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Best AI model for Character Roleplay (2026)

Long-form character-driven roleplay. Ranked from 346 live models on the OpenRouter catalog, weighted for reasoning quality, context window, low cost.

#ModelScoreIn / 1MOut / 1MContext
1 Auto Routeropenrouter/auto 200130 $-1000000.00 $-1000000.00 2,000,000 Try →
2 Pareto Code Routeropenrouter/pareto-code 200114 $-1000000.00 $-1000000.00 200,000 Try →
3 Body Builder (beta)openrouter/bodybuilder 200111 $-1000000.00 $-1000000.00 128,000 Try →
4 Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flashqwen/qwen3.5-flash-02-23 130 $0.07 $0.26 1,000,000 Try →
5 OpenAI: GPT-5 Nanoopenai/gpt-5-nano 130 $0.05 $0.40 400,000 Try →
6 OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nanoopenai/gpt-5.4-nano 129 $0.20 $1.25 400,000 Try →
7 xAI: Grok 4.1 Fastx-ai/grok-4.1-fast 129 $0.20 $0.50 2,000,000 Try →
8 Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 129 $0.10 $0.40 1,048,576 Try →
9 xAI: Grok 4 Fastx-ai/grok-4-fast 129 $0.20 $0.50 2,000,000 Try →
10 Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Litegoogle/gemini-2.5-flash-lite 129 $0.10 $0.40 1,048,576 Try →
11 Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plusqwen/qwen3.6-plus 129 $0.33 $1.95 1,000,000 Try →
12 Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Previewgoogle/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview 129 $0.25 $1.50 1,048,576 Try →
13 Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15qwen/qwen3.5-plus-02-15 129 $0.26 $1.56 1,000,000 Try →
14 OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Miniopenai/gpt-5.1-codex-mini 129 $0.25 $2.00 400,000 Try →
15 OpenAI: GPT-5 Miniopenai/gpt-5-mini 129 $0.25 $2.00 400,000 Try →

How we ranked these

For Character Roleplay, we weight models on reasoning quality, context window, low cost. Higher means better. Scores combine OpenRouter's model metadata (context length, modality support, tool calling, structured output, reasoning capability) with public pricing. See full methodology →

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