The Eliza Report
ELIZA/WIRE · 39 apps tracked · 97 events logged · 25 prices verified · last check 2026-10-03

Apps · prices checked at the source 2026-10-02 · rules and privacy checked 2026-09-27

Candy AI: what it costs, what's free, and what it allows

Candy AI Premium costs $13.99 a month, $26.97 every three months ($8.99 a month) or $47.88 a year ($3.99 a month). Since the start of October the monthly plan's first month is $9.99, then $13.99. Premium includes unlimited chat and 100 tokens a month; tokens pay for images, voice, video and extras. A free account gets 5 messages in total.

What we checked: 36 pages on candy.ai, everai.zendesk.com, the App Store and Google Play, with the prices re-read from a US connection on 2026-10-02. Everything was read logged out and nothing was bought. We kept 90 quotes word for word (the receipts at the bottom) and a dated screenshot.

Cheapest plan
$13.99 a month · $3.99 a month paid yearly
Free tier
No — a free account gets 5 messages in total, one custom character and one image; there is no ongoing free plan
NSFW policy
Full NSFW
Type
GF companion
Platforms
Web
Domain
candy.ai
Tracked since
2026-07-02

What we found

What Candy AI is

What it is: an AI companion chat app with ready-made and custom characters, plus AI-generated images, videos and voice notes. Platforms: web only. There is no native iOS or Android app; Candy offers an installable web app (PWA) instead. US App Store searches for 'candy ai', 'candy.ai' and 'everai' return no app from EverAI. Google Play's top results for 'candy.ai' include two apps named 'Candy AI' and 'Candy Ai - Girlfriend' under the developer name '1xBet Mobile'. These are not EverAI apps (on 09-22 the same packages showed the name 'Bovаdа Online').

One of those lookalikes is actually a love-quotes app by an individual developer in Vietnam, rated Everyone with 10K+ downloads, and keyword-stuffed with 'Candy ai' search terms. Candy.ai is owned and operated by EverAI Limited, a Maltese company (registration C107181) based in Santa Venera, Malta. Card charges show as 'EverAI', not Candy.

Every plan we could verify

PlanBillingPricePer monthWhere
Premium monthly $13.99 Website
Premium quarterly $26.97 $8.99 a month Website
Premium yearly $47.88 $3.99 a month Website

Prices as we read them on 2026-10-02. They change often in this category, so check them on Candy AI's own site before paying.

Candy AI's plan page: 12 months at $3.99 a month, 3 months at $8.99 a month, 1 month at $13.99
Candy AI's plan page, captured 2026-09-27 from the US: the $3.99 and $8.99 monthly rates need 12 or 3 months paid upfront. The footer says the charge appears as EverAI on your statement.

What you get free

What tokens buy

Chat on a paid plan never costs tokens. In-chat images on 'show me' prompts are switched on by default and do spend tokens; you can turn them off. Token pack prices are only shown after sign-in.

ItemCost
Tokens included100 a month with Premium, on every billing period; Candy's help center also describes a Premium Plus tier with 330, whose price is not shown logged out
What a token is worthabout 10 cents: Candy calls 200 tokens 'a $20 value'
Candy Roulette video chat5 tokens a minute
Exclusive Charactera set number of tokens, for example 200
Images, voice messages, voice calls, image-to-video, private content packs, Live Action and Candy Cam tipscost tokens; Candy does not publish the amounts
Referral200 tokens each for you and the friend, once the friend subscribes

What Candy AI allows

Age rules and verification

California: from January 1, 2027, Adam's Law makes every companion app find out each California user's age or treat all users as children. What the law requires, and where Candy AI stands.

Privacy: what happens to your chats

From Candy AI's privacy policy, terms and store listings as they read on 2026-09-27.

Who can read your chats
Human moderators review content and users that the automated moderation flags or that you report. Chat content is also randomly sampled for quality assurance, and the guidelines say communications may be monitored for quality. Staff are listed as recipients of personal data 'as needed'. The underage and blocked-content policies say chats are 'generally confidential' but flagged content and other content on the account may be manually reviewed.
Training on your chats
Your chats are used to train Candy's AI and moderation models; preparing training data may include humans reviewing de-identified chats. The terms grant EverAI a perpetual licence to use your content to train its AI models and for marketing.
Sharing with third parties
Third-party LLM providers and moderation tool vendors may receive the content of your messages.
Selling your data
The notice says personal data is not sold or transferred without consent (where required), and marketing sharing outside EverAI needs opt-in.
How long they keep it
Account data is kept for three years after your last activity (possibly shortened to one year), or until you ask for deletion; payment records are kept ten years. Financial records are kept for ten years for tax and accounting.
Deleting your data
Deleting a conversation is permanent, and you cannot clear a chat's history without also wiping that character's memory of it.
Encryption
Candy claims encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) only. The end-to-end encryption claim that was on the homepage until September 2026 is gone.
What the store privacy labels say
No App Store or Play Data safety label exists for Candy, because there is no official app. The Play 'Candy AI' lookalike's label (no data collected, data can't be deleted) belongs to an unrelated developer.

Renewal, refunds, cancelling and deleting your account

Encryption: Candy AI's site used to say chats were end-to-end encrypted, and took the claim down in 2026. Which companion apps claim end-to-end encryption, and what their policies say.

Change history

From our tracker's snapshots of Candy AI's own pages since 2026-07-02.

2026-10-02 Monthly plan now has an intro price: 'First month billed as $9.99', then 'renews monthly at $13.99', with 'Then $13.99/month' printed on the plan card. It still read $13.99 from the first month on 09-27. Yearly ($47.88) and 3-month ($26.97) unchanged and still renew at the same price and term. (candy.ai/subscriptions (US read, 2026-10-02; tracker snapshots 2026-09-25 and 2026-10-02; recheck 2026-09-27))
2026-09-22 Privacy answer rewritten (first seen 09-22; the Internet Archive still shows the old one on 09-16), and Terms revised September 22. The homepage FAQ 'Is chatting with an AI Girlfriend private and secure?' used to say Candy 'uses end-to-end encryption to keep all AI GF conversations safe and confidential' and that 'Your data is never shared or sold'; it now says Candy uses 'industry-standard security measures, including encrypting data in transit using TLS 1.2+ protocols' and points to the Privacy Notice. The end-to-end claim and the never-sold line are gone, and so are the lines about controlling your chat history and two-factor authentication. The Terms of Service revision date moved August 17 → September 22, 2026, adding one clause: selected users may be offered 'rebates in bonus tokens equal to a percentage of tokens spent, subject to specified minimum spending thresholds', i.e. a spend-more loyalty rebate. (candy.ai homepage FAQ + candy.ai/terms-of-service, tracker snapshots 2026-09-11 and 2026-09-22 (US vantage), Internet Archive 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-24, re-checked 2026-09-27) Full record →
2026-08-17 Terms of Service revised (revision date moved July 30 → August 17, 2026): new backup-payment-method clause — any payment method you add or pay with becomes the default for future renewals, and if a renewal charge to the default method fails, EverAI may charge a designated backup method 'for the same amount and on the same terms'; also now states 'By subscribing, you authorize EverAI to charge your payment method unless you cancel autorenewal'. Subscription ladder unchanged on the US-served page ($13.99 / $8.99 / $3.99 per month; weekly $5.60 and bi-weekly $9.79 plans still listed). (candy.ai/terms-of-service 'Date of Revision: August 17, 2026' + candy.ai/subscriptions, both re-checked 2026-08-21)
2026-07-06 Pricing page check (US-served HTML): $13.99/mo, $8.99/mo quarterly ($26.97), $3.99/mo annual ($47.88), plus weekly $5.60 and bi-weekly $9.79 plans not shown in the EU/UK browser view. Every plan renews at the same price and term — no intro-vs-renewal trap. Premium includes 100 tokens/mo. UK-geo pricing uses the same numerals in GBP (£13.99 vs $13.99, ~27% more). (candy.ai/subscriptions)
2026-07-06 Terms check: 24-hour refund window on subscriptions and token packs (card purchases only — crypto final); tokens expire at end of billing period on cancellation and are not restored on resubscribe; characters can be de-listed at sole discretion without refunds; EU/UK 14-day withdrawal applies to initial purchase only, prorated. Operator EverAI Limited (Malta, C107181); statement descriptor 'EverAI'. (candy.ai/terms-of-service)
2026-07-06 Live Action 'Beta v2' observed on character pages: AI video stream with XP/level system and gated action menu — the CamSoda AI live-show mechanic. Also live: Candy Shorts (per-character video series), Candy Roulette, interactive stories, and a cam-style /cams/ surface linked from a homepage LIVE tile. (candy.ai, logged-out session)

Our hands-on test

Candy AI review: the vertical's biggest brand, receipt-checked, tested 2026-07-06. We opened every public surface of candy.ai and read the terms line by line: real US pricing (no hidden renewal hike — rare here), the 24-hour refund window, token forfeiture on cancel, and the Live Action beta that clones CamSoda's signature feature.

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Questions people ask

Is Candy AI free?

Not beyond a taste. A free account gets 5 messages in total, one custom character and one image. Unlimited chat needs Premium, from $3.99 a month on the yearly plan.

How much is Candy AI a month?

$13.99 on the monthly plan, with the first month currently $9.99; $8.99 a month on the 3-month plan ($26.97); and $3.99 a month on the yearly plan ($47.88). The 3-month and yearly plans renew at the same price.

Can I get a refund from Candy AI?

Only within 24 hours of paying by card, and only if you have used no more than 20 tokens. Token packs are refunded only if unused.

Is there a Candy AI app?

No. Candy is web only, and you can add it to your home screen. The 'Candy AI' apps on Google Play are not from Candy's operator.

Is the free version of Candy AI any good?

It is too small to judge the product by: 5 messages total, one custom character and one image. Everything past that (unlimited chat, voice, video, more images) is paid, and tokens cover the media features.

Is Candy AI safe / private?

Chats are not shown to other users and data is encrypted in transit, but they are not sealed. Flagged chats get human review, chats are randomly sampled for quality checks, message content may go to third-party AI model providers, and chats are used to train Candy's models. The privacy notice says personal data is not sold without consent, and account data is kept up to three years after your last activity unless you ask for deletion.

Who owns Candy AI?

EverAI Limited, a company incorporated in Malta (registration C107181, 56 Central Business Centre, Santa Venera). Card charges appear as 'EverAI'.

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Every tracked app's pricing in one table. Other apps with verified prices: CamSoda AI, SpicyChat, Kupid AI, HeraHaven, Nomi, OurDream AI, DreamGF, Secrets AI, DarLink, Character.AI, Janitor AI, Replika, CrushOn AI, Kindroid, SoulGen, PolyBuzz, Talkie, Chai, GoLove AI, Roger (ChatRoger), Promptchan

Receipts: 90 quotes from Candy AI's own pages and store listings

Every fact above, quoted word for word from the page it came from on the check date. We keep the page text on file.