Features community-driven roleplay with flexible LLM routing and adult content support, unlike Character.AI's strict filtering.
Character.AI records 154,156,370 monthly visits with +2.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. SmartProxy records 217 monthly visits with -99.2% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.

AI-ready residential proxies and web data at scale
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | character.ai | smartproxy.org |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 154.16M (154,156,370) | 217 (217) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +3.28M (+2.2%) |
| -27.7K (-99.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.6%) | 🇨🇭 Switzerland (57.3%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 110.73M | 95 |
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| User Rating | 4.4 | 4.4 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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Chat with millions of AI characters or build your own
Browse and chat with a vast library of community and official characters across genres and fandoms.
Design a character's look, backstory, personality and voice, then share it with the community.
Talk with characters using voice chats and Voice Notes, not just typed messages.
Long-form, in-character conversations built for storytelling and immersion rather than quick answers.

AI-ready residential proxies and web data at scale
Route requests through real residential IPs with smart rotation and free geolocation for higher scraping success rates.
Choose unlimited residential traffic, static residential, long-acting ISP, or static datacenter proxies depending on your workflow.
Dedicated scrapers and APIs for web data collection, plus integration guides for AI and automation platforms.
Target locations at country, state and city level, with detailed per-country pools such as Brazil, India, the US, Turkey and Mexico.
Features community-driven roleplay with flexible LLM routing and adult content support, unlike Character.AI's strict filtering.

Offers unfiltered and NSFW character roleplay with multi-model switching, whereas Character.AI strictly enforces safety filters.
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SpecialistSpecializes in virtual romantic companions with voice and photo generation, catering more to dating roleplay.

Features millions of user-generated personas with voice playback, offering a similar casual roleplay experience to Character.AI.
Focuses on immersive storytelling and fictional character chats, providing an alternative community roleplay environment.
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, bypassing Character.AI's rigid safety restrictions.

Combines character chat with persistent memory and visual companions, competing directly in casual roleplay.

SpecialistExcels at long-form fiction writing and collaborative storytelling rather than structured character chat rooms.

Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform

SpecialistDelivers deeper personal companion dynamics with advanced memory and realistic selfie generation, but fewer public characters.

Enables open-ended roleplay with custom characters, offering an independent alternative with fewer platform restrictions.

Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Features community-driven roleplay with flexible LLM routing and adult content support, unlike Character.AI's strict filtering.
Offers unfiltered and NSFW character roleplay with multi-model switching, whereas Character.AI strictly enforces safety filters.
SpecialistSpecializes in virtual romantic companions with voice and photo generation, catering more to dating roleplay.
Features millions of user-generated personas with voice playback, offering a similar casual roleplay experience to Character.AI.
Focuses on immersive storytelling and fictional character chats, providing an alternative community roleplay environment.
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, bypassing Character.AI's rigid safety restrictions.
Combines character chat with persistent memory and visual companions, competing directly in casual roleplay.
SpecialistExcels at long-form fiction writing and collaborative storytelling rather than structured character chat rooms.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
SpecialistDelivers deeper personal companion dynamics with advanced memory and realistic selfie generation, but fewer public characters.
Enables open-ended roleplay with custom characters, offering an independent alternative with fewer platform restrictions.