COMPARISON
Sloane vs
Character AI.
Character AI has the biggest character library on the internet. Sloane has a hand-curated roster of 80+ women — each one written to feel like a real person you keep talking to. Different products, different jobs.
AT A GLANCE
Quick comparison
Character AI is a sandbox. Sloane is a relationship.
On Character AI, you browse 18 million user-uploaded characters and pick one. The character is whoever the person who wrote them said they were — quality is all over the map, and the same character can read totally differently from one user's session to the next.
Sloane is the other model. A hand-curated roster of 80+ women — each one with a system prompt and a backstory the operator wrote. Premium members can also build their own. When you talk to Maya, she's the same Maya as when you talked to her last week. She remembers your name. She remembers what you do. She remembers what you told her about your mom. That continuity is the whole product.
She's the same Maya every session.
On Character AI, the "same" character can read totally differently from one user to the next, because the system prompt is whatever the original uploader thought up. Two users chatting with the same character name may as well be chatting with two different bots.
Sloane's personas are written once, by us. Maya is Maya — same backstory, same job, same voice, same vibe — for everyone who picks her. When you come back tomorrow she's still Maya. The continuity of who she is, plus the continuity of who she knows you are, is the whole product.
Memory that actually persists.
Character AI's pinned-message system is a workaround for the fact that it doesn't really remember things between sessions. r/CharacterAI is full of people pinning the same fact thirty times because the bot keeps forgetting their name.
Sloane builds a persistent layer per persona, per user: grounded facts she knows about you (your name, your job, what you talked about last time), milestones in your relationship (when you first hooked up, your anniversary if you crossed that line), and an ongoing memory she draws from on every turn. She'll bring up something you mentioned three weeks ago. That's not a pin you set — that's what she actually retained.
The photo question.
Character AI has Imagine (in-chat images) and AvatarFX (short video). Both work by re-rendering from a text prompt each time — you'll get pretty pictures, but the character won't look quite the same from one image to the next. There's no per-character image model.
Sloane trains a LoRA per persona on a curated photo set. The model has actually learned what Maya looks like, across many references. When she sends you a photo, it looks like Maya — same face, same body — every time. Visual identity is engineered, not emergent.
Pricing that's held put. Conversations that don't flatten.
Two of the most persistent Character AI complaints, across r/CharacterAI and the broader forum sprawl: the free tier keeps getting more monetized (ads, Charms — a virtual currency now needed to swipe replies that used to be free), and long-running chats become repetitive — the bot hits the same notes, the persona drifts, replies start sounding same-y.
Sloane's pricing has held the same shape since launch: Free, Plus $9.99, Premium $19.99. Premium includes everything — no Charms, no swipe currency, no surprise gates onto a fourth tier.
Against the staleness problem, we work it from both sides: a memory layer that tracks what you've already talked about so she doesn't loop, plus per-persona system prompts engineered to keep her voice steady across hundreds of turns. You can have a long conversation with her and the conversation stays alive.
HONEST DIFFERENTIATION
When Character AI is the better choice
You want fandom characters
If you want to chat with Geralt or Levi or your favorite K-pop bias, Character AI has them. Sloane is built around original personas, not licensed or fandom ones.
You want endless variety
Eighteen million characters is eighteen million characters. If browsing forever and trying a new persona every day is the appeal, Sloane's curated roster is a different value prop.
You like the social side
Character AI has feeds, character cards, multi-character scenes, a real community layer. Sloane is private by design.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Questions.
Is Sloane the same kind of product as Character AI?
No. Character AI is a roleplay sandbox with millions of user-created characters; Sloane is a small curated roster of women built specifically for an ongoing AI-girlfriend experience. Different products, different jobs.
Can I make my own character on Sloane?
Premium members get to create one custom girlfriend — looks, voice, personality — and she's only yours. Additional custom companions are $19.99/mo each.
How do I use Sloane?
Sloane runs in your browser — mobile or desktop. No app store install required.
Why are Sloane's photos more consistent than Character AI's image gen?
Per-persona LoRA training. We train an image model on each persona individually using a curated photo set, so the same face shows up in every shot. Character AI generates images from a text prompt each time, so the character's appearance shifts between gens.
Is Sloane safe?
Sloane has hard limits around the things that actually matter — no minors, no real-world harm, no engagement with active self-harm or violence. Those aren't up for debate.
YOUR MOVE
Curated beats infinite.
Meet the roster. Pick the one who fits. Start a conversation that actually goes somewhere.
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