What you can do for free
The free tier is designed to let you actually try the product, not just look at a paywall. You can create an account, explore the 37,000+ marketplace across realistic, anime and 3D styles, pick or start customizing a companion, and have real text conversations within a daily generation limit. That's enough to feel out the personality and the famous memory system before paying.
Where the free limits are
Free use is capped by daily generations and leaves out the premium, resource-heavy features: voice replies, the 10-second in-chat video, full 8K-token memory, and the higher image allowances (including the Character Pro model). If you only want light text chat, free can stretch a long way; if you want the immersive multimodal experience, you'll hit the ceiling fairly quickly.
When it's worth upgrading
Start free, and upgrade only if the companion clicks. The sweet spot for most people is Deluxe (~$30–35/mo), which unlocks voice, the 10-second video and full memory. Premium (~$12–15) is a lighter step up, and Elite (~$50) is for heavy users. Annual billing can save up to ~34%, and coins can be topped up for video clips. See the full pricing breakdown with a coin calculator.
Our advice: use the free tier to judge personality and memory. Pay only when you want voice and video — that's where the magic is.
Free vs rivals
Most companion apps gate similar features behind paid tiers. GirlfriendGPT's free tier is competitive for testing, and its paid tiers deliver more multimodal features than many rivals like Candy AI and Nectar AI. Compare in GirlfriendGPT vs Candy AI and GirlfriendGPT vs Nectar AI.