dyno.
Permissions, and why the models differ
Dyno's safety model is a settings page: a rule takes effect when you save it, and it does the same thing every time.
Bond acts on request, so it needs a different model:
- No Administrator. Every action maps to the specific Discord permission it requires.
- Bond cannot exceed you. Every action is checked against the asking member's own permissions and role position. A moderator cannot use Bond to ban or edit above their own role. Reads only return what that member can already see.
- Deletions confirm per target. A Confirm or Deny bound to the exact resolved channel, category or flow. A saved "always allow" does not substitute for it. Deleting a category asks explicitly about the channels inside.
- Widening
@everyoneaccess gets a separate confirmation that a saved permission cannot satisfy. - Bond never widens permissions to unblock itself. If it lacks access, it says so and asks you to grant it.
- Bulk work is previewed. A change touching many targets is planned first, shown with counts and names and exclusions, and approved once as a batch. Deletes still name every target.
None of that is anti-nuke protection and we are not going to imply it is. It is a bound on what Bond itself can be used to do.
Running both, and what it costs
Unlike most comparisons in this category, the sensible answer here is often "both".
Dyno does content filtering. Bond does structure, permissions, automation, slash commands, moderation actions and the ongoing work of running the place. They do not overlap much, and they do not fight: Bond does not read messages, so it is not competing for the same job.
If you already run Dyno for automod, keep it. Add Bond for the everything else.
The cost of doing that is smaller than it looks, because Bond has no module to rent. Dyno charges per server, per month, with levelling and social alerts on paid tiers; Bond puts every feature on the free plan and charges for token allowance and recurring automation capacity instead. Its server plans are the closest shape to Dyno's per-server pricing, funding one pool the whole server draws from with a per-member share so one person cannot empty it. Full detail is on pricing.
When not to pick Bond
If content-based automod is the whole reason you want a bot, Bond is the wrong tool and Dyno is the right one. If you need anti-nuke protection, neither of these is your answer and you should look at something built specifically for it. If you want social alerts, Bond does not have them. If your staff would rather click checkboxes than write sentences, a dashboard product will get more use in practice. And if you dislike confirmation prompts, Bond asks before anything it cannot undo, with no setting to disable it.
Related reading: Bond vs MEE6, MEE6 alternatives in 2026, moderate your server with plain English rules, configure AutoMod rules.