An AI companion with a memory you control
Create an AI companion with its own voice, point of view, and memory. It remembers the people, plans, and moments you share, and you decide what it keeps. Chat in private, then add live voice and sharing when you are ready.
What you get
What this helps you do
Keeps a consistent persona
Give your Character a name, personality, tone, and backstory. Responses are grounded in that persona instead of drifting into a generic assistant voice.
Remembers the details that matter
Birthdays and anniversaries. The people and pets you care about. Meaningful places, preferences, routines, goals, plans, boundaries, and events. Your Character carries useful context forward, and you can review, pin, edit, or delete what it saved.
Live, premium & cloned voice
Add real-time voice chat on Pro. Business unlocks premium engines and voice cloning when you want the sound to match the Character as closely as the words do.
Show up beyond your dashboard
Use the same Character in supported messages, website chat, developer connections, or voice while keeping its identity and available conversation history.
Private, unlisted link sharing
Share a Character with a friend, client, or community without listing it publicly. A private link is enough, on every paid plan.
List it, or get supported for it
List your Character on the Charigent Marketplace, or connect Stripe on Business to accept fan tips and sell paid access.
Who benefits
Made for real work
Fan-facing companion brands
Give an audience a consistent AI character chat experience across your site, Discord, and DMs, instead of a generic support bot.
Roleplay & interactive fiction
Build a character with real memory of prior scenes so an ongoing story doesn't reset every time someone opens a new chat.
Monetized companion products
Package a Character as a product of its own: list it on the Marketplace, or accept fan tips and paid access once you're on Business.
How it works
From setup to a reviewed result
Create your Character
Give them a name, personality, backstory, and greeting inside the unified Charigent creation wizard.
Add memory & voice
Turn on relationship memory from Starter, add live voice on Pro, or use premium and cloned voices on Business.
Chat, share, or sell
Chat in the dashboard, connect supported channels, share a private link, or list the Character on the Marketplace.
Choose the role
Build an Agent for the job or a Character people return to
Choose Agent when information and tasks come first. Choose Character when identity and relationships come first. Either can use saved knowledge, voice, channels, repeatable processes, and Marketplace tools when your plan allows.
Agent
- Answers from a knowledge base first
- Built for support, routing, and task workflows
- Uses the same billing, deployment, and control tools as a Character
Character
- Built around a persona, voice, and relationship memory
- Built for companion chat, roleplay, and fan-facing brands
- Uses the same billing, deployment, and control tools as an Agent
Building a knowledge-first assistant instead of a persona? See the Charigents (Agent) feature page — it's the other half of the same product.
In character
What did I tell you about Maya's birthday?
Dinner at Juniper House on November 18 — and no surprise speech because Maya hates being put on the spot. Want to plan the guest list or the menu?
Built-in safety
A safety floor runs underneath every Character conversation
- Crisis-signal screening watches for self-harm and distress language during chat, not just at signup
- Character personas are screened against platform content rules
- Safety events are logged for review instead of silently dropped
Choose your starting point
Start with conversation. Add reach and revenue when you're ready.
Start with persona-driven text chat, relationship memory, and private sharing. Pro adds live voice, public widgets, and Marketplace listings; Business adds premium or cloned voices and fan payments.
Create & run a Character
- Persona, personality, and backstory
- Relationship memory across sessions
- Text chat with your own Character
- Unlisted link sharing
Add live voice & publish it
- Everything in Starter
- Live voice conversations
- List your Character on the Charigent Marketplace
- Public widget embed for your own site
Get paid by fans directly
- Everything in Pro
- Premium voice engines and voice cloning
- Connect Stripe to accept fan tips
- Sell paid or extended access to external fans
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is there any AI better than Character AI?
"Better" depends on what you need. Charigent's Character Mode is built for owning the persona: configure its personality, chat with it directly, and keep relationship memory across conversations. Live voice is available on Pro, while Business adds premium and cloned voices.
What is the alternative to Character AI 2026?
Charigent's Character Mode is one alternative: create your own AI character with a configurable personality and long-term memory, chat with it in your dashboard, and share it privately from Starter. Pro adds live voice, public widgets, and Marketplace listing; Business adds premium or cloned voices and fan monetization.
Can I create my own AI for free?
Charigent offers a 14-day free trial so you can create and test your own AI character before paying anything. After the trial, Character creation is included on every paid plan starting at Starter; it isn't a permanently free product, but you don't need to pay to try it first.
What is the best AI for creating characters?
The best fit depends on whether you want a one-off persona or a Character you own. Charigent gives it a name, personality, backstory, direct dashboard chat, and persistent relationship memory. Pro adds live voice, widgets, and Marketplace listing; Business adds cloned voices and fan monetization.
How much would it cost to build my own AI?
Building an AI character yourself usually means buying AI access, creating memory, hosting the service, and paying ongoing service costs. Starter ($19/mo) includes Character creation, text chat, relationship memory, and private sharing. Live voice starts on Pro. Premium and cloned voices start on Business.
How to make an AI character?
Open the unified Charigent creation wizard and choose Character. Give it a name, personality, tone, and backstory, then turn on relationship memory. You can chat with it in the dashboard and share it privately on Starter, add live voice and public distribution on Pro, or add premium and cloned voices plus fan monetization on Business.
Pricing
Starter includes Character creation, text chat, relationship memory, and unlisted sharing. Pro adds live voice, public widgets, and Marketplace listing. Business adds premium voice engines, voice cloning, fan tips, and paid external access.
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