AI girlfriend cost and subscription pricing compared

How much does an AI girlfriend cost per month?

Across the category, paid plans run from about $5 to about $30 a month, and the tiers that include real long-term memory and voice tend to land between $9 and $20. Budget apps advertise lower, sometimes near $3, and credit-metered platforms can run far higher in practice than their advertised tier suggests.

We are deliberately giving you bands rather than a table of exact competitor prices. The reason is in the table above: we could not open a public pricing page for Replika, Nomi, Kindroid or Candy AI on 22 August 2026, so any precise figure we printed would be copied from another article rather than verified. Bands we can stand behind. Decimal places we cannot.

Two of the vendors in this category will not show you a number at all before you sign up, which we documented in our look at what Kupid AI publishes and what it does not.

Two vendors are itemised line by line from their own store listings, in the Kindroid cost breakdown.

and in the Nomi AI pricing breakdown.

For one vendor itemised line by line from its own store listing, see what Replika Pro actually costs.

The other half of the cost question is how you get out of one, which is on our guide to cancelling a Replika subscription.

A worked example of how a token meter turns a $9.99 plan into a bigger bill is on the Infatuated AI token breakdown.

If the comparison you are really making is against a ChatGPT subscription you already pay for, it is on our Replika vs ChatGPT breakdown.

For the largest app in the category, priced from its own upgrade page, see what Character AI charges for c.ai+.

For the specific case of an app that charges in gems rather than a flat plan, see what changes when there is no balance to top up.

Every companion app lists as free on the App Store, which we unpick in what the App Store listings actually show.

A flat plan only helps if nothing else is metered, which is the whole test on AI girlfriend apps with unlimited messages.

The longer version of this argument, including what you are really paying for when a plan is more expensive, is in our breakdown of what an AI girlfriend costs.

How a flat subscription or credits decides your bill

There are only two pricing structures in this market, and picking the right one matters more than saving two dollars on the headline tier.

A flat subscription unlocks everything for one monthly amount. Your bill is identical in a quiet week and in a week where you talk every night. You can forecast it, and you never think about the cost while you are typing.

A credit, coin or token model charges a smaller monthly fee and then bills each expensive action separately: generating an image, rendering a voice note, sometimes simply continuing a long conversation. It looks cheaper on the pricing page. It behaves like a taxi meter. The nights you most want to keep talking are exactly the nights it costs the most, and people routinely report spending several times the advertised tier once they are actually using the thing.

• Flat plan: one number, no counting, predictable every month
• Credit plan: low entry price, variable and often much higher real cost
• Hybrid: a subscription that still meters images, video or voice separately
• Watch for auto top-up, which quietly refills a coin balance without asking

A first-week discount can hide the real weekly price; on PolyBuzz, Ultimate runs $37.30 a week after a $14.90 first week, as shown in what a PolyBuzz subscription costs over a year.

Why every AI girlfriend pricing article shows different numbers

This confuses people, and it has a straightforward explanation. Most of these vendors keep pricing behind the signup wall, so writers cannot cite a source page. Numbers get copied between articles, and each copy ages a little more.

On top of that, apps in this category rebrand and re-price unusually often. A domain that pointed at one product last year points at a different one now, and the review written in between still ranks. We watched exactly that happen with the GirlfriendGPT name, where the two obvious domains now resolve to two different companies.

Regional pricing adds a third layer. App store tiers differ by country, and an annual plan quoted as a monthly equivalent is not the same as a month to month price.

The clearest worked example of a brand splitting in two, with the redirects we resolved ourselves, is on our GirlfriendGPT pricing page.

Candy AI is another vendor worth checking at the source, because its checkout carries five billing lines where the plan cards show three, as set out in a line by line Candy AI cost breakdown.

Is there a genuinely free AI girlfriend?

There are free tiers, which is not the same as a free trial. A free tier is a permanently limited version: shorter memory, slower replies, daily message caps, ads, or a queue at peak times. It is designed to show you what you are missing rather than to let you evaluate the paid product.

A real trial gives you the paid experience for a fixed window. Those are rarer here than you would expect. If you want to judge an app properly, the thing to test is memory over several days, because that is the feature that separates a companion from a chatbot and the one a capped free tier hides best.

If you want to judge the texting before any of this matters, open the AI girlfriend chat demo and see how she writes.

How to work out your real monthly cost in ten minutes

Do this before you enter a card anywhere, including here.

First, find the pricing screen and check whether there is a separate store for coins, credits, gems or tokens. If there is, the subscription is not your cost, it is your entry fee. Second, work out what one image, one voice note and one long evening actually consume, then multiply by how often you would realistically do that in a month. Third, check whether the advertised monthly figure assumes an annual commitment, which is extremely common. Fourth, look for auto top-up and turn it off.

If that exercise produces a number you are not comfortable with, a flat plan at a higher sticker price is usually cheaper in practice than a metered plan at a lower one.

• Is there a coin, credit or token store separate from the plan?
• Is the advertised monthly price conditional on paying for a year?
• What does one image, one voice note and one long chat consume?
• Is auto top-up on by default, and can you switch it off?
• Can you cancel without contacting support?

Weekly plans are the line to annualise first. On Chai, $19.99 a week comes to $1,039.48 a year, as shown in our Chai subscription price table.

What Gals.ai costs, and what you can buy today

We can be exact about our own numbers because they are on our pricing page rather than behind a signup.

Hello is $9 a month billed yearly, or $12 month to month. Sweetheart is $19 billed yearly, or $24 month to month, and adds voice notes. Soulmate is $39 billed yearly, or $49 month to month, and adds voice calls and multiple companions. There are no coins, no credits and no message counting on any plan, so the plan price is the whole cost.

The full plan by plan breakdown, including what each tier includes, is on our pricing page.

If flat pricing with no message counting is the thing you actually want, that is also the argument in our guide for people who text all day.