Guild and Combot compared
Combot moderates Telegram groups with captcha, anti-spam, analytics and automations; Guild decides who may join, letting in token and NFT holders and removing them when they stop qualifying.
Guild and Combot both work inside Telegram groups, but they solve different problems. Combot is a group management bot: captcha, spam filters, the CAS anti-spam ban list, analytics, automations, scheduled posts and an AI assistant for Telegram groups and channels. Guild decides who may be in a group: members connect a wallet and their accounts on guild.xyz, and Guild's bot, @Guildxyz_bot, lets in those who meet a role's requirements, such as holding a token or NFT, and removes them when they stop. Combot's site doesn't list token or NFT gating, and Guild has no spam filters or chat analytics, so many crypto communities can run both.
The Combot details on this page come from its own site, API docs and pricing, as of November 2026. Check the sources for anything that may have changed.
At a glance
| Guild | Combot | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A home for your community on guild.xyz: roles with requirements that unlock rewards, including Telegram groups | A bot for managing Telegram groups and channels: moderation, analytics, automations, scheduling and AI |
| Platforms | Telegram, Discord and Guild's own pages | Telegram groups and channels |
| Who gets in | Members who meet a role's requirements get a one-time invite link; the bot removes them when they lose the role (guide) | Anyone who joins, filtered by captcha, and banned on join if they are on the CAS spammer list |
| Token and NFT gating | Yes, on the Free plan: token and NFT balances, wallet activity, contract queries and attestations on 50 EVM mainnets; holding history on Ethereum and Base | Not listed on its site |
| Spam and raids | No message filtering; keeps out bots with requirements that are hard to fake, such as wallet age, account age or World ID (guide) | Captcha, spam filters, warnings and bans, under-attack and read-only modes, mass removal by join date, name or username, and the CAS ban list |
| Analytics | Member analytics on paid plans (Members and analytics) | Messages, members, joins, leaves and top users; 32 days of history free, 100 on Pro, 1 year on Business |
| Points and XP | Points rewards, leaderboards and points requirements for higher roles | XP levels with custom ranks, reputation and a leaderboard Mini App |
| AI agents | Guild MCP server (beta) at https://mcp.guild.xyz/mcp, free on every plan |
Combot AI answers members in the chat (pay as you go, $1 per 1,000 tokens); an MCP server at https://mcp.combot.org/mcp, with tools gated by the chat's plan |
| Pricing | Free plan; Starter $29, Pro $99, Growth $399 a month per guild | Free (€0); Pro €9.99 a month or €99.99 a year, for non-commercial use; Business €100 a month or €900 a year, with full API and commercial use |
When to choose Guild
- Only holders should be in the group. Guild checks each member's wallets against a role, gives a one-time invite link to those who qualify, and removes members who sell or transfer below the requirement. This is on the Free plan. See Telegram groups.
- Membership depends on more than tokens. A role can combine a token balance with an X account older than a date, a GitHub account, a World ID, an allowlist or another Guild role, using All, Any one or Some. See Requirements.
- You want to stop farmers before they join. Guild asks for history that costs money or time to fake, such as a first transaction long ago or a balance held without a break.
- You also run Discord or a website. The same role can unlock a Discord role, a gated page or points as well as the Telegram group.
When to choose Combot
- You need day-to-day moderation. Combot filters spam, issues warnings and bans, takes member reports and can lock a chat in under-attack or read-only mode. Guild doesn't moderate messages.
- You want to block known spammers. CAS bans users with a spam record the moment they join a CAS-secured group, before they post.
- You want chat analytics. Combot tracks messages, joins, leaves and top users, and can combine several chats into one view.
- You post on a schedule or automate replies. Combot's scheduler plans one-off and recurring posts, and its automations build auto-replies and custom commands from triggers and conditions.
Using Combot and Guild together
Give each bot its own job: Guild decides who may be in the group, and Combot keeps the conversation clean.
- Add Combot to your group and set up captcha and moderation in Combot as usual.
- Create a guild at /create. In the admin panel, open Spaces & roles, choose New role, then Empty role, and name it, for example "Holders".
- Under Who gets it, press Requirement, pick Token balance or NFT Balance, choose the chain, paste the contract address, set the minimum and press Add requirement. To raise the bar for bots, add a wallet activity or account age requirement too.
- Under Unlocks, press Add reward and pick Telegram. Press Add Bot to Group and add @Guildxyz_bot as an admin with Invite Users via Link and Ban Users.
- Copy the Group ID the bot posts, paste it into Group ID and press Add reward. Send
/statusin the group to check the bot's rights. - Make the group private and stop sharing old invite links, so the only way in is the link Guild gives a qualifying member.
- Share your guild's link instead of the group's link. Guild doesn't track people who were in the group before; ask them to join through the guild, then remove the rest yourself. Combot's mass removal can remove members by join date after you review the list.
Combot can also remove members, for example with its inactivity kicker on Pro. Decide which removals each bot handles so members aren't surprised.
FAQ
Does Combot do token gating? Combot's site and API docs don't list token or NFT gating. Its features are moderation, anti-spam, analytics, automations, scheduling and AI.
Can Guild replace Combot? Not for moderation. Guild controls who joins and who is removed when they stop qualifying, but it doesn't filter messages, run captcha or report chat activity.
Is Telegram gating free on Guild? Yes. Telegram rewards and token and NFT requirements are on the Free plan. Paid plans add hidden and secret roles, member analytics and forms; see Plans.
Can an AI agent manage both? Each has its own MCP server. Guild's, in beta and free on every plan, manages one guild with the permissions you grant, can't create or delete guilds, and stops within 15 seconds of being revoked. See Agents.
Sources
Combot facts as of November 2026: