Comparison
Most sites ranking for “Discord templates” don’t have any. They have a generator that prints a list of channel names, or a builder that invents a structure for you. Below is what separates the three, what each one wants from you first, and the case for this gallery.
Competitor figures checked 30 August 2026.
The word covers a catalog, a text generator, and an AI builder. The difference decides whether you get a working server or a list of homework.
A catalog of real servers somebody built, ran, and published as a Discord template. You pick one and it’s applied. That’s every channel, every category, the role list, the role order, and the permission overwrites, exactly as they were on the server it came from. This gallery is one. discordtemplates.me is the other, and it publishes about 5,000 of them.
A form that prints text. Gatecord’s server template page takes a name and a category, produces a channel and role list, and tells you what to do with it: “Copy and create the channels & roles below for your Discord server.” Nothing is applied to anything and no Discord template is produced. It’s a to-do list for an evening of clicking.
Software that constructs a structure rather than reproducing one. BuildMyDiscord publishes 15 house layouts and an AI builder that writes a server from a description, on paid Pro and Ultra plans. VibeBot describes 14 layouts by server type and offers to spin the chosen one up. Both are real products, and neither is a catalog. The structures come from the vendor, not from a community that used them.
Every listing here is a Discord template of a server that existed, submitted by the person who ran it, with the structure it actually used. The detail page renders the whole thing before you apply anything. You see the categories in order, every channel under them, and the role list top down the way Discord shows it.
What a gallery can’t do is invent something for you. If you want a structure written to your description rather than borrowed from a server that used it, an AI builder does something this page doesn’t. No amount of catalog makes up for it.
Check this before you browse. It’s the step nobody advertises, and it’s where the two real galleries differ most.
On discordtemplates.me, choosing a template opens a dialog rather than a template: “Before you can use the server template, please login to our website.” Getting the layout means signing in to a third-party site with your Discord account first, on a page whose entire content is otherwise public.
BuildMyDiscord’s AI builder is a paid feature, sold on Pro and Ultra tiers with a monthly credit allowance. The generated layouts are the product, so the good ones sit behind the plan. That’s a reasonable way to sell software, and worth knowing before you start.
Here the template code is printed on the detail page, in the open, next to the structure it produces. You can read the whole layout without an account, copy the code without one, and apply it with a bot you add the way you add any bot. There’s no sign-in between a search result and the thing it promised.
Counted from each site’s own sitemap and pages on 30 August 2026. The two AI builders are left out of the row count on purpose. Their 14 and 15 layouts aren’t a catalog and aren’t sold as one.
| Site | What it is | Templates | To use one |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xenon | Gallery | 5,800+ | Nothing. The code is on the page |
| discordtemplates.me | Gallery | About 5,000 | A sign-in to their site |
| BuildMyDiscord | AI builder | 15 house layouts | A paid plan for the builder |
| VibeBot | Builder | 14 house layouts | Their bot |
| Gatecord | Text generator | None | Nothing, and nothing is applied |
| Discord itself | Native feature | Any template link | Nothing, but new servers only |
The gallery figure comes from the same API the listing uses rather than being typed into the page. It’s rounded down, so it’s a floor rather than a claim.
Discord has published server templates since 2020. They’re free, they need no bot, and if you’re starting from nothing they may be all you need. There’s one limit, and it’s the reason this gallery is a bot rather than a list of links.
A Discord template link creates a server. It can’t be applied to one that already exists, so it’s no help to a community with members in it, a history, and a layout that has stopped working. That’s most of the people who go looking for a template.
The native flow takes the whole template. Xenon takes options. You can apply the roles and leave the channels, keep the existing channels rather than replacing them, or skip the settings. /template load name_or_id: code options: !channels is a real command, and it’s what makes a template usable on a server that has things worth keeping.
Applying a template replaces the channels and roles it touches, which is a large change to make on a live community. Run /backup create first and it’s undoable. That sequence is the actual argument for using a bot for this. It’s on every detail page in the gallery as step two of three.
Nothing about the template changes. Xenon lets you apply one somewhere other than an empty server, and undo it if the result isn’t what the screenshot suggested.
A gallery that publishes whatever is submitted fills up with servers advertising themselves, listings whose description is a Discord handle, and layouts that are one channel called general. Submissions here are reviewed automatically before they go live, and a moderator can take anything down. A listing that has been refused stays refused rather than being re-judged after an edit.
Some listings that would have passed elsewhere aren’t here. The check stops readers from applying a layout that turns out to be an advert.
The few things that decide it, and how Xenon does on each.
Every detail page renders the categories in order, the channels under each one, and the full role list, top down the way Discord shows them. Our direct competitor’s detail pages run about 155 words under a heading that reads, on every one of them, “Template”.
Each listing names the person who built the server and links to everything else they have published. A template is somebody’s work and the page says whose.
Eight tags and eight verticals, so a search for a Minecraft server or a FiveM roleplay layout lands on the subset rather than on the whole catalog sorted by popularity.
Discord’s own template feature can’t do this. It’s the reason a community with members and history can use any of this at all.
Take a backup, apply the template, and if the layout is wrong the old one comes back. Nothing else in this category offers a way back.
Using a template needs no account on this site, no plan, and no credits. Premium exists and buys message history in backups, which has nothing to do with templates.
Two cases where we’d send you elsewhere. One of them needs no third-party site at all.
If no published server matches what you’re imagining, a catalog can’t help and an AI builder can. BuildMyDiscord writes a structure from a description on its paid tiers. That’s a different product, and we don’t have one.
Discord’s own template feature creates a new server from a template link, free, with no bot involved. If that’s your whole requirement, use it. The gallery is still worth browsing for the layout, but you don’t need us to apply it.
Competitor catalogs, plans and page copy were read from their own live pages and sitemaps on 30 August 2026. Anything in this category changes, so check the live pages before deciding on them.
Anything else, our Discord server is the fastest way to get an answer.
Join our DiscordA Discord template is a saved copy of a server’s structure. It holds the categories, channels, roles, role order, and permission overwrites, with none of the messages, members, or history. Discord publishes the format itself, so a template made on one server can be applied to another.
Browse the galleryYes, with Xenon, and that’s the main reason to use a bot for this. Discord’s own template links only create new servers. Run /template load with the code on any server you administrate to apply it, and run /backup create first so the change can be undone.
How templates workNo. The template code is printed on every detail page and you can read the full structure without signing in to anything. You need Xenon in the server you’re applying it to, which is one click. You only need an account here to submit a template of your own.
Yes. Using templates is free and always has been. Premium buys message history and member data inside backups, more automatic backups, and cross-server sync. None of that affects templates.
What Premium addsSubmissions are reviewed before they appear, and listings that are adverts for a server, that describe nothing, or that are a single empty channel don’t pass.
By default the channels and roles a template defines replace what is there. You can narrow that. /template load name_or_id: code options: !channels applies the roles and leaves your channels alone. Take a backup first either way and the whole thing is reversible.
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