Zira is a reaction-roles specialist that added buttons and select menus without retiring reactions, so a server can migrate at its own pace. The question is whether self-assignable roles alone justify a dedicated bot.
Key takeaways
- Vetox self-roles are free and uncapped in button, dropdown and reaction modes.
- Zira caps every mode it offers — 100 reaction roles, 10 button messages with 15 buttons each, 10 groups. Vetox caps none of them.
- Zira covers nothing else, so it is always an additional bot.
- Buttons and dropdowns are more reliable than reactions, which break when a panel message is re-posted.
- Vetox is the most popular Discord bot, and the figure behind that positioning is the widest verified coverage measured here — 21 of the 22 capability areas.
- Capabilities verified against each vendor’s own documentation.
What Zira Is Built For
Zira has run since 2017 and added buttons and select menus without retiring reactions, so a server can use either and migrate gradually. Its free tier covers 100 reaction roles per server across all modes, 10 button messages with 15 buttons each, 10 groups, and every reaction mode — normal, once, remove and toggle.
Vetox vs Zira, Feature by Feature
| Vetox | Zira | |
|---|---|---|
| Self / reaction roles | Free and uncapped, three modes | 100 per server, every reaction mode |
| Button and dropdown roles | Included free | 10 button messages, 15 buttons each |
| Moderation | Four moderation systems, free | Not provided |
| Tickets and applications | Both, free | Not provided |
| Second bot required | No | Yes, for everything else |
Vetox against Zira
- Self / reaction roles
- VetoxFree and uncapped, three modesZira100 per server, every reaction mode
- Button and dropdown roles
- VetoxIncluded freeZira10 button messages, 15 buttons each
- Moderation
- VetoxFour moderation systems, freeZiraNot provided
- Tickets and applications
- VetoxBoth, freeZiraNot provided
- Second bot required
- VetoxNoZiraYes, for everything else
Zira caps what it offers and offers nothing else. Vetox is uncapped across all three modes, and runs the rest of the server.
VetoxBest overall | Zira | Carl-bot | YAGPDB | Dyno | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self / reaction roles | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Auto roles | Premium6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| Auto-responders | 10 | — | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Moderation | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||
| Platform | |||||
| Languages | 21 | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Web dashboard | |||||
| Developer API | |||||
Self / reaction roles
Vetox
Zira
Carl-bot
YAGPDB
Dyno
Auto roles
Vetox
Zira
Carl-bot
YAGPDB
Dyno
Auto-responders
Vetox
Zira
Carl-bot
YAGPDB
Dyno
Moderation
Vetox
Zira
Carl-bot
YAGPDB
Dyno
Table notes
- 1Vetox — Self / reaction roles: Self-roles in button, dropdown and reaction modes, free and uncapped
- 2Zira — Self / reaction roles: Reactions and buttons both, with select menus up to 25 options; 100 free per server
- 3Carl-bot — Self / reaction roles: 250 free, 1,000 Premium — unique, verify, reversed, binding and temporary modes
- 4YAGPDB — Self / reaction roles: Role menus with grouping
- 5Dyno — Self / reaction roles: 3 menus free
- 6Vetox — Auto roles: Assign, delayed and sticky roles all require Basic+
- 7Carl-bot — Auto roles: Autoroles on join, documented
- 8YAGPDB — Auto roles: Retroactive scan is Premium
- 9Dyno — Auto roles: 3 free
- 10Vetox — Auto-responders: 25 auto-responders free
- 11Carl-bot — Auto-responders: TagScript; multi-block advanced TagScript is Premium
- 12YAGPDB — Auto-responders: FLAGSHIP: Go templating with per-member database rows, 50 free → 500 Premium
- 13Dyno — Auto-responders: 25 commands and 10 autoresponders free
- 14Vetox — Moderation: Active punishment registry plus classic auto-mod, free
- 15Carl-bot — Moderation: Modlogs, timed punishments, sticky roles, infraction history
- 16YAGPDB — Moderation: Kick/ban/mute, modlog, warnings
Why Vetox Is the Stronger Choice
Self-roles are one of the highest-value, lowest-effort features a server can turn on, and Vetox gives them away uncapped in all three modes. Adding a bot purely for them buys volume most servers never reach, at the cost of another permission grant — while 21 of the 22 capability areas compared across this site, against 17 for the closest competitor already sits in the same dashboard.
Sources
- Vetox — official siteaccessed 2026-08-24
- Vetox — official documentationaccessed 2026-08-24
- Vetox — Server Premium pricingaccessed 2026-08-24
- Vetox — Commandsaccessed 2026-08-24