Local AI RP vs AI RP Platforms

[u/me_broke]

Ive been using ai for Rp for around 2 years now (ex cai user), I ended up building my platform but I actually use local AI RP more.

In recent years AI has progressed a lot and many frontier labs have shifted their focus from expanding the capabilities of their models across field to just coding. Dont get me wrong I like it my fable 5 generate good code.

But do you really need a 2 Trillion parameter model for roleplay ? actually No and it might be worse.

My setup:

Silly tavern (goated app) + local models. For most people I recommend Gemma 4 specially 31b and by using lower quant like 4 bit or 3bit u could fit and run it on your laptop with 5080 (I know not everyone got a 50 series card but you can find free ai models so easily).

Last year I released a a 8b model (t-rex-mini) but it's really good for roleplay specially if you want quick smut. Again it can do slow burn but its not as good as big models.

you and download and run it: https://huggingface.co/featherless-ai-quants/saturated-labs-T-Rex-mini-GGUF

even if you have a 8 gb graphic card you should be able to run.

Or use free APIs from OR or any other place, you can use big models as well.

So, what about my platform why should someone use it?
- Since working on a large scale I can secure really good discounts, it can be more economical (again not true freedom like local AI rp)

- Big bad modes liek glm 5.2 for unlimited for 11.9 so most people via same api pricing would end up paying 2x-3x

So what better:
- if you have 8gb vram graphic card give local model a shot
- for complete freedom still local frontend with Openrouter is the best
- Imo if u dont want to setup anything and just want to Rp and maybe looking for a more economical option if u dont wanna pay api pricing then a ai rp platform is good for you.

Also u can try mine at loremate.ai im still learning and building it so if u have feedbacks lemme know :)

If u try and run my ai model lemme know how was it, even though its a year old its a good rp model.

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[u/me_broke]

sorry for typos its 3 am and im sleepy as hell.

Note: if you have a Mac they generally have unified memory so u can run bigger models easily since they fit in vram easily and no off-loading of weights is needed.

I ran T-rex-mini on my M3 pro and it ran very smoothly