The best AI companions, ranked
Nineteen platforms, nine criteria, fixed weights. We publish the weights below so you can disagree with them — and we publish which scores are not yet on that grid, because a ranking that hides its own seams is worth nothing.
The nineteen scores are all on the same grid. Four of them had been produced in August 2026 during a revision of our protocol, on a variant that excluded untested criteria instead of capping them — a more generous treatment that left them sitting high. All four have since been re-issued on the grid below, OurDream AI last, on 19 August 2026. The ⚠ marks are gone because there is nothing left to flag, and the order below is one arithmetic applied nineteen times.
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Some links on this page are affiliate links — we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. How this works.Overall ranking
Ranked on the weighted score. Click a row to read the full review and the criterion-by-criterion breakdown behind the number.
Detailed comparison
Only platforms with a published review appear here. A row is added the day its review goes live — we do not fill this table from press pages.
| Platform | Score | Best for | Free tier | Starting price | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTGirlfriend | 7.5 | Community catalogue, publishing your own characters | LIMITED Our existing account carried the whole protocol; the Terms give examples of 10 to 20 total messages and two or three characters | €12/mo billed monthly · €87.84 for the year, shown as a €7.32 monthly equivalent | Read the review → |
| FLIRTcam.AI | 7.0 | Video-first companions, EU operator | SHORT The site describes 3 messages, registration, then 3 more; our logged-in session hit its paywall after nine prompts | €19.99 month to month · €39.99 every three months · €69.99 for the year | Read the review → |
| Dreamz.ai | 6.9 | Guided creator, one real in-chat video | VERY SMALL 250 coins and four chat messages on the account we tested; the current public configuration contradicts that allowance | $8.33/mo billed $99.99 per year · $14.99 month to month | Read the review → |
| OurDream AI | 6.8 | Roleplay, scenarios, deep character creation | PAY PER MESSAGE Every free message costs exactly 1 DreamCoin; our existing account had 19 left and hit a chat limit | €18.99 month to month · €113.99 for the year, shown as a €9.50 monthly equivalent | Read the review → |
| Secrets.ai | 6.8 | Transparent pricing, careful character creation | LIMITED 20 sent messages per day, basic memory, and no recurring monthly Moments | $19.99 month to month · $159.99 for the year · our account separately showed a $109.99 annual promotion | Read the review → |
| Joi AI | 6.1 | Judging the writing before you pay | GOOD CHAT, NO MEDIA Free chat carried our whole protocol; six free images and six Neurons were visible in our account on 20 August, but no universal allowance is published | $47.99 for twelve months · $20.99 for three · $13.99 month to month | Read the review → |
| Candy AI | 6.0 | First-time users, character creation | VERY SMALL Five chat messages in total across all characters, one custom character, one image | €13.99 month to month · €47.88 billed upfront for twelve months, shown as a €3.99 monthly equivalent | Read the review → |
| Kindroid | 5.6 | Deepest documentation, but no output was tested | CHANGING Unlimited Lite messages and a 3-day trial, but Lite retires on 1 October 2026 | $11.67/mo billed $139.99 yearly on the web · $13.99 monthly | Read the review → |
| Promptchan | 5.6 | An adult image studio with companion chat attached | UNCONFIRMED The Upgrade card showed 15 Gems for image generations, but the reset cadence was not established and our account showed 0 | $14.99 month to month for Plus · $23.99 Premium · $33.99 Pro, first month discounted | Read the review → |
| Xotic AI | 5.3 | Image and video generation with every price published | 5 MESSAGES/DAY One character, 200 welcome tokens, everything else locked | €12.50/mo billed €149.99 yearly · €24.99 monthly | Read the review → |
| Xtease AI | 5.1 | An explicit-first catalogue with detailed appearance controls | UNMEASURED A “Free forever” state with a 40-Chip balance; message limits, reset cadence and the balance’s origin were never established | $19.99 month to month · $38.97 every three months · $95.88 for the year, charged upfront | Read the review → |
| Lovescape | 5.1 | One web interface for companions, images, video and a creator ladder | UNMEASURED A “Free forever” state with several benefits crossed out; numeric message and character limits were never established | $19.99 month to month · $38.97 every three months · $95.88 for the year, charged upfront | Read the review → |
| Dondi AI | 4.9 | A large visual catalogue with short French-capable chat | FIVE MESSAGES Five messages in the tested daily window; media stayed Premium-gated even with tokens left | $14.99 month to month · $35.97 every three months · $71.88 for the year, charged in advance | Read the review → |
| DarLink AI | 4.9 | Building a character in detail | VERY NARROW Our existing account hit a gate on its fifth message with no reply; no clean-account allowance is published | $9.99/mo billed $119.88 yearly · $10.99/mo billed quarterly · $12.99 month to month | Read the review → |
| Dream Companion | 4.9 | Immersive roleplay with tested consent and STOP behavior | TEN MESSAGES Ten free sends and no Coins on the tested account; reset and post-limit behavior never established | $11.99 month to month · $69.99 for the year, charged upfront | Read the review → |
| Kupid AI | 4.8 | Building a fictional companion, then consensual roleplay with it | FIFTEEN MESSAGES The plan table advertises 15 messages, one custom character and memory for the last 30 messages, but never says when the 15 reset | €12.99/week for Pro · €24.99/week for Ultra · €179 or €299 for the year, each charged as one payment · €777 Lifetime | Read the review → |
| Swipey AI | 4.8 | Short flirt-focused text chat | TEN MESSAGES 20 Hearts funded ten messages at two each before the paywall; first-party wording on the cap contradicts itself | Daily rates only — €0.67, €0.53 and €0.27 per day; the modal never showed the billed total | Read the review → |
| GoLove AI | 4.5 | A wide creator and Star-priced media economy | CONTRADICTORY Free registration is advertised, but four first-party pages disagree on the continuing allowance | €13.99 month to month · €29.97 every three months · €49.80 for the year | Read the review → |
| Get Harder | 4.4 | A large adult catalogue with image, video and call surfaces | TWO MESSAGES The Terms describe a two-message limit before the paywall, with no stated scope or reset | $19.99 the first month, then $39.99 · $119.99 the first year, then $299.99 | Read the review → |
Every platform in the ranking above now has a published review, so this table lists all nineteen. No score on this page comes from a vendor, a press kit or an affiliate manager, and every row now comes from the same grid. Prices are quoted in the currency each platform charges in and are not converted: Candy AI, GPTGirlfriend, FLIRTcam.AI, OurDream AI, Xotic AI and GoLove AI are geo-priced and served euros when we read them from a European connection, and several of them advertise a low monthly equivalent for a total billed upfront — the figure that leaves your account is the one written here. Prices checked in August 2026.
How a score is built
Nine criteria, fixed weights. A score is the weighted sum — never a number we felt was about right. Every review above is now on this grid.
| Criterion | Weight | What we look at |
|---|---|---|
| Chat quality | 20% | Staying in character, writing quality, memory across a conversation and across days |
| Character creation | 12% | Depth of appearance, personality, relationship and voice options |
| Images & video | 12% | What can be generated, at what quality, and how easily from the chat |
| Real pricing & value | 12% | What you actually pay, how visible it is before sign-up, what the commitment buys |
| Roleplay & immersion | 10% | Scenario consistency, whether the fiction holds over time |
| Credits & tokens | 10% | Included allowance, cost per generation, and whether that cost is disclosed at all |
| Privacy & discretion | 10% | Billing descriptor, named operator, data policy, account and chat deletion |
| Free tier | 8% | What you can genuinely do without paying, and for how long |
| Cancellation & refunds | 6% | How you cancel, whether support is involved, what happens to a paid term |
Two rules keep the numbers honest. A criterion assessed only from what the platform publishes is capped at 8.0 — we do not award excellence to something we have not seen. And any platform with a capped criterion carries a provisional score until we have tested the paid tier.
Why capping and not excluding. The transitional grid we used briefly in August 2026 dropped untested criteria from the total instead. That sounds fairer and is not: a platform whose free tier is too thin to finish a test has that test removed from its own denominator, so its stinginess raises its score. OurDream AI, the last review re-issued, moved 0.6 points between the two methods on identical evidence — 7.4 became 6.8. Capping keeps the criterion in the total, which is why everything now sits on it.
About this ranking
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A score is a summary. The review is where the pricing traps, the token costs and the cancellation terms actually live.
⚠ Some links on this page are affiliate links. If you click and subscribe, AI Companion Atlas may earn a commission — at no extra cost to you. Prices, features and terms change: always check them on the official site before you pay. Scores reflect testing carried out in August 2026 and are re-checked monthly.