Badges

Badges are small images that display on user profiles and profile popups that distinguish a user as a member of specific groups. Some badges can be earned by purchasing Nitro or boosting a server, while others are exclusive or no longer obtainable. On a profile, badges appear in a hierarchical order, and multiple badges stack.

Example of a user profile with multiple badges

Example of a tooltip that appears when hovering over a badge

Common Badges

These badges can be obtained for free or through subscriptions.

New Server Member

This badge is given next to the display name of users who have been a member of a server for less than a week. When a user's server membership reaches one week, the badge is automatically removed from that user. It can also be removed by rejoining the server.

Nitro Subscriber

This badge is awarded to any user who has an active Nitro subscription on their account. Upon hovering over the badge, the date in which the user started their subscription is displayed. Once the user's Nitro subscription has expired, the badge is removed.

HypeSquad Houses

After taking the HypeSquad quiz in the User Settings menu, users are awarded one of three of the following badges depending on their answers to the quiz.

• - HypeSquad Balance House
• - HypeSquad Bravery House
• - HypeSquad Brilliance House

Server Boosting

These badges are awarded to users who are actively using a Server Boost on a server. The badge that appears is dependent on how long the user has been continuously boosting a single server. The length required for each badge is as follows, in the same order as the image: 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 15 months, 18 months, and 24 months.

Discord updated the boost badges in October 2023.

Owner Crown

This badge only appears in a server's members list, instead of on the user's profile, and is awarded automatically to the user when they create the server. The intention of this badge is to help server members quickly identify who to reach out to if they need help.

To remove the badge:

1. Go to Server Settings > Roles > Create Role.
2. Give your role a name and adjust it if you'd like.
3. Enable "Display role members separately from online members".
4. Go to Permissions, scroll all the way down and enable the Administrator permissions. Then, save your changes.
5. Go to Members, find yourself, click +, and assign the role.

This will remove the crown.

Rare Badges

These badges are not common because they require lots of work to obtain or are only given to an exclusive group of users.

Active Developer

This badge is awarded to those who have an application (bot) which has received at least one application command in the last 30 days. It can be claimed in the Developer Portal.

Discord Staff

This badge is issued to all Discord staff. The badge distinguishes users from staff members and prevents impersonation by non-Discord employees.

Unobtainable Badges

These badges are either temporarily or no longer obtainable because they have either been discontinued for a period of time, retired, or the window of time to obtain them has passed.

Partnered Server Owner

This badge is awarded to all users who own a server that is partnered with Discord. Partner Program applications have been closed, which makes this badge unobtainable.

Bug Hunter

Dedicated users of the Discord Bug Hunter server are awarded one of the two badges below.

As of now, the Discord Bug Hunter Server is no longer open.

• - Normal Bug Hunter badge
• - Gold Bug Hunter badge, given to those who make significant contributions towards bug hunting

Early Supporter

This badge was awarded to all users who had a Discord Nitro subscription before October 10th, 2018. It was a "thank you" to those who purchased the now-retired Discord plan for $5 USD.

Early Verified Bot Developer

This badge was awarded to all developers who verified a bot that was in over 75 servers before August 19, 2020. Prior to then, the badge was called "Verified Bot Developer" and was being actively awarded to any users who verified a new bot.

Hypesquad Events

This badge is awarded to HypeSquad Event Attendees & who attend local conventions in the name of HypeSquad. Event Coordinators run the events themselves, such as a university club or LAN event.

As of now, this badge is unobtainable for unknown reasons. NO ETA.

The link to apply, https://discord.com/hypesquad, currently leads to a 404 page. It is unknown if the Hypesquad Events program will ever return.

Moderator Programs Alumni

Main article: Certified Moderator

Formerly known as the Certified Moderator badge; it could be obtained after successfully completing the Discord Moderator Exam and then being active on the DMD (Discord Moderator Discord) for at least 3 months. This badge is currently unobtainable as the Discord Moderator Exam is on hold.

Legacy Username

This optional badge is given to those who had a legacy username with the discriminator (#0000) before Discord changed their username system. It can be toggled on and off in user settings. As of June 2023, the badge was unobtainable for users who registered after the Pomelo update was rolled out in its entirety, because that user group never had usernames with discriminators.

Additionally, remaining users who were assigned a unique username on the second week and after during the time Discord was assigning unique usernames will not receive this badge.

Bot Badges

These badges can only be obtained by bots. Nobody else can have them.

Supports Commands

This badge can only be obtained by bots which supports slash commands.

Premium Bot

This badge can only be obtained by a bot's premium instance and will only be visible on servers with an active premium subscription.

Uses AutoMod

This badge can only be obtained by bots with a total of 100 active Automod rules.

Other Badges

Clown Badge

A temporary badge added to Discord on April 1st, 2024 as an April fools joke. This badge was only available for a limited time and could be obtained by applying the clown decoration which you obtain by receiving all 9 Loot Box rewards. It was removed from all profiles on April 8th.