LIVE STATUS
Is Character.AI down right now? Live status and outage history
Character.AI is the largest character-chat service and its outages make the news. This page checks character.ai every 15 minutes and keeps 30 days of history.
About the bot wall
Character.AI answers automated requests with a verification page. Our monitor marks that as up, because the servers are responding; real browsers pass the check. When Character.AI is genuinely down, the verification page itself stops loading.
Common failure modes
The most frequent complaints are replies that never arrive, the app stuck on loading, and the web version failing while the mobile app works. Those are backend problems that a homepage check cannot see. Character.AI publishes incidents on its own status page and X account; check there if the result here is green.
Alternatives while it is down
For safe-for-work character chat, Chai, Talkie and PolyBuzz cover the same ground on mobile. Adults who want fewer filters usually move to Janitor AI or SpicyChat. The comparison of Character.AI with Janitor AI on this site explains the trade.