Quick answer: Candy AI and CrushOn AI meter different things, which is why the price comparison confuses people. Candy AI charges a subscription and hands you 100 tokens a month that pay for images, voice and video across every cycle, with the annual rate at $3.99 a month. CrushOn AI gives you a free tier with 100 message credits a month and adult text chat included, then charges $4.90 a month for Standard or $7.90 for Premium, where credits pay for better writing rather than for pictures. Candy is built for visuals. CrushOn is built for text, with a published memory specification and group chat on paid tiers only.
Affiny at a glance (verified September 2026): Free to start: 300 coins, no credit card. Daily Gift: 10–70 coins/day, then 70/day. Referrals: 300 coins each. Founder offer: up to 70% off Companion (limited time; see affiny.ai/pricing). Free tier: Crush chat 1 coin/message, voice 30 coins/min, Spark or Flame scene images 15 coins, voice notes 1 coin, 3 custom companions, standard memory recall. Subscribe for unlimited Crush & Devotion chat, free voice notes, Tease & Desire video, God Mode, full personality & voice customization, sharper memory recall, and coin pack top-ups — Companion from $14.99/mo (was $24.99) or $9.99/mo billed annually; Intimate from $24.99/mo (was $49.99) or $19.99/mo annually. Subscribers: 1,000–3,000 coins/mo plus first-month bonus, voice 20 coins/min, scene images 10 coins, up to 10–30 custom companions. God Mode: subscriber scene directive up to 5,000 characters (Companion Panel). Video (subscribers): Tease 5/10 coins/sec (5 or 8 sec, silent); Desire 30/50 coins/sec (2–15 sec, optional audio). Portrait: 30 coins initial, first regen free, then 15. Memories hub: view free; add/edit/delete for subscribers. Catalog: 3400+ curated public companions, 84 browse tags. Creation: 49 templates, 44 personality presets, 97 turn-on presets (pick up to 4), realistic + anime with 16 species types.
The Two Business Models in One Paragraph
Candy AI sells a subscription and a small monthly media allowance. Every cycle carries 100 tokens, and those tokens pay for the visual layer: image generation, voice and video. That is why the plan ladder looks cheap at the top and why heavy users report spending far above the sticker price. The subscription buys access. The tokens buy the fun.
CrushOn AI sells conversation quality. Its free tier includes adult text chat with 100 message credits a month, unlimited access to free models and 8K memory, plus visible limits that keep free use shallow: a 225 character maximum reply length, 50 recent chats, and history deleted after seven days of inactivity. Paid tiers keep the credit system and improve everything around it, with 16K memory and per character history depth from Standard upward.
Read that pair again and the whole comparison falls out of it. One platform charges you for output you can see. The other charges you for depth you can feel in the tenth message.
The October 2026 Ladders, Restated
Candy AI now sells three cycles rather than five, and older guides have not caught up. As of October 2026:
| Candy AI cycle | Price | Effective |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $13.99, often $9.99 for the first month | Highest per month, shortest commitment |
| Quarterly | $26.97 per quarter | About $8.99 a month |
| Annual | $47.88 per year | About $3.99 a month |
| Weekly and biweekly | Retired | Treat older figures as stale |
Every cycle includes unlimited text messages and the same 100 tokens a month. That last point matters more than it looks: a reader on the annual plan and a reader on the monthly plan start each month with an identical media allowance, so the discount buys billing terms rather than capacity. A five month tracking study put real average spend near $37 a month once top ups were counted, because 100 tokens do not survive an enthusiastic week of images and video.
CrushOn AI’s ladder is unchanged and stays at what its own pricing page lists:
| CrushOn tier | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 credits a month, adult text chat, 8K memory, 225 character replies, 50 chats, history expires in 7 days |
| Standard | $4.90 a month or $58.88 a year | 2,000 credits, 16K memory models, group chat, 300 historical messages per character |
| Premium | $7.90 a month or $94.88 a year | 6,000 credits, 400 historical messages, 5,000 pinnable characters |
| Luxe | $25 a month | 20,000 credits |
The retired Deluxe tier no longer appears. Two numbers deserve attention. Candy’s token allowance does not change with the cycle, so a cheap annual plan and an expensive monthly plan start the month with the same media budget. CrushOn’s memory limits are published per tier, which lets you predict behaviour before you pay, while Candy’s are not.
Credit and Token Arithmetic on a Real Week
Abstract metering is easy to nod at and hard to use. Here is the same week modelled on both platforms.
The week: seven days of chatting, roughly 40 messages a day, with images generated for the scenes that matter and one or two video clips for the best of them.
On Candy AI. Chat is unlimited, so the message count costs nothing. Images are generated from the 100 token allowance, and community figures put an image near two tokens, which means the allowance covers roughly 25 images across the month. A week with four images a day exhausts it in six days. Video runs five to ten tokens a clip, so a single clip can eat a tenth of the month. Top ups become the normal state of affairs, which is exactly what the $37 average describes. The subscription is not the cost. The subscription is the entry fee to a metered system.
On CrushOn AI. Text is the meter. Free models are unlimited on every tier, so a light week costs nothing at all beyond the free plan’s own limits. Credits only leave the account when you choose Pro or Ultra output, and Standard’s 2,000 credits last a heavy writer a while. The practical ceiling is not credits, it is the reply cap on free and the history retention on free. Paid tiers fix both. A week of intensive roleplay on Standard is more likely to end at 300 written messages per character than at a drained meter.
What the arithmetic actually says. Candy’s model rewards looking and punishes enthusiasm. CrushOn’s model rewards patience and punishes impatience with free tier limits. If you cannot predict how many images you will want in a month, Candy’s real price is unknown at checkout. If you cannot predict how many messages a scene needs, CrushOn’s is.
Memory: What Each One Promises
Memory is where the two platforms diverge most, and where marketing and documentation separate.
CrushOn publishes the numbers, which is rare and useful. Free gets 8K memory, 200 historical messages per character, and a hard deletion after seven days of inactivity. Standard raises memory to 16K and history to 300 messages, Premium to 400 messages, and group chat carries its own configuration. You can plan around those numbers, and you know exactly what the free plan takes away: continuity itself.
Candy publishes no comparable specification. Community reports describe context degrading somewhere around 20 to 25 messages inside a session, which matches the experience described in most long form reviews: the companion starts strong and drifts as the conversation outruns the window. For short visual scenes this is invisible. For a story that spans a week, it is the whole product.
The test is easy to run on either platform, and worth running before you commit a year. Open a session, establish three specific facts early (a name, a place, a promise), then talk for forty minutes and ask about all three. Whatever the plan page claims, that test is the truth. Our comparison against Kindroid runs the same test on a platform whose whole pitch is memory depth, and the Janitor AI comparison covers the free text roleplay shape for readers who want continuity without a subscription.
Voice and Group Chat
Both platforms treat voice as a feature, not a foundation, and the difference matters if voice is why you are here.
CrushOn sells unlimited AI voice replies and up to five custom voice slots on paid tiers. That is generated speech attached to text: the companion writes, then a voice reads it. Useful for immersion, not the same as a call, because there is no interruption, no listening latency and no conversational turn taking.
Candy folds voice inside the token meter, which means every minute of speech competes with the images that are the platform’s actual product. On a 100 token month, voice is a budget decision rather than an ambient feature.
Group chat is CrushOn’s territory. It appears on paid tiers only, with its own memory configuration, and it is the feature that makes the platform interesting for scene builders who want two characters in a room. Candy’s design is built around a single companion and the imagery of that relationship, so multi character scenes are not the shape of the product.
If live two way conversation is the requirement rather than a bonus, neither platform is the answer, because both are text engines with audio attached. That is a category distinction rather than a criticism.
The Cancellation and Store Traps
Two operational details decide whether the monthly numbers hold up.
Where you bought it matters. Candy sells through its own checkout, where cards, crypto and Pay by Bank all appear, and store billing has been inconsistent on iOS after its App Store removals. CrushOn sells through its own checkout as well, with a free plan that never asks for a card. Whichever platform you pick, buy through the same channel you will later use to cancel, because subscriptions do not travel between stores on any of these platforms.
Third party channels are the same trap wearing a friendlier face. There is no official Candy AI Telegram bot, and any channel or bot selling access under that name is running its own arrangement. The Candy AI Telegram check documents what is real, and the short version is that a purchase made outside the platform’s own checkout is a purchase the platform will not recognise when something goes wrong.
Billing cycles versus allowance resets. Candy’s token allowance refreshes monthly regardless of which cycle you choose, so an annual plan gives you the same 100 tokens each month rather than a year’s worth up front. CrushOn’s credits follow the membership period, and the free plan’s chat history expires after seven days of inactivity, which is the clearest signal that free is a testing ground rather than a home. Read the cycle terms before you commit a year.
One more detail belongs here because it is the most common complaint on both platforms: a first month discount is not the renewal price. Candy’s $9.99 first month and its 70% off banners describe a promotional entry, and the plan renews at the listed rate. Budget the renewal figure, not the checkout figure, and the surprise disappears.
The Free Routes
Neither platform is useless without a card, but the two free tiers fail in different places.
Candy’s free route is a limited trial rather than a free plan. The product is built to show you a companion and then meter the visuals, so the free experience is a preview of the paid one. That is a legitimate model, and it is honest about what it is: a demonstration, not a home.
CrushOn’s free route is genuinely usable for text. Adult chat is included, free models are unlimited, and 100 credits a month covers light usage. The catch is structural rather than stingy: 225 character replies read as clipped dialogue, 50 recent chats caps the library you can keep live, and history disappearing after seven days ends any long running story. Free CrushOn is a good week and a bad month.
If your goal is to find out whether either product suits you, test the specific thing you would pay for. Generate five images on Candy in one session and see whether the allowance and the quality justify the top ups. Run a forty minute scene on CrushOn free and see whether the reply cap breaks the flow. Both tests cost nothing and both are more informative than a comparison table, including this one.
A Real Month, Priced
Adding it up, as a reader would actually experience it.
Candy AI, ordinary month: $13.99 monthly, or $3.99 effective on the annual plan, plus top ups. Community tracking puts the real average near $37 a month once a normal appetite for images and video is included, which means the top up line is the plan, not the exception. A reader who generates almost nothing pays the subscription and nothing more.
CrushOn AI, ordinary month: $4.90 on Standard for 2,000 credits, a published 16K memory window and group chat, or $7.90 on Premium for 6,000 credits and deeper history. A reader who stays on free models can pay $0 and keep adult text chat, at the cost of clipped replies and a seven day history clock.
The two numbers describe different purchases. Candy’s $37 buys a visual experience with a metered ceiling. CrushOn’s $4.90 buys a writing experience with a published floor. Neither is overpriced relative to what it sells. They are simply not selling the same thing, which is why a straight price comparison misleads in both directions.
Who Should Pick Which
Pick Candy AI if the visual layer is the point, you want image and video generation inside the chat, and you are willing to top up tokens or pay annually for a low monthly rate. Price the renewal rather than the first month, because the promotional cycles move the total more than the plan choice does.
Pick CrushOn AI if you mainly write, you want a free tier that actually works, and published memory limits matter more to you than a picture every few messages.
Pick neither if you want one companion with a memory hub you can edit, live voice tied to that memory, and one predictable meter. That is the design Affiny ships, with 3,400+ companions, 44 personality presets and 16 anime species types to build from. Start with 300 free coins and no card and compare it against whichever platform you were about to subscribe to.
FAQ
Is Candy AI or CrushOn AI cheaper?
CrushOn is cheaper at the entry point and Candy AI is cheaper for light media use. CrushOn Standard costs $4.90 a month or $58.88 a year and Premium $7.90 a month or $94.88 a year, on top of a free tier with 100 message credits a month. Candy AI’s October 2026 lineup runs $13.99 a month, often $9.99 for the first month, about $8.99 a month billed quarterly at $26.97 a quarter, or about $3.99 a month billed annually at $47.88, with 100 tokens a month on every cycle. If you mostly talk, CrushOn wins. If you mostly look, Candy’s annual rate is hard to beat.
Does CrushOn AI have a free tier?
Yes, and it is unusual in this category because the free plan carries adult text chat rather than locking it. CrushOn’s pricing page lists 100 message credits per month on free, unlimited access to free models, 8K memory, 20 inspiration replies a day, and a set of hard limits: 225 characters maximum message length, 50 recent chats, and chat history deleted after seven days of inactivity. Pro models consume credits on any tier, and Ultra models are unavailable on free.
How does Candy AI’s token system compare to CrushOn’s credits?
They meter different things. Candy AI’s 100 monthly tokens apply per plan tier and pay for media, with tokens running out as you generate images, voice and video, and community reports putting real spend near $37 a month for heavy users. CrushOn’s credits pay for text quality: free models are unlimited and Pro or Ultra models consume credits, so your meter drains with conversational quality rather than with pictures. Decide which resource you actually use before comparing the headline prices.
Which one remembers a conversation better?
CrushOn publishes its memory specification, which makes it easier to judge: 8K memory on free, access to 16K memory models from Standard, 200 historical messages per character on free rising to 400 on Premium, and chat history deleted after seven days of inactivity on the free plan. Candy AI does not publish an equivalent figure, and community reports describe context fading somewhere around 20 to 25 messages. Neither matches a platform with a dedicated memory hub you can edit.
Does either platform do real time voice?
Neither runs real time two way voice the way a voice first companion platform does. CrushOn sells unlimited AI voice replies and up to five custom voice slots on paid tiers, which is generated speech rather than a live call. Candy AI includes voice inside its token meter, so voice competes with images and video for the same monthly allowance. If a live conversation matters most, that is a different product category rather than a different plan.
Can I cancel either subscription easily?
Both sell through their own web checkout, so cancellation normally happens in the same account area where the plan was bought. Candy also accepts crypto and Pay by Bank, and store billing has been inconsistent on iOS after its App Store removals, which is why the purchase channel decides the cancel path. CrushOn’s free plan never asks for a card. In both cases, cancel through the channel you paid through, because a subscription bought inside a mobile store cannot be cancelled on the website.
Which is better for long roleplay?
CrushOn, on the strength of published memory and per-character history depth. Its paid tiers raise memory to 16K and history to 400 messages per character, and the credit system charges for better writing rather than for pictures. Candy wins a different contest: media rich scenes where images and short video clips carry the story. If your sessions run long and text heavy, CrushOn’s design fits. If your scenes are built to be seen, Candy’s does.
The Short Version
Candy AI meters media: 100 tokens on every cycle, images near two tokens, video five to ten, top ups expected, real spend near $37 a month. CrushOn meters writing quality: adult text free, 2,000 credits on a $4.90 Standard tier, memory published per tier and history that expires on free. Buy Candy for the picture and CrushOn for the paragraph. Run the three-fact memory test on either before you commit, price the renewal rather than the first month, and check which store holds your subscription before you assume you can cancel it.
If you want one meter, an editable memory hub and live voice rather than generated speech, that is a third design rather than a better plan, and it is the one Affiny builds.