SpicyChat vs Janitor AI
SpicyChat: UGC NSFW roleplay platform — character cards, lorebooks, TTS. Janitor AI: UGC card roleplay at enormous scale — 2.3M characters, 140M+ visits/mo. Below is the tracked data side by side; neither app paid for this page. Neither has had a hands-on test from us yet.
Side by side
| SpicyChat | Janitor AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Roleplay platform | Roleplay platform |
| NSFW policy | Full NSFW | Full NSFW |
| Platforms | Web | Web, iOS, Android |
| Free tier | Yes — free tier | Yes — free core, bring-your-own API key |
| Pricing | Free tier; $5.95 / $19.95 / $29.95 per month or $60 / $199.95 / $299.95 a year (since 2026-09-08) ✓ · full pricing | Free core (JanitorLLM); janitor+ $12.99/mo on web, iOS and Android; per-token janitor+ Router for subscribers ✓ · full pricing |
| Tracked since | 2026-07-02 | 2026-07-02 |
✓ = verified by us at the primary source on the profile's check date.
Their prices, as we captured them
What the data says
- Month to month, SpicyChat is cheaper: $5.95 a month (Get a Taste) against $12.99 a month (janitor+) for Janitor AI.
- Janitor AI is in the app stores (Web, iOS, Android); SpicyChat is in neither the App Store nor Google Play, which also means it doesn't answer to app-store content review.
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FAQ
Is SpicyChat or Janitor AI cheaper?
Month to month, SpicyChat is cheaper: $5.95 a month (Get a Taste) against $12.99 a month (janitor+) for Janitor AI. Prices are from each app's own pricing pages, checked by us; the full plan lists are on our SpicyChat and Janitor AI pricing pages.
Does SpicyChat or Janitor AI allow NSFW content?
SpicyChat: Full NSFW. Janitor AI: Full NSFW. Content policy is the most volatile field we track; both records carry dated change history below.
Can you try SpicyChat or Janitor AI for free?
SpicyChat: Yes — free tier. Janitor AI: Yes — free core, bring-your-own API key. "Free" in this vertical usually means limited messages or locked voice/image features rather than full access.
Recent history, both apps
2026-09-22 Janitor AI — Search and browsing are back: the 'Search temporarily unavailable' notice from 09-11 is gone and the rendered homepage again shows the 'Be anyone. Build anything.' banner ('Join 15M+ users crafting living stories'), Popular and Creators rails, and Explore All. The outage lasted at most eleven days between our renders. (tracker browser renders 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-22)
2026-09-11 SpicyChat — Web app jumped from version 2.44.0 (08-21) to 4.1.2 and the logged-out shell is rebuilt: the old sidebar (My Personas, Lorebooks, Groups, Voices, Leaderboard) is replaced by a tag browser with live character counts — Male 208,570, FemalePOV 111,790, Female 100,700, Romantic 71,845, LGBTQ+ 33,510 — plus a 'Get Premium' button and a language switcher. Pricing not re-verified (behind login). (rendered homepage, tracker browser snapshots 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-11)
2026-09-11 Janitor AI — Search and character browsing switched off: the rendered homepage shows 'Search temporarily unavailable — Search and browsing are temporarily disabled while we fix server issues. Chats and direct links to character pages still work.' Third-party status trackers logged a spike of user outage reports the same day. Second capacity incident in six weeks, after the 08-03 waiting-room queue. (tracker browser render 2026-09-11; uptimerobot / statusgator outage reports 2026-09-11 (secondary))
2026-09-08 SpicyChat — Raised every paid plan: Get a Taste $5 to $5.95, True Supporter $14.95 to $19.95 (+33%), I'm All In $24.95 to $29.95 a month; yearly $50 / $149.95 / $249.95 (SpicyChat's FAQ figures) became $60 / $199.95 / $299.95. GBP prices are £4.95 / £16.95 / £25.95 a month and £50 / £169.95 / £259.95 a year. Existing recurring subscribers keep their old price while the subscription stays active and on the same plan. Verified 2026-09-22 and 2026-09-27. (docs.spicychat.ai/september-2026-pricing-update-faq and spicychat.ai/subscribe, checked 2026-09-22)
2026-08-21 Janitor AI — Capacity queue lifted: the 'JanitorAI - Waiting Room' shell that fronted the site in our 2026-08-03 render ('JANITOR QUEUE IS ACTIVATED', estimated wait, 40-second auto-refresh) is gone — the 08-21 render loads straight into 'janitor - Build, share, and explore'. Curl still gets the Cloudflare block; rendered access is back to normal. (tracker browser snapshots 2026-08-03 → 2026-08-21; re-rendered 2026-08-21)
2026-08-03 SpicyChat — Shipped 'Lorebooks' — reusable world-info/lore entries for roleplay — as a new nav section with a 'New' badge; web version 2.41.2 (rendered homepage, tracker snapshot 2026-08-03)
2026-08-03 Janitor AI — Site now fronted by a capacity queue: 'JANITOR QUEUE IS ACTIVATED', estimated wait time, 40-second auto-refresh — third access-control regime since the 2026-07-16 lockdown (rendered homepage, tracker snapshot 2026-08-03)
2026-07-21 Janitor AI — A week-long changelog cluster (7/14–7/21): Creator Verification applications reopened, the short-response model went to general access, JanitorLLM repetition improvements landed, the custom prompt limit rose to 500K characters, and Janitor+ subscribers got GIFs/stickers in comments. (janitorai.com/news (dated entries 2026-07-14 through 2026-07-21))
2026-06-24 Janitor AI — Launched its first-ever paid tier: janitor+ at $12.99/mo — 5x chat context/memory, unlimited priority messages, monthly swipes on frontier models, profile badge, early access to the new jllm-short beta model. Free tier explicitly unchanged. Ends janitor's run as the biggest all-free platform in the vertical. (janitorai.com/news/announcements/29)
2026-06-22 Janitor AI — Interface localized into 11 languages (German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese + English), switchable in settings; translated character content named as the next step. (janitorai.com/news/announcements/28)
2026-06-15 Janitor AI — Announced mandatory age verification for users in Brazil, Australia and the UK, citing each country's new law (Digital ECA, Online Safety Act 2021, UK OSA). Verification runs through k-ID with three options: on-device facial age estimation, ID scan, or a reusable AgeKey. No rollout date given; the company says it is 'fundamentally against KYC for social media' but faces fines or regional blocking. (janitorai.com/news/announcements/24)