Character.AI records 154,156,370 monthly visits with +2.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. VS Code records 7,397,370 monthly visits with -3.8% growth and Freemium pricing.
Chat with millions of AI characters or build your own
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | character.ai | code.visualstudio.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 154.16M (154,156,370) | 7.4M (7,397,370) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +3.28M (+2.2%) | -288.8K (-3.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.6%) | 🇺🇸 United States (18.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 110.73M | 2.17M |
| User Rating | 4.4 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
Agents open the repository, form a plan, edit multiple files and explain the changes so you can review each diff before accepting it. You can also run several agents in parallel to push a backlog forward.
Point the editor at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or open-weight models, or bring your own key. Pick the Copilot, Claude or Codex harness that matches how you like to work.
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS work out of the box, and Marketplace extensions add IntelliSense, linting, refactoring and debuggers for Python, Java, C++, Go, Rust and more.
Integrated terminal, source control, debugger, testing, Jupyter notebooks, an integrated browser and Dev Containers all live in one window, so you stay close to the code.
Features community-driven roleplay with flexible LLM routing and adult content support, unlike Character.AI's strict filtering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Focuses on immersive storytelling and fictional character chats, providing an alternative community roleplay environment.
AI-native code editor built on VS Code fork with deep multi-file editing and intelligent codebase indexing.
AI-native code editor built on VS Code fork with deep multi-file editing and intelligent codebase indexing.
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, bypassing Character.AI's rigid safety restrictions.
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, bypassing Character.AI's rigid safety restrictions.
Agentic development platform offering an IDE and command center for running parallel AI coding agents.
Agentic development platform offering an IDE and command center for running parallel AI coding agents.
SpecialistCloud-based development environment featuring an AI agent that builds, runs, and deploys full-stack applications instantly.
SpecialistCloud-based development environment featuring an AI agent that builds, runs, and deploys full-stack applications instantly.
Combines character chat with persistent memory and visual companions, competing directly in casual roleplay.
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.
SpecialistExcels at long-form fiction writing and collaborative storytelling rather than structured character chat rooms.
Agentic coding platform and IDE plugin that reads entire codebases to plan and complete multi-file tasks.
Agentic coding platform and IDE plugin that reads entire codebases to plan and complete multi-file tasks.
