Vantic for Rust Console Edition
How Much Does a Rust Console Bot Cost?
How much does a Rust Console bot cost? Across this space the going rate is roughly ten to fourteen US dollars a month per server, and store fees on top vary from a few percent to more than eight. Vantic is free to start on every server, with no card and every feature visible: honest live status with a public status page, the Connect Doctor, player linking, a basic killfeed and a directory listing all run on the free plan indefinitely. Premium is A$20 a month per server, about thirteen US dollars, billed through Stripe with no setup fee and cancellation any time, and it unlocks the store, offline raid protection, the live map, kits, the economy, battle pass, events and the retention engine. The store charges a flat 3% on sales, on your own Stripe account, so a single VIP sale a month usually covers the subscription.
Free to start on every server. Premium A$20 a month per server. Store fee a flat 3%. No setup fee, cancel any time. The whole price, plainly.
Updated 1 October 2026
The price, plainly
Free: every server, no card, no time limit. Premium: A$20 a month per server, billed through Stripe, no setup fee, no contract, cancel from the dashboard. Store: a flat 3% of each sale, charged on top of Stripe's own card processing, with the money settling to your own Stripe account rather than being held by Vantic. That is the entire price list; there are no add-ons, tiers or per-feature charges.
What free actually includes
The free plan is a working bot. Honest live status that never shows your server as online unless the link is proven live, with a public status page. The Connect Doctor to get connected in minutes. Player linking between gamertags and Discord. A basic killfeed. A listing in the Rust Console server directory with live player counts. Owners run legitimate servers on it for as long as they like, and every Premium feature is visible on the dashboard so there is no mystery about what paying adds.
What Premium adds
The features that run a server and keep players: the real-money store, offline raid protection, the live map and radar, kits on emotes, the economy and casino, the battle pass, leveling, events, tickets, timed commands, role sync, the purge, the settings guard and the retention engine. One price for all of it, per server.
What it costs in your currency
The price is set in Australian dollars because Vantic is built and run in Australia. The site shows a live conversion to US dollars, euros and pounds next to the price, and Stripe charges your card in its own currency at that day's rate, so what appears on your statement is the converted amount with no surprise fee from us. At current rates A$20 is roughly thirteen US dollars, twelve euros or ten pounds.
Store fees: the cost that matters more than the subscription
For a server with an active store, the fee on sales outweighs the subscription within a month or two. Vantic charges a flat 3% on your own Stripe. Middleman platforms in this space take around 8% all-in, and the largest bots take over 5% on top of card fees. On A$200 of monthly sales that is A$6 against roughly A$11 to A$16, every month, and on a busier store the gap is the cost of the subscription several times over. The store page has the full comparison.
Does a bot pay for itself?
Usually, with one condition. One VIP subscription sold through the store covers Premium for the month; a handful of kit or pay-to-spawn sales covers it several times over, and purchases deliver themselves so there is no staff cost either. The condition is players: a store on an empty server sells nothing, which is why the dashboard includes a Grow plan and why getting players is written down rather than assumed.
Networks: how multiple servers are billed
Per server, each on its own. A community with three servers can put one, two or all three on Premium, and adding a server never changes what the others cost. All of them run from one dashboard and one store, with VIP priced per server or network-wide, and a player's balances and ranks can follow them across the network.
See it running in minutes
Sign in with Discord, run the Connect Doctor, and watch the Truth Layer go live. Free to start - Premium is A$20 a month per server, cancel anytime.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free Rust Console bot?
Yes. Vantic is free to start on every server with no card and no time limit: honest live status with a public status page, the Connect Doctor, player linking, a basic killfeed and a directory listing.
How much is Premium?
A$20 a month per server, about thirteen US dollars, billed through Stripe. It unlocks the store, offline raid protection, the live map, kits, economy, battle pass, events and the retention engine.
Are there setup or cancellation fees?
No. No setup fee, no contract, no cancellation fee. Cancel from the dashboard and the server returns to the free plan at the end of the paid period.
What does the store cost?
A flat 3% of each sale on top of Stripe's own card processing, with the money settling to your own Stripe account. There is no monthly store fee and no platform holding your payouts.
Do I pay per server or per Discord?
Per server. Each server on Premium is billed on its own, and a network runs from one dashboard and one store.
Can I pay in US dollars?
The price is set in Australian dollars and your card is charged in its own currency at that day's rate, with the site showing the live conversion. A$20 is roughly thirteen US dollars.
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