Replika alternative: what twelve apps cost and what happens to your history when you cancel

Anyone hunting a Replika alternative is not buying for the first time. Usually it is about exit — cancel a plan, compare price, find a free account — and behind that sits a relationship with a chat history. The question is what switching costs and what is lost.

On Replika itself we hold no verified data and therefore write no figure about it. What we collected are the published statements of twelve AI companion apps on three questions this reader asks: How far does the app remember? What happens to the history when I stop paying? And can I leave cleanly?

The answer to the third question is the most uncomfortable part of this page.

Four more vendors, thinner dossiers

After the first version of this page, OurDream.ai, Xotic AI, Dondi.ai, and GirlfriendGPT were added, each with its own fact-check page. Their public figures are thinner than the twelve in the table below: OurDream.ai states 19.99 $/month and 55 free Dreamcoins at start; GirlfriendGPT states the free limit only as a 10–20 message range and no dollar price, but apps in the App Store and Google Play; Xotic AI and Dondi.ai publish no price. The baseline remains the twelve with full dossiers.

Price, memory, and exit side by side

Entry price, published memory boundary, and exit terms

A dash means: the vendor publishes nothing on that point. For this question that is not a side case — at several vendors the handling of your own history is simply undocumented.

How far the apps remember

Only Kupid.ai numbers memory in messages. Kupid.ai tiers it openly: free keeps the last 30 messages, Pro the last 100, Ultra markets unlimited chat storage. That is the only place on this list where memory is counted in messages and priced.

Lovescape says it qualitatively: “extended memory” belongs to the dearer PRO plan, not the Premium entry. A site configuration value caps a message at 2,000 characters — not a published promise, but checkable, and a real limit for long roleplay scenes.

Swipey names persistent memory across sessions and devices as a Premium feature, without a number; DarLink Ai tiers “Basic”, “Enhanced”, and “Living memory” across three plans; Candy.ai’s help names 20 “Memory slots” for Premium Plus. At the other seven vendors nothing is said. Anyone who wants a months-long relationship buys an unknown product at those seven.

What happens to your data when you cancel

There is exactly one exemplary case. Secrets.ai writes on its own store page that a cancelled account falls back to free and chats, memories, custom characters, and generated content remain. The same store page also says free-account media delete after 14 days — how that sits with “remains” the vendor does not resolve.

The counterpart is eHentai.ai, where old unused characters, images, and chats are deleted after inactivity and retention depends on the plan. Stopping here means: the clock runs.

JOI AI deletes free-account generated media after seven days. At the other nine vendors nowhere states what happens to the history. That is the honest answer, and it is unsatisfying.

Exit is the most expensive part

Kupid.ai is the hardest case in this comparison: the terms fully exclude refunds, returns, and cancellations for used plans, and stopping the charge runs through support instead of an in-account switch. At 12.99 $/week that is a combination to know before buying.

DreamGF.ai, DreamBF.ai, and eHentai.ai reserve a 1.99 $/month maintenance fee to keep accounts “active and operational”. It hits only past buyers; DreamGF.ai and eHentai.ai name deleting the account as the way to avoid it — DreamBF.ai is silent. Three vendors, one operator, one clause.

At the other end sits GeneratePorn.ai: memberships have a fixed term and, per the vendor, never auto-renew. That is the only vendor on this list where doing nothing is the exit.

Candy.ai sits in between — refund only within 24 hours and only at low use; beside that it grants EU/UK buyers 14 days’ withdrawal per its own terms. Whether a statutory withdrawal right for digital content applies depends on whether you consented to immediate start — we do not adjudicate that here.

What it costs if you stay

Annual commitment shifts the maths a lot. Lovescape is 19.99 $ billed monthly and 7.99 $/month on annual, billed as 95.88 $/year. Candy.ai falls from 13.99 $ to 3.99 $/month, billed as 47.88 $. Secrets.ai asks 19.99 $ monthly or 109.99 $/year.

Kupid.ai bills weekly: 12.99 $/week on Pro against 179 $/year. Hold the weekly bill for twelve months and you pay a multiple — a pricing model that makes the weekly rhythm expensive.

Two vendors publish no price. JOI AI names three terms without an amount; FlirtCam.Ai shows prices only after login. A plan whose price appears first at checkout is the wrong direction for a reader just leaving a plan.

Where these figures come from

We did not subscribe to any of these apps, and this page does not claim otherwise. Everything here comes from pages each vendor itself publishes: pricing pages, terms, membership policies, and help centers. Every URL sits below, read on 3 and 4 September 2026.

On Replika itself there is no figure here. We have no verified source for that product, and memory-knowledge on a page about evidence would be a strange choice.

This method has a hard boundary that hurts exactly on this topic: what a vendor does not write about memory, retention, and deletion, we cannot invent. An empty table cell therefore never means “does not exist” — it means “is stated nowhere”. Both are arguments, but different ones.

FAQ about Replika alternatives

Which Replika alternative remembers the most?

Only Kupid.ai numbers it in messages: free last 30, Pro last 100, Ultra unlimited. Lovescape and Swipey name extended or persistent memory as paid features; DarLink Ai three memory tiers; Candy.ai 20 “Memory slots” on Premium Plus. The other seven say nothing.

Do my chats stay if I cancel?

Only Secrets.ai expressly promises it: the account falls to free; chats, memories, and characters stay. eHentai.ai conversely deletes unused content after inactivity; JOI AI deletes free media after seven days. The others say nothing.

Where is cancel easiest?

At GeneratePorn.ai, because there is nothing to cancel: memberships run a fixed term and never auto-renew. Hardest is Kupid.ai — refunds are excluded and ending the charge runs through support.

What does a Replika alternative cost per year?

Published annual prices: 47.88 $ at Candy.ai; 69.99 $ first year at DreamGF.ai, DreamBF.ai, and eHentai.ai (then 311.88 $); 95.88 $ at Lovescape; 107.99 $ for GeneratePorn.ai Starter; 109.99 $ at Secrets.ai; 119.88 $ for DarLink Ai Essential; 179 $ at Kupid.ai Pro. JOI AI, Swipey, and FlirtCam.Ai name no annual price.