Nectar.ai
#40 on the ranking
Nectar is the best character builder in its price band, run by a real company, and after a month with it I would still pay the annual plan.
Read my full Nectar.ai analysis →AI girlfriend sites side by side · Both tested first-hand · Data through September 2026
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I bought a membership on both and tested each for a month. What they offer, their measured numbers and what their users say, next to each other, with my verdict on each at the end.
The scoreboard
CrushOn AI leads on 3 of the 4 figures that decide most choices.
In short
| What they offer | ||
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | ▲Yes | No |
| Entry paid plan | Free | $5.99/mo |
| Adult content | Allowed on paid plans | Allowed on paid plans |
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| Best for | Users wanting a warm companion personality alongside full adult content and payment privacy via crypto | Users wanting anime-style NSFW chat and image generation at a budget-friendly price with crypto payment |
| Not for | Users needing voice calls, a mobile app, or top-tier image quality | Those seeking realistic character styles, voice interaction, a mobile app, or a free preview before signing up |
| Operator | Lick Labs Ltd (London) and Nectar AI (Dover, Delaware), per the site's terms; founded by Keccak and Zi, who met at Stanford | Peekaboo Tech Inc. |
| Pricing notes | A free tier now exists, alongside Premium ($9.99/mo), Pro ($19.99/mo), and Ultimate ($34.99/mo) tiers, replacing the flat $10.99/month this review originally tested. Video generation is gated to the Ultimate tier. Browser-based. Accepts cryptocurrency. | Monthly: $5.99, $49.90 depending on tier. Yearly: $58.88, $358.80. Cryptocurrency accepted. |
My take
If you want to try before you pay, Nectar.ai lets you: CrushOn AI asks for a card first. A free tier is a sampler, not a plan, but it tells you whether the chat suits you before money moves. CrushOn AI simply does more: anime-style character customization, nsfw chat and nsfw image generation are on its list and not on Nectar.ai's. More features is only better if you will use them.
| The numbers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank on this siteOn the combined data gathered for every site | #40 | ▲#14 |
| Google US rank, “ai girlfriend”DataForSEO ranked keywords, September 2026 | – | – |
| Tranco rank, all domainsAll-traffic rank among the top million domains | #313,017 | ▲#5,840 |
| Chrome UX tierGoogle Chrome UX Report | Top 500,000 | ▲Top 5,000 |
| Search visits a month, worldwideDataForSEO estimate | 29,223 | ▲1,645,538 |
| Search visits a month, US | 709 | ▲319,350 |
| Brand searches a month, USGoogle Ads data via DataForSEO | 18,100 | ▲450,000 |
| Domain RatingDomain Rating by Ahrefs, out of 100 | 55 | ▲85 |
| Referring domains | 1,582 | ▲14,733 |
| Backlinks | 13,593 | ▲4,802,187 |
| Domain registered | December 2017 | May 2023 |
| Public record I read | 5 videos, 2 Reddit threads, 1 articles | 7 videos, 9 Reddit threads, 7 articles |
The better value in each row is marked in green. Search visits and brand searches are DataForSEO estimates; Tranco and Chrome UX tiers are ranks, not visit counts.
My take
None of these ranks in the tracked positions for "ai girlfriend", so their places on this site come from all-traffic rank, and their visitors arrive by name, by ads or from app stores rather than from the category search. On size, CrushOn AI is the busier site: 1,645,538 search visits a month worldwide, more than 55 times what Nectar.ai gets (29,223). 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: 450,000 people a month type CrushOn AI's name, against 18,100 for Nectar.ai. 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. CrushOn AI's Domain Rating of 85 against 55 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. Nectar.ai is the older domain (2017 against 2023), which counts for something in a category where sites close without notice.
| Feature by feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chat and roleplay | Users positiveMy test: Agree | Users mixedMy test: Partly disagree |
| Memory | Users mixedMy test: Agree | Users mixedMy test: Agree |
| Image generation | Users positiveMy test: Disagree | – |
| Voice and video | Users mixedMy test: Agree | – |
| Characters and customisation | Users positiveMy test: Agree | – |
| Free tier | Users negativeMy test: Agree | – |
| Price and credits | Users mixedMy test: Partly disagree | – |
| Privacy and billing | Users mixedMy test: Partly disagree | Users negativeMy test: Agree |
| Marketing and trust | Users negativeMy test: Agree | – |
| Safety and legitimacy | Users positiveMy test: Agree | – |
| Model choice | – | Users mixedMy test: Agree |
| Images and voice | – | Users negativeMy test: Disagree |
| Characters and the creator community | – | Users positiveMy test: Agree |
| Group chat and World Cards | – | Users positiveMy test: Agree |
| Free tier and coins | – | Users mixedMy test: Partly disagree |
| Price and message caps | – | Users mixedMy test: Agree |
| Safety, support and legitimacy | – | Users mixedMy test: Agree |
“Users” is the balance of the YouTube reviews, Reddit threads and articles read for each brand page; “my test” is whether my own month on the site agreed with them.
My take
Users are happier with Nectar.ai: 4 of its 10 features come out positive, against CrushOn AI's 2 of 10, with 2 features where the complaints win. Where they split, Nectar.ai gets the better word on chat and roleplay. My own month did not always match the crowd: I disagreed with users on 3 points for Nectar.ai and 3 points for CrushOn AI, and each disagreement is spelled out on the brand page.
My verdict on each
Nectar.ai
#40 on the ranking
Nectar is the best character builder in its price band, run by a real company, and after a month with it I would still pay the annual plan.
Read my full Nectar.ai analysis →CrushOn AI
#14 on the ranking
CrushOn AI is the biggest site I track, and it got there by being a roleplay platform, not a girlfriend app.
Read my full CrushOn AI analysis →More comparisons
Written by Hunter Gray, Founder, Owner & Writer. Every figure is from the two brand pages and refreshes monthly. Nectar.ai and CrushOn AI are two of the sites in my best AI girlfriend ranking, where the whole category is ordered on the same data.