Character AI Statistics 2026: Traffic, Revenue & Rankings

Character AI is a platform where people chat with AI characters through conversational interfaces. Users can talk to existing characters or create and customize their own characters for roleplay, storytelling, or companionship style conversations. It also supports voice features such as Character Calls for more interactive chats.

Character AI usage statistics

• Overall AI rank: #7 of 1211 tools
• Character Chat rank: #1 of 11
• Cisco Umbrella rank: 55,846
• Tranco rank: 1,203
• 30-day traffic growth: -0.6%
• Share of AI web traffic: 2.2%
• Revenue: ~$30M annualized revenue (Jul 2025 estimate)
• Valuation: ~$2.5B implied value (Aug 2024 Google licensing/talent deal, per Stanford AI Index)
• Pricing: Free tier; c.ai+ subscription (see subscribe page; price varies by region)

Rankings use the independent Tranco domain-popularity list, with Cisco Umbrella as a fallback for domains not listed by Tranco. Updated daily.

Top Character Chat alternatives

• Polybuzz, ranked #12 overall
• Talkie AI, ranked #29 overall
• Emochi, ranked #58 overall
• CAVEDUCK, ranked #295 overall
• Kindroid, ranked #360 overall
• hammerai.com, ranked #781 overall

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