Charisma.ai
NPC & AI characters · Pay as you go- Commercial use
- Commercial use allowed
- Free plan
- Paid onlyNo free plan; pay as you go
- Ship free-plan output?
- No free plan
- Engines
- Unity, Unreal
Charisma.ai vs Gridly
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Our ranking
In Voice & dialogue, Charisma.ai ranks #4 and Gridly ranks #5. No independent quality tests found. Ranked on game-dev fit: commercial use allowed; Unity, Unreal integrations; API. Uses voices from other providers, so other companies' leaderboard results don't count for it.
Gridly
Localisation · Paid- Commercial use
- Not stated by vendor
- Free plan
- Free trial or credits only14-day Team trial
- Ship free-plan output?
- Not stated by vendor
- Engines
- Unity, Unreal
Bottom line for game devs
- Commercial use: Charisma.ai: commercial use allowed terms. Gridly: not stated by vendor terms.
- Free plan: Charisma.ai: paid only (No free plan; pay as you go) pricing. Gridly: free trial or credits only (14-day Team trial) pricing.
- API and MCP: Charisma.ai: public API, MCP not stated by vendor. Gridly: public API, community MCP server only.
- Engine integrations stated by the vendor: both: Unity, Unreal.
Best for
Story-driven AI character conversations
Managing game strings and translations in grids
What it does
Platform for building interactive stories and AI character conversations, with script flow tools and AI voices, published to web, VR or game engines via SDKs.
Content and localisation platform with a game-localisation use case: spreadsheet-style grids for strings, AI translation with linguistic context, AI voiceover files and an API.
Verdict
For story-driven AI character conversations on pay-as-you-go credits; its terms assign input and output rights to the customer.
For teams that want game strings, AI translation and voiceover files in one tool; there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial.
Tasks●
NPC & AI characters, Voice & dialogue
Localisation, Voice & dialogue
Engines
Unity, Unreal
Unity, Unreal
Free plan●
Paid only No free plan; pay as you go
Free trial or credits only 14-day Team trial
Pricing
PRO: pay as you go, US$5 per 50,000 credits (approx. 200 experience minutes). Enterprise: custom. source
14-day trial of the Team tier. Basic starts at €99/month with 3 seats included (2,500 automated updates and 3,000 API requests per month). Team and Enterprise tiers cost more or are custom; see the pricing page. source
Export formats●
n/a (runtime service)
Not stated by vendor
Commercial use●
Commercial use allowed
Terms: the customer (story owner) is deemed owner of Input and Output and Charisma assigns those rights to the customer, subject to its terms. source
Terms: the customer (story owner) is deemed owner of Input and Output and Charisma assigns those rights to the customer, subject to its terms. source
Commercial use: not stated by vendor
Gridly processes your own content. Ownership terms for AI translations and voiceover output were not checked: unverified. source
Gridly processes your own content. Ownership terms for AI translations and voiceover output were not checked: unverified. source
Revenue share / caps
Not stated by vendor
Not stated by vendor
MCP server●
Not stated by vendor. Not checked
Community server only. A community-built MCP server exists; no official one found source
Last checked
Rows marked ● differ between the two tools. Licence badges: green = commercial use allowed (including any free plan or trial), amber = paid plans only, restricted, or allowed but with no free plan, red = not allowed, grey = not stated by vendor or not applicable. Read the vendor's current terms before you ship.