Free
$0
month
Includes 300 messages per week, one included model, group chats, voice calls, lorebooks, advanced samplers, and a maximum context size of 16,384 tokens according to the plan comparison.
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Backyard AI
Backyard AI is a character-focused AI chat platform for interactive stories, text adventures, roleplay, and locally run language models.
Editorial overview
Aggregated Overview
Backyard AI provides web and iOS access, character creation, community characters, lorebooks, group chats, voice calls, adjustable model parameters, and local desktop inference. Pricing includes a free tier, while the desktop application is now marked deprecated. No dependable third-party review agg
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Backyard AI Decision Snapshot
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Platforms
iOS, macOS, Web, Windows
TechZella assessment
8.2/10
Overview
Backyard AI is a platform for text adventures, interactive stories, and immersive roleplaying with AI language models. Users can chat with community characters or create customized characters with defined personalities, scenarios, dialogue examples, and lore.
The service supports a web application and an iOS app. Its desktop application runs models locally on Windows and macOS, but the official desktop page now labels that application deprecated and recommends the web experience.
Backyard AI Pros & Cons
Pros
- Detailed character and scenario customization
- Community Character Hub for discovering and sharing characters
- Free weekly message allowance
- Local model execution and offline desktop use
- Lorebooks and adjustable model parameters
- Mobile tethering for accessing local models
Cons
- Desktop application is officially deprecated
- No verified public API
- No verified third-party integrations
- Android availability is unclear across official sources
- Local performance depends on user hardware
- Model access and context limits vary by plan
Backyard AI Pricing & Plans
Standard
$12
month
Unlimited messages with Standard models and a maximum context size of 16,384 tokens.
Check current pricing →Pro
$35
month
Unlimited access to Standard and Pro models with context sizes up to 100,000 tokens.
Check current pricing →Pricing may change. Verify current plans on the vendor's website.
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Backyard AI Features
Character Creation
- Custom character personalities
- User personas
- Conversation scenarios
- Example dialogue
- First messages
- Response formatting instructions
Memory and Context
- Lorebooks
- Dynamic character memory
- Context-size controls
- Keyword-triggered lore entries
Conversation
- One-to-one character chats
- Group chats with up to four characters
- Voice calls
- Community Character Hub
AI Models
- Hosted cloud models
- Locally downloaded desktop models
- Llama-based conversational models
- Mistral-based conversational models
- Adjustable temperature, Min-P, top-p, top-k, and repetition penalty
Privacy and Local Use
- Offline desktop use
- Local model execution
- Mobile tethering
- Local conversation storage during tethering
Backyard AI Specifications
| Product type | AI character chat and roleplaying software |
|---|---|
| Web access | Desktop and mobile browsers |
| Mobile app | iOS |
| Desktop operating systems | Windows and macOS; official desktop app marked deprecated |
| Android | Official documentation lists Android as coming soon |
| Integrations | No external integrations documented |
| API | No public developer API documented |
| Free trial | Free plan with 300 messages per week; no credit card stated |
| Local inference | Supported through the desktop application |
| Maximum documented context | Up to 100,000 tokens on Pro |
Our evidence-based assessment
TechZella Score
A proprietary editorial score based on product capabilities, usability, value, performance, support and user sentiment evidence.
8.2/10Moderate confidence
Backyard AI provides web and iOS access, character creation, community characters, lorebooks, group chats, voice calls, adjustable model parameters, and local desktop inference. Pricing includes a free tier, while the desktop application is now marked deprecated. No dependable third-party review aggregate was verified.
Methodology v1.0. The assessment weighs feature coverage (25%), ease of use (15%), value for money (20%), performance (15%), support (10%) and user sentiment (15%), using researched product evidence and verified review evidence where available. It is a TechZella editorial assessment, not a direct user-review average.
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FAQ
Does Backyard AI have a free plan?
Yes. The current pricing page lists a Free plan with 300 messages per week and one included model.
Does Backyard AI offer a free trial?
The free plan functions as the product’s no-credit-card trial access. The company states that users can try Standard models with weekly free messages.
Which platforms support Backyard AI?
The web app supports desktop and mobile browsers, and the service has an iOS app. The desktop application provides Windows and macOS downloads but is now marked deprecated.
Does Backyard AI provide an API?
No public developer API was identified in the official documentation reviewed.
Does Backyard AI integrate with third-party services?
No external integrations were documented in the reviewed official product and documentation pages.
Can Backyard AI run models locally?
Yes. The desktop application can download and run supported language models locally, including while offline. Mobile tethering can provide remote browser access to those local models.
Can users create their own characters?
Yes. Users can define personality, scenario, dialogue examples, first messages, formatting, and lorebook entries.
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