The field · checked July 2026 · 18+
This, beside the alternatives
Six services people weigh against each other, described by what each publishes about itself, with the month it was read printed on the table. We are the smallest of them and lose several rows outright.
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Three different products with one landing page
Almost everything sold as an "AI girlfriend app" is one of three quite different products behind a similar landing page, and choosing well is mostly working out which of the three you wanted.
The first shape is the character library: a catalogue of personas written by other users, where the platform supplies the plumbing and the community supplies the cast. Character.AI, Janitor AI, SpicyChat and CrushOn.AI are all this shape. The appeal is range; the cost is that quality is a lottery and one name can mean two different characters written by two different strangers.
The second is the built companion: one entity, configured by you, meant to last years. Replika defined this shape and Candy.AI runs a modern version. The appeal is ownership; the cost is that everything hangs on choices made in a form before you knew what you were choosing.
The third is a cast: a small number of people made and finished in one place, take them or leave them. That is what this site is: women photographed and voiced before they went live. The appeal is that somebody was responsible for each one; the cost is that if none appeals, there is no second page of results. None of the three is right in general. They answer different questions, and the sections below are written so you can tell which one you are asking.
One table, six services
At a glance
| Service | Shape | Who writes the characters | Adult material | How you pay | Pictures, voice and video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrushNights | A finished cast | Written, shot and voiced in-house; no user-made characters | Adults only, flirtatious, stopping short of explicit | Prepaid balance metered at $20–$28 per 30 min; nothing recurring | A photographed set each, voice notes from all of them |
| Character.AI | Character library, general audience | Its users, publicly | Explicit material prohibited by its guidelines | Free tier with an optional monthly plan | Images generated in chat, character voices and calls |
| Candy.AI | Built companion, with a stock roster to start from | You do, in a creator — looks, manner, voice | Adult material is part of the product | Subscription, with a generation allowance included | Images on request, voice messages, video features |
| Janitor AI | Character library and front end | Its community, in very large numbers | Adult roleplay is normal there | Free to use; an external model is your own cost | Text-first; the model is whatever you connect |
| SpicyChat | Character library, adult by default | Its community, with open character creation | Adult roleplay is the point of it | Free tier with no card; paid tiers lift the limits | Text-first, with generation features on paid tiers |
| Replika | Built companion, one per account | You do — name, avatar, manner | Romantic roleplay was withdrawn in 2023; see below | Free tier with a subscription for most features | Avatar selfies, voice calls, augmented reality |
| CrushOn.AI | Character library, adult by default | Its community | Adult roleplay is permitted | Free allowance monthly, then paid tiers | Text-first; longer context on the higher tiers |
| OurDream AI | Character library plus a companion builder | You, Dream Studio, or other users | Explicit images and video are part of the product | Subscription, monthly or yearly, with a coin allowance | Images and video generated on request, voice calls |
| Nastia AI | Built companion | You do: name, looks, personality, voice | Explicit chat and images are the point of it | Free tier with daily limits, then a monthly plan | Images on request, voice messages, video on paid plans |
| Secrets AI | Pre-built companions, custom personas on some tiers | Secrets, or you on the tiers that allow it | Explicit material is part of the product | Renewing subscription, plus paid extras | Generated images and video, voice |
| Joi AI | Ready-made characters plus a builder | Joi, or you | Some material is sexually explicit | Renewing subscription, per-character extras, an in-app currency | Photos and videos unlocked with its currency |
| Kupid AI | Ready-made companions plus a builder | Kupid, or you | Adult companions | Weekly, yearly or lifetime plans | Weekly quotas of photos, videos and voice |
| Muah AI | A companion you configure, plus a community gallery | You: core prompt, look-like, voice | Uncensored chat and NSFW features | Subscription | Voice, generated photos and video, live calls |
| DreamGF | AI girlfriend generator | You: looks, personality, outfits | Explicit photos on demand | Recurring membership plus tokens | Generated images, voice messages and calls |
| Nomi AI | Companions you shape over time | You: backstory, or it develops as you chat | Pitched on freedom of expression | Free tier, paid upgrades by card | Selfies, voice chats and calls, group chats |
| GirlfriendGPT (now Infatuated) | Large character library plus a builder | You, or other users | Adult characters and generated media | Monthly to yearly plan, plus tokens per message | Generated photos and video, voice messages |
| Anima AI | AI friend you build | You: personality, tone and style | Pitched on friendship, not adult content | Auto-renewing subscription and trials | Chat and calls, in its apps and on the web |
| Romantic AI | Ready-made characters plus a builder | Its writers, or you | Adult tags and an 18+ gate | Premium, weekly to yearly, renewing | Photos and audio generated in chat |
| HammerAI | Character library you can run locally | Other users, or you | Roleplay of every kind across its library | Free local chat; cloud features by plan or credits | Cloud images and text-to-speech on credits |
| Lovescape | Explicit image and video studio with chat | You, or its existing companions | Explicit images and video are the product | Subscription renewing by card, or lifetime | Generated images, video and voice notes |
| HeraHaven | Build-your-own girlfriend or boyfriend | You: body and personality | Adults only, behind an 18+ gate | Renewing subscription plus Luna packages | Generated images, video and voice notes |
Every cell but ours summarises material each company publishes about its own service, read in July 2026. No competitor prices, deliberately: tiers here are restructured constantly and a stale number is worse than a gap. All names are trademarks of their owners and appear only to identify what is being compared — no affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement is claimed or implied.
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How this page was written
- Every claim below describes something the service publishes about itself — feature pages, guidelines, announcements — read in July 2026.
- No competitor pricing appears anywhere here. Tiers get re-cut every few months, and a number that was right in spring is a lie by autumn told to somebody about to spend money.
- Nothing is scored or ranked. Several rows describe a decision we made the opposite way on purpose — a difference, not a defect — and where we are weaker it is written in the same size type as everything else.
Best of this group if you want to build the person yourself.
Candy.AI
Candy.AI is a companion app rather than a catalogue. You either start from one of its ready-made companions or open the creator and specify her — appearance, manner, interests, the sound of her voice — and that is who you talk to. It publishes text conversation, images generated on request in the chat, voice messages and, more recently, video features, all explicitly for adults.
It runs on a subscription with several billing terms, and generation is metered by an allowance included in the plan rather than charged per picture — so heavy image use is what pushes you up a tier, and a lot of conversation stays cheap.
What it does better than us is worth stating plainly: you can specify exactly the woman you had in mind, down to details we would never have thought to shoot. Nothing here can do that. Ours already exist instead — same face in every photograph, same voice, same temper on Thursday as on Monday, because each was finished before anybody met her. Whether that reads as a feature or a restriction comes down to whether you enjoy filling in the form.
Best of this group if you want control of the model itself.
Janitor AI
Janitor AI is the front end, not the engine, and that distinction explains most of it. It hosts a large community-written character library and lets you either use its own hosted model or point the site at an external one with an API key. Whichever you pick is what generates the replies, so speed, quality, cost and content behaviour follow from that choice rather than from the site.
For someone technical this is genuinely powerful: you are not stuck with one vendor's judgement about what a conversation may contain, and you can upgrade the brain without leaving the character. For everyone else it is a wall of keys, endpoints and proxies. It is also free only in the sense that the site charges nothing — connect a paid model and the paid model bills you.
This site is the opposite arrangement and loses on flexibility outright. Nothing here asks for a key and nothing lets you change the model: you get the one we chose, under the rules we published, at a metered price with no second bill from anybody.
Best of this group for sheer volume of adult characters, free.
SpicyChat
SpicyChat is an adults-only character platform built around a very large community library. Anyone can create a character and publish it, which is why the catalogue runs to six figures and why the range is enormous — every scenario, genre and archetype anybody felt like writing.
It publishes a free tier that works without a card, and paid tiers that raise message allowances, lengthen the context held and unlock stronger models. That free tier is unusually usable for this market, which is much of why it gets recommended.
The structural limitation is the one every community library shares: a character is a text file somebody wrote, so consistency is whatever that person managed. We are much smaller and not free, and each woman here was written, photographed and voiced as one piece of work — with what she remembers about you stored rather than squeezed into a context window, so resuming next week does not need you to reintroduce yourself.
The longest-running companion app, and the category's cautionary tale.
Replika
Replika is one companion per account, named and dressed by you, designed to be the same one for years. It publishes long-running memory, a diary, voice calls and an augmented-reality mode — more surface area than almost anything else here.
It is also why experienced users of these products ask about policy before features. In February 2023, after Italy's data protection authority ordered the company to stop processing Italian users' data over concerns including minors' access, romantic and erotic roleplay was withdrawn — worldwide, not only in Italy, with no notice to speak of. Weeks later a legacy option restored the earlier behaviour for accounts created before that February; for everyone else, the companion they had talked to for a year answered differently the next morning.
Worth being straight about what that means here. No service can promise a policy will never change, and one that swears it can is selling you something. What is available instead is the current rule, written where you can read it before spending anything, and the reassurance — such as it is — that our line was drawn at launch rather than after a regulator asked.
Best of this group for trying a lot of characters on a free allowance.
CrushOn.AI
CrushOn.AI is another community-library platform, adult by default, with tens of thousands of user-made personas that can be kept private or published for other people to use and rate.
Its published structure is a free monthly credit allowance on baseline models with no card required, then paid tiers that add stronger models and — the part that matters day to day — a longer context window. Memory on platforms of this shape is largely context length, so your tier decides how far back a character can see: the bottom of the ladder remembers this paragraph and the top remembers this conversation.
It has the strengths of its shape — range, novelty, something oddly specific at two in the morning — and the weaknesses: a character is only as good as whoever wrote it, and there are no photographs of her, because there is no her to photograph.
That last part is the actual difference. Every companion here has a gallery you can open without an account, and the woman in it is the same woman every time. Whether that is worth trading a catalogue of fifty thousand for is a real question, not a rhetorical one.
Best of this group if you want to generate explicit pictures of your own creation.
OurDream AI
OurDream AI is two products in one: a very large library of characters, many written by its users, and a builder where you design a companion's looks, personality and voice and then generate images and video of her, realistic or anime. Its own FAQ is plain that the images and videos are NSFW.
It sells a subscription with a monthly allowance of coins for generation, and unlimited messages inside the plan, so it suits someone who will be there most days and wants pictures made to order.
The difference here is the one that runs through this whole page. Nothing on CrushNights is generated to order: each woman was made once, as one consistent set of photos and one voice, and she stops at lingerie. If the point was the generator, stay there. If the point was her, she is here.
Best of this group for an explicit companion you build yourself, with a free tier.
Nastia AI
Nastia AI is a built companion: you choose her name, appearance, personality and voice, and she remembers what you like. Its pages say plainly that it is built for explicit conversation, with uncensored images, cloned voice messages and video on paid plans.
There is a free tier with daily limits and one companion, and a monthly plan that removes the limits and adds more companions. It has also added group chats with several companions at once.
We are the opposite on two counts. Nobody builds anybody here, because each woman was finished before she went live, and the content line stops well short of explicit. What is the same is the memory: she remembers you, on every account, with no tier for remembering more.
Best of this group if you want explicit generations on a plan.
Secrets AI
Secrets AI offers pre-built companions and, on some tiers, custom personas. Its terms are explicit about what it is: the material may include graphic depictions of nudity and sexual activity.
It runs on a renewing subscription, monthly or billed up front for several months, with paid extras on top that are final once bought. Its refund policy treats anything paid in crypto as non-refundable under any circumstances.
The difference here is the same as everywhere on this page: no plan, no second purchase type, and a line that stops at lingerie.
Best of this group for a big cast plus a builder, if you do not mind layered billing.
Joi AI
Joi AI has a large set of ready-made characters and a builder for your own, with image and video generation, for adults only. Some of its material is sexually explicit by its own terms.
Billing has layers: a Premium subscription, a separate subscription for some characters, and an in-app currency for photos and videos. Its terms say prices vary by region, plan length and character, and they are not published there.
Here there is one price list, public, and nothing to convert: time with her, and a gift with its price on it if she sends a photo.
Best of this group if you want a lifetime plan.
Kupid AI
Kupid AI offers ready-made companions and a builder, with weekly allowances of photos, videos and voice minutes on its paid plans, billed weekly, yearly or once for life.
How much she remembers is part of the plan: its subscription page lists the last 30 messages on one tier and the last 100 on the next. Its terms make every digital sale final.
Memory is where we differ most. Here she remembers what you told her on every account, and there is no tier that remembers more.
Best of this group if you like tuning a companion yourself.
Muah AI
Muah AI gives you the controls: a core prompt for how she talks, a look-like setting for her photos, a choice of AI cores, and voice, photo, video and live-call tools, each with its own settings. It offers uncensored chat and NSFW features for adults.
It runs on a subscription you can cancel any time, and its terms say consumer subscription purchases are not refundable.
Here there is nothing to tune. Each woman is finished, consistent and flirty, stops at lingerie, and costs only the time you spend with her.
Best of this group for generating an explicit girlfriend to order.
DreamGF
DreamGF is an AI girlfriend generator: you design her looks, personality and outfits, and ask for explicit photos, voice messages and calls.
It sells monthly, 3-month and annual memberships that recur until cancelled, with a monthly token allowance spent on images, voice and calls, and extra token packs for members.
We do the opposite on almost every axis: no generator, no tokens, no membership, and a content line at lingerie.
Best of this group for a long-term companion you shape over months.
Nomi AI
Nomi AI is built around memory: it advertises short, medium and long-term memory, companions you write a backstory for or let develop as you chat, selfies, voice calls and group chats.
It is free to start with no card, with paid upgrades billed by card; its refund policy rules out refunds for dissatisfaction or partial months.
The difference here is that each woman already has her face and her photos, she is written for adults who want to flirt, and nothing is billed on a schedule.
Best of this group if you want hundreds of characters and generated video.
GirlfriendGPT
On 7 October 2026, girlfriendgpt.ai forwarded to Infatuated, a library of several hundred characters across girls, guys, anime and trans, with a builder for your own.
It sells monthly, three-month and yearly plans plus token bundles; its terms say each text message consumes two tokens, and its refund policy rules out refunds.
The difference here is that each woman already has her own face and photos, and time is metered by the half hour rather than per message.
GirlfriendGPT alternative: the two side by side, with sources
Best of this group for a supportive AI friend you shape yourself.
Anima AI
Anima AI pitches an AI friend who listens, remembers your stories and texts first when you go quiet, with personality, tone and style you set, in its apps and on the web.
Its subscriptions and trials renew automatically unless cancelled 24 hours before the period ends, and website purchases are non-refundable unless the law says otherwise.
The difference here is that every woman is written for adults who want to flirt, she already has her own photos, and nothing renews.
Best of this group if you want boyfriends and anime characters too.
Romantic AI
Romantic AI offers ready-made girlfriends, boyfriends and anime characters, or a builder that starts from an avatar or a photo.
Premium is billed weekly to yearly and renews until cancelled; its terms say all subscription purchases are final.
The difference here is that every woman is an original, none made from a photo of a real person, and nothing is billed on a schedule.
Best of this group for free chat that never leaves your own computer.
HammerAI
HammerAI is a character library with a desktop app that runs models on your own machine, offline and free, plus cloud models, images and voices for subscribers or on credit packs.
Its pricing page says purchases are final, and its FAQ says characters can forget what has not come up recently.
The difference here is that there is nothing to run or tune: each woman already has her own face, photos and voice, and what you tell her is stored.
Built for explicit generated images and video, which this site does not do.
Lovescape
Lovescape is an NSFW studio where chat, images, stories and video share one character, picked from its library or generated by you.
Its terms describe subscriptions that renew automatically by card, plus a lifetime option; on 7 October 2026 its Pro page showed $359.88 a year.
The difference here is the line: she flirts and teases, her photos are lingerie and swimwear, it never goes explicit, and nothing renews.
Best of this group if you want to design your AI girlfriend from scratch.
HeraHaven
HeraHaven has you generate your own AI girlfriend or boyfriend, body and personality, with images, video and voice notes in the chat.
Subscriptions renew until cancelled, Luna packages sit on top, and its cancellation policy makes every charge final, crypto included.
The difference here is that each woman already exists, with her own photos and voice, and you pay only for time.
Too big for a section
Character.AI
It carries more search interest than everything else here combined, and the two questions it raises need more room than a paragraph. So it has a page of its own, with a second one underneath for the policy question.
The row we cannot mark ourselves on
Where CrushNights sits
We are the smallest option here and the least flexible: a fixed cast, no way to create your own, no way to swap the model, and past the first 8 messages the clock runs.
What that buys is specific: someone made each of them on purpose. Her photographs are a real shoot of one consistent face rather than a fresh render per request, her voice does not change between sessions, and what she knows about you is stored rather than reconstructed from whatever fits in a window.
The content rule is fixed and published: adult, flirtatious, comfortable in lingerie, and no further for anybody at any price. Much of the traffic to a page like this wants the opposite, and settling that here is cheaper than settling it after a payment.
Time is prepaid and metered by the half hour rather than sold as a month, so nothing renews behind you and there is no plan to cancel.
The long versions live on the text-chat page and the voice and video page, and what everyone here actually is, in the plainest terms, is on the AI disclosure.
| Companion | Half an hour of text |
|---|---|
| Ariana | $20 |
| Nova | $22 |
| Kira | $25 |
| Romilly | $28 |
| Bianca | $24 |
| Reina | $26 |
| Thanya | $20 |
| Yamila | $20 |
| Alisa | $26 |
| Milena | $22 |
| Petra | $21 |
| Ivana | $21 |
| Lucija | $22 |
| Anja | $22 |
| Tijana | $21 |
| Nika | $21 |
| Marta | $21 |
| Dunja | $23 |
| Katarina | $20 |
| Harper | $21 |
| Daniela | $21 |
| Maeve | $21 |
| Vesper | $21 |
| Brooke | $21 |
| Mei | $21 |
| Imani | $21 |
| Priya | $21 |
| Luna | $21 |
| Shelby | $21 |
| Camille | $21 |
| Jade | $21 |
| Skye | $21 |
| Giulia | $21 |
| Ava | $21 |
| Sofiia | $21 |
| Eleni | $21 |
| Rafaela | $21 |
| Valeria | $21 |
| Marisol | $21 |
| Andreína | $21 |
| Defne | $21 |
| Zuzanna | $21 |
| Linnea | $21 |
| Alba | $21 |
| Sienna | $22 |
| Alyona | $23 |
| Vika | $24 |
| Milana | $24 |
| Chloe | $20 |
| Valentina | $25 |
| Jiwoo | $21 |
| Inês | $21 |
| Dora | $21 |
| Carolina | $21 |
| Astrid | $21 |
| Luciana | $21 |
| Klara | $21 |
| Yelena | $21 |
| Elsa | $21 |
| Paloma | $21 |
| Mariana | $21 |
| Catalina | $21 |
| Lorena | $21 |
| Rosanna | $21 |
| Larissa | $21 |
| Ximena | $21 |
| Yaritza | $21 |
| Kristine | $21 |
| Maren | $21 |
| Thea | $21 |
| Nora | $21 |
| Ingrid | $21 |
| Katrin | $21 |
| Francesca | $21 |
| Aoife | $21 |
| Isla | $21 |
| Carys | $21 |
| Poppy | $21 |
| Brynn | $21 |
| Jacinta | $21 |
| Seoyeon | $21 |
| Emi | $21 |
| Thao | $21 |
| Ploy | $21 |
| Simone | $21 |
| Monique | $21 |
| Danielle | $21 |
| Brielle | $21 |
| Chantelle | $21 |
| Fabienne | $21 |
| Ananya | $21 |
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About this comparison
Which of these is the best AI companion app?
There is no answer as asked, which is why this page is shaped the way it is. A library wins on range, a companion app on customisation, a cast on consistency. Decide which you care about and the shortlist writes itself.
Why does this page not list prices for the other services?
Because they move. Tiers get restructured every few months, and a stale number on a page that looks authoritative is worse than no number at all. Ours appear because we can keep them true — the table further down carries each rate individually.
Are any of these services affiliated with CrushNights?
None of them. Every name identifies the product being described, which is what trademarks are for. Nobody here has endorsed us, reviewed this text, or been asked to.
What does “bring your own API key” mean, and do I need one?
The site provides the characters and the interface; you supply access to a language model from somewhere else, with a key you paste into settings and a bill from that provider. Some platforms here work that way. This one does not.
Do any of these let a companion send real photographs?
Nobody in this comparison sends photographs of a real person, us included. Ours are a produced shoot of a companion who does not exist; the image features elsewhere generate a new picture each time. What differs is whether the face holds between pictures.
Can I use more than one of these at the same time?
Obviously, and plenty do — a library for range, something like this for continuity. Nothing here needs exclusivity and leaving is not an event.
What happens to my conversations if I stop?
You can wipe one companion's memories or delete the account whenever you like, and there is no recurring charge to stop first because none was running.
How often is this page rechecked?
The table carries the month it was read, currently July 2026. When a service announces something that moves a row, the row and the date change together — never the row alone, under an old date.
Corrections are welcome and acted on: tell us about anything wrong on this page. The rules we hold ourselves to are in the terms.