Free AI Girlfriendmeasures what each free tier actually gives you before it stops

Some are, on a metered basis. Free tiers are real but almost always limited — a daily message allowance, a handful of images, or voice locked behind the paid plan. What differs is how usable the tier is before the meter runs out, and that is the figure we measure for every app rather than repeating the word 'free' from the landing page.

Joi has the most generous free tier we found, and it is the only one where voice is included rather than sold as an extra — that makes it the cheapest way to find out whether this category suits you. Candy.ai has the better product overall once you are paying, and Girlfriend GPT is the one to pick if you want to write the character yourself.

Yes, several start with no payment details at all, and we say so explicitly in each review because it is the question readers ask most. Others require a card for a 'free' trial that converts automatically — that distinction is reported at the top of every review rather than buried in the pricing section.

Several do, and several advertise that they do while refusing more than they admit — and free tiers are usually filtered more tightly than paid ones on the same platform. Filter policy also changes without announcement, so we re-check the NSFW section against the live product instead of leaving an old answer in place.

It varies more than most users expect, and free tiers are where retention terms are loosest. Some platforms encrypt conversations and honour deletion requests; others retain logs indefinitely and reserve the right to use them for training. We read the privacy policy of every app reviewed here and report retention, training use, third-party sharing and deletion.