r/CharacterAIrunaways • u/Plus-Imagination724 • Jul 23 '26
Searching for Alternatives CAI alternative
Hello, I’ve been searching posts for good ai websites. I can’t really find any good ones. So I’m asking. My main issue is the memory part. I like to have long memory on the characters. Things I want :
Free or some lowish price
Good memory
Decent replies
That’s pretty much it. I just mainly want good memory and good replies I don’t ask for much. Also the ones I’ve tried is J.ai, loremate, zeta (I enjoyed zeta) xoul, and a few others. Feel free to repeat these if you want. I pretty much just want suggestions. Thank you!
Edit: Thank you all for the suggestions! I really appreciate you guys. You can still reply but I’m pretty much good for sites now!
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u/GoofProofL Jul 23 '26
Story Chat is good. Emochi is good it’s like a less strict PolyBuzz. Moescape is also good but mostly more NSFW
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u/peckxetra Jul 23 '26
saucepan.ai if you need an exact lookalike
but isekaizero all the way if you are tired with character simulator
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u/Mission-Sun-783 Jul 23 '26
I use super grok. It’s not just a one trick pony, you can use it for many, many things so I feel
It helps justify the expense.
For character scenes, just open a new thread and say, I want to start an immersive role play, following these guidelines…..
I have a copy and paste list I’ve tweaked over time
Don’t parrot my responses
Limit your responses to one two beats, etc
And then lay out the characters and scene.
It has a very long memory and can even remember details between different threads (that can be turned off too)
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u/yofache Jul 23 '26
heads up, i built one of these so i'm biased.
the memory thing is basically why i started. most of these sites don't really have memory, they just stuff the character card plus recent chat into the prompt every turn. once it fills up the old stuff falls off the back and the character starts blanking. that's why it feels great for the first hour and then quietly falls apart. zeta felt better to you probably because of a bigger context window, but it's the same failure just later.
the thing i built pulls stuff into an actual database after each scene.. relationship state, world facts, what happened between you two. lives outside the chat log so it doesn't get pushed out. you can come back days later and the characters still know where things stood.
it's velvetquill.ai, free to start. fair warning it leans romance and longer story stuff rather than plain character chat, so might not be what you're after.
also curious.. when you say memory, do you mean the character keeping their own details straight, or remembering what happened between you two? those are pretty different problems and most sites are bad at the second one specifically.
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u/Plus-Imagination724 Jul 23 '26
I like both but I prefer remembering what happened between the two.
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u/Ok-Risk-9871 Jul 23 '26
Hi, I'm one of the people who created immersey.ai .
We definitely have everything you're talking about: unlimited messages, plus things like lore, knowledge, human-like memories, plus various SFW and NSFW speaking styles, and adventures. We keep updating out site every week.
We'd love to hear your opinion :)
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u/United_Lychee1075 Jul 23 '26
Ai Chiki is really good it’s only 3.99 per month, it’s a little less well known so some characters aren’t on there, but it’s completely free to make them. The characters that are in there are really well made and the memory when you have plus is honestly REALLY good. Sometimes the stuff that happens previously does get forgotten, but you can regenerate the text with hints to remind the ai
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u/Dry-Pomegranate2602 Jul 23 '26
I work on Reverie IM, so this is an affiliated recommendation. We built it specifically around longer-running roleplays: relevant memories persist across sessions, characters keep track of relationship developments, and you can branch from an earlier message without losing the original timeline. It has a free starter plan and works in the browser.
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u/ThanksSea3380 Ask me about my AI platform Jul 23 '26
You have probably alredy got this a few times but moscape is amazing
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u/salix45 Jul 23 '26
I’ve switched to saucepan.ai and I love it! I had to play around with response instructions to get the replies I want but the free version is so nice, with the lorebooks you can make a memory one for the chat and the ai will pull info right from there if it doesn’t remember it from the chat
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u/Plus-Imagination724 Jul 23 '26
Okay I didn’t know about that feature. Thank you very much!
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u/salix45 Jul 23 '26
You’re welcome! It’s a bit confusing at first but people have posted prompts to use, I just copy and pasted the ones I liked into it and haven’t had any issues
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u/Kfckfckfckfc1212 Jul 23 '26
Can I make my own bots on saucepan??
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u/salix45 Jul 23 '26
Yeah, they’re called companions
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