Legal Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed on this page are based purely on personal experience as a user, creator, and paying customer on these platforms. Experiences can vary, and platforms may make updates or improvements long after this page was written.
If updates are made to fix the problem any site can appeal their rating here for review:
Alternative AI Websites
Sites must have the following for me to even consider them:
1. Free messages or high message limits that are hard to reach with casual (1 - 3 hours) usage
2. No Nudity or Censored / blurred Nudity
3. No censorship on text messages or minimal / situational
4. Affordable / Cheap / Varied Subscription plans
5. Stable Servers
6. Font and Color Accessibility / Customization to accommodate visual disabilities in atleast 25% of the site (with potential for further accessibility)
7. The allowance of blood / adoptive family platonic bots with adult-children for fluff bots or the allowance of step-family platonic bots with adult-children.
8. No animal related content (not including demihumans, furries or shifters which are fine) for legal safety
9. A 10k token limit or higher. Preferred 12 - 14k
10. If under 12k tokens, lorebooks to minimize token usage in bot personality and maximize information
If anything is below a 7 on my ratings I probably am not going to prioritize uploading to it unless I have a massive following there.
Good Character Editor
Wide range of characters / big community
Lack of censorship / minimal censorship
Kind, Patient, Clear customer service support
UI and Coloring constantly made worse, poor accessibility
9k Token limit on jllm free plan (3k is easily ate up on a bot before lorebooks which majorly impacts what bots you can roleplay with as a user, and what bots you can create as a creator)
LLM too inconsistant and can suddenly turn way too formal
Pricing way too high in other countries
7/10
Good Character Editor
Wide range of characters / big community
Lack of censorship / minimal censorship
LLM too inconsistant and can suddenly turn way too formal
Site stability inconsistancy (Sometimes will not load even in other browsers or incognito
Complete restriction of adoptive or blood parental bots
6/10
Characterai (Dropped)
Good Character Editor
Wide range of characters / big community
Slow customer support / lack of communication (even paying)
Very pricy and only raising in price / No regional
Random OCs hit repeatedly in DMCAs on original chars
UI and Coloring constantly made worse, poor accessibility
Oversensitive Censorship, lack of creative freedom
0/10
Sakura.AI (Dropped)
Good Character Editor
Wide range of characters / big community
Very pricy and only raising in price / No regional
LLM too inconsistant and can suddenly turn way too formal
Added insanely small message limit. Only way to increase it is doing social media videos to promote them and/or joining their discord (Based on last time I was there this could have changed please do your research and verify before taking my word on it)
Good Character Editor
Wide range of characters / big community
NSFW Animal bots are allowed using the Harkness test, which does not legally hold up in court. it is still a massive legal red tape zone.
The Legal Reality: There is a severe legal liability in certain countries that could impact and implicate all users who pay or create publicly on the platform. In those jurisdictions, you cannot safely upload your own public bots, create public lorebooks, or spend money. Simply adding optional tags will not protect people if a jurisdiction decides to legally pursue the platform.
Important Safety Warning: This would not be an issue in some countries, but if you live in a place where this material is banned, it is completely illegal. Avoid being a public creator or financial supporter for your own safety. Laws exist in several countries where if an entity or company profits off of you in any way (which public creation does, as the site is monetized), and that site hosts law-breaking material, you can be deemed legally complicit in the act—even if the site itself is hosted in another country. Saucepan has plans to follow the law and methods to protect users in place for when new laws come in, and has heard our concerns.
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