The compliance-grade home for communities.
Discord owns informal communities but has zero compliance or work features. Slack has the enterprise machinery, but per-seat pricing puts a 10,000-member community at roughly $87,000 a year — communities get priced out. Aanty is free, open, and governed by default.
Pick one: free and social, or governed and priced out.
Discord's moderation stops at bans and bots. Slack's compliance tooling exists, but the per-seat bill scales with your members, not your revenue — the two things a community rarely has.
Free or governed — never both
Discord has no compliance tooling, no audit trail, and no moderation depth for anything sensitive. Slack has the machinery, but a 10,000-member community costs roughly $87k a year in seats — communities and nonprofits get squeezed out first.
Free, open, and governed
Free unlimited members for open communities, a real moderation suite, and contractual price stability — so growing a community never turns into a budget line that kills it.
Free, unlimited, and easy to find.
Open communities should never hit a member cap or a paywall to be found.
Free & unlimited members
No per-seat cost and no member cap for open communities — the thing Slack pricing makes impossible.
Public discoverability
Discoverability pages so people can find and join a community without an invite chain.
Join links
Shareable join links for channels and communities, with expiry and usage limits an admin controls.
Tiered roles
Member, moderator, and owner tiers with granular permissions — not a flat, all-or-nothing role.
A moderation suite built for communities, not an afterthought.
Discord-class moderation depth, with the audit trail an enterprise buyer expects.
Report queues
Member reports route to a real queue moderators can triage, not a DM to an admin.
AI pre-moderation
Spam, toxicity, and scam detection flags content for human review before it spreads.
Timeout & ban
Native member timeout and ban tooling, scoped to a channel or the whole community.
Raid protection
Rate limits and join-pattern detection to blunt coordinated pile-ons automatically.
Full audit
Every moderation action is logged, append-only — defensible if a decision is ever challenged.
Forums, events, and RSVPs — native, not bolted on.
Forum channels
Threaded, topic-first channels for discussion that outlives a scrolling feed.
Events calendar
A shared calendar for community events, AMAs, and live sessions.
RSVP
Native RSVP on events, with attendance visible to organizers.
Sensitive Community Mode.
For health, mental-health, education, nonprofit, and other vulnerable communities. One toggle applies the full bundle; individual overrides are audited.
Sensitive Community Mode
Reusable for health, mental-health, education, nonprofit, and vulnerable-community tenants — applied as one bundle instead of a dozen settings someone forgets to turn on.
- Pseudonymity — display identity is decoupled from billing and auth identity.
- Crisis escalation to humans — crisis-content detection routes to trained moderators, never an AI auto-reply.
- Mandatory moderation queue — sensitive content is held for review before it is visible.
- Stricter reporting & audit — tighter rate limits and safety blocklists apply automatically.
Price stability, creator monetization, and a mobile-first wedge.
Contractual price stability
The Hack Club incident — a nonprofit community handed a five-figure ultimatum — is a permanent scar on Slack's trust with communities. Aanty signs multi-year price locks instead.
Paid memberships
Creator monetization for community owners — paid tiers and subscriptions, native to the platform.
Education tier
The guardian model: guardians see announcements, never DMs — a learner's private messages stay private.
Emerging-market wedge
A mobile-first free tier, multilingual by default — a structured work layer above WhatsApp-only messaging.
Bring your community to aanty.
Free for open communities, governed for sensitive ones, and priced so growth is never the thing that breaks your budget.