Free vs Pro: what's included

A plain comparison of the free plan and Pro, and exactly what each one unlocks.

HoneyGate has two plans: a genuinely useful Free plan, and Pro for communities that want the advanced tools. You only ever pay for Pro if you choose to upgrade, and you're never charged for a feature you haven't turned on.

The short version

• Free ($0). Everything you need to run a welcoming, active community: roles, welcomes, points & XP, all the games, basic giveaways, a shop, and the admin panel. The developer tools (API, webhooks, widgets) come with it too.
• Pro ($9.99/month, or $99.90/year, about $8.33/month). Adds the growth and power-user features: quests, tickets, starboard, invite tracking, scheduled announcements, auto-moderation, alt detection, and more. Automatic levels and role rewards stay Free (see below).

What's in Free

• Roles. Let members self-assign roles from a button menu, and auto-grant a role when someone joins or verifies.
• Welcome messages. Greet new members with a custom message and starter roles.
• Points & XP. Reward activity (chatting, voice, reactions) with XP, plus the network-wide Points system.
• Automatic levels & role rewards. Members level up as their XP grows, and you choose which roles they unlock at each milestone. Other bots charge for this; HoneyGate doesn't.
• Milestone celebrations. The bot posts an in-server congrats the first time a member reaches a level milestone you pick (5, 10, 25…). Each one is celebrated exactly once, never a ping or a DM.
• Games. All six: QUIZR, CALLR, SLAYR, EXPOSR, CAPTR, and CRACKR.
• Giveaways. Run basic giveaways with a click.
• Shop & tipping. Let members spend XP/Points in a shop and tip each other.
• The admin panel & member portal. The full web dashboards for you and your members.
• A basic embed builder for clean, templated announcements.
• Developer tools. A REST API, outbound webhooks, and embeddable widgets. These are part of Free because they're infrastructure, not an upsell.
• For crypto communities: wallet verification and basic token/NFT gating (up to two token gates and two NFT gates) are included free.

What Pro adds

Everything in Free, plus:

• Quests. Daily, weekly, and one-time goals with rewards.
• Tickets. A private support-ticket system.
• Starboard. A "best of" channel for top-reacted messages.
• Invite tracking. See who's bringing new members in.
• Scheduled announcements. Write now, post later, on a schedule.
• Whitelist manager and launch countdowns for organised launches.
• Auto-moderation. Filter invite links, spam, excessive caps, and banned words.
• Alt detection. Flag likely duplicate accounts.
• Churn alerts & win-back. See which active members have gone quiet, then re-engage them in-server with one click (a comeback post or a comeback role). HoneyGate never DMs your members.
• Reputation passport. The cross-server reputation profile, /passport, and reputation gates: automatically grant a role when a member's cross-server reputation reaches a tier you pick. Everyone's reputation display stays free; Pro is what lets you reward it with roles. Pro also unlocks trust-weighted rewards: give trusted regulars slightly better giveaway odds and a small bonus on quest XP. It's opt-in per giveaway or quest, and never a lock-out. Every entrant keeps a real chance, and nobody earns less than the base reward.
• Trust at the door. The moment someone joins, a staff channel you pick gets their standing across the whole HoneyGate network: tier, score, reach, time on the network, and a heads-up if another community confirmed the account as a duplicate. It's information for your team, and it never acts on its own.
• Make it yours (white-label). Give the bot a custom nickname in your server, remove the "HoneyGate" footer from its messages, and give your rank cards your server's look with a color theme and accent of your choice.
• A full embed builder and a live event stream for integrations.
• For crypto communities: combo & trait-based gating, buy/sell/list transaction alerts, holder snapshots, airdrops, revenue-sharing, mint & floor alerts, NFT galleries, and more.

Which should you start on?

Start on Free. It's not a crippled trial. Most small and mid-size communities run happily on it forever. Upgrade to Pro when you want quests, tickets, starboard, invite tracking, or the growth tools. There's no commitment, and you can cancel any time (see Managing your subscription).

Ready to upgrade? See How to upgrade.