Self-hosted is free. Here is what it costs.

There are good open-source Discord MCP servers. If you can run one, you should consider it. This is what running one means.

	Self-hosted	DiscordMCP, €4.99 a month
Setting it up	A machine, Node or Python, a token in a file, an MCP transport, and a reverse proxy with a certificate if your assistant is not on the same computer.	Invite our bot, or paste a token. About a minute, or five.
Keeping it running	Updates, restarts, a certificate that expires, a dependency with a security advisory.	Our job. Each customer’s instance is its own process on our machine, and the release is rolled out one at a time.
What the assistant may do	Usually everything the token can. Limiting it is your own code.	Named tools, three tiers, and anything that cannot be undone is off until you switch it on. A ceiling on how many irreversible changes may happen in ten minutes, and nobody can raise it.
Knowing what happened	Your logs, if you kept them.	A journal channel on your own server with every change and every refusal.
Who holds the token	You. On the machine you chose.	Your own instance, in a file only it can read. The portal erases it the moment the instance confirms it started.
Dependencies	Whatever the project pulls in. Check the lock file.	None. Node’s standard library and nothing else, in every one of our processes.

If you have a machine, keep an eye on it and read lock files, self-hosting is the right answer and we will not pretend otherwise. If you would rather spend the evening on your server than on the server, that is what this is for. 2 Discord servers are in the price.

No card. Ends on its own.