Discord bot hosting
Host your Discord bot, deployed straight from GitHub
discord.js, discord.py or whatever you wrote it in. Point us at the repository, put the token in the environment, and the bot logs in and stays logged in. Every push redeploys it, the console shows what it printed, and your first bot is free.
- First bot free, no card
- Always on, no sleep timer
- Nine ready-made bots, no code
- Europe and North America
- Status
- Online
- Tier
- Starter · 1 GB · 1 vCPU
- Region
- Europe West
- Auto-deploy
- main · 4f2a9c1
No code needed
Eight bots that take a Discord bot token and at most one more field, plus a ninth whose settings live on a web page. Pick one in the panel and it runs. We build and maintain all nine in the open, so each card is a public repository you can read and fork when you want it to do something else.
Role bot
Members give themselves roles from a button menu you post with /rolemenu.
View the sourceServer status bot
Your game server in Discord: the player count in the bot's presence, /status and /players for everyone, /start and /stop for staff.
View the sourceTicket bot
A button opens a private channel for the member, your support role sees it, and a transcript lands in a log channel when it closes.
View the sourceWelcome bot
Welcomes new members with your own message, hands them a role, says goodbye when they leave.
View the sourceModeration bot
Warnings that are remembered, timeouts, kicks, bans, purges and slowmode, every action written to the channel you pick.
View the sourceGiveaway bot
Giveaways members enter with one button: it ends on time, picks the winners and rerolls on request.
View the sourceLevel bot
Experience for chatting, levels, /rank and /leaderboard, level-ups announced where you choose.
View the sourceLogging bot
A full audit log: joins, leaves, deleted and edited messages, bans, role and nickname changes, voice activity.
View the sourceBot with a dashboard
A welcome and log bot you configure on a web page behind Discord login instead of with slash commands.
View the sourceThere is no music template. Music bots run here on the Pro tier, with FFmpeg and Opus already in the runtime: what a music bot needs.
From repository to online
- 1
Point us at the repository
Public or private. The FadeHost GitHub App connects it in one click, or paste the URL and a read-only token. No repository yet? Pick a ready-made bot and fill in one field.
- 2
Put the token in the environment
The bot token and any other secrets go in the environment table, never in the code. We read the repository, install the dependencies, run your build if there is one and start the bot.
- 3
Push to ship
Every push to the branch redeploys the bot. Watch it log in on the live console, see which commit is running, and roll back to an earlier one when a push goes wrong.
The token never goes in the code
Paste it into the environment table on the bot's page, one KEY=value per line, values masked once they are saved.
DISCORD_TOKEN=the token from discord.com/developers
CLIENT_ID=your application id
GUILD_ID=the server you test inYour code reads them the usual way: process.env.DISCORD_TOKEN in Node.js, os.environ["DISCORD_TOKEN"] in Python. Change a value and save, and the bot restarts with it.
What every bot gets
The panel around the bot, not a bare container. All of it is on the bot's own page.
Push to deploy
Connect the GitHub App once and every push to the branch reinstalls and restarts the bot. Private repositories work through the App or a read-only token.
Live console
Everything the bot prints lands on its page as it happens, from the install output to the line your command handler logged a second ago.
Crash doctor
When a bot dies in a loop we read the logs and name the cause in plain words, usually within a minute: an invalid token, a privileged intent you never turned on, a package that is not installed.
Environment variables
DISCORD_TOKEN and the rest live in a table in the panel with their values masked. Edit, save once, and the bot restarts with the new values.
Deploy history and rollback
Every deploy is listed with its commit. Roll back pins the bot to an older one and redeploys it; unpin when the fix is pushed.
Eight runtimes
Node.js, Python, Bun, Deno, Go, Java, PHP and Ruby. discord.js and discord.py are the common two; we pick the runtime from what is in the repository.
Voice built in
FFmpeg, libopus and libsodium are in the runtime, so a voice or music bot needs nothing installed by hand. Give it the Pro tier for the headroom transcoding wants.
Scheduled commands
Run a command inside the bot's container on a cron schedule: a nightly cleanup, a stats dump, a reminder job. Ten per bot, with the output kept.
Usage chart
CPU and memory over the last 24 hours on the bot's page, so a bot sitting at its memory limit is obvious before it starts restarting.
MySQL database
Paid bots get a MySQL database at no extra cost. One click creates it and the connection details land in the bot's environment.
Four regions, one private network
Europe West (France), Canada East (Montreal), USA West (Oregon) or Asia Pacific (Singapore). From there the bot reaches your databases and your game servers by name on your own private network.
A web address
Give the bot a name and it answers at https://name.fadehost.app over HTTPS: a dashboard, an OAuth2 redirect URL, a webhook receiver. Free addresses sleep when idle, paid ones stay on for $2 a month.
Dockerfile and Railpack builds
Paid bots can build into an image instead of running from source: your Dockerfile, or Railpack when there is none.
Backups
A daily backup for $1 a month per bot, kept seven days, restored in one click.
Always on, locked down
Non-root, hard memory and CPU limits, and an automatic restart if the bot falls over. No sleep timer, no coins, nothing to renew.
Pricing
Per bot, per month, on the same bill as your game servers and apps. Yearly is ten months for twelve.
Free $0/mo | Starter $2/mo or $20/yr | Standard $3/mo or $30/yr | Pro $6/mo or $60/yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAM | 256 MB | 1 GB | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| CPU | 0.25 vCPU | 1 vCPU | 1 vCPU | 3 vCPU |
| Disk | 3 GB | 5 GB | 10 GB | 20 GB |
| Database | not on this tier | MySQL included | MySQL included | MySQL included |
| Web address | Sleeps when idle | +$2/mo always on | +$2/mo always on | +$2/mo always on |
| Daily backups, 7 days | +$1/mo | +$1/mo | +$1/mo | +$1/mo |
| Image builds | not on this tier | Dockerfile, Railpack | Dockerfile, Railpack | Dockerfile, Railpack |
| Bots | 1 per verified account | As many as you pay for | As many as you pay for | As many as you pay for |
| Start free | Add Starter | Add Standard | Add Pro |
- Always on, no sleep timer, no coins, no daily renewals
- GitHub auto-deploy, live console, crash doctor
- Deploy history and rollback, scheduled commands, usage chart
- Environment variables, private network, four regions
What a typical setup costs
Your first bot
Free tier
$0
256 MB and a quarter of a CPU, always on, no card. One free bot per verified account.
A ticket bot with a database
Starter
$2/mo
1 GB, 5 GB of disk and a MySQL database at no extra cost. $20 a year if you pay yearly.
A music bot
Pro
$6/mo
4 GB and 3 vCPU, with FFmpeg, libopus and libsodium already in the runtime.
Next to the usual suspects
What the smallest bot that never sleeps costs at the hosts people move from, from their pricing pages in September 2026.
| Host | Smallest always-on bot | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| FadeHost | 1 GB, always on | $2/mo | First bot free; a bot needs no web address |
| Render | 0.5 GB, always on | $7/mo | The free tier sleeps after 15 minutes |
| Heroku | 0.5 GB, always on (Basic) | $7/mo | Eco is $5 and sleeps after 30 minutes; no free tier since 2022 |
| Railway | Usage billed | $5/mo + usage | About $10 per GB-month and $20 per vCPU-month; the free plan is a $1 credit |
Moving from one of them? Railway, Heroku and Glitch each have a page on what changes.
Already hosting a game server? Add bots to the same subscription in the plan builder. One account, one bill.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the free Discord bot hosting actually free?
- Yes. Every verified account gets one bot free, forever: 256 MB of RAM, a quarter of a CPU and 3 GB of disk, always on. No credit card, no coins to grind, no daily renewal clicks and no sleep timer. Paid tiers are $2, $3 and $6 a month, or $20, $30 and $60 a year.
- Which languages and libraries can I use?
- Node.js, Python, Bun, Deno, Go, Java, PHP and Ruby. Most bots here are discord.js or discord.py, and anything on those runtimes works the same way. We read the repository to pick the runtime and install with the package manager your lockfile names.
- Does it work with pnpm or yarn projects?
- Yes. A pnpm-lock.yaml, a yarn.lock, a bun lockfile or a packageManager pin all install with that exact package manager, so a preinstall hook such as only-allow pnpm is respected rather than fought. If package.json has no start script we find the entry file and run that instead of failing.
- How does deploying from GitHub work?
- Connect the FadeHost GitHub App in one click, pick the repository, and put DISCORD_TOKEN in the environment variables. We clone, install and start the bot, and every push to its branch redeploys it. The bot's page shows which commit is running.
- Can I deploy from a private repository?
- Yes. Install the GitHub App and pick the repository, or add a read-only access token when you create the bot. We fetch the code on every deploy and never store your credentials.
- Can I host a bot without writing any code?
- Yes. Eight ready-made bots deploy from the panel with a bot token and at most one more field: role, server status, ticket, welcome, moderation, giveaway, level and logging. A ninth, the bot with a dashboard, also wants the OAuth2 client id and secret of the same Discord application so people can sign in to its settings page. Each one is a public FadeHost repository you can read and fork.
- Can I run a music bot?
- Yes, on the Pro tier: $6 a month or $60 a year for 4 GB and 3 vCPU, which is the headroom audio transcoding needs. FFmpeg, libopus and libsodium are already in the runtime, so voice works without installing anything. The 256 MB free tier is sized for utility bots.
- Can my bot have a website or dashboard?
- Yes. Give the bot a name and it answers at https://name.fadehost.app over HTTPS: a dashboard, OAuth2 redirect URLs, a webhook receiver or a status page. The bot listens on the PORT variable and we route the name to it. On the free tier that address sleeps when nobody is using it and wakes on the next request; on a paid tier it stays on for $2 a month or $20 a year.
- Can my bot use a database?
- Yes. Paid bots include a MySQL database at no extra cost: one click creates it and the connection details are injected into the environment. It sits on your private network, where your other apps and your game servers can reach it too.
- What happens when my bot crashes?
- It restarts on its own, and the crash doctor reads the logs and explains the cause, most often an invalid token or a privileged intent that was never turned on. The live console keeps the output, so you can see what the bot said last.
- What happens when a push breaks the bot?
- Open the bot's deploy history, find the last commit that worked and roll back to it. The bot redeploys pinned to that commit while you fix the code; unpin when the fix is pushed.
- What are the limits on each tier?
- Free: 256 MB, 0.25 vCPU, 3 GB of disk, one bot. Starter, Standard and Pro: 1, 2 and 4 GB of RAM, 1, 1 and 3 vCPU, and 5, 10 and 20 GB of disk. Every bot has a hard memory and CPU limit, and the 24 hour usage chart on its page shows how close it is running.
- Where does my bot run?
- Europe West (France), Canada East (Montreal), USA West (Oregon) or Asia Pacific (Singapore). Pick the region closest to you and to the game servers or databases the bot talks to.
- Can I run more than one bot?
- One bot is free per verified account. Beyond that, add a bot tier for each one in the plan builder: $2, $3 or $6 a month depending on how much memory it needs, on the same subscription as your game servers.
Read on
Bot hosting documentation
Create a bot, the token, build and start commands, auto-deploy, databases, the limits per tier.
Minecraft server bot
Put your server's player count and its start and stop commands in Discord.
App hosting
The same runtime for web apps, APIs, workers and static sites.
Free bot hosting, explained
What free means elsewhere, coins and sleep timers included, and what it means here.
Host a discord.py bot
requirements.txt, intents and tokens, and why keep_alive hacks can go.
Host a discord.js bot
The package.json contract, slash command registration, a production checklist.
24/7, and what that takes
Why sleeping dynos and keep-alive pingers fail a bot.
Music bots
What runs on the Pro tier, what Lavalink needs, and why there is no music template.