GiveawayBot Alternatives: Giveaway Bots With Entry Requirements

What GiveawayBot does well

GiveawayBot's home page shows a small command set that is easy to learn. /gstart takes a time, a winner count and a prize. /gcreate runs an interactive setup. You can end a giveaway early, delete it, list the running ones and reroll. /gsettings changes the embed color and the entry button emoji. The page also says the project is open source.

For a quick prize drop in a small server, that is hard to beat. There is not much to learn and little that can go wrong.

Where you may outgrow it

• Entry rules. The home page I read does not list requirements such as roles or message counts. If it supports them, its own docs will say so, so check before you rule it out.
• Premium is unclear. The page has a Get Premium button that leads to a donate page, with no list of perks or prices, so I cannot tell you what it adds.
• One tool. It does giveaways only, so a server also needing tickets or a shop adds more bots.

1. Noxyr

Best for: giveaways with rules, in a bot you may already use for other jobs.

/giveaway create takes a prize, a duration like 30m, 2h, 1d or 1w, and 1 to 100 winners. The full option list is on the giveaway tools page:

• Message requirement: a minimum number of messages as counted by the bot.
• Role requirements: all of several roles (AND) or any one (OR).
• Bonus entries for members of a chosen role, and winner roles granted automatically.
• Reroll with /giveaway reroll or the right-click Apps menu, plus a participants list.
• Reaction goals: a button counter with progress toward a target, no winners.

Members who miss a requirement are told which one. The dashboard sets one embed color, images and wording for all giveaways in the server.

Where GiveawayBot may be ahead: it is a single-purpose bot with a very short learning curve, and it is open source. Noxyr has more options, which means more to configure.

2. Other giveaway bots

Several bots specialize in giveaways, and some add scheduling or integrations. Our best giveaway bots list compares them by feature.

3. Doing it by hand

For a one-off, you can run a reaction giveaway and pick a winner yourself. The winner picker tool helps keep the draw fair. It gives you no entry rules or reroll history.

Which giveaway rules are worth having

Requirements protect your prize from giveaway hunters. A role requirement keeps entries to people who verified or boosted. A message requirement keeps out accounts that joined five minutes ago, though it only counts messages as the bot saw them, so it will not count history from before you added it.

Bonus entries reward your regulars, such as boosters or subscribers. Keep them small. If one role gets ten entries, everyone else will notice and stop entering.

Winner roles save you a manual step. If the prize is a role, the bot grants it when the draw happens. For the prize itself, if you are giving away something that needs delivery, run it through a ticket so you have a record. Plan your reroll rule in advance: say in the post how long a winner has to claim.

Comparison table

Fairness and trust

Post your rules in the giveaway itself: who can enter, when it ends and how winners are contacted. Use a clear claim window and say what happens if nobody answers. A reroll with a stated rule looks fair, and a reroll with no rule looks like a favor. Keep prizes legal and within Discord's rules, and never ask winners for passwords or payment details.

How to switch

1. Let running giveaways finish. Do not move a giveaway between bots.
2. Add Noxyr and run /giveaway create in a test channel with 2 minutes on the clock.
3. Add your rules. Try a role requirement and see what a member who misses it sees.
4. Brand the embed in the Giveaway Custom page of the dashboard.
5. Remove GiveawayBot after the last old giveaway ends.

More reading: the giveaway bot page, how to run a giveaway and requirements and rerolls. Ready to try it? Add Noxyr.