Chat with millions of AI characters or build your own
CHAI records 702,645 monthly visits with +0.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. VSona records 0 monthly visits with 0% growth and Freemium pricing.
Personalised AI companions for conversation, roleplay and creative expression
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | chai-research.com | vsona.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 702.65K (702,645) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +1.08K (+0.2%) | 0 (0%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (36.9%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 357.86K | 0 |
| User Rating | 4.1 | 3.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

Consumer AI platform for building your own AI characters and chat stories
Build custom ChatAI characters with their own personalities and backstories, then chat with them or browse characters created by other users.
CHAI trains and serves its own language models rather than reselling third-party APIs, optimising them specifically for engaging, social dialogue.
Reward models trained on large volumes of user feedback, combined with PPO, DPO and GRPO, iterate the models to increase retention and session length.
A multi-vendor AMD and NVIDIA GPU cluster exceeds 1.4 exaflops, with a custom orchestrator serving hundreds of models in production.
Personalised AI companions for conversation, roleplay and creative expression
Character-based companions built around ongoing, context-aware conversations rather than one-off question answering.
Support for voice as well as text interaction, so you can talk with a companion rather than only type.
Roleplay scenarios and character-driven storytelling for entertainment and creative writing.
An avatar-based presentation layer that gives each companion a visible identity during chats.
Chat with millions of AI characters or build your own
Customizable AI character roleplay platform featuring free JanitorLLM chats, logic scripts, and multi-model API routing.
Customizable AI character roleplay platform featuring free JanitorLLM chats, logic scripts, and multi-model API routing.

Provides more flexible model switching and fewer filtering restrictions, but can have slower peak response times.
Provides more flexible model switching and fewer filtering restrictions, but can have slower peak response times.

Focuses heavily on visual companion features and photo generation, but lacks the broad variety of community stories found in CHAI.
Focuses heavily on visual companion features and photo generation, but lacks the broad variety of community stories found in CHAI.

Massive AI character chat network with twenty million user-created bots, voice acting, and specialized narrative modes.
Massive AI character chat network with twenty million user-created bots, voice acting, and specialized narrative modes.
SpecialistFree AI character chat and immersive roleplay with over a million bots
SpecialistFree AI character chat and immersive roleplay with over a million bots
Unfiltered NSFW character chat with millions of fan-made AI companions
Unfiltered NSFW character chat with millions of fan-made AI companions
Uncensored AI companion chat and NSFW roleplay, on your terms
Uncensored AI companion chat and NSFW roleplay, on your terms

Chat and roleplay with AI characters who remember you
Chat and roleplay with AI characters who remember you

Chat, roleplay, and build your own AI companions
Chat, roleplay, and build your own AI companions
Unlimited AI character chat and immersive digital companionship
Unlimited AI character chat and immersive digital companionship

Build a personal AI companion who texts, talks and remembers you