AI companion app pricing, compared

Across the 15 apps where we've verified pricing at the primary source, most headline monthly plans land between $10 and $20/mo. The full range of real charge amounts runs from $0.99 (intro promo pricing — see the fee traps) to $599.00 (top-end annual bundles). The biggest distortion is annual anchoring: the advertised "per month" number usually requires paying a full year upfront.

27 of the 36 apps we track currently offer some usable free access. "Free" almost always means limited messages, a degraded model, or locked voice/image features — the Free column in the table reflects what we last confirmed per app, with the caveat visible on hover.

The patterns we've caught with receipts so far: DreamGF — Advertised prices are first-payment only — per their own pricing pages, the monthly plan renews at $25.99/mo (double the $12.99 intro), quarterly at $77.97, annual at $311.88. Kupid AI — Charges a $3.99/mo data-retention fee on top of subscriptions — an unusual, user-hostile line item CamSoda AI — Advertised $0.99–$2.99/mo is intro pricing — the subscription auto-renews at $19.95/mo per their own terms, and unused tokens are forfeited when you cancel. Every one of these came from the operator's own terms or pricing pages, not user complaints.

Usually, yes. Most apps run a second currency — tokens, credits, coins, or "gems" — that meters image generation, voice calls, or long conversations separately from the subscription. A plan that looks cheap can burn through its included token allowance in a single evening; our hands-on bench logs real token burn per app because no pricing page discloses it.

A ✓ in the table means we loaded the app's own pricing or terms page and recorded the numbers on a dated pass — 15 of 36 apps as of 2026-08-06. Unverified rows come from secondary sources and are directional only. Our tracker re-snapshots every app's public pages on a rolling basis, and any price movement lands as a dated entry in the changelog.