People leaving Candy AI usually have one of three specific problems. The token pool runs out fast, because chat, voice, images and video draw from the same balance. Or a limit turns up after paying — memory, reply length, what the model will do. Or it’s the data question: where chat logs go, and whether there’s a real way to delete them. This page sorts eight alternatives by which of the three is yours.
We checked each service’s own pricing, terms, refunds, help centre and content rules on 9 September 2026, and every figure cites the section it came from. Where a company doesn’t publish a price before you register, we say so rather than copy a number off another list — four of the eight don’t.
What Candy AI’s own terms say — the baseline
On 9 September 2026, Candy AI had no working public pricing page — /pricing returned a 404, and the homepage names monthly, quarterly and yearly plans without figures, so Candy AI is itself in the “price after signup” group. Subscriptions include a batch of tokens “to use across voice, chat, image, and video” plus top-ups; the amount per plan, the top-up cost and whether tokens expire are nowhere public. That one pool across four features is the cost complaint in a sentence.
The rest is better than most of this list. Section 10.1 points you to “Settings / Unsubscribe”, and Section 9 confirms auto-renewal until you do. Refunds run 24 hours from payment (§10.4.1), and §10.4.3 lets EU and UK buyers “withdraw from your contract within 14 days of initial purchase without giving any reason”. The Community Guidelines (§12) prohibit sharing “images that resemble real persons”. The weak spot is data: no in-account delete button appears in the published pages, account data is kept “for three years after your last Account activity”, and the Privacy Notice (§5.a) says third parties “may receive the content of your messages exchanged with our chatbot”. More in our Candy AI review.
Leaving because of what? Start here
| If you’re leaving because… | Look at | Why specifically |
|---|---|---|
| Tokens run out and the maths is invisible | OurDream AI, SpicyChat AI | OurDream publishes the coin cost of every action; SpicyChat has no credit system at all |
| The monthly price is too high for your usage | CrushOn AI, SpicyChat AI, Kindroid | Entry tiers of $5.99, $5.95 and $13.99/mo, all published before signup (verified 9 Sep 2026) |
| Limits on memory, reply length or what’s allowed | Kindroid, SpicyChat AI | Both publish per-tier memory and reply caps; Kindroid also publishes what its moderation enforces |
| You want chats deletable on your terms | Nastia AI, Kindroid | Nastia’s self-serve deletion takes effect immediately; Kindroid documents encryption at rest and in transit |
| You want the price before handing over an email | OurDream, SpicyChat, CrushOn, Kindroid | The other four — plus Candy AI itself — show pricing only after signup |
Candy AI vs eight alternatives: the terms side by side
All figures from each company’s own pages, verified 9 Sep 2026. “Not public” means the price appears only after you create an account, and we are not guessing at it.
| Service | Entry price | Credit system | Refunds | Deleting your account | Own rules ban real-person likeness? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candy AI (baseline) | Not public (/pricing 404s) | Shared token pool: chat, voice, image, video; top-ups | 24 hours; EU/UK 14-day withdrawal | No confirmed self-serve button; erasure by request | Yes — Guidelines §12, Blocked Content §1(g)–(h) |
| OurDream AI | $19.99/mo, or $9.99/mo billed $119.88/yr | Dreamcoins, price per action published; coins don’t expire | 14-day quality guarantee; nothing over 25% used | Self-serve, 24–48 hours, coins forfeited | Yes — Prohibited Content Policy §1 |
| CrushOn AI | $5.99/mo Standard (2,000 credits) | Message credits per tier; coins buy bonus messages 1:1 | No refunds of usage fees; no partial refunds | Self-serve, but not while a subscription is active | Yes — Guidelines, Realistic Images of Individual |
| SpicyChat AI | $5.95/mo, or $60/yr | None — flat tiers, no purchasable credits | “Only under exceptional circumstances” | Self-serve, permanent, no restore | Yes — Terms, Prohibited Content |
| Kindroid | $13.99/mo on web ($15.99 via app stores) | Optional selfie / audio / slot packs, priced publicly | Case-by-case; in-app purchases never refunded | Self-serve, last companion on a 24-hour delay | Yes — Terms and FAQ, on uploaded photos |
| Nastia AI | Not public (shown after signup) | Tokens exist; no public packages or prices | “All purchases are non-refundable” (Terms §6) | Self-serve, immediate; cancel subscription first | Yes — Terms §8, express written consent required |
| Nomi AI | Not public (pricing page 404s) | No credit mechanics documented | Not for buyer’s remorse or lack of usage | Account Settings; ~28 days to remove data | Not addressed by name in the public Terms |
| Kupid AI | Not public (behind login) | Coins; free and bonus coins expire after 6 months | “All sales of digital products are final” | Self-serve button, but 6-year data retention | No itemised content policy published |
| HeraHaven AI | Not public (no pricing route exists) | “Luna Package” one-off purchases, price not public | All charges final and non-refundable | By email request; 5-year retention after erasure | Not in the Terms; a takedown policy exists instead |
Branch 1 — leaving because the tokens add up
Candy AI’s problem here isn’t the price, it’s the opacity: a shared pool with no published burn rate. Two fixes — a service that prints the cost of every action, or one with no credits at all.
OurDream AI — publishes the coin maths
OurDream AI answers “where did my tokens go” directly. Its help centre prices every action: an in-chat image is 5 dreamcoins, a standard generation 10 coins for two images, a voice call 50 coins per minute, video 100 coins per 5 seconds up to a 60-second cap — 1,200 coins for a full clip. Subscriber messages cost nothing; without a subscription each costs 1 coin. Pricing is public: $19.99/month, or $9.99/month billed as one payment of $119.88 a year, with 1,000 dreamcoins on signup on monthly (2,000 on the annual plan) and 1,000 every month after. Coins don’t refresh monthly and, in their words, “Coins do not expire!” Verified 9 Sep 2026.
Two catches. Cancelling doesn’t only stop billing: “if you were to unsubscribe from the service all images and videos generated would be blurred”, and they stay blurred until you resubscribe — download first. And the refund rule in practice is narrower than the policy: support states they “cannot issue refunds for product that has used more than 25% of it’s amount” [sic]. Deletion is self-serve from the profile danger zone, done in 24–48 hours, unused coins forfeited. Crypto payments are final; PayPal isn’t accepted.
SpicyChat AI — no credits to run out of
SpicyChat AI takes the opposite route: no purchasable credit pool at all, just flat tiers with unlimited messages. After the 8 September 2026 price rise, Get a Taste is $5.95/month or $60/year, True Supporter $19.95/month or $199.95/year, and I’m All In $29.95/month or $299.95/year; existing subscribers are grandfathered, since an active subscription “will keep renewing at the price you pay today”. Verified 9 Sep 2026. The tier buys memory rather than volume — 4K tokens of context free and on Get a Taste, 8K on True Supporter, 16K on I’m All In, replies capped at 180 tokens below True Supporter and 300 above. No video generation.
Cancellation runs through your profile’s Manage Subscription link to the payment platform, access lasting to the end of the cycle; a “Pay By Bank” purchase doesn’t auto-renew at all. Refunds are the weak point — “available only under exceptional circumstances”, no stated window. Two facts other lists skip: age verification is required in the UK, France, Italy, Australia and 26 US states, with SpicyChat stating it never sees or stores the documents used; and its Terms grant broad, perpetual rights to use, copy, sell and distribute user chats and generations.
CrushOn AI — the cheapest published entry tier
CrushOn AI publishes a full ladder before signup: Standard $5.99/month with 2,000 message credits, Premium $14.99/month (marked down from $19.99) with 6,000, Luxe $39.99/month with 20,000, Elite $89.99/month with 55,000, Imperial $199.99/month with 125,000, with annual billing cutting the effective rate substantially. The free plan gives 100 credits a month. Verified 9 Sep 2026 — the Premium discount is flagged as temporary on their own page. Credits are one currency, not four: coins convert to bonus messages 1:1, spent only after the monthly allowance. Tier also buys memory (8K free up to 24K) and reply length (225 to 650 characters).
One free-tier detail to know before investing hours in a character: “Chat History will be deleted after 7 days of inactivity” on the free plan, while paid plans keep it for the membership period. Cancellation is Profile → My Subscription → Manage → Cancel, and the Terms confirm “service will remain active until the end of your current billing cycle.” Refunds are a flat no — “We will not issue refunds of usage fees”. Deletion sits in Settings but is blocked while a subscription is active, and the FAQ contradicts itself: one answer says a deleted account “cannot be recovered”, another offers recovery within 3 days.
Branch 2 — leaving because of limits and rules
Be clear which limit you mean, because only one is shoppable. Every service here bans the same hard categories — content involving minors, and sexual content depicting real identifiable people without consent. Only the mechanical limits vary.
- Memory: CrushOn AI 8K–24K by tier · SpicyChat AI 4K/8K/16K · Kindroid advertises 4x context plus cascaded memory on paid · Candy AI publishes no figure at all.
- Reply length: CrushOn AI 225–650 characters · SpicyChat AI 180 or 300 tokens · Kindroid 500–700 characters free, 1,000–1,400 paid, extendable to 4,000.
- Enforcement scope: only Kindroid names the categories that trigger action; SpicyChat publishes the longest prohibited-content list; Kupid AI and HeraHaven AI publish none.
Kindroid — tells you where the line is
Kindroid publishes a moderation document, updated 15 August 2026, naming the three categories it enforces against: imminent self-harm planning, concrete planning to harm others, and content involving minors — where it states “This is a zero-tolerance policy” and that a stated age of 18+ “does not override the surrounding depiction or context”. The same document says fictional adult content and dark storytelling are explicitly allowed. Pricing is public and cheaper direct: $13.99/month, $37.99 quarterly or $139.99/year on web, versus $15.99, $42.99 and $159.99 through the app stores. Extras are priced separately — 100 selfie credits $9.99 on web, 500,000 audio characters $11.99. Verified 9 Sep 2026.
The trial catches people: it requires a payment method and “auto converts into a subscription if not cancelled within the trial period”, though a reminder email goes out a day before. Web subscribers cancel in Settings → Billing; app-store subscribers must cancel through the store, and a subscription can’t move between platforms until it runs out. Refunds are discretionary — “we generally do not offer refunds and all sales are final” — plus the pointed note that they “reserve the right to permanently ban users who dispute charges”. The FAQ says data is encrypted “in our databases and when data is in transit”, though that isn’t end-to-end: an appeal lets a reviewer decrypt flagged content with your consent.
Branch 3 — leaving over privacy and data
This is where Candy AI is weakest and most alternatives are no better. The test is checkable: does the company document a delete flow you can run yourself, and say how long anything survives it?
- Self-serve with a tail: Kindroid keeps subscription and currency records “to prevent abuse” and puts the last companion on a 24-hour delay; Nomi AI removes personal information in about 28 days.
- Long retention after deletion: Kupid AI’s in-app button offers to “permanently delete this account and all of its data”, but its Privacy Policy (§12) stores personal information “for a period of 6 (six) years after you cease being a User”. HeraHaven AI keeps data 5 years after erasure and also states “your communication with the chatbot may become visible by our employees”.
Nastia AI — the cleanest documented exit
Nastia AI earns its place for one reason: it publishes the deletion procedure step by step instead of pointing you at a privacy inbox. Sidebar → profile menu → Account → Account tab → danger zone, type “delete my account”, enter your password. It “takes effect immediately”, and the warning is specific: “All your companions, images, videos, conversations, settings, and any other content will be permanently deleted.” Cancellation has an equally explicit path ending in Danger Zone → Cancel membership, and Terms §6 confirms it “will take effect at the end of the current paid term”. You must cancel before you can delete.
On content rules it is the most specific here: Terms §8 prohibits users from “Create, upload, or generate content that depicts a real identifiable person without their express written consent”. The trade-offs are real, though. Pricing isn’t published before signup — the membership page needs a login, so we have no verified figures, only a free tier the site’s FAQ describes as daily messages with no card required. And the refund position is the harshest here, four words in Terms §6: “All purchases are non-refundable.” Worse than Candy AI’s 24-hour window.
Three names on other lists, and what their terms don’t say
HeraHaven, Kupid and Nomi appear on nearly every “Candy AI alternatives” listicle, usually as free picks. They’re real products and we aren’t calling them unsafe. But our bar for a recommendation is that a service’s own rules contain an explicit prohibition on depicting real people without consent — and as of 9 September 2026, these three don’t. Their prices are also all behind a login, so we have no figures to give you.
- Nomi AI — free to start with no card, and the tidiest policy pages of the three, including one on California’s SB 243. Cancel at Profile → Subscription → Manage Subscription; delete from Account Settings, personal information gone in about 28 days. No refunds for “buyers remorse, lack of usage, or dissatisfaction”. Its Terms cover impersonation, harassment and illegal use and set a hard 18+ rule, but never name real-person likeness.
- Kupid AI — the only service here that publishes a billing descriptor, telling users at checkout that “this charge will show on your statement as ‘Kupid AI'”. Against that: coins credited free “expire six (6) months after the date they are credited” while purchased packs don’t; the trial charges $0.50 for card verification, which it says is “refunded immediately”, and converts to a paid subscription unless cancelled; “All sales of digital products are final and non-refundable”; PayPal and Patreon subscriptions must be cancelled on those platforms. No content policy page exists.
- HeraHaven AI — no pricing route on the site at all; the Terms (Article 5) say the price “will be made clear to you before purchase”, and credits are an undisclosed “Luna Package”. Cancellation is self-serve with 30 days’ notice promised before a price rise, but “All charges are final and non-refundable”, deletion is an email request, and the Privacy Policy discloses periodic human sample checks of conversations while stating nothing about encryption.
What we left out and why
Two categories are missing on purpose. The first is nudify and undress tools — services that take a photo of a real person and generate a nude image from it. The second is face-swap tools for putting a real person’s face into sexual content. US federal law has prohibited publishing non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated depictions, since the TAKE IT DOWN Act was signed on 19 May 2025, and every service recommended above bans it in their own rules. We won’t list a tool whose main use is the thing the law and its own competitors prohibit.
One named exclusion, because it turns up on other lists: Muah AI. Its character-creation flow invites users to upload a photo, its chat tools include an “X-Ray” image function and an uncensored toggle on video generation, and its published Terms of Service contained no clause restricting uploads to your own likeness or prohibiting use of a real person’s image on 9 September 2026. That describes what is and isn’t in its documents, not a claim about any user. Given the combination, we left it out. See also our best NSFW AI chat apps roundup.
FAQ
Is there a genuinely free Candy AI alternative?
There are free tiers, with caveats. Nomi AI says it is “free (no credit card required) to start chatting”, and Nastia AI describes daily free messages with no card, though neither publishes a number. CrushOn AI is the most specific: 100 message credits a month, 8K memory, chat history deleted after 7 days of inactivity. Kindroid gives unlimited messages on a smaller model, two companions and one image every two hours. OurDream AI is the outlier — unsubscribed, each message costs 1 dreamcoin and image and video generation is blocked entirely.
If I switch and don’t like it, can I get my money back?
Assume not. Nastia AI, Kupid AI and HeraHaven AI all state flatly that purchases are non-refundable, and CrushOn AI won’t refund usage fees or unused time. SpicyChat AI grants refunds “only under exceptional circumstances”; Kindroid handles them case by case while noting it can ban users who file chargebacks. OurDream AI is the most generous on paper, with a 14-day quality guarantee, but support says it cannot refund a product more than 25% used. Candy AI’s own 24-hour window plus the EU/UK withdrawal right beats most of this list. Buy the shortest term first.
How will the charge look on my bank statement?
Only one company here publishes the answer: Kupid AI tells users at checkout that the charge appears as “Kupid AI”. None of the others — Candy AI included — state a descriptor in their terms, help centre or FAQs, so we can’t tell you what to expect and won’t guess. If discretion matters, check it on a first small charge before committing to an annual plan. OurDream AI, Candy AI, Kupid AI and HeraHaven AI accept cryptocurrency; Kindroid accepts PayPal, Cash App and Amazon Pay, and OurDream AI does not take PayPal at all.
What happens to my chats and images if I cancel?
Cancelling and deleting are different actions everywhere here, and cancelling rarely removes anything — all of these keep access to the end of the paid period. After that, OurDream AI blurs every image and video you generated until you resubscribe, so download first. CrushOn AI drops you to the free plan, where chat history is deleted after 7 days of inactivity. Kupid AI’s free and bonus coins expire six months after they were credited either way. To make data gone rather than dormant, run the deletion flow separately.
All prices, limits and policy quotes were taken from each company’s own website on 9 September 2026 and cite the section they appear in. Adult services change pricing often — check the live page before you buy. No affiliate links on this page.