
Character.ai
Character.ai is an AI-powered chatbot platform that enables emotional expression and creative interaction through immersive conversations with customizable characters.

- Launch Date
- November 5, 2021
- Monthly Visitors
- 187.1M
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Platform
- Web · App
- Language
- English
Keywords
- AI character
- conversational chatbot
- character creation
- roleplaying chat
- text adventure
- emote AI
- multilingual chatbot
- custom character
- AI friend
- character.AI
- c.ai
- character chat
- AI conversation
- character simulation
- AI roleplaying
Platform Description
Core Features
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Create a custom character
Create a unique AI character by customizing the character's personality, background, speech patterns, and more.
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Multilingual conversations
Characters can speak multiple languages to interact with a wide range of users
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Role-playing and text adventures
Users can play role-playing games or text-based adventures by talking to characters
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Emotional expression and memory
Characters remember previous conversations and show emotion to provide more humanized interactions
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Video Creation Tool (AvatarFX)
Users can create animated videos based on conversations with characters
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Social feeds and streaming features
Users share generated content to social feeds or interact with other users in real time via streaming.
Use Cases
- Language learning
- Creative writing
- Role-playing games
- Practice expressing emotions
- Text Adventures
- Character Simulation
- AI Friends
- Social interactions
- Create video content
- Streaming
- Multimedia interactions
- Custom Characters
- Multilingual conversations
- Emotional support
- Creative interactions
How to Use
Sign in
Create a new character
Set your character's name, personality, background, and more
Start a conversation or interact with a created character
Plans
Plan | Price | Key Features |
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Free | $0 | • Creating a character • Chatting with characters • Exploring community characters • Setting your character's voice (limited advanced features) • Sharing your character • Joining group chats • Setting your default style |
More | $9.99 | • FREE All features • Characters remember more conversations with frequent updates • Uses the latest and greatest AI models • Longer personas, more muted words, and expanded swiping capabilities • Personalize your conversations by adjusting response length, setting image backgrounds, and more • Early access to new features, invites the C.AI+ community |
FAQs
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Character.AI leverages deep learning technology powered by large-scale language models (LLMs) to generate dialog.
It learns from vast amounts of textual data to predict what to say next in context, resulting in natural dialog that reflects the personality and style of each character. -
Character.AI provides a guide called the Character Book that walks you through quick start and advanced character creation.
Users can specify their character's name, background setting, speech patterns, and more, and the AI will then provide dialog tailored to that personality. -
Character Voice is a feature that lets you add voices to your characters to enhance immersion.
You can assign user- or platform-generated voices, or create your own by recording yourself or uploading a voice file. The voices you create can be applied to 1:1 conversations. -
Yes, Character Calls is a feature that allows you to interact with characters via voice in a two-way conversation, just like a real phone call. It's currently available on both web and app, and conversations are also saved as text.
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In addition to English, Character.AI supports many other languages, including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese. Depending on the language entered by the user, the character can also respond in that language.
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User-created characters and conversations can be private or public to the community. If made public, they can be reviewed by moderators and are governed by our Privacy Policy.
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Character.AI does not currently offer a public API, and any API-related suggestions should be directed to info@character.ai.
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Yes, the Character Voice feature is free for everyone. You are free to create and use voices without any paid subscription.
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Basic workarounds include logging out and back in, refreshing your browser, and clearing your cache, and if the issue persists, you can contact us via our official support forum or email.