AI & Automation · AI Assistants & Agents

AI Companions & Virtual Characters

0 paid against 14 free you can run yourself.

Paid against free › AI & Automation › AI Assistants & Agents › AI Companions & Virtual Characters · AI and models on Repo Radar

Find a character or companion you can keep talking to over time. Compare ready-made subscriptions with apps you can run yourself, paying attention to memory, speech, avatars and control over models. Free source code can still require model APIs, capable hardware and separate avatar rights. Some services focus on friendship and everyday conversation; others emphasize fictional or adult roleplay. Related lists below cover writing tools and the components used to build a companion.

Paid 0 reviewed

Prices and free tiers as checked, dated on each review.

Paid tools for this job are being added. The free alternatives below are ready to use.

Free 13 direct · 1 related

Free to use. You run it on your own server.

Direct alternatives

They do this job.

AImoeru-ai/airi

💖🧸 Self hosted, you-owned Grok Companion, a container of souls of waifu, cyber livings to bring them into our worlds, wishing to achieve Neuro-sama's altitude. Capable of realtime voice chat, Minecraft, Factorio playing. Web / macOS / Windows supported.

★ 50.8kFree
SISillyTavern/SillyTavern

LLM Frontend for Power Users.

★ 35kFree
OPOpen-LLM-VTuber/Open-LLM-VTuber

Talk to any LLM with hands-free voice interaction, voice interruption, and Live2D avatar running locally across platforms

★ 14.4kFree
DUduixcom/Duix-Mobile

🚀 The best real-time interactive AI avatar(digital human) with on-premise deployment and <1.5 s latency.

★ 8.3kFree
BAhmadHassan-BTed/B

An autonomous, context-aware AI desktop companion. Built with Python, featuring real-time screen vision, custom ONNX voice synthesis, active window tracking, and a dynamic floating UI with reactive facial expressions.

★ 4.1kFree
SUheshengtao/super-agent-party

⭐ All-in-one AI companion! Super Agent Party = Self hosted neuro sama + openclaw! ⭐ 全能AI伴侣!超级智能体派对 = 自托管neuro sama + openclaw!

★ 2.8kFree
COPal-AI-Lab/Coopanion

Your tiny AI desktopet companion, built with Cortico 0 0)

★ 2.6kFree
RIkwaroran/Risuai

Make your own story. User-friendly software for LLM roleplaying

★ 1.8kFree
SOjofizcd/Soul-of-Waifu

🌌 Give a soul to your favorite characters. Soul of Waifu is a desktop roleplay & AI companion app featuring Live2D/VRM avatars, voice chat & local LLM. Evolve together across immersive chat, RPG adventures, and your desktop.

★ 1.4kFree
MYmorettt/my-neuro

This project lets you create your own AI desktop companion with customizable characters and voice conversations that respond in just 1 second. Features include long-term memory, visual recognition, voice cloning and LLM training. Compatible with various Live2D customizations.

★ 1.4kFree
AItegnike/aituber-kit

A web application for chatting with AI characters that anyone can easily set up and deploy.

★ 1.1kFree
AGagnaistic/agnai

AI Agnostic (Multi-user and Multi-bot) Chat with Fictional Characters. Designed with scale in mind.

★ 789Free
OPzeekk0/OpenSakura

OpenSakura: MekaHime's first AI companion, open source. 3D VRoid avatar, real-time voice, emotion state, OpenRouter or Ollama brain.

★ 62Free

Related alternatives

A second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.

Paid against free, in your inbox

One job at a time: the paid tools worth paying for, the free ones you can run yourself, and who should pick which.

No tracking pixels. One click to leave. We use your address to send Stack Radar and nothing else. Privacy.