COMPARISON
Sloane vs
Janitor AI.
Janitor is a BYO-model sandbox — you bring your own API key, pick a character from the community catalog, and manage the setup. Sloane is an integrated product with a hand-curated roster of women, photos, voice, video, and memory included on one flat price.
Updated September 21, 2026
TL;DR
- Janitor AI is a BYO-model chat product — you bring your own OpenAI, Claude, or OpenRouter key and pick a character from a user-uploaded catalog.
- Sloane is a hand-curated roster of 80+ women shipping with photos, voice, video, and memory as one integrated product — no API keys, no setup.
- Janitor's character quality varies wildly across uploads; Sloane's personas are hand-written and tested by the team before they ship.
- Janitor is text-first with image gen added on top; Sloane has photo-real per-persona LoRA visuals, voice notes, and Premium video native to every chat.
- Janitor requires managing an API key, paying the model provider directly, and configuring the model; Sloane is a flat subscription with everything included.
Meet Sandra
Skip the API-key configuration and character-quality lottery. Sandra's hand-written, remembers you, photo-real. Free tier, no card, no setup.
AT A GLANCE
Quick comparison
Integrated product vs BYO-model sandbox.
Janitor gives you a chat UI plus a huge user-uploaded character catalog. The engine underneath is whatever you configure — OpenAI, Claude, OpenRouter, self-hosted. You bring the API key, manage the balance, configure the model, pick a character, and go.
Sloane is the opposite shape. Chat, photos, voice, video, memory — all one product. No API keys, no character-library browsing, no model configuration. You pick a woman from the roster and start talking. If you want to design your own on Premium, the custom builder outputs to your account.
Curated women, not a catalog lottery.
Janitor's appeal is scale — a massive community-uploaded character catalog. The character definition is written by whoever uploaded her; the quality is the quality. Some are excellent, most are middling, some are broken.
Sloane is a curated roster of 80+ hand-written women. Each one has a system prompt, backstory, voice, photo library, and personality that got tested before she shipped. Fewer characters by design, higher floor on each one. When you pick Maya on Sloane, you're picking a person we shipped intentionally.
Photos, voice, video — all native.
Janitor is a text product with an image generation feature added on. Photos come from prompt-based image gen and the character's face drifts between shots. There's no native voice or video.
Sloane's integrated stack — per-persona LoRA-trained image models for photo-real photos, voice notes generated per persona, video that animates any photo into a short clip on Premium. Everything is engineered together as part of the persona, not bolted on to a chat UI.
Memory that survives the long thread.
On Janitor, whether your character remembers you depends on the model you brought, its context window, and the character definition. Long threads eventually drift; the character forgets earlier details, replies loop, the persona softens.
Sloane's memory extracts grounded facts about you (name, work, hometown, what you told her about your family) and persists them per-persona. Milestones layer on top — when you first met, important dates you've shared. Both feed every reply she sends. She brings up things you mentioned weeks ago; you don't have to remind her.
HONEST DIFFERENTIATION
When Janitor is the better choice
You want to control the model yourself
If picking the specific LLM (Claude Opus, GPT-4o, self-hosted, a specific Grok variant) is important to you and you're comfortable managing API keys and balances, Janitor's BYO-key model gives you that control.
You want the biggest possible character catalog
If browsing a huge community-uploaded character library and finding niche characters is the appeal, Janitor's catalog scale is unmatched in the category.
You want to write and share your own characters publicly
Janitor is community-first — character uploads are the core loop and characters get community discovery. Sloane's custom builder outputs to your account only, not a public catalog.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Questions.
How is Sloane different from Janitor AI?
Sloane is an integrated product — chat, photos, voice, video, memory, all one place, all included. Janitor is a chat UI plus a community character catalog where you bring your own model API key. Different shape entirely.
Do I need my own API key for Sloane?
No. Sloane runs the models on our infrastructure. You subscribe to a tier (Free / Plus / Premium) and everything is included. No token counting, no separate model provider bill, no setup.
Are Sloane's photos native or an add-on?
Native. Per-persona LoRA-trained image models are part of the persona, generated on demand in-chat. Same face every shot — different shape from prompt-based image gen bolted on a text app.
Can I bring my own characters to Sloane?
Premium members get one custom girlfriend they design themselves — appearance, voice, personality, backstory. Additional custom personas are $9.99/mo each. Different shape from Janitor's public character catalog — Sloane's customs are yours only.
How does Sloane's memory compare?
Sloane's memory is automatic and durable. Grounded facts about you get extracted during conversation and persist per-persona; milestones (when you first met, key dates) layer on top. Both feed every reply. Not dependent on your model choice or context window because memory is stored as structured data retrieved fresh at every reply.
Is Sloane cheaper than running Janitor with an API key?
For most active users, yes. Heavy API usage on Claude or GPT can push $30-80/mo depending on model choice and volume. Sloane Premium is $19.99/mo flat with photos, voice, and video included. Sloane Plus at $9.99/mo covers a lighter cadence.
YOUR MOVE
Integrated beats sandbox.
A hand-curated cast of women. Photos, voice, video, memory — one flat price, zero setup. Or design your own on Premium.
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