Since Character ai is basically unusable now and the devs openly said it’s aimed at kids, what alternatives are you all using? I’m only looking for free options, not paying for anything. I mostly do NSFW stuff lately and I’ve already tested pretty much every AI site I could find.
I tried Janitor AI, the narration is actually solid but the model itself is garbage, it forgets bot preferences and drags replies way too long, plus the creator UI is terrible. CrushOn was another one I tested, but replies are slow, repetitive, and just low quality overall. Carter AI has a decent model and even free voice, but the 3000 character limit for bot creation completely kills it, you just can’t build anything good with that restriction. Spellbound was nice when I tried the paid model, but the free ones get repetitive fast and easily fall into loops unless you constantly guide it. I also tried Mistral, it’s basically like ChatGPT but uncensored, however once you hit the 128k context limit it just dies and you have to restart everything from zero.
The only actually decent one I found so far is Perchance. It has a free image generator and unlimited chat, the bot actually sticks to what you write in the UI, which is rare. The only annoying part is that it sometimes talks for you and you have to edit messages, but you can create multiple characters for group chats and the lore system works pretty well.
So yeah, what are you using these days?
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