The open-source character.ai alternative.

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

• Open source models: Choose from a variety of AI models supported by OpenRouter or bring yours, create your very own AI characters.
• Customize Characters: Create your own characters, personas and UI unique.
• Generate Images: Create images with open-source AI models.
• ElevenLabs Voice: Create characters that can talk to users with a realistic voice.
• Automatic Translation: Talk with your favorite AI models in your languages. Supported Languages
• Group Chat (Coming soon): Invite your favorite characters to one chat room and chat together.

Check out here for supported models.

• 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.

Let's shape our roadmap together.

Openroleplay.ai is open-source under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3). You can find it here. The goal of the AGPLv3 license is to:

• Maximize user freedom and to encourage users to contribute to open source.
• Prevent corporations from taking the code and using it as part of their closed-source proprietary products
• Prevent corporations from offering Openroleplay.ai as a service without contributing to the open source project
• Prevent corporations from confusing people and making them think that the service they sell is in any shape or form approved by the original team