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Aegitox vs Selvedge

Bottom line

Aegitox has a free plan plus paid upgrades, while Selvedge is free. Selvedge is open source and Aegitox is not. You can run Selvedge on your own machine or server; Aegitox is hosted by the vendor.

Which one should you try?

Aegitox

Freemium

Best for Large Discord guilds needing sub-12ms moderation

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Selvedge

Free

Best for Teams running long-term AI-coded codebases with turnover and long review cycles

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Pricing, capabilities and platforms side by side. Prices are as of the "Pricing checked" date in the table.

Aegitox

Aegitox

Aegitox intercepts Discord messages before they are read, runs them through a dual MiniLM-L6-v2 semantic pipeline locally, and replaces hostile content with target-aware de-escalation placeholders in 2–12ms — bypassing cloud API round-trips entirely. The free tier covers real-time toxicity interception and raid defense. Automated karma-based penalties, incident reports, and the one-click DM appeal system that routes staff review are paid-only features. The appeal system is the architectural detail that matters most for enterprise use: the bot acts autonomously, but a human signs off on the final penalty — so you are not handing discipline entirely to a model. The system has no API and no self-hosted option, so teams that need on-premise deployment or want to pipe moderation signals into their own data stack will hit a hard wall.

Selvedge

Selvedge

Selvedge is a local MCP server that AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) call as they work, logging the reasoning behind every change into a SQLite file that lives next to your code under .selvedge/. Queries are entity-scoped — you ask about users.email or deps/stripe, not line numbers — so the answer surfaces in the same terms you search in. The vendor describes zero telemetry, no accounts, and no external servers; everything stays on disk. The wall appears when your team needs cross-repo provenance or wants to pipe this data into an existing observability stack — Selvedge emits records but does not integrate with those systems out of the box.

AttributeAegitoxSelvedge
PricingFreemiumFree
Price$14.99/mo—
Pricing checkedOct 20, 2026Not checked yet
Free trialNot statedNot stated
Open sourceNoYes
Has APINoNo
Self-hosted optionNoYes
PlatformsDiscordLinux, macOS, Windows (via Python)
Released—2026-05
Pros
  • Dual MiniLM-L6-v2 semantic pipeline runs locally with no cloud API call during inference, so moderation decisions are not blocked by external API latency or outages.
  • Unicode and markdown evasion detection via mathematical intent mapping rather than character matching, which means the filter catches obfuscated content that bypasses every regex-based AutoMod configuration.
  • Target-aware placeholder replacement (40 stubs per threat category, 120 total) substitutes hostile content with de-escalation text matched to the specific threat vector — so the message thread continues without a visible gap or a bot warning banner.
  • Karma-based automated penalty engine with a built-in DM appeal system that routes to staff for final review, which means admins get autonomous enforcement without fully removing human judgment from the discipline loop.
  • Free tier includes the core AI interceptor and raid defense with no keyword list to maintain, so a guild can move from manual moderation to AI interception without any ongoing filter upkeep.
  • Reasoning is captured in the same context window that produced the change — not reconstructed from the diff afterward — which means the intent survives even when the original prompt, the developer who wrote it, and the model version are all gone.
  • Entity-scoped queries (selvedge blame payments.amount, selvedge diff users --since 30d) let you ask about the things you actually search for rather than hunting through line-level history, so a schema audit that would take an afternoon takes a single command.
  • Fully local storage in a SQLite file with no accounts, no telemetry, and no external servers, which means sensitive schema and API change history never leaves the machine — a hard requirement in compliance-heavy environments.
  • Provider-agnostic MCP integration wires into Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot through a single setup command, so teams already using any of those agents get provenance logging without changing their workflow.
  • Full-text search across all logged events (selvedge search "stripe") and changeset grouping (selvedge changeset add-stripe-billing) mean you can reconstruct the full scope of a feature build after the fact, which is the audit trail that git log alone cannot provide.
Cons
  • No API is exposed, so teams that want to pipe moderation events, karma scores, or incident data into an external dashboard, SIEM, or data warehouse cannot — the data stays inside the Aegitox system and there is no documented export path.
  • Self-hosted deployment is not available, which means any organization with a compliance requirement to keep message content on-premise — legal, healthcare, or enterprise security teams — cannot use this tool and will need to evaluate self-hostable alternatives instead.
  • The automated penalty engine and appeal workflow are paid-only features, so guilds that deploy the free tier and hit a raiding event get interception but no automated disciplinary escalation — moderators must handle timeouts and bans manually until they upgrade.
  • System prompt customization for the replacement text layer is a paid-only feature, so free-tier communities get the default placeholder pool regardless of tone or community norms — a formal professional server and a casual gaming server get the same de-escalation language.
  • Selvedge has no API and no export integration — teams that need to push reasoning records into an existing compliance platform, a data warehouse, or a centralized observability system must write their own pipeline against the SQLite file, adding a maintenance surface that grows with audit requirements.
  • The store is scoped to a single local project directory; teams running multi-repo codebases where an agent change in one repo depends on a change in another get no cross-repo provenance, and at that point teams managing compliance across repositories will move to a dedicated audit-log solution that operates at the organization level.
  • Selvedge only captures what the agent explicitly logs through the MCP tool call — if an agent skips the log_change call, makes changes outside a supported tool, or the MCP connection drops mid-session, that change has no recorded reasoning and the gap is invisible in the history.

Made up your mind?

Aegitox

Freemium

Best for Large Discord guilds needing sub-12ms moderation

Visit Aegitox See full review

Selvedge

Free

Best for Teams running long-term AI-coded codebases with turnover and long review cycles

Visit Selvedge See full review

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