ERNIE Bot
BaiduChina
25
Baidu's flagship assistant, now on open-weight ERNIE models.
- Version
- 5.0-thinking-preview
- Cost
- Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available.
- Model
- DeepSeek-V3.1
Character.AI
Character.AI · #18 most active of 27 in Writing
Companion and roleplay chat at consumer scale.
Current version
2025
Entry cost
Free tier · from $9.99/mo
Changes / 30d
0
The short answers
- What is the latest version of Character.AI?
- The current shipped version of Character.AI is 2025.
- How much does Character.AI cost?
- Character.AI starts at $9.99 per month on its cheapest paid tier.
- What AI model does Character.AI use?
- Character.AI runs primarily on in-house models.
Source: Character.AI (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- Character creation
- Voice
- Feed
Pricing
Free, $9.99/mo c.ai+
Entry price over time
Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
in-house models
Provider undisclosed
Context window
—
Public API
no
Multi-model routing
no
Stack signals
- Own training stack
Shared model stack
Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.
- in-house models+1 aliasCognition · 5 products
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
Reported scale
Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.
No public usage figure on record for this product.
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- Version
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- Cost
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- Model
- Hunyuan-a13b
ChatGPT
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- Version
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- Cost
- Pricing not published in the provided documentation
- Model
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- Version
- Kimi K3
- Cost
- API access with pay-as-you-go pricing based on token consumption. File APIs are currently free.
- Model
- Kimi K2.6
Notion AI
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10
AI inside your workspace
- Version
- 3.7
- Cost
- Free tier · from $10/mo
- Model
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Qwen Chat
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10
Alibaba's assistant on the widely forked Qwen model family.
- Version
- Qwen3-2507
- Cost
- Free to chat on official website
- Model
- Qwen3
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Products in other segments that name one of Character.AI's models in their stack.
Kensho
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AI extraction and search over market and filings data.
- Version
- 2025
- Cost
- Enterprise quoted
- Model
- in-house models
Tempus AI
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Precision medicine data platform and diagnostics.
- Version
- 2025
- Cost
- Public company; per-test
- Model
- in-house models
Topaz Labs
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Upscaling and restoration for photo and video pipelines.
- Version
- Gigapixel 8
- Cost
- from $99/mo
- Model
- in-house models
Change history
No changes recorded yet.
Character.AI compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Writing.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/character-ai
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Character.AI — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/character-ai
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-character-ai,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {Character.AI — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/character-ai}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}