Features a much larger community of characters and polished UI, but strictly enforces safety filters unlike JanitorAI.
Features a much larger community of characters and polished UI, but strictly enforces safety filters unlike JanitorAI.
JanitorAI records 125,494,484 monthly visits with -5.1% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Side Reader records 355 monthly visits with -36.5% growth and Freemium pricing.
Read and chat with PDFs right beside ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek.
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | janitorai.com | side-reader.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 125.49M (125,494,484) | 355 (355) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -6.77M (-5.1%) | -204 (-36.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (38.7%) | 🇻🇳 Vietnam (100%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 89.53M | 149 |
| User Rating | 4.2 | 2.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Customizable AI character roleplay platform featuring free JanitorLLM chats, logic scripts, and multi-model API routing.
Provides unlimited free character chats powered by JanitorAI's in-house LLM (~9K context window on free accounts), with a toggleable JLLM-short mode for snappy, dialogue-focused replies that are 70% shorter.
Lets Janitor+ subscribers tap directly into third-party frontier models via a built-in per-token wallet at a 10% discount, while keeping full BYOK reverse-proxy support with config duplication and reasoning tag display.
Allows creators to build complex characters up to 1 MB in size with multiple intro scenarios and programmable Scripts that trigger dynamic lore or behavioral rules using whole-word matching and built-in debugging tools.
Exposes low-level sampling parameters in the chat menu, including custom Top-K, Top-P, frequency and repetition penalties, forbidden vocabulary lists, and response prefill instructions.
Read and chat with PDFs right beside ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek.
PDFs render directly in the sidebar next to the chat, so your document and the AI conversation are visible at the same time.
Summarize a whole document, translate it, or have passages explained in simpler terms using the AI you are already signed into.
Built-in buttons cover the common actions, and you can edit their prompts to make the AI respond in the format and tone you need.
Ask about charts, scans or regions that cannot be selected by taking a screenshot question instead.
Features a much larger community of characters and polished UI, but strictly enforces safety filters unlike JanitorAI.
Features a much larger community of characters and polished UI, but strictly enforces safety filters unlike JanitorAI.

Provides unfiltered character roleplay and multi-model switching, serving as a very close alternative to JanitorAI.
Provides unfiltered character roleplay and multi-model switching, serving as a very close alternative to JanitorAI.

Features massive user-generated persona libraries with voice playback for casual character chatting.
Features massive user-generated persona libraries with voice playback for casual character chatting.
Hosts millions of user-created fictional bots for immersive roleplay conversations similar to JanitorAI.
Hosts millions of user-created fictional bots for immersive roleplay conversations similar to JanitorAI.

Combines adult-focused character chat, storytelling, and image generation for creative roleplay users.
Combines adult-focused character chat, storytelling, and image generation for creative roleplay users.

Free / Open-sourceProvides privacy-focused, uncensored open-source model APIs that advanced users can route for private roleplay.
Free / Open-sourceProvides privacy-focused, uncensored open-source model APIs that advanced users can route for private roleplay.
Offers unrestricted anime and fantasy character chats, matching JanitorAI's permissive content policy.
Offers unrestricted anime and fantasy character chats, matching JanitorAI's permissive content policy.

AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
A free, AI-powered PDF editor for every device
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
Enables custom persona creation and open-ended roleplay adventures in a similar community environment.
Enables custom persona creation and open-ended roleplay adventures in a similar community environment.

Bilingual AI translation for websites, documents, video and images
Bilingual AI translation for websites, documents, video and images