Free vs paid: what upgrading gets you

At a glance

From each app's pricing page, help center or US App Store listing, checked 11 November 2026, in the same order as our free plan comparison. App Store prices can differ from web prices.

App by app

heyGF.AI

The free plan is capped text chat. Casual ($9.99) adds unlimited messages, adult chat and 150 coins a month: a photo costs from 3 coins, a video 15 to 120, a call 1 coin a minute. Closer ($19.99) and Exclusive ($39.99) raise the coins to 350 and 800. Coins are an allowance, so heavy photo and video use means top-ups. heyGF.AI's free plan in detail.

Character.AI

Free already means unlimited messages and free calls, with full ads, slow mode and 15 memory pins. Lite ($4.99 a month or $2.49 a week in the US) adds premium chat styles each day, fewer ads and 30 pins; c.ai+ ($9.99 on the US App Store) adds unlimited premium chats, no ads and the complete memory suite. No plan allows pornographic content.

Secrets AI

Free gives 20 messages a day, tied to the device, with no image generation. Premium ($19.99, or $109.99 a year) includes 8,000 Moments a month, where an image or a minute of calling costs 50, plus 60% longer short-term memory. Monthly Moments do not roll over.

SpicyChat

Prices rose on 8 September 2026. Get A Taste ($5.95) adds a manual Memory Manager. True Supporter ($19.95) doubles the context to 8K and adds Semantic Memory 2.0 and pictures from the conversation on characters that show the icon. I'm All In ($29.95) goes up to 32K, with pictures for all characters and messages read aloud. There are no voice calls on any plan.

Replika

Text chat "will always be free". Paying (Pro, Ultra or Platinum, priced in the app) adds voice calls, roleplay, guided conversations and unblurred photos, and a romantic relationship starts on Pro. Platinum adds up to 10 realistic selfie videos. Replika offers no free trial of these.

Nomi

Free to start with no card, with messages of up to 400 characters. Paid plans double that to 800, give more daily selfie and art requests and include hands-free calls; Nomi does not say whether free accounts can call. Subscribers can also buy credits, which do not expire. Nomi does not state what its cheaper Launch Plan includes.

Kindroid

A new account gets a one-time preview: 50 messages, 5 selfies, 5,000 audio credits and up to 2 Kindroids. Subscribers get voice and video calls, selfies and videos, daily selfie rewards and Cascaded Memory, with Ultra and MAX add-ons above that. Kindroid says its web prices are usually lower than the App Store's.

Candy AI

Free is 5 messages in total, one custom character and one image. Premium adds unlimited messages, 18+ images and video, Live Action and 100 tokens a month, which pay for images, voice messages and calls in beta. Tokens left when the subscription ends expire.

OurDream

A free user's message costs 1 dreamcoin, OurDream gives none free apart from Discord giveaways, and buying them needs a subscription. The plan ($19.99, or $9.99 a month billed $119.88 a year) adds unlimited messages, images and video and 1,000 dreamcoins a month, which is 20 minutes of calls at 50 a minute.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

All checked 11 November 2026.

1. heyGF.AI: the product itself and its pricing page.
2. Character.AI: plans, App Store, NSFW policy.
3. Secrets AI: plans and limits, Moments, memory.
4. SpicyChat: pricing, premium features, conversation images.
5. Replika: is Replika free, subscriptions, Pro, App Store.
6. Nomi: nomi.ai, App Store; wiki, which may be community-edited: message limits, credits, calls.
7. Kindroid: subscriptions, App Store.
8. Candy AI: subscriptions, free users, tokens, terms.
9. OurDream: plans, costs, free dreamcoins, dreamcoins, buying dreamcoins.