Alternatives to Character.AI

A chat app for role-play conversations with AI characters, fictional personas and custom creations. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Character.AI

    A chat app for role-play conversations with AI characters, fictional personas and custom creations.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Character.AI.

  • Poe

    A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Poe gives access to several AI models in one interface and lets users create and share custom bots, but has no dedicated role-play character catalogue.

  • ChatGPT

    OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant for writing, coding and analysis rather than an entertainment app, with no catalogue of user-made role-play characters.

  • Claude

    Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Claude is a general assistant with a large context window for long conversations and documents, built for writing and analysis rather than character role-play.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Sudowrite

    A web-based AI writing partner built for novelists and fiction writers.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

  • Meta AI

    Meta's free AI chat assistant, powered by Llama and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • HuggingChat

    Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.

    FreeProprietaryWeb