Janitor AI vs SpicyChat (2026): Price, Models, Memory and Rules Compared

Adults only. Janitor AI and SpicyChat both say you must be 18 or older to use them. This guide compares price, features, rules and privacy, and is non-explicit.

How this guide was made. This is a documentation-based comparison. Every price, feature and rule below was read on 29 October 2026 on Janitor AI’s newsroom and help centre, SpicyChat’s docs and privacy policy, or the US App Store, and each page is listed in the sources. Janitor’s privacy policy and terms returned HTTP 403, and SpicyChat’s terms page did not load, so those are not quoted. Nothing here is hands-on testing. Prices vary by country, platform and currency. For how we source and date guides, see how we review.

Money. Aitryvo is in SpicyChat’s affiliate programme, so the SpicyChat button on this page may earn a commission if you subscribe, at no extra cost to you. Janitor AI pays us nothing. This comparison was written before we joined, and the money does not change it. See our affiliate disclosure.

The short version

Janitor AI and SpicyChat are the same kind of product: large catalogues of user-made characters for roleplay, both aimed at adults. The differences are in how you pay, which models you can reach and where you can use them.

Janitor AI sells one subscription, janitor+, and still lets you bring your own model through a proxy. It has native apps on iPhone and Android.

SpicyChat sells three tiers and publishes exactly what each one gets: context size, models, voice and images. It has no App Store app, and its own-key option has been retired.

Neither company pays Aitryvo anything for this comparison.

Side by side

“Confirmed” and “not mentioned” mean only what the pages read for this guide showed.

Price and plans

Janitor AI. The 24 June 2026 announcement says “janitor+ is now available for $12.99/month”. The US App Store lists Janitor+ Monthly at $12.99 and Janitor+ Annual at $99.00, which works out to $8.25 a month. There is one paid tier.

janitor+ Router is a separate, pay-as-you-go cost. The help centre says it is “billed per token, at the rates displayed for each model”, from a wallet you top up. For the full breakdown, see is janitor+ worth it.

SpicyChat. Its pricing FAQ says new prices took effect on 8 September 2026:

The FAQ says euro prices match the dollar figures and gives separate pound prices (Get A Taste £4.95 a month, True Supporter £16.95, I’m All In £25.95). It adds that “every tier keeps exactly what it included before”, so the change was price only.

SpicyChat’s support page lists card, Pay By Bank, Boosty and crypto payments, and says Pay By Bank payments are one-time and do not auto-renew.

Which costs less? For a first step, SpicyChat ($5.95 against $12.99). For the most context SpicyChat sells, you pay $29.95 a month, more than double janitor+. The subscription calculator compares totals over the time you expect to stay.

What free accounts get

Janitor AI. The help centre lists the free tier as “Unlimited chats with millions of bots”, “Access to standard chat models” and a “Context limit of around 9k tokens”. The janitor+ launch post says the free version “stays exactly the same, and stays completely free”.

SpicyChat. The docs say “the core features remain accessible to everyone, free of charge”. The models page lists six models “Available to everyone”, including a 26B default. Free users can also run group chats, picking each responder by hand. No message cap is published.

On the published numbers, Janitor’s free context is roughly twice SpicyChat’s. Neither publishes queue times for free users. For more no-cost options, see the best free AI companion apps.

Models and proxies

This is the clearest structural difference.

Janitor AI runs its own model, JLLM, plus what the announcement calls “frontier models” for janitor+ swipes. It does not publish a model list. You can still connect an outside model: the help centre’s OpenRouter guide gives the API URL to use with your own key.

For subscribers, janitor+ Router offers third-party models “without copying API keys or configuring an external proxy”. The help centre says Router is “currently web only” and gives “10% off select popular models for janitor+ subscribers”. The two official pages still disagree on the launch credit: the announcement says “$5 in free Router credits”, the help centre says “$1 launch credits”.

SpicyChat publishes its model list by tier, while noting the list may be out of date:

• Free: six models, from 8B to 30B parameters.
• Get A Taste: adds Magnum 12B and Magnum Diamond 24B.
• True Supporter: adds five more, including Qwen3 235B.
• I’m All In: “all of our AI models”, including SpicyXL 132B, Kimi K2, DeepSeek V3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro.

There is no bring-your-own-key route. SpicyChat’s archived page says “It’s possible to use your own OpenAI API key with SpicyChat” but carries the banner “This feature has been sunset on Nov 17th, 2025.”

If you want a specific outside model, Janitor AI is the only one of the two that allows it. If you want to see what you get before paying, SpicyChat publishes more.

Memory and context

Janitor AI. Free accounts get “around 9k tokens”. janitor+ adds “5x more context for better memory”. Janitor does not give a token figure for janitor+; five times 9k would be roughly 45k, but that is our arithmetic. No memory tool beyond context is described on the pages read.

SpicyChat. The tokens page gives exact limits: up to 4,096 tokens on Free and Get A Taste, 8,192 on True Supporter, and up to 32,768 on I’m All In, depending on the model. It estimates the free tier keeps “around 20 recent messages” visible.

SpicyChat also has two memory tools:

• Memory Manager (Get A Taste and up) lets you add, edit and pin memories, each capped at 250 characters.
• Semantic Memory 2.0 (True Supporter and up) has characters “generate memories into the Memory Manager”, so key details survive when older messages fall out of context.

Context figures are each company’s own, measured their own way. Treat them as a rough guide, not a like-for-like test.

Character catalogues

Janitor AI. The help centre describes “millions of bots”. The App Store listing says you can create worlds, chat with characters and browse by genre, with a focus on romance, fanfiction and fantasy.

SpicyChat. The docs cover creating chatbots, lorebooks, rulebooks, personas and a creators’ leaderboard, but no page read gives a catalogue size. Its import guide covers bringing characters over from Character.AI as JSON or PNG character cards; it does not mention Janitor AI or other sites.

SpicyChat’s FAQ says NSFW and SFW categories are assigned automatically and decide where bots appear on the front page.

Content and age rules

Age. Janitor AI’s help centre: “Our services are exclusively intended for an audience above the age of 18.” Users “reasonably suspected” of being under 18 “will be permanently banned”. SpicyChat’s community guidelines: “All users must be at least 18 years old.” Its privacy policy says the service “does not address anyone under the age of 18”.

Age checks. Janitor uses k-ID for users connecting from Australia, Brazil or the UK, by video selfie, ID scan or a reused AgeKey; it says it “receives only a yes/no answer”. SpicyChat’s age verification page lists France, the UK, Italy, Australia and 26 US states, mostly by video selfie with an ID fallback, and says “We never see, receive, or store any images, documents, or personal details used during verification.”

Content. Both allow adult content between adult characters under written rules, and both ban anything involving minors.

• Janitor’s minor-content article says underage personas are “strictly prohibited under all circumstances” and that every character “must be explicitly defined as adults”. The full terms did not load.
• SpicyChat’s guidelines say bots “with explicit language or imagery must be marked as NSFW”, and ban underage content, non-consent, incest, real or photorealistic likenesses including deepfakes, and promotion of self-harm or illegal activity. Bots that break the rules “will be removed without notice”.

Store rating. Janitor’s US App Store listing is rated “18+ with content restrictions”, with Age Assurance among its in-app controls. SpicyChat has no App Store listing to compare.

Privacy

For a wider checklist, see our AI companion privacy and safety guide.

Janitor AI. Its privacy policy and terms returned HTTP 403, so we cannot say what they state about chat storage, training or sharing. What we could read:

• Store label. The US App Store privacy section lists only “Data Not Linked to You”, including user content, identifiers, usage data and email address. It shows no “Data Used to Track You” section. This is Janitor’s own declaration to Apple.
• Deletion. Settings, Security, Delete account, confirmed with a six-digit email code. The help centre says “All your data including posts, characters, personas, and profile information will be permanently removed”. It does not mention chats specifically.
• Proxies. If you connect your own key, your messages also go to that provider under its own terms.

SpicyChat (policy last updated 4 May 2023). The policy is more than three years old. In the sections we could read:

• Who. “NextDay AI Incorporated” in Montreal, with “NextDay AI USA Inc” in Delaware and “NextDay AI EU Ltd” in Cyprus.
• What. Email address, name and usage data such as IP address, browser and device identifiers. Sign-in through Google, Discord, Twitter or LinkedIn can pass on details from those accounts.
• Use. “We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service.” The sections we read do not say whether chats train models.
• Deletion. You can delete information “by signing in to Your Account” and visiting account settings, or contact support@spicychat.ai. The policy adds that some information may be kept where there is “a legal obligation or lawful basis”. SpicyChat’s FAQ says deleted accounts cannot be restored.

Neither company gives the detail on training and retention that you would want before sharing anything personal. Keep real names and identifying details out of your chats on both.

Platforms and apps

Janitor AI. The US App Store lists “Janitor: Interactive Stories” by JanitorAI, INC, for iPhone (iOS 15.5 or later), Macs with Apple silicon and Apple Vision. The subscriptions help article names the App Store and Google Play, and the janitor+ post tells iOS and Android users to update the app. Router is web only for now. App subscriptions must be cancelled in the store, not on the web.

SpicyChat. The mobile apps page says “SpicyChat does not have a native iOS app on Apple App Store”. Its notice of 27 August 2025 says the app was removed and “the chances of reinstatement are very low”. On iPhone, you add spicychat.ai to the home screen from Safari or Chrome. On Android, the official app is an APK download from spicychat.ai, not Google Play, and Android may show a security warning. Be wary of store listings using the SpicyChat name; the docs name only spicychat.ai as the source.

Who should pick which

Unsure which SpicyChat tier to start on? Our is SpicyChat worth it guide compares all four.

• You want the cheapest paid plan: SpicyChat’s Get A Taste, at $5.95 a month. It removes ads and adds Memory Manager, but keeps the 4,096-token context.
• You want the most free context: Janitor AI, at around 9k tokens against SpicyChat’s 4,096.
• You want to use your own model or OpenRouter key: Janitor AI. SpicyChat retired its own-key option in 2025.
• You want a published model list and exact context sizes before paying: SpicyChat.
• You want group chats, voice or images inside chats: SpicyChat, on the tiers listed above. None of these appears on the Janitor pages read.
• You chat mainly on an iPhone and want a store app: Janitor AI.
• You are under 18: neither allows you.

Still unsure? The Janitor AI alternatives guide covers Chub AI, SillyTavern and others, the companion matcher suggests a shortlist, and the Janitor AI and SpicyChat hubs collect what we have verified. If Janitor is simply failing for you, try our Janitor AI fixes first.

What we could not confirm

• Janitor AI’s privacy policy and terms, which returned HTTP 403; so whether Janitor stores chats long-term, trains on them or shares them.
• Whether SpicyChat uses chats to train models, and its retention periods; the sections of its 2023 privacy policy we could read do not say.
• SpicyChat’s terms and refund policy, which did not load for us.
• janitor+ context in tokens, the number of frontier-model swipes, and Janitor’s model list.
• Whether the janitor+ Router launch credit is $5 or $1; Janitor’s two pages still disagree.
• Free-tier message caps or queue times on either site.
• SpicyChat’s catalogue size.
• Janitor’s Google Play listing details, such as its rating and price there; the Play page did not load, so Android rests on Janitor’s help centre and announcement.
• Whether Janitor offers group chats, voice or in-chat images; none appears on the pages read.