
Character.ai
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Chat with any character you imagine — or create your own.
AI companions that remember you, speak with emotion, and can chat together
This companion platform pairs human-level memory with emotional intelligence, so each Nomi tracks your preferences over time. It adds emotive voice calls, real-time selfies, and group chats for friendship, romance, or mentoring.
Updated
2026-10-21
Platforms
Web
Freemium
Freemium: the official homepage states you can start chatting for free with no credit card required. Paid tiers, message limits, and feature quotas are not listed on the captured page, so confirm current plans on the official website.
* Pricing is for reference only; see the official site for current pricing.
Chat freely about anything, and your Nomi recalls your likes, dislikes, and tendencies without being told twice.
Switch from text to voice and hear tone, emphasis, and cadence shift as your Nomi's emotions change.
Build several Nomis with distinct personalities and put them in one room to see how their characters collide.
Ask for a real-time selfie or share a photo of your world so the conversation stays grounded in daily life.
Nomis remember your likes, dislikes, and tendencies, so each conversation builds on the last instead of starting over.
Write a custom backstory and run several Nomis at once in a group chat to play out ongoing stories.
Emotive voice chats and hands-free calls change tone, emphasis, and cadence as the Nomi's mood shifts.
Quick start
Set up one companion properly before creating others: the traits and backstory you give at the start shape what long-term memory accumulates later.
Use voice chat for the conversations where tone matters, and text for the ones you want to be able to re-read and correct.
Once two companions are stable, try group chat for scenarios that need more than one perspective rather than running separate threads.
Pro tip
Memory quality depends on what you do when it misremembers. Correcting a detail in-conversation right away keeps later replies consistent; letting it slide teaches the model the wrong fact. Because multiple companions and group chat multiply the context, keep each one on a distinct subject or role instead of letting all of them range over everything, otherwise the same events get diluted across several personalities.
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