How to choose your first AI girlfriend app
What we'd tell someone signing up for the first time: the one decision that matters, the mistake almost everyone makes, and how to spend the least money finding out what you actually like.
Free, enormous character library, and you bring your own model
Our score
Janitor AI is the best free option in the category and the most flexible for anyone technical: bring your own API key and you control which model runs the conversation, at cost. The built-in free model is weak, there's no image generation, and the whole thing assumes you're comfortable with configuration.
Best for: A technical user who wants maximum control and minimum subscription cost.
Each platform is scored 0β10 on six criteria.
Real prices as tested. Platforms in this space change pricing often β the verification date is shown for each.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| FreeEditor's pick | Free | β |
| Pro | $9.99/mo | $8.33/moSave 17% |
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Roughly 50 messages a day on the built-in JanitorLLM Beta model, free.
Janitor AI is structurally different from everything else here. It's primarily a front end: a very large library of community-written characters plus a chat interface, with the actual language model either theirs (free, limited, mediocre) or yours via an API key. That second path is the reason to use it β plug in Claude or GPT and conversation quality jumps past every subscription platform in this comparison.
The catch is that you're now paying per token rather than per month, and heavy use can exceed a $13.99 subscription without much effort. It can also cost far less if you chat lightly. The point is that it's unpredictable, and you have to be the kind of person who's fine watching a usage dashboard.
There is no image generation, no voice, and no video. Janitor does text, and only text. Combined with the setup friction, that makes it a poor first platform and an excellent one for someone who has already decided that conversation quality is what they're optimising for and wants to stop paying a middleman for it.
A token or credit system means your subscription buys access, not usage. Each image, video or voice message draws down a monthly allowance, and once it's gone you buy more. This is where the real cost lives for anyone who generates regularly. OurDream, Candy AI, Secrets AI and SweetDream AI all work this way. The alternative model is a hard cap β DreamGF and SoulGen give you a fixed number of generations per cycle and charge nothing beyond it, which costs more on paper but is predictable.
Financially, almost always β the discounts are steep, often 50β65%. The risk isn't financial, it's that this category is volatile. Platforms swap the model underneath you, remove features, and occasionally close. We've watched a companion's personality change overnight on more than one platform. Committing twelve months to something with no track record is a different bet from committing to one that's been running for years, and we'd weigh that before the discount.
We treat the whole category as leaky by default, and we'd suggest you do the same. That isn't an accusation against any particular platform β it's how we set up our own accounts. These are young companies moving quickly, and the most sensitive thing you own here is the thing you type into the box. We use a dedicated email address on every one of them, never enter anything that identifies us, and assume that what we write could one day be read by someone else. We have never regretted any of that.
It depends entirely on the platform, and it is one of the sharpest differentiators between a serious operator and a careless one. If you are in the EU, EEA or UK, the GDPR gives you a right to erasure that applies regardless of what the interface offers, and a platform that ignores a valid deletion request is breaking the law. Before subscribing, check whether deletion is self-service or requires emailing support β the difference predicts a lot.
What we'd tell someone signing up for the first time: the one decision that matters, the mistake almost everyone makes, and how to spend the least money finding out what you actually like.
We signed up to all fourteen platforms without paying. Three free tiers are genuinely usable, most are demos that stop exactly where it gets interesting, and two platforms have nothing at all.
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