The open-source character.ai alternative.

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Open Roleplay serves is an open-source alternative to Character.ai. You have full control over your data, model, and visual presentation.

Platforms like Character.ai and other AI agent platforms are fantastic. They sparked our interest in the potential of AI interactions. We utilize them for a variety of purposes, including productivity, entertainment, workflow automation, and more. However, these platforms often lack flexibility, transparency and customization options.

This is where Open Roleplay steps in. Whether self-hosted or hosted by us, it's ready to be deployed on your own domain with your personalized model and data.

• Model Agnostic: Choose from a variety of AI models, making it easy to interact with your favorite AI characters.
• Highly Customizable: Make your characters, personas and UI unique, for a one-of-a-kind roleplaying experience.
• Roleplay-Focused: Designed with roleplaying and storytelling in mind, it ensures an immersive and engaging experience.
• Group Chat (Coming soon): Invite your favorite characters to one chat room and chat together.
• Extended Memory (Coming soon): The character instructions and previous conversations are reminded to characters when the context window reaches its limit.
• Image Generation (Coming soon): Allow your character to generate their own selfies, drawings, and photos for a more immersive experience.
• Voice (Coming soon): Create characters that can talk to users with a realistic voice.

• OpenAI gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 (16k context window, proivded by OpenAI)
• Mistral tiny (Provided by Mistral AI)
• Mistral small (Provided by Mistral AI)
• Perplexity pplx-7b-online (4k context window, provided by Perplexity AI)
• Perplexity pplx-7b-chat (8k context window, provided by Perplexity AI)
• Alibaba qwen-14b-chat (English and Chinese, provided by Fireworks AI)
• Anthropic Claude Instant (Coming Soon, 128k context window, proivded by OpenAI)
• ...and more!

• OpenAI gpt-4-1106-preview (32k context window, proivded by OpenAI)
• Perplexity pplx-70b-chat (4k context window, provided by Perplexity AI)
• Perplexity pplx-70b-online (4k context window, provided by Perplexity AI)
• Mistral medium (Provided by Mistral AI)
• ...and more!

• Stable Diffusion XL (Provided by Stability AI)

• Next.js
• React.js
• Tailwind CSS
• Vercel
• Convex
• Clerk

• web: a Next.js app for the service
• docs: a Next.js app for developer and user documentation
• @repo/ui: a stub React component library
• @repo/eslint-config: eslint configurations (includes eslint-config-next and eslint-config-prettier)
• @repo/typescript-config: tsconfig.jsons used throughout the monorepo

To build all apps and packages, run the following command:

pnpm build

To develop all apps and packages, run the following command:

# Run frontend server
pnpm install
pnpm dev

# Run backend server
cd apps/web
npx convex dev

We use convex for backend as a service and vercel for frontend cloud to ship features faster.

Check out Using Convex with Vercel for detailed guide.

Clerk is an authentication platform providing login via passwords, social identity providers, one-time email or SMS access codes, and multi-factor authentication and basic user management.

We use Clerk for simplified and secure user authentication.

Check out Convex Clerk for detailed guide.

Giving perfect memory for agents, adding voice capabilities and image generation, improving user interactions, possibilities are endless. We value your feedback.

This project is entirely bootstrapped and was initiated out of personal passion and effort. Your contributions are invaluable and will ensure the continued vitality of this project.

Distributed under the AGPLv3 License. See LICENSE for more information.