| Price from | $9/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 2 |
| Spec score · AI Roleplay Chatbots | 8.9 (#9) | 8.5 (#24) |
| Documentation | The help center contains guides for chat, search, novels, stories, personas, models, image generation, memory and bot creation. | The documentation includes guides for chat, Creator, lorebooks, presets, regex, memory, providers, imports, sync, backup, desktop and troubleshooting. |
| Licence | The terms prohibit reverse engineering and describe Joyland site content and software as proprietary; no open-source licence is stated. | Pyre is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. |
| Self-hosting | Joyland's official pages describe a hosted website and mobile apps and provide no self-hosting package or deployment instructions. | The headless hub is experimental, runs through Docker or source builds, defaults to port 6767 and uses port 6768 for the BotBooru proxy. |
| What it does | Joyland.ai provides AI roleplay and storytelling chats with millions of custom characters and tools for creating characters, personas, stories and novels. | Pyre is a local-first roleplay frontend for characters, worlds and long-running stories. |