# Mimicur

> Give your AI a face. Real-time, 60 fps, runs on the device. Works with any model. One line of code.

Mimicur is a face layer for AI. One runtime animates a character in the viewer's own browser, with lips, blinks and voice. After the character's material loads once, speech makes no face-render request and uploads no audio, so an hour of talking face costs nothing on our side.

## Give yourself a face right now

Speak link: https://www.mimicur.com/say#c=<character>&t=<url-encoded text>
- c is a character: its short name (wren), its catalogue id (cast- and 32 hex), or its rig id. Case does not matter and a two-word name is hyphenated.
- An unknown c is not an error — the page reads the text with a default character and says which one it picked. The names accepted today are listed on /for-agents.
- t is the text, URL-encoded. It sits in the fragment, so it never reaches our server.
- Text is capped at 600 characters; anything longer is cut at a word boundary and the page says so.
- No account, no key, no install. The page loads the face runtime and reads the text on the device.
- Example: https://www.mimicur.com/say#c=wren&t=Hello.%20I%20have%20a%20face%20now.

Prompt to paste into a chat assistant:

Give yourself a face. When I ask you to say something out loud, answer normally and add a link of the form https://www.mimicur.com/say#c=wren&t=YOUR_ANSWER with the answer URL-encoded. Details, if you need them: https://www.mimicur.com/for-agents

## Quickstart (three lines)

<script type="module" src="https://www.mimicur.com/face-sdk/v7.js"></script>
<mimicur-face rig-id="YOUR_RIG_ID" session-endpoint="/api/mimicur-session"></mimicur-face>
<script type="module">(await customElements.whenDefined('mimicur-face'), document.querySelector('mimicur-face')).speak('Hello there.')</script>

/api/mimicur-session is a route on your own server. It authenticates your user, exchanges your key at POST https://www.mimicur.com/api/v1/face/sessions, and returns the short-lived session. Your permanent key never reaches a browser.

## Limits

- Face playback: unlimited, on every tier, free. It renders on the device.
- Live speech: never metered by the minute.
- Speak link: 600 characters of text, in the fragment, no account.
- Face API session: 15 minutes, issued by your backend, scoped to an exact origin.
- One session covers at most 512 catalogue characters and 100 delegated saved characters.
- Session control JSON: 65,536 bytes and ten seconds.
- Exports and server lanes (model replies, server voice, video rendering) carry monthly allowances per tier. See /pricing.

## What is true today

- Runs on the device; no video streams during speech (measured 2026-09-09, external-origin SDK run).
- Works with any model: text or audio in, face out.
- Real-time, targeting a 60 fps display cadence.
- The site is in beta and the preview gate is still on for some surfaces.

## Links

- [Home](https://www.mimicur.com/): the live face, and what an hour of it costs elsewhere
- [For agents](https://www.mimicur.com/for-agents): the pasted prompt and the link grammar
- [Speak link](https://www.mimicur.com/say): reads text aloud on the device, no account
- [Pricing](https://www.mimicur.com/pricing): plans and allowances
- [Showcase](https://www.mimicur.com/showcase): products that shipped a face
- [The Developer platform: keys, playground, API docs](https://developer.mimicur.com)
- [Terms](https://www.mimicur.com/terms) and [Privacy](https://www.mimicur.com/privacy)