Kick API vs. Kick.bot Feature Comparison
(as of July 8, 2025)
| FEATURE | Kick API | kick.bot |
|---|---|---|
| REQEUSTS | ||
| Ban/Unban X | X | |
| (un)Timeout | X | X |
| Send Message | X | X |
| Reply to Message | X | X |
| Pin/Unpin Message | X | |
| Delete Message | X | |
| Clear Chat | X | |
| Set Emote/Follow/Sub Only | X | |
| Set Slow mode | X | |
| Set Bot protection | X | |
| Add/Remove moderator | X | |
| Add/Remove OG | X | |
| Add/Remove VIP | X | |
| Get Followers | X | |
| Get Viewer count | X | X |
| Get Follow Age | X | |
| Get User info | X | X |
| Get Channel Info | X | |
| Run poll | X | |
| List/Search Available Categories | X | |
| Get Category Info (name, thumbnail) | X | |
| Change Category | X | X |
| Change Title | X | X |
| Make Clip | X | |
| Get Clips | X | |
| List/Search Livestreams | X | |
| EVENTS (note) | ||
| New follower | X | X |
| Chat Message Received | X | X |
| New Pinned Message | X | |
| Chat Message Deleted | X | |
| User Banned | X | X |
| User Unbanned | X | |
| Poll Completed | X | |
| Stream Started/Ended | X | X |
| Stream Title/Game Changed | X | X |
| Sub | X | X |
| Subs Gifted | X | X |
| Channel Raided | X |
On Events
The Kick API delivers events to bots by using Webhooks. Webhooks work fine for cloud-based bots, since those bots already have (and pay for) internet-facing server infrastructure to host the webhooks. But streamer.bot itself is entirely self-hosted on the streamer’s PC, and requires additional public server infrastructure in order to integrate with webhooks.