Tool
SillyTavern
Power-user front-end for local/remote LLMs focused on character/roleplay bots
About
Underrated Discord/Reddit favorite for advanced character assistants
Features
- advanced character chat UIs
- Pricing
- Open Source
- Pricing detail
- self-host OSS
- Platforms
- Local / self-host
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