Guild and Vulcan compared
How Guild and Vulcan differ on Discord and Telegram gating, wallet verification, chains, NFT traits, AI agents and pricing, and when each is the better fit.
Guild and Vulcan both give Discord members roles based on the tokens and NFTs they hold. Vulcan is a Discord bot from PREMINT for NFT communities on EVM chains: members verify inside the server without connecting a wallet, and the same bot runs captcha, sales bots, tickets and giveaways. Guild is a community home on guild.xyz: it checks onchain activity, social accounts and Guild activity as well as holdings, gates Telegram groups and pages too, and adds points, quests and an MCP server for AI agents, with a flat price per guild.
The Vulcan details on this page come from its own site, docs and pricing page, as of November 2026. Check the sources for anything that may have changed.
At a glance
| Guild | Vulcan | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A home for your community on guild.xyz: roles with requirements that unlock rewards and pages | A Discord bot for token-gated roles and server management, set up from the Vulcan dashboard |
| How members verify | They sign in on guild.xyz, connect their wallets and Discord account, and claim their roles | They press Verify in the server. Vulcan uses wallets already proved through OpenSea, PREMINT or another Vulcan server; otherwise members edit a marketplace bio or send a transaction from a wallet to itself. No wallet connection or signature |
| Discord gating | Yes, on the Free plan: Guild's bot gives and removes Discord roles | Yes |
| Telegram gating | Yes, on the Free plan | No. Vulcan's docs point to Collab.Land for Telegram |
| Onchain requirements | 50 EVM mainnets: token and NFT balances, token IDs, contract queries, wallet activity, EAS attestations; holding history on Ethereum and Base | 28 EVM chains: contract, OpenSea collection, quantity, trait, ERC-20, token ID, staking (Ethereum only) and combined rules. No Solana or Bitcoin Ordinals |
| Other requirements | X, Discord, Telegram, GitHub, Farcaster, YouTube, email, POAP, World ID, allowlists, scores, points and more | A custom webhook to your own API, and a check that the member's X profile picture is their NFT |
| Other tools | Points and leaderboards, quests, gated pages, forms, NFT rewards, member analytics | Captcha, sales bot, art and floor bots, support tickets, giveaways, onboarding flows, member dashboard |
| AI agents | Guild MCP server (beta) at https://mcp.guild.xyz/mcp, free on every plan |
A Members API that reads members, wallets and roles, on Pro and above. Its docs mention no MCP server |
| Pricing | Free plan; Starter $29, Pro $99, Growth $399 a month per guild | Since 1 October 2026, priced by verified members (those holding a role Vulcan manages): Free up to 100 members and 3 rules, Growth $20 a month up to 1,000, Pro $50 a month up to 5,000, Enterprise on request. Every feature is on every plan |
When to choose Guild
- You gate by more than holdings. A Guild role can ask for a token balance and an X follow, a Discord account of a certain age or a first transaction months ago, combined with All, Any one or Some. See Requirements.
- You also gate Telegram or a web page. The same role can unlock a Discord role, a Telegram group and gated pages, all on the Free plan. See Token-gate a Telegram group.
- You want quests and points. Give points when members earn a role, rank them on a leaderboard, and let balances unlock further roles. See Points.
- You want an AI agent to run it. Connect Claude, Codex, Cursor or another MCP client and ask it to create roles, requirements and rewards. See Agents.
When to choose Vulcan
- You don't want members to connect a wallet. Vulcan's flow never asks for a wallet connection, a signature, a DM or an external link. Vulcan says it already knows over 500,000 collectors, who verify straight away.
- You gate by NFT traits. Vulcan's trait rules give roles by an NFT's attributes. Guild checks collections and token IDs, not traits.
- You want one bot for running the server. Captcha, sales, art and floor bots, tickets, giveaways and onboarding are free on every Vulcan plan.
- Your community is small or mid-sized and only needs holder roles. Role verification is free up to 100 verified members, then $20 a month up to 1,000 and $50 up to 5,000.
You can run both: give each bot its own Discord roles.
Moving from Vulcan to Guild
- Create a guild at /create, then choose Manage guild to open the admin panel.
- Open Spaces & roles and choose New role for each Vulcan rule.
- Under Who gets it, press Requirement and pick the matching type:
- NFT Contract, OpenSea Collection and Quantity rules: NFT Balance, with the collection's chain, contract address and amount
- Specific Token ID rules: NFT Balance with a Token ID, or Multiple Token IDs for a list
- ERC-20 rules: Token balance, with ERC20 balance under What to check
- Staking rules: a contract query on the staking contract
- Custom webhook rules: Custom API call (Pro plan and above). Guild puts the wallet in your URL in place of
<ACCOUNT_ID>and checks a field of the JSON answer, so your endpoint may need a small change. - Combined rules: put both requirements on one role and set Members should meet to All.
- Under Unlocks, press Add reward and pick Discord. Connect your server, invite the bot, and choose Existing role to keep the Discord role your members already know. Turn off the matching Vulcan rule first: Vulcan's FAQ notes that verification bots remove roles they did not assign, so only one bot should manage each role.
- In your server's settings, drag the Guild.xyz bot role above every role Guild manages.
- Choose View as member to check the roles, then post your guild's link in the server. Members connect their wallets and Discord account on Guild and claim their roles.
Keep trait and X profile picture rules, captcha, sales bots and tickets on Vulcan: Guild doesn't replace those.
FAQ
Is Guild a free alternative to Vulcan? Discord and Telegram gating are on Guild's Free plan. Paid plans, from $29 a month per guild, add features such as hidden and secret roles, the member CRM, analytics and forms; see Plans.
Do members have to connect a wallet on Guild? Yes. Members sign in with a wallet, email or social account, then connect the wallets your requirements check. Guild then refreshes the data in the background and updates their roles.
Can Guild gate by NFT traits? No. Guild checks collections and token IDs. If a trait belongs to a fixed set of tokens, you can list their IDs under Multiple Token IDs.
Does Guild support Solana? No. Guild's onchain requirements work on 50 EVM mainnets; see Supported chains. Vulcan's chains are EVM only as well.
Sources
Vulcan facts as of November 2026: