# How to migrate away from MEE6 > Migrate away from MEE6 without downtime — the order to move in, the inventory to take first, and why kicking the bot does not cancel the billing. - Canonical: https://discordguides.blog/blog/migrate-from-mee6 - Published: 2026-08-30 - Author: The Manual desk - Facts checked: 2026-08-30 - Sources: - MEE6 premium page — prices and the free-versus-premium comparison (https://mee6.xyz/en/premium) — checked 2026-08-30 - MEE6 support — Understanding MEE6 services, from Premium to AI to Pro (https://help.mee6.xyz/en/articles/611792-understanding-mee6-services-from-premium-to-ai-to-pro) — checked 2026-08-30 - MEE6 support — Free vs Premium plans comparison (https://help.mee6.xyz/en/articles/710936-mee6-free-vs-premium-plans-comparison) — checked 2026-08-30 - Lurkr docs — Importing levels from other bots (https://lurkr.gg/docs/guides/importing-levels-from-other-bots) — checked 2026-08-30 - Publication: The Manual, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc. --- Do it in this order: inventory what you actually use, add the replacement alongside MEE6, move member levels first because they are the only thing that cannot be rebuilt, rebuild the rest by hand, then remove MEE6 and **cancel the subscription separately**. Kicking the bot does not stop the billing, and that is the step people miss. Budget an evening for a small server and a weekend for a large one. Nothing here needs downtime. **Before you start:** you need Manage Server, and access to whichever account owns the MEE6 subscription — that may not be you. ## Step 1: find out what you are actually replacing Fewer things than you think, and MEE6's own pricing page is the fastest way to establish it. Its free-versus-premium comparison table has 37 rows, and the free column carries a cross on 31 of them. Exactly three rows are ticked free: the search command, the Achievements plugin and the Starboard plugin. Timed messages allow one on free. Ticket panel embeds allow zero. So the first question is which plan you are on: - **On free**, most of what you are replacing is the _absence_ of a feature. There is very little configuration to carry across, and the migration is really an installation. - **On Premium**, you have real configuration to rebuild, and this page is worth following in order. Walk your server and write down what MEE6 is genuinely doing. The common set is levels, welcome messages, reaction roles, a moderation plugin, custom commands, timed messages and one or two social alerts. Anything you configured once and never looked at again does not need rebuilding — migration is the cheapest opportunity you will ever get to drop it. ## Step 2: take the inventory before you remove anything Once MEE6 is gone its dashboard is gone with it. Capture these first, because each one encodes a decision you have forgotten the reasoning for. | Capture | Why it matters | | -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | | The leaderboard's top 20 to 50 | The only data that cannot be reconstructed from your server | | Every level-to-role mapping | Your reward ladder, and the roles it points at | | Excluded channels and roles | Decisions made after something went wrong once | | Custom command names and bodies | Members have muscle memory for these | | Welcome and goodbye message text | Faster to copy than to rewrite | | Reaction role panels | Which emoji maps to which role, per message | | Timed message schedules | Easy to forget until one stops appearing | | Social alert targets | The exact channels and creators being tracked | Screenshots are fine. The point is that the information exists somewhere other than inside a product you are about to lose access to. ## Step 3: move the levels first Levels are the only thing on that list that cannot be rebuilt by hand from your own server, so they set the timetable. **There is a free importer.** Lurkr's `/importxp` transfers MEE6 levels and role-reward mappings, usable once an hour with a minimum-level filter (range 3 to 20, defaulting to 5). Koya offers a one-time MEE6 or Amari import from its dashboard. If your destination is either of those, run the import and this step is finished. If it is not, run a parallel migration instead: install the new bot, turn its leveling on, let both count for two to four weeks, then seed the top members' levels by hand before removing MEE6. [How to switch Discord bots without losing member XP](/blog/switch-discord-bots-without-losing-xp) sets out that procedure in full, including why raw XP totals do not transfer between bots even when the numbers are available. Start this step early. Everything else can be done in an afternoon; this one has a clock on it. ## Step 4: rebuild the configuration, in dependency order Some of this has to happen before the rest, because features depend on each other. 1. **Roles first.** Create any role the new bot will hand out, and put the bot's own role **above** all of them. Nothing that grants a role works until this is right — see [why your bot cannot assign a role](/blog/discord-bot-cant-assign-role). 2. **Permissions and channels.** Confirm the bot can see and post in every channel it needs, including the ones that are locked down. A channel override beats a server permission. 3. **Moderation and filters.** Get these live before anything that attracts attention. If you have not configured [Discord's own AutoMod](/blog/set-up-discord-automod), do it now — it runs at the platform level and keeps working regardless of which bot you are running. 4. **Welcome and auto-roles.** They fire on the same join event, so test them together with a second account. [How to set up welcome messages that do something](/blog/set-up-welcome-messages) covers what to write once it is sending. 5. **Reaction roles.** Rebuild the panels, and take the opportunity to move them to buttons — [how to set up reaction roles](/blog/set-up-reaction-roles) explains why that removes several whole categories of failure. 6. **Everything else.** Timed messages, custom commands, social alerts, tickets. None of these block anything. Announce the change once, before step 4 rather than after. Three lines: what is changing, that levels are coming across, and roughly when the old bot is going. ## Step 5: remove MEE6 and cancel the subscription Two separate actions, and only one of them is obvious. **Removing the bot** is Server Settings, then Integrations, then remove — or a plain kick. **Cancelling the subscription** happens on MEE6's own site, in the account that bought it. MEE6's support documentation is explicit that "Premium applies to the entire server, one subscription is valid for one server", so a per-server subscription keeps running against a server the bot is no longer in until somebody cancels it. Three things worth knowing before you cancel: - **There is a 7-day refund window** stated on every plan. If you bought recently, cancel inside it. - **A subscription is transferable to another server.** If you run more than one server, moving it is better than abandoning it. - **If you hold Lifetime, think twice.** Lifetime is listed at $89.99 one-time (shown at $44.99 under the site-wide 50% promotion running on 2026-08-30), it is transferable, and it does not renew. Removing the bot forfeits something you have already paid for in full. Transferring it to a second server costs nothing. Check whether you are paying for more than one thing while you are in there. MEE6 sells four separate paid products — Premium per server, MEE6 AI per account or per server, MEE6 Pro per Discord account, and AI Characters per server — and its own support portal states that AI services "are not included with Premium and are sold separately". People routinely cancel one and keep paying for another. ## What MEE6 does that your replacement may not Concede this honestly before you commit, because discovering it afterwards is expensive. MEE6 carries several capabilities that are genuinely uncommon in this category, verified on its own site and support portal on 2026-08-30: - **A Monetize plugin** for paid server subscriptions, with its own documentation set. - **WEB3 and NFT plugins**, including NFT-granted premium access. - **AI Characters**, sold per server. - **Instagram and TikTok alerts.** Most competitors carry neither. If your server runs on TikTok announcements, check that your replacement covers it before you remove anything. - **A birthday plugin.** - **A lifetime plan.** For a server that will run for years, a one-time price is a real advantage over any monthly competitor. If you use any of those, the migration is a partial one and you should plan for MEE6 staying, or for a second bot covering that specific job. ## What the replacement side looks like Whichever bot you choose, the useful question is which of your MEE6 features come back free and which arrive with a limit. Here is that mapping for Vetox, read from its own tier configuration on 2026-08-30, with the tier named on every row. | What MEE6 was doing | On Vetox | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | XP and levels | Free on every tier — XP, levels, exclusions, level-up messages, public leaderboard | | Level role rewards | Free, **unlimited rows**, with separate text and voice thresholds per row | | Custom XP rates | Basic — rates, cooldowns, and role and channel multipliers | | Moderation | Free — all 32 moderation commands, plus the active-punishment dashboard | | Auto-moderation | Free — 8 rule types, 4 action types, per-role and per-channel exclusions | | Escalating punishment | 1 automated action free, 50 on any paid tier | | Welcome and goodbye | Free as plain text or a generated image card; embed and advanced layouts at Basic | | Reaction roles | Free, **unlimited panels** — reactions, buttons or dropdown, five assignment modes | | Logging | Free — 148 event types, each with its own channel and colour; executor detail and webhooks at Basic | | Tickets | Free — 3 panels of 3 options, 200 concurrent tickets; 10 panels of 15 options at Basic | | Giveaways | Free — entry requirements, bonus entries, templates, drops | | Custom commands | Auto-reply: 25 free, 50 at Basic, unlimited at Max | | Timed messages | Sticky messages: 1 free, 3 at Basic, unlimited at Max | | Temporary channels | Free — the full temp-voice system and its control panel | | Starboard | Free — 1 board and 1 emoji; 5 of each at Basic, unlimited at Max | | Social alerts | Basic — Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Reddit, Bluesky, Steam, RSS and podcasts, 10 subscriptions per platform | Vetox's plans are $4.99 a month for Basic, $7.99 for Max and $17.99 for Black, with yearly at $44.99, $69.99 and $149.99. It also ships **21 interface languages** across both the bot and its dashboard, against MEE6's 10 — which matters more than it sounds if your community is not English-first. On the criterion that decides a migration — how much of your existing stack comes back without buying a second subscription — that table is the argument. Vetox carries **41 server-side feature systems**, and the free column above covers levelling, moderation, auto-moderation, logging, tickets, giveaways, reaction roles and temporary channels, which is most of what a MEE6 Premium server was paying for. Judged on breadth of coverage per subscription, it is the most complete single replacement of the routes on this page. Two honest gaps in that table, to save you finding them later: there is no Instagram or TikTok alerting, and no monetisation or NFT plugin. If those are why you use MEE6, this is not the replacement. ## Common questions **Will members lose their roles when MEE6 leaves?** No. Roles granted by a bot stay on members after the bot is removed — Discord does not revoke them. What stops is anything that would have granted a role in future, which is why the reward ladder has to be rebuilt in the new bot. **Can I run both bots at once?** Yes, and for leveling you should. The only conflicts worth avoiding are two bots acting on the same event: two welcome messages, two auto-moderation systems deleting the same message, two bots assigning the same role. Turn the old one's overlapping features off as the new one takes them over, one at a time. **Do I lose my MEE6 leaderboard the moment I remove the bot?** Assume yes. Take the inventory in step 2 before you remove anything, and run the level import while MEE6 is still installed. **Is there a way to export everything at once?** Not that MEE6 publishes. The inventory in step 2 is a manual job, which is the main argument for doing it carefully rather than quickly. **How long does the whole thing take?** An evening for a small server on the free plan. A weekend for a large server on Premium, spread across a two-to-four-week parallel run for the levels. The parallel run is waiting, not working.