Character.AI alternative, compared
Keep chatting with the characters you love, call them out loud when typing is not enough, and they remember what you tell them. No daily message cap.
A month of Pro, free for new accounts once you verify your email. No card needed. It ends on its own, you keep the free plan, and nothing is charged. After that, Pro is $20 a month, only if you choose it.
Character.AI announced a court-supervised sale on Oct 12, 2026. In its own words: “The Character.ai platform remains up and running, and you can continue to access all services at this time.”
Character.AI cells come only from its own pages. Where it publishes nothing we can check, the cell says so.
| Feature | AI Anyone | Character.AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, or Pro at $20 a month | Free, or c.ai+ at $94.99 a year |
| Calling a character out loud | 20 free minutes every 30 days, 240 on Pro | Its App Store listing (iPhone) says chat, call, text |
| Memory | Remembers what you tell them, and you can pin what matters | c.ai+ lists "Best memory" |
| Free daily messages | Unlimited, with a lighter model after 100 messages in a day | Not compared here |
| Ads in chat | None | c.ai+ lists "No ads" |
| Make your own character | In one sentence, public, unlisted or private | Not compared here |
| Bring characters from Character.AI | Paste its fields or a card into a private draft | Character.AI says you can export your data |
| Age to chat | 18+ | Not compared here |
| Phone app | No | Yes, on iOS |
Character.AI facts on this page were read off its own pages on 14 October 2026. They can change them, so check their site before you decide.
Character.AI has a free tier, and c.ai+ is listed at $94.99 a year on character.ai/plus. AI Anyone is free to start, and Pro is $20 a month for 240 minutes of voice calls every 30 days and chat that stays on the full model.
Pro is billed monthly, or yearly where offered, at the price shown at checkout. Cancel anytime in Settings, then Billing, then Manage subscription. You keep Pro until the end of the period you already paid for, and you are not charged again. Subscription payments are non-refundable except where required by law.
Character.AI facts on this page were read off its own pages on 14 October 2026. They can change them, so check their site before you decide.
Yes. Every character can be called out loud from a phone or laptop browser, with nothing to install. A free account includes 20 minutes every 30 days, and Pro includes 240.
Yes. Fiction and anime characters are some of the most talked to on AI Anyone, and you can make your own in one sentence. The Personas tab on your profile lets you describe who you are in a chat, so a character talks to that version of you.
Free chat has no daily message cap. After 100 messages in a day it moves to a lighter model until the next day. Pro keeps chat on the full model.
You can browse every character without an account, but sending a message needs a free one. An email address or a Google account is enough, and no card is asked for.
Chat is 18+, based on the birth year you give when you sign up. From 13 to 17 you can hold an account, browse characters, build your own and take courses, but you cannot send messages to a character.
Character.AI announced a court-supervised sale on Oct 12, 2026, and said its platform remains up and running. In the same post it said that if no bid keeps it running, the platform will be wound down. Nobody outside the process knows yet how it ends.
Its library and its app. Its App Store listing says it is home to millions of user-generated characters, and it ships a native phone app, which AI Anyone does not. If a huge fan-made library or a phone app is what you came for, we would rather say so plainly than pretend the comparison is one-sided.
Find them among 13,000+ characters or make them in a sentence, then call them. A month of Pro, free for new accounts once you verify your email. No card needed.
