by Character Technologies · Chat assistants
Worth it if you chat with characters daily and want no ads: c.ai+ is $9.99 a month or $94.99 a year.
Skip if ads don't bother you, since the free plan covers chat.
Start free if the free plan covers you: Free with ads.
| Plan | Monthly USDCAD | Yearly USDCAD/mo | Limits, in Character Technologies’s words |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBest for trying it before you pay | Free | — | Ads |
| c.ai liteBest for the lowest paid price | $4.99≈CA$7.08 Estimate | — | $2.49/week option |
| c.ai+ | $9.99≈CA$14.18 Estimate | $7.92≈CA$11.24 Estimatebilled $94.99≈ CA$134.88 yearly Save 21% | $94.99/yr |
Before tax, from Character Technologies’s official pricing page ↗. ≈ = converted from USD at 1.4196 (Bank of Canada, Oct 15). Other CAD prices are the vendor’s own Canadian price or the App Store Canada price. Hover a price for its label and checked date.
c.ai lite is also $2.49/week. c.ai+ is $94.99/yr. USD shown as $ without a currency code; USD is the vendor default (currency_unconfirmed).
Free plan: Free with ads.
| Plan | Monthly USDCAD | Yearly USDCAD/mo | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBest for trying it before you pay | Free | — | Verified · Source for Free: Character Technologies pricing page ↗Verified · Source ↗ |
| c.ai liteBest for the lowest paid price | $4.99≈CA$7.08 Estimate+ 13% HST = ≈CA$8.00/mo in ON | — | Verified · Source for c.ai lite: Character Technologies pricing page ↗Checked · BoC rate 1.4196 (source for this CAD price) ↗ |
| c.ai+ | $9.99≈CA$14.18 Estimate+ 13% HST = ≈CA$16.02/mo in ON | $7.92≈CA$11.24 Estimatebilled $94.99≈ CA$134.88 yearly Save 21%+ 13% HST = ≈CA$12.70/mo in ON | Verified · Source for c.ai+: Character Technologies pricing page ↗Checked · BoC rate 1.4196 (source for this CAD price) ↗ |
USD from Character Technologies’s US pricing page, before tax. Switch to CAD to see Canadian prices with sales tax.Official CAD = Character Technologies’s page shows CAD to Canadians. App Store CAD = Apple App Store Canada (web checkout may differ). Estimate (≈) = USD × 1.4196, Bank of Canada, Oct 15, 2026. Tax is an estimate: what you pay depends on the vendor’s GST/HST registration. Yearly totals with tax
Tracking started . No price or plan changes confirmed since then.
| Tool | Cheapest paid USDCAD/mo | Free plan | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini (Google AI)Verified Google | $4.99CA$6.99 Official CAD | Yes | Character.AI vs Gemini |
| ChatGPTVerified OpenAI | $8.00CA$11.00 Official CAD | Yes | Character.AI vs ChatGPT |
| Grok (X Subscription)Verified xAI | $8.00≈CA$11.36 Estimate | Yes | Character.AI vs Grok |
| Mistral Le ChatVerified Mistral AI | $14.99≈CA$21.28 Estimate | Yes | Character.AI vs Mistral Le Chat |
| VenicePartly verified Venice.ai | $18.00≈CA$25.55 Estimate | Yes | Character.AI vs Venice |
Prices checked – against official pricing pages. Before tax. ≈ = converted from USD at 1.4196 (Bank of Canada, Oct 15). Other CAD prices are the vendor’s own Canadian price or the App Store Canada price. Hover a price for its label and checked date.
Options for chat that you can run yourself or use on a hosted service. Checked .
| Your setup | Option | Licence or price | Needs / free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows or Linux PC with an NVIDIA GPU or Apple Silicon Mac | Qwen3 (8B) ↗ | Apache-2.0 | 8B ≈ 6–8GB VRAM at 4-bit; runs on 16GB Macs |
| CPU only or a laptop | Ollama ↗ | MIT | Runs on macOS/Windows/Linux; RAM needs scale with model (8B ≈ 8–16GB RAM) |
| No hardware (hosted) | OpenRouter (free models) ↗ | Pay per token for paid models; ':free' model variants $0 | Yes: free models 20 req/min, 50/day (1000/day after $10 lifetime credit purchase) |
We haven’t recorded a public leaderboard ranking for this use yet, so these aren’t ranked by quality.
USD prices from Character Technologies's official pricing page (US version, before tax), last verified . A script re-checks that every listed price still appears on that page, and nothing here changes until a person confirms it. Each CAD price shows where it came from and when we checked it; estimates use the Bank of Canada rate (1.4196, Oct 15, 2026). Usage limits, credits and models are quoted from the vendor’s page; “Not published” means the page doesn’t say. Full method