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Best overall
Xotic AIOfficial and community characters, unlimited chat, voice and video calls8.6 Visit -
Closest to C.AI
GirlfriendGPTAbout 70,500 public user-made characters, 5,000 messages for $158.2 Visit -
Free daily chat
Secrets AI20 free messages a day, 2,187 community characters7.9 Visit -
Free card library
LusyChatZero-coin chat models, card import and lorebooks7.2 Visit
Why Character.AI Won't Do NSFW
Character.AI's terms and content rules rule out sexual roleplay, and its filter sits on the platform side, so no setting turns it off. Jailbreak prompts break the terms and stop working whenever the filter is updated. What people actually miss when they leave is the format: a big library of characters other users wrote, a creator for your own, and long roleplay. The apps below keep that format and allow explicit content for adults.
The 8 Best Character.AI Alternatives for NSFW
Selection: apps with a library of user-made characters and a character creator, where adult roleplay is allowed. Ranked by the score of each app's full review (pricing, terms, billing and user ratings; how we score), from the highest down.
Best Overall
Xotic AI
Official and community characters (Xotic says "thousands" on its Explore page), one-on-one and group chats of up to 6 characters on Ultimate, and a six-step creator with per-chat controls for style, pacing and explicitness, from Off to Explicit. Voice and live-avatar video calls spend XOT tokens.
Price: Ultimate $24.99/month, or $149.99/year ($12.50/month), unlimited regular chat. Free: 5 messages in total. Full review →
Closest to Character.AI
GirlfriendGPT
The library-first format Character.AI users know: about 70,500 public characters made by users, ranked by popularity and filterable by tags, plus Quick and Custom creation modes to build and share your own. NSFW is switched on for the paid plans only.
Price: Premium $15/month (5,000 messages, 400 coins), Deluxe $35, Elite $50. Free: about 10–20 messages in total, no NSFW. Full review →
20 Free Messages a Day
Secrets AI
A catalogue of 187 official and 2,187 community characters (Secrets reviews community characters before they go public), a character studio with 148 voices, and editable memories (Lorebooks). Explicit content for adults; unlimited messages on paid plans.
Price: Premium $19.99/month, or $109.99/year ($9.17/month). Free: 20 messages a day. Full review →
Big Free Library
SpicyChat AI
A huge user-made library (the site claims 300K+ NSFW characters), browsable by tag, with group chats of 2 to 10 bots, lorebooks and a help-centre guide to importing characters from other platforms (imported bots stay private).
Price: Free with a daily cap; Get a Taste €5.95/month, True Supporter €19.95, I'm All In €29.95. Full review →
Free Card Chat
LusyChat
A SpicyChat-style community card platform: build a character or import a card, attach up to three lorebooks, pick a chat model. Zero-coin models keep text chat free; Premium adds coins for images, voice calls and clips.
Price: Premium $14.99/month, or $7.99/month billed yearly (6,000 coins a month). Full review →
Strong Free Tier
Sakura.fm
User-made characters with persona, scenario and example-chat fields, import from a JSON or image file, three free models, and Sage status that lifts the daily cap for free. Adult content is text-first behind an 18+ switch.
Price: Free; Diamond $19/month, or $131.99/year ($11/month), no daily limit. Full review →
Local & Offline
HammerAI
A roleplay chat app whose desktop version runs models locally through Ollama, free and offline, and can browse and download Chub AI character cards. Explicit roleplay in text is what it is built for; its rules ban realistic images.
Price: Local mode free; cloud Starter $9/month (unlimited messages, 16,384-token context). Full review →
Free, Text Only
Janitor AI
Over 1.4 million public bots by Janitor's 2025 count and unlimited free chat on its own model, JLLM, with no API key needed. NSFW bots are available on the website. Text only.
Price: Free; Janitor+ $12.99/month or $99/year (US App Store) for 5× memory and priority replies. Full review →
Character.AI Alternatives Compared
| App | Score | User-made library | Free tier | Images / voice | Entry price |
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| Xotic AI | 8.6 | Official + community ("thousands") | 5 messages in total | Images, video, calls (XOT) | $24.99/mo · $149.99/yr |
| GirlfriendGPT | 8.2 | ~70,500 public characters | ~10–20 messages, no NSFW | Images, short videos, voice | $15/mo |
| Secrets AI | 7.9 | 2,187 community + 187 official | 20 messages/day | Images, video, voice calls | $19.99/mo · $109.99/yr |
| SpicyChat AI | 7.3 | 300K+ (site claim) | Daily cap | Scene images from €19.95, TTS €29.95 | €5.95/mo |
| LusyChat | 7.2 | Community cards | Zero-coin models | Images, voice, calls (coins) | $14.99/mo · $7.99/mo yearly |
| Sakura.fm | 7.1 | User-made characters | Daily cap, Sage lifts it | Text-first | Free · $19/mo Diamond |
| HammerAI | 7.0 | Chub cards in the desktop app | Local unlimited; cloud 600/day | Images & voice on credits | Free · $9/mo cloud |
| Janitor AI | 6.2 | 1.4M+ public bots | Unlimited on JLLM | ✗ Text only | Free · $12.99/mo Janitor+ |
Prices as listed on each app's pricing page, plan data or app store on 20 October 2026. Euro prices are what the site showed from France.
Which One Fits You
- You want the Character.AI library feel, explicit: GirlfriendGPT (8.2/10) has about 70,500 public characters; NSFW needs a paid plan, from $15 a month.
- You want characters plus calls and media on one plan: Xotic AI (8.6/10), with unlimited regular chat on Ultimate and voice and video calls paid in XOT.
- You want to try for free first: Secrets AI gives 20 messages a day; LusyChat, SpicyChat AI, Sakura.fm and Janitor AI all let you chat with community characters for free.
- You want full control: HammerAI runs models on your own machine; the open-source SillyTavern frontend works with cards from Chub AI and your own API key.
Also Worth Knowing
- Prefer one companion to a library? Candy AI (7.7/10) has unlimited text chat on Premium for €47.88 a year (€3.99 a month), and OurDream AI (7.6/10) adds videos up to 60 seconds, paid in coins. Both have character creators but no card import.
- Chub AI (6.1/10): the community card site (also called CharHub) with lorebooks, presets and chat trees. Free with your own API key, or $20 a month for its models, paid in crypto only, refunds at its discretion, and the terms name no company.
- CrushOn AI (5.5/10): unlimited chat on the free models after sign-up, 100 credits a month for the better models; paid plans from $5.99 a month. No plan lists image generation.
- Dippy AI (6.8/10): a free community roleplay app; its NSFW toggle stays suggestive rather than explicit.
- Muah AI (6.7/10): free-text character prompts and live calls on its top tier, but no refunds, no company named, and a 2024 breach that tied 1.9 million email addresses to users' prompts. Read the review before paying.
Not recommended:
- Joyland AI (4.5/10): Not recommended — see our review.
Moving Your Characters
Keep your character definitions
Before you switch, copy the text that defines each character you care about: personality, scenario, greeting and a few example messages. Every creator on this list accepts those as free text, so a character can be rebuilt in a few minutes even where no import exists.
Use an app that imports cards
LusyChat imports character cards, Sakura.fm imports characters from a JSON or image file, SpicyChat's help centre explains how to bring characters over from other platforms, and HammerAI's desktop app downloads Chub AI cards directly.
Look for a community copy
Popular characters are often recreated by users on the big libraries. Search GirlfriendGPT, SpicyChat or Janitor AI before rebuilding one yourself.
Chat history does not move
No app imports your old conversations. Save the moments you want to keep before you leave.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. Character.AI's rules exclude sexual roleplay and there is no setting to turn the filter off. Apps such as Xotic AI, GirlfriendGPT, Secrets AI, SpicyChat and Janitor AI offer the same kind of user-made character library with adult content allowed.
Xotic AI has the highest score of the alternatives we rank (8.6/10), with official and community characters, group chats and voice and video calls. GirlfriendGPT (8.2/10) is the closest to Character.AI's format, with about 70,500 public user-made characters.
Janitor AI offers unlimited free text chat on its own model, with no API key needed. LusyChat has zero-coin chat models, SpicyChat and Sakura.fm have free tiers with a daily cap, and Secrets AI gives 20 free messages a day.
You can't. Jailbreak prompts break the terms and stop working when the filter is updated. An app whose terms allow explicit content for adults is the reliable option.
There is no direct transfer. Copy each character's personality, scenario, greeting and example messages, then paste them into the new app's creator. LusyChat and Sakura.fm can also import character cards or JSON files.
The Bottom Line
Character.AI will not add NSFW, so pick the app that keeps what you liked about it. Xotic AI (8.6/10) has the highest score here, with community characters, group chats and calls. GirlfriendGPT (8.2/10) is the closest to Character.AI's library-first format. To start for free, Secrets AI gives 20 messages a day and LusyChat keeps text chat free on its zero-coin models.