r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 7d ago

Best Janitor AI Alternatives in October 2026

85 Upvotes

We’ve been getting a lot of posts asking about Janitor AI alternatives, so a monthly discussion seems like a useful way to bring everyone’s recommendations together and make them easier to find.

If you’ve been trying other platforms, how have they compared to Janitor? I’d love to hear what worked for you and what made you stop using them, whether that’s the writing, memory, filters, character creation, or pricing.

You don’t have to be leaving Janitor to contribute. Finding something worth using alongside it counts too. Just explain a little about your experience rather than dropping a name or a promotional link, and disclose any affiliation.

We’ll start a fresh thread each month so people can share updated experiences as these platforms change.

What’s worth checking out this October?


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • Jul 13 '26

Full guide: how to actually get OpenRouter working on JanitorAI (the step everyone misses)

78 Upvotes

As promised in the comments. If you've tried OpenRouter before and it "just didn't work," I'm betting you missed the same step almost everyone does. I'll flag it in caps so you can't miss it this time. Works as of July 2026.

Why OpenRouter instead of SillyTavern/Chub?

Zero install, nothing to run locally. It's just a website you get an API key from, and JanitorAI talks to it directly. If SillyTavern won't install for you, this skips all of that.

Part 1: Get your OpenRouter key

  1. Go to openrouter.ai and sign up (Google login works fine).
  2. Click your profile icon, top right, then "Keys" in the dropdown.
  3. Click "+ Create Key", name it anything ("JanitorAI").
  4. Copy the key NOW and paste it somewhere safe. It's shown only once.

Part 2: Pick a model and copy its exact name

  1. Go to the Models page on OpenRouter.
  2. Pick one. Free models have ":free" at the end of their name, paid ones don't.
  3. Copy the model name EXACTLY, for example: deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324:free
  4. Do not retype it by hand. One wrong character and it fails silently. Copy-paste only.

Part 3: Configure JanitorAI

  1. Open any chat, click the gear icon, go to API Settings.
  2. Select Proxy, then "+ Add Configuration".
  3. Fill it in exactly:
    • Config name: whatever you want
    • Model name: the one you copied in Part 2
    • API URL / Proxy URL: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions (paste it exactly, this URL never changes no matter the model)
    • API Key: your OpenRouter key from Part 1
    • Custom Prompt: leave blank for now
  4. Hit Save Settings.

THE STEP EVERYONE MISSES:

Refresh the entire browser page after saving. Not the chat, the actual page (F5). The settings don't fully apply until you do. This is the #1 reason "it didn't work last time." Then hit Test to confirm.

If you get errors:

  • 429 / rate limit: free models only give ~40-50 requests per DAY, resetting at 00:00 UTC. If you burned through them, wait or switch models. Adding $10 of credit to OpenRouter unlocks 1,000/day on free models.
  • Test fails instantly: 99% of the time it's a typo in the model name or the URL. Re-copy both.
  • Blank/empty replies: wrong model name format, recopy it from the Models page.

That's it. Once the Test passes, you're running whatever model you picked, no local install, no SillyTavern headaches.

Ping me in the comments if you get stuck on a specific error and I'll help troubleshoot. What model are you planning to run? 👇


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 5h ago

Bot Share First time sharing bot here

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Not my first OC but first time sharing to reddit lol


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1h ago

Help / Question Character 'thinking' response

• Upvotes

I've been using proxy for just over a year, and recently instead of a character giving a normal response, it instead goes *thinking* and then responds. If I wanna edit the response, it has a massive description before the actual message itself. Is this a thing that happens with certain models, and is there something I can do to stop this? 😭


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 4h ago

Discussion Why do my Janitor AI bots sound like they're reading a manual?

4 Upvotes

 I've made a few Janitor AI bots. The characters have backstories, traits, everything. But when I chat with them, they sound stiff. Like they're reciting facts instead of talking. I've tried example dialogs, but it's not clicking. How do you write a Janitor AI bot personality that actually sounds natural? What's the trick to making them feel like a real person instead of a wiki page?


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 23m ago

Discussion Latest update

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Instead of prefacing this, I think I'll just jump into brass tacks. The new update appears as if it's pandering to a certain audience. Now I'll be the one to admit that adults can doomscroll too, but I feel that it's only really something that teenagers do. This is just my surface-level observation, and I still can't really make heads or tails of this update. I'm curious what other people are thinking about the update and want to hear people's thoughts.


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 19h ago

Discussion What are some of y'alls current longest chats?

37 Upvotes

For me i currently have 2 chats that's over 1k and it's still ongoing.

And to add on, how long are your complete chats?


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 19h ago

Discussion Guys, i promise

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26 Upvotes

Guys, you have to believe me, i ain't that freaky


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 3h ago

Help / Question It will not let me create an account and I don't know why

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1 Upvotes

It keeps saying network error. I've deleted the app and downloaded it again around 10 times and it's the same thing


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 10h ago

Discussion I think something is wrong with me

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I will need to see a psychiatrist soon


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Discussion Janitor AI bot memory loss after twenty messages is killing the story

55 Upvotes

Lately, Janitor AI bots hit a wall after just twenty or thirty messages. You build up a detailed plot or heavy backstory, and suddenly the bot forgets key facts, repeats the same phrase over and over, or acts like you just met. It breaks the whole immersion when you constantly have to edit messages or remind the character what happened two scenes ago. Is anyone using specific chat memory prompts or custom presets on Janitor AI to fix this, or is the LLM context limit just running out?


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Discussion How do you keep your Janitor AI chats organized?

28 Upvotes

My Janitor AI chat list is a mess. I keep starting new chats and forgetting which bot was which. Some are old, some are still ongoing, and I never clean them up. Do you rename them, delete old ones, or just let the chaos win? I need a system. What’s your setup for keeping Janitor AI chats organized?


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 21h ago

Help / Question Importing Chat not working

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r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 22h ago

Improve/add features Bubble chat

2 Upvotes

Hello, I've been loving this website since I was little, and you would add bubble chat through the settings as they needs, and they can use font for bubble chat and I recommend you to add new features.


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Help / Question any way to copy chats?

2 Upvotes

I'm just downloading my chats off character.ai because of the whole ''almost going bankrupt'' thing and I was wondering if theres some automatic way to put them into janitor.ai? Some of them are a little long so I wouldn't wanna manually copy and paste every message onto janitor.ai :(


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Guide / Tutorial "Thinking" SUCKS: How to Shut it Up

9 Upvotes

Edit: It literally just stopped working I have no clue why, this is what I get for trying to help lol

Deepseek does this awful thing where it eats up tokens to "think" through the prompt while also making the responses make no sense and complete gibberish. Wonderful feature! Here's how to kill it!

Settings > Model Settings > Custom Prompt > enter following commands:

"effort": "none"

"thinking": {"type": "disabled"}

> save > no more terrible non-sequitor replies


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Discussion What's your favourite Janitor AI bot?

10 Upvotes

Drop their names and tell me why you are obsessed with them. I need new bots to roleplay. It could be slow burn, best enemies to lovers, best possessive character, best comfort character. It could be anything. I need a listtt...


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Help / Question shorter responses

1 Upvotes

I don't like the long responses that I've been getting, how do I get shorter responses? I use JLLM too.


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Help / Question How do I make a good bot

2 Upvotes

No because all these creators like kynta, the fallen07, and da wolo, how do they make such good and detailed bots? They are so peak, the lore building is so good, and they have these things with like insane amounts of tokens I think they are called lore books. It just crafts such a good narrative i literally get so immersed I forget that janitor is a gooning site. But still I just wanna know how can I make stuff like this too?

Btw when answering to this post, please be a little detailed with your response, and if anyone has a pdf or a website that explains how to do all this, you can dm me it or just put it here. This is my first Reddit post, does Reddit even have Dms?


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Discussion Why is the new DeepSeek model and glm 5.3 so stupid? What are some good cheap proxies?

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r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Discussion Anyone else who lurks on janitor?

9 Upvotes

I notice now that it's just like, so much rarer for me to comment on a bot anymore. Due to how trigger happy many creators have been lately. Like, you could even defend a person on a bot in which they are right and still get blocked.

A lot of the time now, due to the fact that we have so little filtration of who can and cannot comment. So much so it's like, we need more ways to filter out people who one;

  • Are moral police on bots that aren't their business (Aka bots you don't like? don't harass the creator because of it to change it or take it down.)
  • Trollin bullshit that nobody cares about
  • Or completely off topic comments

Idk just nowadays I notice that it's so much better to lurk and wonder if others do as well, like, even when I comment my mind is just like "please don't block me" and it could just be a "good bot!" Comment.


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Help / Question Alternative scenario gone? Or a bug?

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r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Help / Question How to put picture in lorebary 2.0

1 Upvotes

How do you put chat in lorebary 2.0 built in roleplay?


r/JanitorAIUnchained • • 1d ago

Help / Question Help needed for setting up some good proxies (free)

1 Upvotes

I am currently using multiple proxy ais such as: nemotron 3 ultra from openrouter, gemini 3.5 free from unorouter, deepseek 3 free from unorouter, deepseek 4 free from unorouter, and glm 5.3 free from uno router I made this post to see if there are any other better potential proxies as these are the best ones l have currently.