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Character.AI

Character.AI lets you create and talk to advanced AI - language tutors, text adventure games, brainstorming and much more.

2.6M subscribers4,362 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)2,819 authors / mosince 2022

r/CharacterAI has 2.6M members (+4.0% over the last 12 months). It gets about 4,362 posts a month from 2,819 people. Top topics: AI Roleplay Issues, Bot Quality Issues and C.AI Bots.

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Size and growth

How r/CharacterAI has grown

r/CharacterAI

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+4.0%in 12 months · +0.5% in 3 months · +0.1% in 1 month
Oct 20262.6M
Growing2.6M subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Aug 2022)
Live · through Oct 2026
r/CharacterAI

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−59%vs Sep 2025 · −53% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20264.4k
QuieterPeaked at 39k in Jun 2024
Sep 2026: incl. <1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/CharacterAI

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. AI Roleplay Issues1.2%
  2. Bot Quality Issues1.1%
  3. C.AI Bots1.1%
  4. CharacterAI Maintenance & Issues0.8%
  5. Old Character AI0.8%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Caibotlist
  2. Persona
  3. Tally Forms
  4. TIME
  5. Tenor

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research