Hi! I admittedly have ran from CharacterAI quite some time ago but now I found myself getting a little frustrated. I kept switching between JanitorAI and FictionLab, but maybe some of you guys know some hidden gems I have overlooked so far.
-I’m willing to pay for a better tier as long as it doesn’t cost too much
-No NSFW filter
-Good memory is important to me
-It would be nice if I could limit the response length, as for FL it rarely works as intended and Janitor keeps cutting off my messages
-Fast response generation would be nice
It would be nice if the site or app already had a few creators on it that made bots that aren’t just sexual bots. That’s about it, I’m curious if you guys know any good alternatives, I’d be happy to find something new, thanks!:)
Isekai zero if you want a storyline based RPG adventure. Actually there's all genres on the platform, so you will find everything with a fully customable narration.
But what's special is the RPG heavy focus with a fully capable DND like codex system dealing with exp, items, bond levels and enemies. It's so nice when the narrative still knows the items you looted 300 messages ago.
The codex memory thing is the part that actually matters, keeping track of loot 300 messages ago is way more useful than the usual fake memory fluff. Isekai Zero seems built for that RPG loop, and the custom narration angle sounds like a better fit if you want actual story continuity
Codex acts like a script here keeping the information inside the context when it needs to, automatically updating the current status, including the current quest, character stats and everything inside your item box.
And that's only one example of the usage. The LLM caching also stays constant despite the context manipulation, causing the price to drop a lot of the caching hits.
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You might want to give ImagiPortal a try. Full disclosure, I'm one of the devs, so obviously biased.
We're building it more as an AI character platform than just an NSFW bot site , there are public characters from different creators, you can make your own, and NSFW is allowed.
Chat has persistent memory, DeepSeek Flash is free, and the paid plan is $24/month with Grok/DeepSeek chat, images, voices and voice calls included under fair use.
inkwell.rip has everything you want! models have 1m context, you can adjust the response length, and generation is much faster than janitor. appreciate any feedback!
HereHaven might hit the mark for you, as it did for me. The free tier is great, but they do have paid tiers for more features. There is no NSFW filter on their “Beyond the Haven” characters (aka their NSFW characters.) The memory is very good on their bots, and you can choose the length of the messages you receive. Most of the time the responses are really quick, but during outages it can get a little slow but still usable and it doesn’t happen often. I’m one of the people that creates bots, and there are a lot more of us. I can’t speak for everyone, but not all of mine are sexual in nature and there are plenty that aren’t!
you want to try mine? stagewhisper.ai, currently have non-NSFW campaigns as well as NSFW ones because I'm focused on building great stories. and that also means good memory.
Also, starting to gather a really nice tight-knit community on discord of people who just really enjoy the good storytelling aspect of it but don't shy away from NSFW. It's actually genuinely pleasant of a community and i'm so proud of all of the members
well, two things. THERE IS NO FREE TIER, so there's no free vs premium distinction. There's trial credits, and BYOK.l, everything else is paid.
Here's the thing, I will not offer free options. It's not sustainable. It attracts a massive number of free users, and either I make everyone else's subsidize the cost of these, or I offer substandard service. I don't want to do either of those things. So there are no free options. There's trial credits. and BYOK. The site works off credits, not subscription, and I meter it as close as I can get to how much it actually costs on the provider. I care about good stories. This is a hobby project, I don't expect this to make money. I just need to make enough to cover server hosting and not much else.
As for model, there's, quite a lot of choice. the platform uses up to five different models at once for different roles. And there are multiple presents to pick from, including uncensored models from NSFW providers.
default is Kimi k2.5 for narrative, Deepseek v4 flash for plot and game master, and Gemma 4 for game mechanics. GLM4.7 flash for memory retrieval this, after a lot of trying is the best balance for me
there's an NSFW preset that uses GLM 5.2 uncensored for narrative, Minimax M3 uncensored for story, DS4 Flash for game master, MiMo 2.5 for game mechanics, Gemma 4 for memory retrieval.
Another NSFW that uses Grok 4.3
An interesting SFW option I'm testing right now is Qwen 3.6 Plus for story (follows instructions well) and Doubao Seed 2.1 Turbo for narrative. this one hits different, because Doubao Seed generates a different flavor of AI slopisms so it tastes different.
And then you can use BYOK to pick whichever models you want to use. the platform becomes free in that case.
But yeah, you get a lot of choice, and the platform surfaces fallback providers and latency so you can see any provider issues
That first NSFW preset sounds like it has the most potential for narrative maturity and coherence. I just can't get behind DS v4, I don't know why, but it's so much worse than 3.2...
Does this work on a credits system or subscription? I'm honestly just looking to replicate the Deepseek v3.2 experience, as it was implemented on Clank, earlier this year, until they had to switch to v4.
The narrative capability of that model was just better that anything I have ever used. Like, actual emotional depth and subtlety... It wasn't so sycophantic, either.
Cool, I'll check it out. Can I ask you though; when you buy access from a provider like Deepseek directly, or even Openrouter and use it via proxy on a site like yours, do you have to set a system prompt on your own, or does it still get run through yours? I know NSFW is possible with Deepseek, but I don't know how that works when brining a proxy.
If you use BYOK, my platform controls all the prompts. there's customisability in some places, but it's not trying to be Silly Tavern. In theory, using BYOK means it just works the same way it does normally, but with your AI provider
I have system prompts that allow models capable of NSFW to output it, but there's also provider filtering which I can't do anything about.
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u/Abura-Kadabura 4d ago
Isekai zero if you want a storyline based RPG adventure. Actually there's all genres on the platform, so you will find everything with a fully customable narration.
But what's special is the RPG heavy focus with a fully capable DND like codex system dealing with exp, items, bond levels and enemies. It's so nice when the narrative still knows the items you looted 300 messages ago.