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 1197 tools
• Character Chat rank: #1 of 11
• Cisco Umbrella rank: 55,338
• Tranco rank: 1,183
• 30-day traffic growth: -0.4%
• Share of AI web traffic: 2.17%
• Revenue: $30M annualized revenue run-rate (Sacra est., Jul 2025)
• Valuation: $810M–$1.0B (Mar 2023)
• Pricing: Free tier; c.ai+ $9.99/mo ($94.99/yr)

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 #13 overall
• Talkie AI, ranked #28 overall
• Emochi, ranked #77 overall
• CAVEDUCK, ranked #259 overall
• Kindroid, ranked #353 overall
• hammerai.com, ranked #743 overall

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