Convai vs Inworld AI
A side-by-side comparison of Convai and Inworld AI, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
Convai
Purpose-built for embodied 3D NPCs — perception, in-world actions, and lip-sync — beyond text-only character chatbots.
- Multimodal NPC perception (see/hear)
- Unity, Unreal & PlayCanvas SDKs
- Long-term character memory
- 65+ languages, 500+ voices
- Free playground to start
- Requires game-engine integration
- Latency depends on the cloud
- Niche to games/virtual worlds
- Advanced features need paid tiers
Inworld AI
Bundles STT, LLM routing, and TTS into one voice pipeline, priced aggressively for consumer-scale voice agents.
- Integrated full-stack voice pipeline
- OpenAI Realtime-compatible API
- Aggressive usage-based pricing at scale
- Free on-demand tier for prototyping
- Developer API, not an end-user app
- Pivoted from its original character-engine focus
- Voice quality varies by model tier