Editorial disclosure: RestoreCord publishes this page and is evaluated in it, so treat our conclusion as a vendor opinion rather than an independent audit. Competitor capabilities are drawn from their own published documentation and were not benchmarked by us. Capabilities, limits, and prices change — verify vendor-specific details with the linked primary sources before making a decision.
TL;DR
Ranking criteria: rule depth at the gate, what the authorization is worth later, plan caps, member-facing privacy controls, and published policy clarity. We did not benchmark detection accuracy, so nothing here rests on one tool catching more alt accounts than another.
What a verification gate actually does
Verification is often sold as a yes/no door. In practice it is a funnel, and each stage is a decision you configure — which means the quality of a verification platform is really the quality of the decisions it lets you express.
Verification funnel
- Clicked the verify button1,000
Raw traffic hitting your verification page
- Completed Discord OAuth842
Real Discord accounts, consent recorded
- Passed firewall rules731
IP, ASN, country and user-agent rules applied
- Passed VPN and alt checks664
Proxy, VPN and duplicate-account signals
- Granted the verified role664
Recoverable later if the server is lost
Rule depth is the real difference
All three products can block a VPN. Only one lets you write the condition that says this ASN, from these countries, with this user-agent pattern, unless the member has the bypass password. That gap is what separates a blocklist from a rules engine.
Firewall decisions during verification
The ranking
RestoreCord
The deepest rule set, and the most valuable authorization
RestoreCord ranks first because its verification gate is backed by a genuine rules engine rather than a set of toggles, and because the authorization collected at that gate has no cap on how many members it can later recover. Bypass passwords also solve the problem every strict rule set creates: a trusted member caught by your own filter can still get in without you weakening the rule for everyone.
| Key Features |
|---|
| OAuth2 verification with prior-authorized member recovery |
| Firewall engine with IP, country, ASN, and user-agent rules |
| VPN/proxy detection and alt-account signals |
| Point-in-time snapshots including message history (50 messages per channel on Free, up to 2,000 on Enterprise) |
| Scheduled automatic snapshots on eligible plans |
| Custom branded bots with slash commands |
| Server Discovery listing, reviews, and product showcase |
| Migration tracking with live progress reporting |
| Dashboard in 16 languages, plus a documented REST API |
Free
€0/month
- 1 server
- 1 snapshot
- 50 messages/channel
- 6-hour member-pull cooldown
Premium
€5/month
- 5 servers
- 5 snapshots
- 200 messages/channel
- VPN/proxy and alt detection
Business
€10/month
- 25 servers
- 30 snapshots
- 500 messages/channel
- Advanced firewall and attachments
Enterprise
€20/month
- 100+ servers
- 50 snapshots
- 2,000 messages/channel
- Multi-server member pulling
| Pros |
|---|
| The only tool here that restores members, not just server structure |
| Verification, firewall, snapshots, and recovery configured from one dashboard |
| Free plan includes the full core workflow — verification and member recovery |
| Firewall evaluates IP, ASN, country, VPN, and user-agent conditions at verification time |
| Custom branded bots available on every plan, including Free |
| Cons |
|---|
| Anti-nuke is recovery-oriented — snapshots and rollback rather than live action interception |
| Advanced firewall rules and attachment backup start on the Business plan |
| Member recovery only reaches members who authorized before the incident |
VaultCord
Comparable gate, slower recovery on the free tier
VaultCord is a genuine competitor at this layer — OAuth verification, CAPTCHA via Turnstile, account-age checks, VPN and proxy blocking, alt-account detection, and country/IP/ASN blocklists. It ranks second because the filtering is blocklist-shaped rather than composable, and because its free-tier pull cooldown is slower when the authorization finally has to do its job.
| Key Features |
|---|
| OAuth member verification and recovery |
| CAPTCHA via Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Account-age checks |
| VPN, proxy, and alt-account detection |
| Country, IP, and ASN blocklists |
| Mobile apps for iOS and Android |
Free
$0/month
- 1 server on the plan card; 2 in the feature matrix
- 1 custom bot
- 10-hour pull cooldown
- Basic backup
Premium
$4.97/month
- 5 servers
- 3 custom bots
- 1-hour pull cooldown
- IP/email logging
Plus
$9.97/month
- Unlimited servers
- Unlimited custom bots
- No pull cooldown
- Automated backups
| Pros |
|---|
| Full OAuth verification with unlimited restorable members on published plans |
| CAPTCHA option that RestoreCord does not offer |
| Native mobile apps for managing verification |
| Cons |
|---|
| 10-hour free-tier pull cooldown against RestoreCord's 6 |
| Blocklists rather than composable, ordered rules |
| No user-agent conditions or bypass passwords |
| Free server capacity differs between its own plan card and feature matrix |
Restorio
The budget gate, with a cap on what it protects
Restorio does verification cleanly and cheaply, and its Gold plan at $1.50/month is the lowest serious price in this category. It ranks third because the free tier caps recovery at 1,500 members — meaning the verification you collect stops being useful past that point — and because its filtering is described as bot and scammer detection rather than configurable rules.
| Key Features |
|---|
| OAuth2 member verification |
| 1,500 restorable members on Free; unlimited from Gold |
| Bot and scammer detection on some plans |
| 5 / 25 / 50 / 75 backup slots by plan |
| 1 / 2 / 5 / 10 custom bots by plan |
Free
$0/month
- 1 server
- 5 backups
- 1,500 restorable members
- No message or automatic backups
Gold
$1.50/month
- 5 servers
- 25 backups
- Unlimited restorable members
- 150 messages/channel
Diamond
$2.99/month
- 10 servers
- 50 backups
- 300 messages/channel
- Automatic backups
Emerald
$7.99/month
- 20 servers
- 75 backups
- 500 messages/channel
- Automatic backups and custom URL
| Pros |
|---|
| Cheapest paid tier of the three |
| Clean OAuth flow with no member marketplace or token import |
| More backup slots per plan than either competitor |
| Cons |
|---|
| Free plan caps recoverable members at 1,500 |
| No composable firewall rules or user-agent conditions |
| Custom bots are capped per plan rather than included |
| Ceiling of 20 servers |
Setting up a gate that works
Verification setup
- 1
Lock the door first
Remove @everyone's View Channel from protected channels before publishing verification.
- 2
Publish the verify message
Explain what the member authorizes and why. Clarity raises completion rates.
- 3
Add rules gradually
Start with VPN and proxy detection. Add ASN and country rules only against observed abuse.
- 4
Test with a spare account
Verify from a phone on mobile data. Confirm the bypass password works before you need it.
- Do not start strict. Every rule you add costs some legitimate joins. Add them in response to abuse you have actually seen.
- Set the bypass password on day one. It is what stops a strict rule from turning into a support queue.
- Read your decision logs. Rules tuned from evidence beat rules tuned from intuition every time.
- Only one gate. Two verification bots means two prompts and roughly half the completions.
Our verdict
RestoreCord
All three verify. RestoreCord wins because it gives you the most control over who passes the gate and puts no ceiling on what that authorization is worth afterwards.
- Composable IP, country, ASN, and user-agent rules rather than blocklists
- Bypass passwords so strict rules do not lock out trusted members
- No cap on restorable members at any tier, including Free
- 6-hour free-tier pull cooldown against VaultCord's 10
- Point-in-time snapshots in the same dashboard as the verification gate
Where that flips: VaultCord offers CAPTCHA via Turnstile and native mobile apps, neither of which we have. Restorio is meaningfully cheaper if your server sits comfortably under its 1,500-member free recovery cap and you do not need rule-level control.
A verification gate is worth exactly as much as what it leaves behind. Choose the one whose authorization still helps you on the day the server is gone. Start free, or read the full setup guide.
Frequently asked questions
Sources and verification
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