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Charisma.ai vs Player2: pricing, commercial use, and license

Can you ship a game made with Charisma.ai or Player2? By stored vendor quotes: Charisma.ai: "Pricing page lists a license", with a quoted commercial plan that needs no monthly subscription; Player2: "Partly verified".

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Charisma.ai

A pricing page names a commercial license. The terms quoted beside it may narrow that.

Player2

Commercial terms are only partly verified. This is not a yes.

Quick answers

Can I use Charisma.ai or Player2 commercially in a game?
Charisma.ai: The terms say stories can be used for any purpose, including commercial purposes, as long as you follow Charisma's terms. Player2: The creators page says Player2 is free for creators and they receive a donation of 10% of Player2's gross revenues. It does not set out a separate commercial license for shipping a game.
How much do Charisma.ai and Player2 cost?
Charisma.ai: Pro is pay as you go at $5 per 50,000 credits, which the page estimates at about 200 experience minutes. Player2: The FAQ says there are no fees to use Player2: a free daily recharge covers premium models and the gpt-oss-120b model is free. The creators page says Player2 pays all API costs and creators pay nothing.
Who owns what Charisma.ai and Player2 generate?
Charisma.ai: The customer who owns a story is deemed the owner of the output generated into it, including its intellectual property rights. Player2: The Terms of Service say that, as between you and Elefant AI, you own the Models you create and the text, images, audio or video they generate that you elicit.

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Charisma.ai versus Player2 on pricing, commercial use, ownership, license, Steam disclosure, and export
FactCharisma.aiPlayer2
PricingCharisma.aiverified

Pro is pay as you go at $5 per 50,000 credits, which the page estimates at about 200 experience minutes.

Player2verified

The FAQ says there are no fees to use Player2: a free daily recharge covers premium models and the gpt-oss-120b model is free. The creators page says Player2 pays all API costs and creators pay nothing.

Commercial useCharisma.aiverified

The terms say stories can be used for any purpose, including commercial purposes, as long as you follow Charisma's terms.

Player2verified

The creators page says Player2 is free for creators and they receive a donation of 10% of Player2's gross revenues. It does not set out a separate commercial license for shipping a game.

Ownership of outputsCharisma.aiverified

The customer who owns a story is deemed the owner of the output generated into it, including its intellectual property rights.

Player2verified

The Terms of Service say that, as between you and Elefant AI, you own the Models you create and the text, images, audio or video they generate that you elicit.

License caveatCharisma.aiverified

Text-to-speech audio made on the platform is not owned by the customer; it is used under a sub-licence from Charisma.

Player2verified

You grant Elefant AI a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, modify and commercialize your Model and its Generations for any purpose, including letting other users interact with it and promoting the service.

Steam disclosureCharisma.aiverified

If characters generate dialogue while the game is running, Steam classifies that as Live-Generated and asks what guardrails stop illegal output. Pre-Generated rules still apply.

Player2verified

NPC dialogue generated while the game runs is Live-Generated content on Steam, and you must describe your guardrails against illegal output. Pre-Generated rules still apply.

Engines and exportCharisma.aiverified

The terms say a Pro Licence can publish or integrate Pro Stories into an external platform such as a Unity or Unreal Engine game, a website, or a mobile app.

Player2verified

The FAQ lists Godot, Unity and Defold AI NPC SDKs, a web story creator, and APIs for LLM, TTS, STT, NPC and VLA.

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