How much do AI girlfriend apps cost? 2026 prices

How much do AI girlfriend apps cost? The price on the banner is almost never the price you pay. AI girlfriend and companion apps advertise a low monthly figure, usually on an annual plan with a countdown timer next to it, and then sell images, voice, video and sometimes extra messages through a second currency of tokens, credits, coins, gems or chips. Two apps with the same headline price can cost very different amounts by the end of a month.

We loaded each company's own pricing page and help center on November 10, 2026 and wrote down what they say. Where a company does not publish its prices without an account, we say so instead of copying numbers from affiliate review sites, which disagree with each other and with the companies. Prices change often, and several of the ones below were sale prices on the day we checked.

How much does an AI girlfriend app cost per month?

Between $7.99 and $24.99 a month on the cheapest month-to-month plan of the seven apps we review, or $3.99 to $12.50 a month if you pay for a year up front. Pictures, video and voice usually cost extra tokens on top, so the subscription is the floor, not the total.

The two ways these apps charge

The subscription

Nearly every app in this category sells a recurring plan, monthly, quarterly or yearly, that unlocks the basics: unlimited or high-limit text chat, the ability to create your own character, and access to the paid features. The subscription is usually what renews automatically, and it is the part that the cancellation and refund rules in our guide to cancelling are about.

The token currency

On top of the plan sits a currency that pays for anything that costs the company real compute: generated images, video clips, voice messages, live calls and locked photo sets. Plans include a monthly allowance, and you buy packs when it runs out. Each app names it differently (tokens on Candy.ai, coins and tokens on DarLink, XOT on Xotic AI, credits on ChatRoger, Moments on Secrets AI, chips on Lovescape, gems and coins on Replika), and each app prices actions differently, which makes direct comparison hard on purpose or not.

Text chat is generally free once you subscribe. The meter runs on pictures, video and voice. If you mostly want conversation, the subscription is close to your real cost. If you want images and clips, the token packs are.

What each AI girlfriend app charges right now

All prices below are in US dollars, before any local tax, as shown on the companies' own pages on November 10, 2026.

Candy.ai

Candy.ai's subscription page lists a 12-month plan at $3.99 a month, billed as $47.88, a 3-month plan at $8.99 a month, billed as $26.97, and a monthly plan billed at $9.99 for the first month and then $13.99 a month. The checkout also offers payment every two weeks ($9.79) or weekly ($5.60). Every option says it "renews automatically." The 70% discount on the annual plan is measured against the $13.99 monthly price.

According to Candy's help center, a paid plan includes unlimited chat and 100 tokens a month, and yearly subscribers get those 100 tokens monthly even though they are billed once a year. Tokens pay for image generation, creating a custom AI, voice messages, voice calls, private content packs and video. A higher Premium Plus tier includes 330 tokens a month; its price was not shown on the public subscription page. Candy's token store redirected us to a sign-in screen, so we could not confirm pack prices or per-image token costs. See our Candy.ai review.

DarLink

DarLink's plan page showed three tiers: Essential at $12.99 a month with 100 coins and 6,000 messages a month, Advanced at $27.99 with 300 coins and 9,000 messages, and Ultimate at $49.99 with 500 coins and unlimited messages. Every tier lists image generation at 2 tokens and video generation at 20 tokens. The page offers quarterly and yearly billing at a discount and, when we loaded it, an "Offer ends in 10 hrs" countdown. DarLink is one of the few apps that caps messages on its cheaper plans, so read the tier before you pick it. More in our DarLink review.

Xotic AI

Xotic AI publishes the most complete price list we found. Its plans page lists Ultimate at $24.99 a month and Elite at $74.99 a month, each shown against a crossed-out higher price. According to its XOT documentation, Ultimate includes 1,000 XOT a month (12,000 up front on a yearly plan) and Elite 6,000 a month (72,000 up front). Packs run from 2,200 XOT for $19.99 to 110,000 XOT for $499.99, and are sold only to subscribers.

Its cost table puts an image at 50 XOT and video at 50 XOT per second at 720p or 90 per second at 1080p, so a 5-second 720p clip is 250 XOT. Regular one-on-one chat is free for members, but in its Girlfriend Experience mode each message after the first 15 free ones with a character costs 10 XOT, and group-chat replies cost 5 XOT each. "Unlimited texting" there means unlimited as long as you have XOT. See our Xotic AI review.

ChatRoger

ChatRoger, which is built around AI boyfriends, showed a Thanksgiving sale on its upgrade page: an annual Premium plan at $5.83 a month, billed $69.99 up front, against a crossed-out $29.99 a month. Premium includes 1,000 credits a month and halves the price of extra credit packs. Packs ran from 1,000 credits ($8.00 for Premium members, $15.99 otherwise) to 25,000 credits ($144.00 or $287.99). The page lists a voice message at 10 credits, an image at 30, a video at 100 and creating a companion at 100. We don't review it here, but its credit menu is a clear example of the model.

Replika

Replika does not post a price list on its website. Its help center says the cost is shown in the app and in the relevant store, and describes four levels: free, Pro, Ultra and Platinum. Ultra, it says, is available as an annual plan. The US App Store listing shows in-app purchases including a "MONTHLY" at $7.99, a "Monthly" at $14.99, annual items at $49.99 and $69.99, "Replika Platinum" at $89.99, and gem bundles from $0.99 to $19.99. The listing does not say which tier each item belongs to, so check the subscription screen in the app before you tap. See our Replika review.

Secrets AI, Lovescape and Girlfriend GPT

Secrets AI's subscription page describes a Premium plan with 8,000 Moments a month and an Ultimate plan with 15,000 Moments a month, but did not show prices to a visitor who was not signed in; its store page did: Premium at $19.99 a month or $109.99 a year, Ultimate at $39.99 a month. Lovescape's subscription page listed Premium at $19.99 for one month, $12.99 a month on a three-month plan or $7.99 a month billed yearly, with 600 chips a month. Its help center explains that subscription chips refresh each billing period, unused ones expire at renewal, and purchased chip packs expire 90 days after purchase. Girlfriend GPT's old domain now redirects to Infatuated.ai, whose plans page listed $9.99 for one month with 100 tokens, or $83.88 for a year with 175 tokens a month; a message costs a token, an image 3 to 5, and a 5- to 15-second video 40 to 100. Our reviews of Secrets AI, Lovescape and Girlfriend GPT list the sources.

How much does an AI girlfriend picture cost in tokens?

From about 23 to 48 cents an image where the price is published; on most apps you can't tell until you sign in. The only fair way to compare token currencies is to convert them to dollars per image or per clip. Using the published numbers above (our arithmetic, at the pack prices shown):

• Xotic AI: the smallest pack is $19.99 for 2,200 XOT, so a 50-XOT image costs about 45 cents and a 5-second 720p clip about $2.27. On the $499.99 pack the image drops to about 23 cents. Ultimate's included 1,000 XOT covers 20 images or four 5-second clips a month.
• ChatRoger: on Premium, 1,000 credits cost $8.00, so a 30-credit image is 24 cents and a 100-credit video 80 cents. Without Premium the same image is about 48 cents. The included 1,000 credits cover roughly 33 images or 10 videos.
• DarLink: Essential's 100 coins cover 50 images at 2 each or five videos at 20 each. We could not see coin pack prices, so we cannot convert extra images to dollars.
• Candy.ai: 100 tokens a month, but neither the public pages nor the help center list what an image or a minute of voice costs in tokens. The app shows the cost before you spend.

Note what does not appear on that list: text chat. On every paid plan we checked except DarLink's message caps and Xotic's per-message modes, ordinary conversation does not touch the token balance.

What does a realistic month cost?

Three rough profiles, built only from the published prices above:

• Chat only. You talk, you rarely ask for pictures. Your cost is the subscription: $13.99 a month on Candy.ai after the first month, $12.99 on DarLink Essential, $24.99 on Xotic Ultimate. The included tokens cover the occasional image.
• Regular images. You want a few pictures most days. On Xotic, 100 images is 5,000 XOT; the plan gives 1,000, so you need about 4,000 more. Two small 2,200-XOT packs ($39.98) just cover it, for about $65 that month; daily login rewards (up to 600 XOT a week) can shave that down. On ChatRoger, 100 images is 3,000 credits; the plan covers 1,000 and two 1,000-credit packs at $8 each cover the rest, about $22 on top of the plan.
• Video and calls. This is where spending climbs fast. A single 15-second 1080p clip on Xotic is 1,350 XOT, more than Ultimate's whole monthly allowance. Anyone generating clips regularly should expect token packs to cost more than the subscription.

The easy way to see your own number is to look at your purchase history after the first month, not the plan page. If the packs total more than the plan, the plan price is no longer the thing to compare.

Are there free AI girlfriend apps?

Not really: Replika's text chat is free, but the explicit apps give you a handful of messages and an image before asking you to pay. Free tiers in this category are samples, not a way to use the app long term. Candy.ai says a free user can send up to 5 messages across all characters, create one character and generate one image. Xotic's plans overview gives free accounts 5 messages in regular chat that do not refill, one custom character, a one-time 200-XOT welcome balance and 15 free messages with each Girlfriend Experience character. Replika is the exception: its help center says chatting will always be free, with voice calls, roleplay and other features behind the subscription.

Is a yearly AI girlfriend plan worth it?

Only once you know you'll keep using it: the yearly price is often a third of the monthly one, but you pay it all on day one and refunds are narrow.

Annual plans are where the headline prices come from, and the discounts are real: Candy's annual works out to $3.99 a month against $13.99 monthly. The catch is that you pay the whole year on day one, and refunds are narrow. Candy's terms of service allow a refund request only within 24 hours of payment and refuse it if more than 20 tokens have been used, card payments only, with a 14-day withdrawal right for EU and UK residents on the first purchase. Replika's refund policy says all purchases are final. Xotic's billing FAQ refunds unused XOT packs within 14 days but says subscription payments are not refundable unless the law requires it.

Three more details worth knowing before you commit to a year:

• The renewal is a full year too. Candy's checkout says the annual plan "renews automatically for the same price and term," so the second charge is another $47.88 unless you cancel.
• Yearly token allowances may arrive up front. Xotic deposits a year of XOT at once and warns that "nothing more arrives mid-year, so pace your allowance." Candy instead drips 100 tokens a month.
• Switching plans can mean waiting out the old one. Xotic says you cannot switch between monthly and yearly while a plan is active, and an upgrade to Elite is not prorated. Replika says to change plans you must cancel the previous one and let it run out.

A sensible order: pay for one month, use it the way you actually would, check what you spent on tokens, and only then decide whether a year is a bargain.

App store vs web pricing

Where you subscribe changes the price and the rules. Apple requires in-app purchase for digital subscriptions and currencies sold inside iPhone apps, under guideline 3.1.1 of its App Store Review Guidelines, and takes a commission on them (a reduced 15% for developers under $1 million a year, more above that). Apps often price in-app plans differently from the website for that reason. The same guidelines now let US storefront apps link out to web checkout, so you may see both options.

Most of the explicit apps are not in the App Store at all. Apple's guideline 1.1.4 bars "overtly sexual or pornographic material," and Candy.ai, for one, says it has no native iOS or Android app and instead offers a web app you add to your home screen. That means you pay the company directly by card, and cancelling and refunds run through the company, not Apple or Google. Replika, which is in the App Store, sends refund requests for store purchases to Apple and Google. The practical difference: a store subscription is easy to find and cancel in your phone settings; a web subscription has to be cancelled on the site.

Before you pay: a short checklist

1. Find the renewal price, not just the first-period price. Candy's monthly plan is $9.99 once and $13.99 after.
2. Find the token cost of the thing you actually want (an image, a clip, a minute of voice) and convert it to dollars at the pack price.
3. Check whether included tokens expire. Lovescape's subscription chips expire at each renewal, and purchased packs after 90 days.
4. Read the refund window before buying. On several of these apps it is 24 hours or nothing.
5. Ignore countdown timers. The sale on the page today is usually the sale on the page tomorrow.
6. Put the renewal date in your calendar the day you subscribe.

When you are done, our cancellation guide walks through stopping the billing cleanly, and the privacy guide covers what these apps keep about you after you leave.