Character.AI
The largest character chat service by a wide margin, and a filtered one. Worth knowing about mostly because everyone starts here.
- Hosted
- Active
- Filtered adult content
- Freemium
At a glance
- Where it runs
- HostedSomeone else runs it. Whatever you type reaches their servers.
- Adult content
- FilteredA filter blocks it, with varying success.
- Trains on your content
- UnknownNo clear statement found.
- Status
- ActiveMaintained and working today.
- Account needed
- Yes
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Cost
- Free tier with a paid subscription for faster responses.
- What it keeps
- Conversations are held on their servers; see their privacy policy for the current terms.
Enormous, polished, free to use, and heavily moderated. The filter is the defining fact of the product and the reason a substantial part of the self-hosted community exists at all: people arrived, hit it, and went looking for alternatives.
Conversations are on their servers under their terms. If that matters to you, the local tools in this catalog are the answer.
Worth knowing before you start
- Content filter Adult roleplay is not permitted and the filter is enforced. source
- Your conversations are on their servers Nothing runs locally and there is no export-and-leave path to a local model.
What it does
- Very large character library
- Voice
- Mobile apps
- No setup at all
Signs of life
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- Last answered
- Yes, 3 hours ago Its website responded when we asked.
- Archived copy
- Wayback Machine A snapshot, in case this one stops answering.
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