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Aegitox vs SigmaShake

Bottom line

Aegitox has a free plan plus paid upgrades, while SigmaShake is paid. You can run SigmaShake 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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SigmaShake

Paid

Best for Teams using Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code Copilot

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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.

SigmaShake

SigmaShake

SigmaShake intercepts tool calls from agents running in Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, and Gemini CLI, evaluating each action against a rule set before it executes. The vendor states decisions resolve in roughly 85 ms using deterministic native evaluation — no model inference, no GPU, no token spend. Rules follow an Allow/Ask/Deny pattern, where Ask routes the action to a human approval queue rather than blunting everything with a hard block. The desktop app installs in about 30 seconds with no admin rights; the CLI drops into any shell or CI hook chain. Self-hosting is supported, which means the guardrail layer stays offline and never sends your code or commands to a third-party model.

AttributeAegitoxSigmaShake
PricingFreemiumPaid
Price$14.99/mo$5/mo
Pricing checkedOct 20, 2026Jul 1, 2026
Free trialNot statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNo
Has APINoNo
Self-hosted optionNoYes
PlatformsDiscordWindows 10+, macOS 14+, Linux (Ubuntu 22.04+ / Fedora 38+ / Pop!_OS)
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.
  • Deterministic local evaluation at roughly 85 ms per check, so you avoid the latency and per-token cost of routing every agent action through a model-based policy guard.
  • Ask mode holds a risky action in a human approval queue rather than blocking it outright, which means your agent keeps moving on safe tasks while you review the one call that needs a second look.
  • PreToolUse hook integration for Claude Code and MCP server integration for Cursor, Codex, and VS Code Copilot, so the guardrail wires into agents your team is already running without a custom shim.
  • Self-hosted deployment with no model inference, so your code, file paths, and shell commands never leave the machine — critical for teams with data-handling obligations.
  • Per-user install with no admin or UAC rights required, which means individual developers can adopt it without waiting for IT to sign off on an organization-wide rollout.
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.
  • No API is exposed, so teams building custom agent runtimes or embedding safety checks inside their own orchestration code cannot call SigmaShake programmatically — they wrap the CLI binary, which introduces a process boundary and complicates error handling at scale.
  • The SHAKEDOWN benchmark that positions SigmaShake as the top-ranked guardrail was authored by SigmaShake, and competitor scores were modeled from public docs rather than measured runs; teams doing their own evaluation should run independent tests before treating the benchmark as a neutral comparison.
  • Fleet management and team-level policy enforcement are paid-only features, which means a free-tier team cannot centrally audit what rules individual developers are running — a gap that matters the moment more than one engineer is using an AI coding agent on shared infrastructure.
  • Windows support is the primary release target based on page emphasis and download prominence; macOS and Linux builds are listed but community reports on edge cases outside Windows are sparse, so teams running heterogeneous developer environments should validate on non-Windows machines before committing.

Made up your mind?

Aegitox

Freemium

Best for Large Discord guilds needing sub-12ms moderation

Visit Aegitox See full review

SigmaShake

Paid

Best for Teams using Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code Copilot

Visit SigmaShake See full review

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