HeyReal vs FantasyGF

My take

Both give you a free tier, so you can try the chat on each before paying; expect message caps and few or no images until you upgrade.

My take

Start with the row this site ranks on. When someone types "ai girlfriend" into Google in the US, FantasyGF is there at #80; HeyReal does not appear in the tracked positions at all. That is why FantasyGF sits higher here even if it is the smaller site: it is the one the category sends newcomers to. On size, HeyReal is the busier site: 11,977 search visits a month worldwide, more than 15 times what FantasyGF gets (877). These are estimates of visits from Google only, so a site with apps or ads can be bigger than this shows. Brand searches are the loyalty line: 1,300 people a month type FantasyGF's name, against 70 for HeyReal. A name people type on purpose is a site they come back to; a site with lots of visits and few brand searches is living on rankings it could lose. Tranco tells a slightly different story: it counts every visit, not only search, and there FantasyGF comes out ahead (#726,988 against #3,541,418). When search and all-traffic disagree, the site that wins on Tranco has an audience that does not come through Google. FantasyGF's Domain Rating of 51 against 31 means far more sites link to it, which is what keeps rankings stable; the weaker link profile is the one more likely to move, up or down, when Google reshuffles. In plain terms: HeyReal is bigger, FantasyGF is the one the category search points to.

My take

Users rate them about the same: 1 of 10 features positive for HeyReal and 1 of 10 features positive for FantasyGF. My own month did not always match the crowd: I disagreed with users on 3 points for HeyReal and 5 points for FantasyGF, and each disagreement is spelled out on the brand page.