Prestige, Maki Imports, and Reward Update

September 6, 2026

✨ We've shipped another batch of Kiai improvements!

Since the Dashboard release, we've been continuing to clean things up, expand what Kiai can do, and make the overall experience smoother across the bot, dashboard, and API.

Here's a taste of what's new:

🌟 Prestige

Premium servers can now enable Prestige, letting members reset their XP after reaching a customizable XP requirement to earn a higher prestige rank. You can make prestiging manual or automatic, customize what prestige is called in your server, use prestige leaderboards, and create rewards that depend on both level and prestige.

📦 Maki Importing

You can now import leveling data from Maki through /levels import, including XP, levels, level role rewards, and Maki's XP formula.

🎁 Rewards Got a Major Upgrade

Rewards have been completely rebuilt around a more reliable internal system, making role rewards, message rewards, money rewards, webhook rewards (new!), temporary rewards, and syncing behave more consistently.

This also gives us a much stronger foundation for future reward improvements that we will be adding soon.

🧵 Private Thread XP Control

Server managers can now disable XP gain in private threads, giving you more control over where members can earn XP.

🧩 A Bigger, Better Kiai API

Kiai's public API has been expanded with new v3 routes, covering things like cooldowns, auto leaderboards, reward syncing, leaderboard roles, prestige, XP drops, exports, level-up messages, stats, premium status, blacklist status, and feature previews.

We've also added a new unified API docs page:

kiai.app/api/docs

🔥 Bonus Fixes

  • We've made several improvements to the Dashboard, including better handling for network errors, fewer stuck loading states, clearer authorization pages, improved checkout error handling, and performance optimizations across the entire site.

  • Kiai's Premium redemption process has been simplified on our side. With this, we expect less errors when attempting to create/administrate whitelabel bots, as well as when configuring premium-only settings.

  • Premium servers can now fully customize XP drop messages, including moving the button elsewhere in the message.

  • Fixed an issue where users would gain voice XP while server muted

We've also shipped a variety of bug fixes and internal improvements to logging, analytics, auto leaderboards, locale handling, browser translation issues, and general stability.

As always, if you run into any issues, please let us know in the Support Server!