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Character.AI · #13 most active of 26 in Writing

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Companion and roleplay chat at consumer scale.

Current version

2025

Entry cost

Free, $9.99/mo c.ai+

Changes / 30d

0

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

  • in-house models

    disclosed

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.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

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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Change history

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