Janitor AI alternative: one AI girlfriend who remembers you, no proxy setup

Why people look for a Janitor AI alternative

Janitor AI is genuinely popular for a reason: it is free to start, it has an enormous catalogue of user-made characters, and it allows the kind of unfiltered roleplay mainstream chatbots block. If that is what you want, it is hard to beat and this page will not pretend otherwise.

The complaints that send people looking elsewhere are usually about the machinery, not the idea. To get consistently good replies, many users end up routing Janitor through an external model with a proxy or an API key, which means copying config out of forum threads and troubleshooting when it breaks. The free in-house model, JLLM, is convenient but is widely reported to lose track of longer scenes. And because it is a character library rather than a single companion, it never quite becomes a relationship with one person who knows you.

So the search for an alternative usually means one of two different things: either "something with the same unfiltered breadth but better models," or "something simpler that just feels like my girlfriend." Tempted.ai only answers the second one, and it answers it well.

Where Tempted.ai is the better fit

If your frustration was setup, memory, or the lack of a real one-to-one relationship, this is the swap that fixes it.

• You want zero configuration. There is no proxy, no API key, no model to pick. You open the page and text her.
• You want her to remember you. Memory persists across days and she brings your details back unprompted, rather than forgetting mid-conversation.
• You want one consistent girlfriend. She has a fixed personality that does not reset, instead of a fresh character every session.
• You want her to text first. Good morning, goodnight, and thinking-of-you messages, which a character library does not send.
• You want honest pricing. A flat $9 a month with nothing metered, so no tokens to ration.

Where you should stay on Janitor AI

Being straight about this is the point. Tempted.ai is a narrow product, and there are real reasons to stick with Janitor AI.

Stay if you want unfiltered NSFW roleplay: Tempted.ai is deliberately tasteful, warm and flirty but never explicit, with original cameo art instead of realistic or user-uploaded images. Stay if you love browsing thousands of user-made characters and swapping between them, because Tempted.ai gives you one girlfriend, not a library. Stay if you enjoy tuning your own model choice and prompts through a proxy, since that control is exactly what Tempted.ai removes on purpose.

If those are your priorities, Janitor AI is the right tool and a $9 girlfriend app is not going to replace it. If instead you wanted the setup to disappear and the memory to stick, keep reading.

What Janitor AI costs in 2026

Janitor AI's base platform and its own JLLM model are free, which is a big part of the appeal. On top of that it now sells paid tiers. Janitor Pro runs $9.99 a month for unlimited priority messages and access to more capable models, and in June 2026 it added Janitor+, a $12.99 a month tier that advertises roughly five times more context for better chat memory.

The catch is that the extra memory and the better models sit behind the paid tiers, and getting the most out of external models can still mean managing a proxy or your own API credits, which is a separate cost and hassle. Tempted.ai folds memory, first-texts and a consistent model into one $9 plan with nothing to configure. Different products, but that is the price comparison people are actually making.