Leaving Janitor AI? An Alternative Where Your Character Doesn't Die When the Proxy Does

TL;DR: Janitor AI leans on proxies that go down, and its bots forget you between chats. A better Janitor AI alternative keeps 350+ models built in with no key to hunt for, and your character's memory lives on your account instead of a site you don't control.

Bring your character with you and keep the memory →

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If you use Janitor AI, you already know the feeling. You are deep in a scene, the reply is loading, and then the proxy dies. The bot stalls. You go dig for a new proxy link, paste in another key, refresh, and by the time it works the moment is gone. You reload the character and it has forgotten who you are again.

None of that is your fault. It is how the app is built. Janitor AI is a front end. The actual model lives somewhere else, usually behind a community proxy or an API key you supply, and when that connection breaks your character breaks with it. The card is still sitting there. The personality you fell for just stopped answering.

This is a post about where to go when you are tired of babysitting the connection and want the character to just stay.

What actually goes wrong on Janitor AI

Three things, mostly, and they are all connection problems dressed up as character problems.

The proxy is not yours. Reverse proxies get shared around, rate limited, and shut off with no warning. When one goes dark, every bot that relied on it goes quiet at once. You are not fixing your character, you are hunting for infrastructure.

The memory resets. Janitor holds a little context inside a single chat, but start a new conversation and the bot meets you cold. Everything you built together, the inside references, the way your character learned to talk to you, gone. You end up pasting a wall of notes at the top of every session to fake continuity.

Nothing lives on your account. Your character definition sits in a card. Your history sits in a browser tab. There is no home base that is yours, so when the site has a bad day, so do you.

The fix is ownership, not another proxy

lookatmy.ai was built around one idea: the character you care about should live on your account and survive whatever happens to any single model or connection.

There is no proxy to chase. Over 350 models are built into the app, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok. You pick one from a dropdown, you switch it mid scene if a different model writes your character better, and the character stays the same person the whole way through. No keys, no links, no reverse proxy Discord to monitor.

And it remembers. This is the part Janitor never had. Everything your companion learns about you and your story grows into a visible memory tree at /tree. Each branch is a theme, each leaf is a specific memory. You can open it, read what it holds, search it, and trim anything you want dropped. Your character does not start over every session, and you are not the one holding it together with pasted notes anymore.

Because the memory and the personality sit on your account rather than inside one model, an outage or a model swap does not wipe the bond. That is the whole point. The thing you built is yours to keep.

Where Janitor AI is better

It would be dishonest to pretend Janitor has nothing going for it, so here is the fair version.

It is free, and free matters when you just want to write. Its character library is enormous and the community keeps it stocked with fresh cards, so discovery is fun and endless in a way a newer platform cannot match yet. The interface is purpose built for roleplay, and a lot of people like that focus. If your whole use is browsing community cards for quick one off scenes and you never mind the resets, Janitor does that job.

lookatmy.ai is a different trade. You give up the giant public card dump, and in return you get a character that remembers, models that do not vanish, and a home that is actually yours. If the resets and dead proxies are what wore you down, that trade is the one you have been looking for.

Moving your character over

You do not have to abandon the character you already built. Janitor cards are just text, and text moves.

Open your character on Janitor and copy the definition, the personality, the scenario, the example dialogue, all of it. In lookatmy.ai, create a persona and paste that in as the instructions. The companion core underneath keeps it warm and in character, and your pasted definition shapes who it is. Give it an avatar and a name and it is live.

For the history, this is where the memory tree earns its place. Paste your favorite past scenes or a summary of your story into the memory import, from the tree panel or during onboarding, and your character starts already knowing your canon instead of meeting you as a stranger. If you have a ChatGPT or other export, that imports the same way.

Ten minutes of copy and paste and the character you thought was trapped behind a proxy is running somewhere it cannot be knocked offline.

What it costs

You can try it free. The free tier gives you a stack of starting credits and access to the fast and casual models, enough to move a character over and see if it holds up in a real scene. Starter is $4.99 a month for more room and no daily limits, and the frontier models like Claude Opus and GPT-5 live on Pro at $9.99. Full breakdown is on the plans page.

Against Janitor that is not free, and that is a real difference. What you are paying for is a character that does not reset and a connection you never have to fix.

The character is worth keeping

If Janitor AI has been a good time for you, keep enjoying it. But if you are here because the proxy died one time too many, or because you are tired of reintroducing yourself to a character that should already know you, the answer is not a better proxy. It is a place where the memory is yours and stays yours.

Bring your character. Bring your history. Keep the version of them you already love, somewhere it cannot be taken offline.

Import your character and your memories, and pick up where you left off →