Is Lumiere free to use?

Yes, Lumiere is completely free to add to your Discord server. No credit card or premium subscription is required to access its core features.

What can Lumiere do for my Discord server?

Lumiere provides moderation tools, logging, automated purging, counters, boards, AFK detection, reminders, and server backups. A powerful web dashboard is currently in development to allow management without any bot commands.

How do I add Lumiere to my Discord server?

Click the 'Add to Discord' button on lumierelabs.xyz and authorize Lumiere through Discord's OAuth2 flow. Setup takes less than a minute.

Does Lumiere have a web dashboard?

A powerful web dashboard is currently in active development at lumierelabs.xyz. Once live, it will allow server admins to configure all features, view logs, and manage settings through a sleek UI—eliminating the need for bot commands.

StoryJanuary 15, 2026

Why we built Lumière

The story behind Lumière — why I got fed up with bot bloat and paywalls, and decided to just build my own.

Mahito

Developer

4 min read

Lumière wasn't born in some fancy tech startup boardroom. It was born out of sheer annoyance in my own server, Global Lounge.

It's a server with over 2.6k members that is, let's be honest, mostly dead and inactive most of the time. But even a quiet server needs bots to keep things running.

The Bot Bloat & Paywall Problem

To run a normal server I needed: a bot for moderation, a bot for leveling, a bot for counting, another one just for fun commands. My member list looked like a cyborg army.

So I went looking for an all-in-one bot to clean things up. Every single one that actually worked had the good stuff slapped with a massive "PREMIUM" sticker. Want to do something basic? Locked. Want decent moderation? Hand over your credit card. It was genuinely infuriating.

Weekend Coding (and hating school)

I got so annoyed I just decided to build one myself. The only catch — I didn't know how to code. (Honestly I still kind of suck at it, but we make it work.)

I wrote my first line of code exactly 8 months ago. June 26, 2025, 16:02:53 GMT+3. Because of school — which we all collectively despise — I could only touch the project on weekends. Slow, painful, full of stupid errors I'd spend three hours debugging only to find a missing comma. But Lumière slowly started coming together.

The Goal

January 4, 2026, 16:37 — I finally launched it.

The plan is simple: I want Lumière to be the only bot you ever need. No more inviting ten different bots. No more getting locked out of features that should just be free.

But I'm one guy coding on weekends. I genuinely cannot pull this off alone. If you use it, break something, notice something stupid — tell me. That's the only way this gets better.

Add it to your server. Break it. Tell me what sucks. Help me build the last Discord bot you'll ever have to invite.

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