A Janitor AI alternative with a first-party hosted model, a stable content policy and a real character studio — no third-party proxies, no key juggling, no daily breakage.
Janitor AI earned its audience the hard way. The bot catalog is huge, user-submitted, and unapologetically built for the kind of long-form roleplay other platforms quietly throttle. If you've spent any time on the site you know the catch: the front end is great, but the model isn't really theirs. Most users end up wiring in a third-party proxy or pasting an API key from somewhere else just to get a coherent reply. When the proxy dies — and proxies die — the whole experience dies with it, mid-scene, sometimes for days. The catalog deserves better infrastructure than that.
SupaFriends runs a first-party hosted model. There's no proxy to break, no key to rotate, no Discord server to scroll through looking for a working endpoint. Sign in, chat. The content policy is written by us and applied consistently, which means moderation behaves the same on Tuesday morning as it does on Friday night. We don't have Janitor's million-bot back catalogue — that's a real gap — but the studio lets you rebuild a favourite character in a few minutes with prompt, greeting, public description and tags, and the memory sticks server-side across sessions on paid plans so the scene picks up where you left it.
| SupaFriends | Janitor AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Model hosting | First-party, hosted by us | Front-end only; you bring a proxy or API key |
| Setup friction | Sign in and chat | Configure proxy, manage keys, hope it stays up |
| Moderation consistency | One policy, applied the same way every day | Depends which proxy you're routed through |
| User-submitted bot catalogue | Smaller, more curated | Massive — their main strength |
| Persistent memory | Server-side on paid plans | Depends on the proxy and model |
| Exportable history | Markdown and PDF | Not standard |
No. The model is hosted on our side. You sign in and start chatting on the free tier; paid plans unlock more daily messages and a bigger context window.
Yes, by a wide margin. If sheer volume of user-submitted bots is what you care about most, Janitor still wins on that axis. We're betting that stable infrastructure and a real studio matter more to the people leaving.
Mature romance and intense scenes are supported with a documented off-limits list (minors, real public figures, anything illegal). A very permissive proxy will technically allow more, but you also accept the instability that comes with it.
Janitor AI ships an enormous user-submitted catalog and lets you plug your own model proxy. SupaFriends runs a first-party model with curated characters. Here is what that difference actually means.
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