AI girlfriend app cost: real pricing, subscription prices and token costs for 12 apps

How much does an AI girlfriend app cost?

An AI girlfriend app costs about $13 a month on average, with the verified range running from $4.99 a week at the bottom of PolyBuzz's ladder to $29.99 a month for Chai Ultra. Most apps that publish anything at all land between $9.90 and $15.99 for their standard plan.

That is the subscription. It is not what you will spend. Seven of the twelve apps in the table below run a second currency alongside the plan, and the things people actually want from a companion app, pictures, voice, video, extra characters, sometimes memory itself, are the things that spend it. DreamGF is the clearest example: every plan renews at $25.99 a month effective, includes 100 tokens, and charges 10 tokens for an image and 7 per minute for a voice call. The included allowance is roughly ten pictures.

Annual billing changes the picture more than it does in most software. Candy AI drops from $13.99 to $3.99 a month if you pay for a year up front, a 71 percent cut, which is the largest annual discount in the category. Chai runs the opposite trap in the same product: its Ultra tier is $269.99 billed annually, or $19.99 billed weekly, and the weekly route reaches about $1,039 across a year for the identical tier.

• Verified range: $4.99 a week to $29.99 a month for the plan
• Average standard plan across the twelve apps: about $13 a month
• Seven of twelve sell a separate currency on top
• Annual billing swings the real cost by up to 71 percent
• Tempted.ai is $9 a month with nothing metered

What the sticker price leaves out: tokens, coins, gems and opals

The second currency is where the category makes its money, and it is the single reason a $9.90 app can cost more per month than a $15.99 one.

Each vendor names it differently, which is not an accident: it makes the prices impossible to compare at a glance. PolyBuzz runs two at once, coins and Opals, sold at different rates. Character AI calls them Charms and sells six packs from $0.99 to $99.99, and it quietly added a second subscription tier, Character.AI Lite, while we were checking. Replika calls them Gems, in four packs from $0.99 to $19.99. Nomi calls them credits, $4.99 for 40 up to $99.99 for 1,800. Linky calls them coins, and its ladder runs backwards: the $0.99 pack gives 181.8 coins per dollar while the $99.99 pack gives 142.0, so buying in bulk costs you more per coin.

Two of these deserve a specific warning. Candy AI includes 100 tokens a month and does not publish its token pack prices publicly at all, so the marginal cost of a picture is unknowable before you subscribe. And PolyBuzz puts Permanent Memory on its Ultimate tier only, per its own membership table, which means the plan that actually remembers you is the $29.90 one, not the $9.90 one people quote.

• Seven of twelve apps meter something on top of the plan
• Five different names for the same mechanism: tokens, coins, gems, Opals, Charms, credits
• Candy AI does not publish its token pack prices at all
• PolyBuzz gates Permanent Memory to its $29.90 Ultimate tier
• Linky AI charges more per coin the bigger the pack you buy

Which AI girlfriend app is cheapest, and which is cheapest to actually use?

The cheapest headline number is PolyBuzz at $9.90 a month, or $4.99 if you buy by the week. The cheapest way to use one of these apps for a year is Candy AI's annual plan at about $47.88 up front. Neither is the cheapest app to actually live with, because both meter the features you will want.

Ranked by what a year costs if you subscribe and never touch the second currency: Candy AI annual about $47.88, Nomi $99.99, Tempted.ai $108, Character AI $94.99, PolyBuzz $118.80, Chai Premium $134.99, Kindroid $139.99 on the web, Janitor AI $155.88, Chai Ultra $269.99, DreamGF $311.88. Kindroid's add-on ladder is the highest ceiling we found: standard plus Ultra plus MAX bought inside the app reaches $113.97 a month.

Now add the meter back. If you send pictures or make voice calls at all, the token apps move up several places, and the flat-rate apps stay where they are. That is the only reason to care about the distinction: a flat price is a price you can plan around, and a metered price is a bill you find out about later.

• Cheapest headline plan: PolyBuzz at $9.90 a month
• Cheapest verified year: Candy AI annual, about $47.88 up front
• Highest ceiling found: Kindroid standard plus Ultra plus MAX, $113.97 a month in-app
• Most expensive standard plan: Chai Ultra at $29.99 a month
• Tempted.ai sits at $108 a year with nothing metered

Why the prices you find in roundups contradict each other

Because most of them are not reading the vendor. Three patterns show up again and again, and once you know them you can spot a guessed price in seconds.

The first is the invented tier. Janitor AI is the current example: a $9.99 Pro plan and a $99.99 annual plan are republished across the top of the search results, and neither appears in Janitor's own announcement or in Apple's in-app purchase list, which shows exactly one product. The real annual cost of Janitor+ is $155.88, 56 percent more than the figure being copied around.

The second is the stale price. Vendors change these numbers quietly and no article goes back to check. The third, and the most common, is the store carousel mistake: an app's Google Play page shows in-app purchase ranges for the similar apps listed underneath it as well as for the app itself, and it is very easy to quote a competitor's price range by accident. We nearly did it ourselves with Janitor last week and caught it by checking the package name attached to each range.

The fix is not clever, it is just work: read the vendor, read the store listing, note the date, and say plainly when you could not find out.

• Invented tiers: Janitor AI $9.99 Pro and $99.99 annual appear in no primary source
• Store carousels attach similar-app prices to the page you are reading
• Apple prints a billing period only when the developer sets one, so some prices have no stated term
• Every row in our table names its source and the date it was read

The apps whose price you cannot verify at all

Two of the twelve have no checkable price, and that is itself the answer to what they cost.

Talkie AI publishes no pricing page: its pricing route renders a not found screen. Its iPhone app is gone, and not only in the United States, and the Google Play listing shows ads and in-app purchases without naming a subscription price. The $3.99 to $15.99 ladder repeated across review sites cites no source.

Muah AI is stranger. On 24 August 2026 every request we made to muah.ai returned HTTP 403, including the home page, the pricing route, the terms page and robots.txt, from two different clients. The body served with that 403 is a page titled Hang Tight that reads "Due to overwhelming demand, please wait while waiting in line" and shows your position in the queue. That position is not sent by a server. It is generated in your own browser: the page's script sets the number to a random value between 850 and 1300 on load, then subtracts a random 0 to 4 from it every five seconds. Underneath the queue text sits a standard Cloudflare managed challenge widget. We rendered the page in a real headless browser to confirm it, and were shown position 1074.

Draw your own conclusion about the queue. The practical point for a buyer is simpler: you cannot find out what Muah AI costs before you hand over an email address, and an app that will not show you a price is telling you something.

• Talkie AI: no pricing page, iPhone listing gone, no subscription price in the Play listing
• Muah AI: every route returned 403 on 24 August 2026
• The Muah AI queue position is generated client-side by a random number, not by a server
• Neither app can be priced from any primary source we could reach

What to check before you pay for any of them

Five checks, in the order that saves the most money.

Find the renewal price, not the first payment. DreamGF advertises first payments of $12.99, $29.97 and $69.99 on three plans that all renew at exactly $25.99 a month effective. The introductory number is the one that gets quoted; the renewal is the one you pay eleven more times.

Find out whether there is a second currency, and what the things you want cost in it. Ask specifically about pictures, voice and memory, because those are what get metered. Check whether buying on the web is cheaper than buying in the app: Kindroid charges $13.99 on its site and $15.99 through the stores for the same subscription, and it is not the only one. Check the refund policy before rather than after; Nomi states plainly that it issues no refunds, and Janitor's terms say subscriptions are generally non-refundable.

Last, check whether memory is in the plan or is the upsell. In this category the feature people actually pay for is being remembered, and it is increasingly the thing held back for the top tier.

• Check the renewal rate, not the introductory first payment
• Ask what a picture, a voice minute and memory cost in the second currency
• Compare the web price against the in-app price, they often differ
• Read the refund policy first, several vendors issue none
• Confirm whether long-term memory is included or gated to the top tier