specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Character.AI
providerId: character-ai
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Chatbots
- Personas
- Generative AI
- Consumer
- Plans
description: >-
  Character.AI is a consumer subscription product, not a developer API. The
  service offers a free tier (with rate-limited Character chat) and a paid
  c.ai+ subscription that adds priority access, faster responses, early
  access to features, and an exclusive community badge. There is no public
  developer pricing surface to reconcile.
notes: >-
  Subscription pricing for c.ai+ is not reconciled here - confirm current
  monthly / annual price on character.ai before quoting. There is no public
  per-token / per-call developer pricing.
sources:
- https://character.ai/
- https://book.character.ai/
plans:
- id: character-ai-free
  name: Free
  type: free
  description: >-
    Default consumer experience with rate-limited Character chat across web
    and mobile, including Character creation and conversation history.
  entries:
  - label: Subscription
    name: subscription
    type: flat
    metric: month
    limit: 1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: $0
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Character Chat
  - name: Character Creation
  - name: Conversation History
- id: character-ai-plus
  name: c.ai+ (Plus)
  type: subscription
  description: >-
    Paid consumer subscription that adds priority access during peak times,
    faster response generation, early access to new features, and a c.ai+
    community badge.
  entries:
  - label: Monthly Subscription
    name: subscription_monthly
    type: flat
    metric: month
    limit: 1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: see character.ai for current rate
    userMultiplied: true
  elements:
  - name: Priority Access
  - name: Faster Responses
  - name: Early Access
  - name: Community Badge
- id: character-ai-developer
  name: Public Developer API
  type: usage
  description: >-
    Character.AI does not publish a public developer API. Programmatic
    integration is not officially supported.
  entries:
  - label: Developer API
    name: developer_api
    type: flat
    metric: not_offered
    limit: 0
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: not offered
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Not Offered
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com