Done bringing your own API key?

Janitor explains this themselves. Their help centre describes the model as “a goldfish with a notepad”, warns that “the bot forgets what happened five replies ago, or randomly misremembers who's who”, names the cause “context rot”, and puts the free budget at 8,000 to 9,000 tokens. A detailed character card can eat a fifth of that before you type a word.

Its headline feature is five times more context — you are buying back memory. Their own launch post said “too many subscriptions are about making things worse and imposing harsh limits, then forcing you to pay to get around them. this is not that.” Judge that for yourself. On Calla memory is not a tier at all.

For the better models, historically yes — that is the source of the 429 and 502 errors people hit. Their Router now removes the key-pasting step, but it requires the $12.99 subscription plus per-token credits that are non-refundable and expire after a year. Calla needs no key, no proxy and no configuration.

In some countries. Age verification arrived for Australia and Brazil on 24 April 2026 and the UK on 15 June 2026 — a video selfie or a government ID through a third party. Janitor has said it has no plans to extend it further. Claims that it applies to every user worldwide are wrong.

Because app stores require it. Their own FAQ says NSFW bots are hidden from search, the model is tuned to answer SFW, and certain words are blocked — and you cannot change it inside the app, only on the website. Calla keeps the mature side web-only for the same reason, and says so plainly.

No signup to try. Talk to one right here on this page. A free account — no invite, no card — gets unlimited messages, memory that carries across every conversation, and daily photos. Calla+ is $12.99 a month and adds queue priority, premium models, more photos and more companions. Janitor's free tier is genuinely unlimited on messages too — the difference is what it costs you in memory.