SillyTavern

What is SillyTavern?

SillyTavern is a locally installed interface for talking to language models, not a service and not a model. You install it, point it at a model running on your own machine or at an API you already pay for, and it supplies the roleplay machinery around it: character cards, personas, lorebooks, group chats and extensions. The project states plainly that it provides no online or hosted service.

At a glance

Product identity

Pricing

Nothing. It is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with no paid edition and nothing to subscribe to. The real cost is whatever you run behind it: nothing at all if you use a local model on hardware you own, or the usual per-token rate if you connect a commercial API.

The entire product is the free option. There is no paid tier, no trial and no account. What you supply is a computer capable of running a model, or credentials for a service that runs one for you.

Refunds: Nothing is sold, so no refund terms exist.

Platforms

Windows, macOS and Linux, plus Android through Termux and a Docker image. It needs Node.js 20 or newer. Running a model locally alongside it is a separate matter, and the project suggests a 6GB NVIDIA card as a reasonable starting point.

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux
• Android

Feature matrix

Absence of evidence is not recorded as absence of a feature. Anything that needs an account to confirm is marked not tested rather than "no".

Privacy and data

It does not, in the sense that matters. The application runs on your machine and your chats sit in your own filesystem, so there is no vendor retention period because there is no vendor holding anything. The honest caveat is that SillyTavern is a front-end: if you connect it to a commercial API, everything you type goes to that company under their policy, and this software neither knows nor can change what they do with it.

Privacy disclosure

What the vendor lets you know before paying

This measures disclosure, not quality. A good product can document nothing, and that is worth knowing separately from whether it is any good.

Content policy and safety

SillyTavern documents its output filtering asno documented output filter, and its age policy as none stated.

SillyTavern does not offer clothing removal from photographs of real people. ClickTug does not list tools that do. Its stated position on the likeness of real people is that documented consent is required.

What the vendor prohibits

• Nothing is enforced by the software itself, which ships no filter and no model
• What is refused depends entirely on the model and backend you connect to it

This is a front-end. It applies no content policy of its own and cannot: the rules that bind you are those of whatever model or API you point it at, plus the law where you live.

SillyTavern runs on your own hardware, so it receives none of what you generate. ClickTug does not require a minor safety policy or an acceptable use policy from a tool that never receives user content, because there would be nothing for such a policy to govern. Any optional hosted tier is a separate service under its own terms.

ClickTug content policy

ClickTug verdict

The most capable roleplay tooling here, free, and the only entry that answers the privacy question by removing it. SillyTavern installs on your own machine, ships no model and provides no hosted service, so with a local backend nothing you write leaves your computer and there is no retention policy to read. In exchange you get no filter, no support and no accountable operator: it applies no content rules of its own, and what a session refuses is a property of whatever model you connected.

Hands on

How SillyTavern compares

Every figure on the right is computed across the 37 tools ClickTug currently tracks, at the moment this page was built. They are facts about this catalogue rather than about the market, and they move as it grows.

Quick answers about SillyTavern

Generated from the same records as the tables above, so an answer here cannot contradict a figure there. Questions only appear when the answer says something specific to this product.

Is SillyTavern free?

There is a free tier. The whole product. There is no paid edition, no account and no hosted service to buy.

How much does SillyTavern cost?

No price is published. Free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with no paid tier and nothing to subscribe to. Costs, if any, come from whatever model backend you point it at.

Does SillyTavern require a credit card to start?

No card is required to reach the free layer. One is needed for any paid plan.

Does SillyTavern offer refunds?

Nothing is sold, so no refund terms exist.

Does SillyTavern have an app?

Yes, on Android.

Can SillyTavern run locally?

Yes. It runs models on your own hardware, so prompts and output never leave the machine and the retention question does not arise.

Does SillyTavern train on my conversations?

The vendor states it does not use user content to train models. That is a written commitment, and rarer in this category than it should be.

Can I delete my SillyTavern account?

Yes, through a control in the account rather than by asking support.

Can I use SillyTavern without an account?

Yes. The service can be reached without registering, which almost nothing else in this directory permits.

Is SillyTavern actually uncensored?

ClickTug records no documented output filter, which is a different claim from having no rules: its terms still prohibit a specific list of conduct, set out above.

What company owns SillyTavern, and where?

SillyTavern project, community maintained, Not applicable, open-source project. Publishing an identifiable counterparty is worth noting: several tools in this directory name no company at all.