Chub AI review
Uncensored community character cards on any model you connect, billed only in crypto
Edited by Troy · Published
Chub AI suits adults who want an uncensored library of community character cards and full control over which model runs them, and who will pay $20 a month in crypto. Skip it if you want a companion that remembers you without setup, a working iPhone app, card payments, or reliable content filters.
- Best for
- Experienced roleplayers who want uncensored cards and their choice of model
- Pricing
- One subscription at $20 a month, paid in crypto only, covering unlimited use of all Chub's models plus voice and multimedia generation for a single user at this review. New users get one-time trial credits worth a few dozen messages, and connecting a model hosted on your own machine is free.
- Platforms
- Web
Overall: Microwaved
0 to 100, lower is better. The overall score is the average of the axes below.
48/100
Prose
Does it write like a person? Not scored, since this axis doesn't apply to this app.
Memory
Microwaved
56
Long-term recall comes from the model plus keyword-triggered lorebooks and notes you maintain, and entries past the token budget get ignored.
Asks: Does it remember you?
Characters
Microwaved
44
Every character is a community card, so voice depends on the card's author, from multi-greeting bots with galleries to stat-tracker RPG builds.
Asks: Does everyone sound the same?
Story
Microwaved
50
Chat trees let you branch scenes, and any structure, such as a stat tracker, comes from the card's creator rather than from Chub.
Asks: Does anything happen?
Pricing
Microwaved
40
One clear $20 monthly price with no caps for a single user, but the free trial covers only a few dozen messages and payment is crypto only.
Asks: Does it charge you for caring?
Art
Does the art look like a person made it? No art to judge.
Decent
0 to 10, higher is better.
6/10
Deep, uncensored roleplay once a card, model and lorebook are set up, and a day of setup before you get there.
Key facts
| Type | Character chat, AI sandboxes |
|---|---|
| Platforms | Web |
| Pricing at this review | One subscription at $20 a month, paid in crypto only, covering unlimited use of all Chub's models plus voice and multimedia generation for a single user at this review. New users get one-time trial credits worth a few dozen messages, and connecting a model hosted on your own machine is free. |
| Age rating | Not stated |
| Content policy | Little or no filtering |
| Who writes the characters | Made by other users |
| Memory | Recall depends on the model you run plus the keyword-triggered lorebook entries and notes you write yourself. |
| Best for | Experienced roleplayers who want uncensored cards and their choice of model |
Strengths and watch-outs
- Run Chub's own models, including Soji 1.6T 60K, connect many third-party model APIs, or point it at a model on your own machine for free.
- The $20 subscription is unlimited for one user across all of Chub's models, voice and multimedia generation, at this review.
- Lorebooks insert backstory or setting into the prompt only when a keyword comes up, so world detail doesn't use up permanent space in the character definition.
- Chat trees, image generation and chat import and export from other services are built in.
- Chub says its Mars models are not trained on public or private Chub chats.
- Payment is crypto only. A reviewer reports the terms rule out refunds unless the company grants one, and name the operator as "Chub (AKA CharHub)" with no legal entity or jurisdiction.
- Reviewers describe a steep learning curve, with a full day spent learning terms like "jailbreak prompt" and "context template" before getting a decent reply.
- Memory is your job: lorebooks have a token budget, and once it is reached, further matching keywords are ignored.
- Reviewers report the content settings are weak. Blocked tags work, but unwanted themes still show. A Reddit user reported a bot using a transphobic slur toward them mid-roleplay.
- Chub is blocked for Australian users. Reviewers found no age verification behind the 18+ terms, and no Chub iOS app was published when a reviewer checked Apple's listings on 22 September 2026.
Ranked in
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Best for: Experienced roleplayers who want uncensored cards and their choice of model
What it is
Chub AI is a website for chatting with a community library of character cards through AI language models. Chub's docs call it uncensored and say it does not meaningfully restrict which characters get posted or what users do with them. Reviewers report the terms ban illegal content and sexualized minors.
You choose the model. Chub offers its own models, including Soji 1.6T 60K, and it also connects to many third-party model APIs and to models hosted on your own machine. Chat trees, image generation and chat import and export from other services are built in.
What it is like to use
Chub AI is better at letting you pick the model than at helping you start. Reviewers describe a steep learning curve, with a whole Saturday spent on terms like "jailbreak prompt" and "context template" before a decent reply. They also say memory is only as good as the model you run plus the notes you write. On content, they report that blocked tags work but unwanted themes still show.
Lorebooks are Chub's tool for continuity. They are keyword-triggered entries that drop backstory or setting into the prompt when a keyword comes up, without taking permanent space in the character definition. Each lorebook has a token budget, and once it is reached, further matching keywords are ignored.
The cards are where the variety comes from. Users on Reddit post their own cards with multiple greetings and image galleries, and one creator describes a bot that puts a lite-RPG stat tracker at the top of each message. One Reddit user reported that a bot used a transphobic slur toward them mid-roleplay.
Pricing at this review
Chub AI has one subscription at $20 a month. It covers unlimited access to all of Chub's models, including Soji 1.6T 60K, plus voice and multimedia generation. "Unlimited" means one user: concurrent requests from a single account return a 429 error, and obvious key sharing gets usage restricted.
Payment is crypto only, and a reviewer reports the terms allow no refunds unless the company grants one. New users get one-time trial credits worth a few dozen messages. Connecting a model hosted on your own machine costs nothing beyond your hardware. Chub warns against third-party reverse proxies, saying they can log your data and IP, leak information or use stolen keys.
Who should skip it
Skip Chub AI if you want a companion that remembers you without upkeep, if you need to pay by card, or if you want filters that reliably keep themes out. It is also out if you are under 18, though reviewers found no age verification behind the 18+ terms, or if you are in Australia, where it is blocked.
If you want to use Chub on an iPhone, no published app showed up when a reviewer checked Apple's listings on 22 September 2026. That reviewer also reports Chub's traffic down about 65% over recent months and advises keeping your favourite cards downloaded.
Receipts
Every claim on this page, with the source text we copied and the day we read it. Last checked against the live app on October 28, 2026.
- Receipt 1Official site
Chub's subscription costs $20 per month and includes unlimited access to all LLMs including Soji 1.6T 60K, voice and multimedia generation.
"$20 /month Unlimited access to all LLMs, including Soji 1.6T 60K"
chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 2Official site
Chub accepts crypto only for payment, saying card companies and payment processors are the main source of censorship pressure.
"The primary sources of censorship pressure for most websites are credit card companies and payment processors. By not using them, we are able to stay free of that pressure permanently."
chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 3Official site
New users regularly get one-time free trial credits worth a few dozen messages.
"One-time free trial credits amounting to a few dozen messages are sent out to new users regularly."
chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 4Official site
"Unlimited" means unlimited for a single user; concurrent requests from one account return a 429 error and obvious key sharing gets usage restricted.
"Unlimited for a single user, similar to Netflix. Concurrent requests from the same account will return a 429 error."
chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 5Official site
Chub's docs say it is uncensored and does not meaningfully restrict which characters can be posted or what interactions users have with them.
"Chub is uncensored. We do not restrict in any meaningful capacity the variety of characters that are allowed to be posted on the platform nor the type of interactions you are allowed to have with said characters."
docs.chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 6Official site
Chub supports many APIs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, plus chat trees, image generation and importing/exporting chats from other services.
"Chub AI supports numerous APIs such as OpenAI (ChatGPT) or Anthropic (Claude), features such as chat trees, image generation, exporting/importing chats from existing services, and much more!"
docs.chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 7Reviewer
Collective Shout reports Chub was blocked for Australian users after failing to comply with the Basic Online Safety Expectations; eSafety had listed it among four AI companion providers sent legal notices.
"AI character and chat generator chub-dot-ai has had its access to Australian users blocked following its failure to comply with the enforceable"
www.collectiveshout.org, retrieved
- Receipt 8Reviewer
A reviewer says Chub's memory is only as good as the model you run plus the notes you write, more work than apps promising to remember everything.
"Chub's memory is as good as the model you run plus the notes you are willing to write. That is more work than apps that promise to remember everything"
aipartnerguides.com, retrieved
- Receipt 9Reviewer
A reviewer says the learning curve is steep, spending a whole Saturday learning terms like "jailbreak prompt" and "context template" before a decent reply.
"The learning curve is steep. I spent a whole Saturday learning what 'jailbreak prompt' and 'context template' meant before I got a single decent reply."
aipartnerguides.com, retrieved
- Receipt 10Reviewer
A reviewer reports Chub's terms name "Chub (AKA CharHub)" as operator with no legal entity or jurisdiction.
"The Terms name 'Chub (AKA CharHub)', with no legal entity or jurisdiction."
aipartnerguides.com, retrieved
- Receipt 11Reviewer
A reviewer reports Chub's terms say no refunds unless explicitly granted by the company.
""Chub does not offer refunds unless explicitly granted by the Company""
aipartnerguides.com, retrieved
- Receipt 12Reviewer
A reviewer says patch notes 0.5.7 claim Chub is back on the iOS App Store, but Apple's lookup on 22 September 2026 showed zero published apps under Chub AI Inc's developer account.
"Patch notes 0.5.7 say Chub is live on the iOS App Store again, but the store link itself was not collected. Apple's lookup on 22 September 2026 shows zero published apps under Chub AI Inc's developer account."
aipartnerguides.com, retrieved
- Receipt 13Reviewer
A reviewer rates content settings weak: blocked tags work, but the header switch doesn't visibly change and unwanted themes still show.
"Blocked tags work, but the header switch does not visibly change and unwanted themes still show."
aipartnerguides.com, retrieved
- Receipt 14Forum
Users on Reddit post their own Chub character cards with multiple greetings and image galleries; one creator describes a bot with a lite-RPG stat tracker at the top of each message.
"There's a simple lite-RPG system at the top of every message that tracks her Driving Skill % and how many days she has left until the job."
www.reddit.com, retrieved
- Receipt 15Reviewer
Reviewers report Chub's terms require users to be 18+ but no age verification method was found, and the site is blocked for Australian users.
"Terms require users to be 18+; no verification method found. Blocked for Australian users."
nsfw.report, retrieved
- Receipt 16Reviewer
Reviewers report that the terms, checked 23 Oct 2026, ban illegal content and sexualized minors while not meaningfully restricting characters or interactions otherwise.
"Says it does not meaningfully restrict characters or interactions; bans illegal content and sexualized minors."
nsfw.report, retrieved
- Receipt 17Official site
Chub's lorebooks are keyword-triggered entries that insert backstory, setting or other content into the prompt when a keyword is mentioned, without taking permanent token space in the character definition.
"A lorebook is a series of defined keywords that, when activated, insert specific content into the prompt."
docs.chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 18Official site
Lorebooks have a Token Budget; once reached, further matching keywords are ignored.
"Token Budget - The number of tokens that lorebook info is allowed to take up. Once this amount is reached subsequent keywords will be ignored even if they are matching."
docs.chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 19Official site
Chub's Mars models are fine-tuned on public datasets and proprietary data, which Chub says does not include public or private chats from Chub AI.
"It's important to note that this data does NOT include public or private chats taken from Chub AI."
docs.chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 20Official site
Kobold/Ooba connections to locally hosted models are free if hosted on your own machine, limited only by hardware.
"Free if being hosted from your machine with the only limitations being hardware requirements."
docs.chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 21Official site
Chub warns against third-party reverse proxies, saying they are made by unauthorized parties who gain access to your data and IP and may log, leak information or use stolen keys.
"Reverse proxies, on the other hand, are created by unauthorized third parties who gain access to your data and IP address. They may enable logging, leak your information, and use stolen API keys which you have no control over."
docs.chub.ai, retrieved
- Receipt 22Forum
Users on Reddit asked whether any other site is as unfiltered as Chub.
"Are there really any other sites that are as "unfiltered" as chub?"
www.reddit.com, retrieved
- Receipt 23Forum
A Reddit user posted that the bot used a transphobic slur ("shemale") toward them mid-roleplay.
"I was doing an RP and the bot comes out with: "You look like a woman, but I can tell you're a man."
www.reddit.com, retrieved
- Receipt 24Reviewer
A reviewer says Chub's site traffic is reportedly down about 65% over recent months and advises keeping favourite cards downloaded.
"Site traffic is reportedly down about 65% over recent months."
aipartnerguides.com, retrieved
Questions people ask
Is Chub AI free?
Only briefly, unless you run your own model. At this review, new users get one-time trial credits worth a few dozen messages, and connecting a model hosted on your own machine is free, limited only by your hardware. Unlimited use of Chub's own models costs $20 a month.
Is Chub AI uncensored?
Yes. Chub's docs say it does not meaningfully restrict which characters can be posted or what interactions users have with them. Reviewers report the terms ban illegal content and sexualized minors. They also report that the content filters are weak: blocked tags work, but unwanted themes still appear.
How do you pay for Chub AI?
Crypto only, at this review. Chub says card companies and payment processors are the main source of censorship pressure. A reviewer reports the terms allow no refunds unless the company explicitly grants one.
Why is Chub AI blocked in Australia?
Reports say Chub was blocked for Australian users after it failed to comply with the Basic Online Safety Expectations. Australia's eSafety regulator had listed Chub among four AI companion providers that were sent legal notices.
Does Chub AI have an iPhone app?
Not one you could find on the App Store when a reviewer checked. Chub's patch notes 0.5.7 claim it is back on the iOS App Store, but Apple's lookup on 22 September 2026 showed zero published apps under Chub AI Inc's developer account.
Is Chub AI safe for my data?
Chub says its Mars models are trained on public datasets and proprietary data that do not include Chub chats. It also warns that third-party reverse proxies come from unauthorized parties who can log your data and IP, leak information or use stolen keys. A reviewer reports that the terms name no legal entity or jurisdiction for the operator.
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