Kindroid pricing: how much does Kindroid cost, and what Ultra and MAX add on top

How much does Kindroid cost?

Kindroid's subscription documentation lists two complete price lists side by side, one for purchases made through Google Play or the iOS App Store and one for direct web purchases, with the web list explicitly labelled as discounted.

Bought in-app, the standard subscription is $15.99 for one month, $42.99 for three months, or $159.99 for a year. Bought on the web, the same subscription is $13.99 for one month, $37.99 for three months, or $139.99 for a year. The service is identical. The gap is the app store's cut, and Kindroid passes it straight through to you rather than absorbing it.

That is worth pausing on, because it is $24 a year on the monthly plan and $20 a year on the annual plan for nothing except where you tapped the button. Apple's own listing corroborates the in-app side: the US App Store shows Kindroid Subscription at $15.99, Kindroid Subscription (3 mo) at $42.99 and Kindroid Subscription (Yearly) at $159.99, published by Beautifully Incorporated with the copyright line reading Kindroid. Google Play lists the same developer and an in-app purchase range starting at $3.49 and topping out at $159.99.

Kindroid deserves credit for showing both numbers openly. Most vendors in this category either publish nothing, like Replika, or publish only the web price and let you discover the store markup after you have installed the app. Kindroid puts them in a single table and labels the cheaper one.

• Web: $13.99 a month, $37.99 for three months, $139.99 a year
• In-app: $15.99 a month, $42.99 for three months, $159.99 a year
• Identical service, so the gap is purely the app store cut
• Buying direct on the web saves about $24 a year on the monthly plan

What do Kindroid Ultra and MAX cost?

This is the part that makes Kindroid's pricing genuinely different from everyone else's, and it is the part most write-ups get wrong. Ultra and MAX are not higher tiers that replace your subscription. Kindroid's own documentation calls them add-on subscriptions, and it says plainly that they build on previous levels: Ultra requires the standard subscription, and MAX requires both the standard subscription and Ultra.

So the arithmetic is additive, and Kindroid does the sum for you. Ultra adds $24.99 a month on the web or $28.99 in-app, for a running total of $38.98 a month on the web or $44.98 in-app. MAX adds a further $59.99 a month on the web or $68.99 in-app, on top of both, for a total of $98.97 a month on the web or $113.97 in-app.

A fully loaded Kindroid is therefore just under $99 a month bought direct, or about $1,187 a year. That is not a criticism of the price so much as a warning about the headline: the $13.99 figure and the configuration that Kindroid's power users actually run are different products at different price points, and only one of them appears in search results.

Two more details from the same page matter. Add-ons are monthly only, with no quarterly or yearly discount available on them, so the prepay savings apply to the base subscription and nothing above it. And if your standard subscription lapses, you drop to the free tier regardless of whether Ultra or MAX are still active, because the stack has nothing underneath it to sit on.

• Ultra: $24.99 a month web, $28.99 in-app, on top of the standard plan
• Running total with Ultra: $38.98 a month web, $44.98 in-app
• MAX: $59.99 a month web, $68.99 in-app, on top of standard and Ultra
• Running total with MAX: $98.97 a month web, $113.97 in-app
• Add-ons are monthly only, so no quarterly or annual discount applies to them

Why you cannot just buy Kindroid Ultra

Here is the detail almost nobody publishes, and you will not find it on a pricing page because it only appears once you are logged in and looking at the billing screen. Ultra is gated behind usage.

Kindroid's billing panel describes Ultra as unlocking advanced features for its most engaged users, and it tells inactive accounts to keep chatting and engaging with their Kindroids to qualify. The prompt underneath reads, in Kindroid's own words, keep using Kindroid to unlock. A new subscriber cannot simply pay $24.99 and switch it on. MAX, which requires Ultra beneath it, is gated behind that same wall by extension.

There is a defensible reason for it. Kindroid states that the add-on tiers exist to cover the cost of dedicated servers for very high context rather than to make a profit, and that it expects to break even or lose money at those rates. Rationing that capacity to established accounts is a reasonable way to stop it being bought and abandoned. But it does change what you are buying on day one, and it is the single most important thing to know before you subscribe expecting the biggest memory.

There is also a billing trap sitting next to it, again documented by Kindroid itself. Because the tiers stack, cancelling a lower one does not cancel the higher one. Kindroid's example is exactly this: if you are on MAX and you cancel Ultra, you keep paying for MAX while your service level drops to Ultra. You get a warning icon in billing, but the charge continues. If you are unwinding a stacked setup, cancel from the top down.

• Ultra is not purchasable on demand, it unlocks through account usage
• MAX inherits that gate, because it requires Ultra underneath it
• Kindroid says the tiers are priced to cover dedicated server cost, not to profit
• Cancel a lower tier and you keep paying for the higher one at reduced service
• Unwind a stacked subscription from the top down

What does the extra money actually buy?

Kindroid publishes a feature matrix comparing the three levels, which is more transparency than the category norm and lets you judge the add-ons on numbers rather than adjectives.

The headline figure is total conversation context, which is roughly 500,000 characters on Standard, 1.3 million on Ultra and 2.8 million on MAX. Short-term context goes 18,000, then 50,000, then 125,000 characters. Cascaded memory, which is Kindroid's name for its medium-term recall, goes 480,000, then 1.2 million, then 2.7 million. The number of long-term memories and journals the companion can recall at once goes from 3 to 5 to 9.

The smaller limits scale too. Your backstory field caps at 500 characters on Standard, 1,000 on Ultra and 2,000 on MAX, with an extra AI backstory expansion field of 2,500 characters on Ultra and 5,000 on MAX that Standard does not get at all. Group context runs 1,000, 1,500 and 3,000 characters. Complimentary monthly audio credits go from 1 million to 2.5 million to 6 million, and selfie regeneration allowance doubles from one to two per thirty minutes. MAX alone gets priority selfie processing on dedicated compute, though Kindroid notes that priority applies until you hit about 10 selfies in a short window, after which you rejoin the normal queue.

One genuinely reassuring line sits at the bottom of that matrix: Kindroid states that long-term memory consolidation spans all messages and is infinite for every user, including free ones. What the tiers buy is how much of it can be recalled and held in context at once, not whether it is stored. That is a meaningful distinction and Kindroid is clearer about it than most.

• Total conversation context: about 500K, 1.3M and 2.8M characters
• Short-term context: 18K, 50K and 125K characters
• Recalled long-term memories and journals: 3, 5 and 9
• Backstory limit: 500, 1,000 and 2,000 characters
• Monthly audio credits: 1M, 2.5M and 6M
• Long-term memory storage itself is unlimited on every tier, including free

Is Kindroid free, and what does the free tier include?

There is a real free tier, and it is more generous on conversation than most rivals while being deliberately thin everywhere else.

Free users get unlimited messages, but on what Kindroid calls Lite, a smaller distilled version of its flagship model. You get one selfie request every two hours up to a maximum of two, 5,000 lifetime audio characters which Kindroid puts at roughly five minutes of speech, and a cap of two Kindroids per account. Long-term memory recall is basic and Cascaded Memory is not included at all. Kindroid's own advice on that page is that free users should upgrade to reach the premium models.

Unlimited free messages is a genuine point in Kindroid's favour, since plenty of competitors cap you at a handful of messages a day or, in Candy AI's case, five messages in total. The catch is that you are evaluating a distilled model, so the conversation quality you test for free is not the conversation quality you would be paying for. That cuts both ways and it is worth knowing which direction you are being misled in.

There is also a 3-day premium trial for new free users, and it comes with conditions. It requires a payment method on file and auto converts into a paid subscription unless you cancel inside the window, though Kindroid does send an email reminder a day before it converts. On the web the trial additionally requires a verified mobile phone number to stop trial abuse, and you can skip the trial and subscribe directly if you would rather not hand over a phone number. Audio credits during the trial are throttled: 150,000 at the start, with the remaining 850,000 released only when the trial converts.

• Free: unlimited messages, but on the smaller Lite model
• Free: 1 selfie every 2 hours up to 2, 5,000 lifetime audio characters, 2 Kindroids
• Free tier has basic memory recall and no Cascaded Memory
• 3-day trial needs a card on file and auto converts unless cancelled
• Web trial also requires a verified phone number, or subscribe without the trial

What else costs money inside Kindroid?

Beyond the subscription ladder there is a set of one-off consumables, and Apple's in-app purchase disclosure lists them with prices, which is the surface a vendor does not get to design.

The US App Store listing shows one additional Kindroid slot at $3.49 and four additional slots at $11.49, 50 selfie credits at $6.99 and 100 selfie credits at $11.49, and 500,000 audio credits at $14.99. Paid subscribers already get 10 Kindroids and 20 groups plus a million audio credits a month included, so these are top-ups for people who have exhausted a generous allowance rather than a meter that starts biting immediately.

That is an important distinction and Kindroid earns it. This is not a token economy in the sense that Candy AI or Talkie run one, where the currency stands between you and ordinary use. Text chat is never metered here at any tier. What is metered is voice, because audio credits are consumed by voice messages and calls, and selfie generation beyond your regeneration allowance.

On video specifically, since people ask what it costs: video calls and video avatars are listed among the standard subscriber benefits rather than sold separately, so there is no distinct video price to quote. The consumable that voice and video calling draws down is the audio credit allowance, which resets monthly and scales with the tier.

• 1 extra Kindroid slot $3.49, 4 slots $11.49 (App Store prices)
• 50 selfie credits $6.99, 100 selfie credits $11.49
• 500,000 audio credits $14.99
• Text chat is not metered on any tier
• Video calls and video avatars are included in the subscription, not priced separately

Can you get a refund from Kindroid?

The policy is strict, and Kindroid states it directly enough that nobody should be surprised by it. Its terms say refunds are considered case by case, that it generally does not offer refunds, and that all sales are final, while reserving the right to issue one at its discretion.

The sentence that follows is the one to read twice. Kindroid states that it reserves the right to permanently ban users who dispute charges. Filing a chargeback with your bank, which is the normal consumer fallback when a refund is refused, can therefore cost you the account and every companion and memory in it. That is a harsher stance than most of this category takes and it is stated plainly rather than buried.

If your account is suspended or terminated for a terms violation, Kindroid says you get no refund or credit for the unused portion, regardless of how much of the term is left. On a $139.99 annual plan that is a real amount of money.

Where you bought matters for how you cancel. Kindroid's terms note that refunds for app store purchases are handled solely by Apple or Google under their own terms, so an in-app subscriber goes through the store rather than through Kindroid. Web subscribers cancel in their own account settings under Billing. That is one more reason the $2 a month you save buying direct is not the only difference between the two routes: the cheaper one is also the one where Kindroid, rather than Apple, decides your refund.

• Kindroid states all sales are final, with refunds at its discretion
• It reserves the right to permanently ban users who dispute charges
• Suspended or terminated accounts get no refund for the unused term
• App store purchases are refunded by Apple or Google, not by Kindroid
• Web subscribers cancel under account settings, then Billing

How Tempted.ai pricing compares

Nine dollars a month, and there is no second subscription above it. That is the entire pricing model, and against a product whose full configuration stacks three separate monthly charges, the simplicity is the differentiator rather than the price alone.

The difference that matters most is not the number, it is that memory is not what you are being upsold. On Kindroid, the thing the tiers scale is how much your companion can hold in mind at once, which means the feature that determines whether she still knows you in month three is the feature the ladder is built around. Here it is included, at one price, on day one.

Nothing has to be earned, either. There is no engagement threshold to cross before you are allowed to buy the version you wanted, and no risk of paying for a tier while receiving a lower one because you cancelled in the wrong order. She also texts first, so the relationship does not depend on you opening the app.

We are a much narrower product than Kindroid and the table below says so honestly. No selfies, no voice cloning, no video avatars, no group chats, one companion rather than ten. Kindroid is a genuinely powerful creation tool and if that is what you want, the flat price here does not substitute for it.

Who should pay for Kindroid?

Pay for it if you want to build and tune a companion rather than just talk to one. Kindroid's customization depth, editable memory, voice cloning and selfie generation are the best in this category for people who enjoy engineering the experience, and the feature matrix shows a vendor willing to be measured on numbers.

Buy it on the web rather than in the app. It is the same product for $2 a month less, and on the annual plan you save $20. There is no reason to pay the store markup when the vendor itself points you at the cheaper route.

Take the annual plan only once you are sure. $139.99 up front against a policy where all sales are final and disputing a charge can get you banned is a meaningful commitment, and the free tier runs a distilled model so it cannot tell you how good the paid conversation is. A month at $13.99 is a cheap way to find out first.

Look elsewhere if the memory tiers are the reason you are interested. That is the honest case against Kindroid for most buyers: the configuration people describe when they talk about Kindroid's memory is the $38.98 or $98.97 one, not the $13.99 one, and Ultra cannot be bought until you have used the app enough to qualify. If what you actually want is a companion who remembers you, texts first and costs one predictable amount, that is a different product, and the table below is there so you can check the claim against real numbers.