AI girlfriend site profile · Updated October 7, 2026
Rubii AI
An AI girlfriend site: what it offers, what people say, and the numbers.
I bought a Rubii AI membership and tested it myself. Then I built a data-tracked profile of rubii.ai, refreshed monthly. Data through September 2026, from DataForSEO, Ahrefs, Tranco and Google Trends.
Rubii AI in numbers
Search visits a month, worldwide, the last twelve months.
21.7Kvisits, Sep 26
- #33
- among the sites I track
- 2.4K
- US name searches, Aug 26
- #109K
- Tranco, all domains
- Free
- free tier, paid plans on top
I bought a Rubii AI membership and tested it myself, feature by feature. I’m an AI girlfriend enthusiast and a data researcher, and both shape every page on this site: my own test tells me what the product does, but I don’t grade Rubii AI on my feel alone.
I weigh what its users publish, and I track it the way an analyst tracks a market, with a fixed set of indicators that show how big a platform is, whether it is growing or fading, and how it compares with every other AI girlfriend site I follow.
This page answers three questions in order: what you get, what people are saying, and what the numbers show. Part 1 comes from my own paid test and Rubii AI’s feature list and pricing, Part 2 from the videos, Reddit threads and press I read in full, and Parts 3 and 4 from traffic and search data. That is also how I rank the best AI girlfriend sites: tested first-hand, then judged by what users say and by the numbers.
Part 1 · What it offers
What Rubii AI offers
Rubii AI (rubii.ai) is an adult AI girlfriend platform: you create or pick a companion and talk to it, with voice, AI-generated images, video on top of text chat. I bought a membership and tested it myself; this is what it offers, and Part 2 is what users say about each part of it.
- Features
- Anime character chat and roleplay, Create and publish characters, Tiered memory window with pinned facts, In-chat image generation (Summon), Photo animation and short video, Voice synthesis and voice calls, Creator rewards in Rubies, iOS and Android apps
- Free tier
- Free accounts can browse public characters, chat on the free models with a daily quota, and make a few watermarked images; the Plus, Pro and Ultra models and more images cost Rubies.
- Plans
- $7.99/mo
- Extras
- Plus: $7.99/mo with 800 Rubies and a 200-a-day free quota on Plus models (shown as a discount from $10.99). Pro: $14.99/mo with 3,000 Rubies, 15 images a day (from $19.99). Premium: $29.99/mo with 6,600 Rubies, a 300-a-day Ultra quota and 50 images a day (from $39.99). Ruby top-ups from $5.99 for 800 to $49.99 for 12,000. Rubies pay per message on the better models and for images, animation and voice; no annual price is listed.
- Operator
- Perchy, LLC (site footer and terms of service); the iOS app is sold under the name YoMio Tech Limited, Not disclosed on the site or in the press I read; the terms are governed by Singapore law with SIAC arbitration, and the audience is centred on Thailand, since 2024 (domain registered April 2024; measurable traffic from December 2024; iOS app version history from May 2025); domain registered April 2024
- Best for
- Anime roleplay fans who want Character AI-style chat with pictures and voice built in, a generous free tier, and a creator community, especially in Thailand and South-East Asia
- Not for
- Anyone wanting a photoreal AI girlfriend with cross-session memory out of the box, or who dislikes per-message metering by model
Features and prices from the platform’s own pages; operator from press coverage (Rubii terms of service and privacy policy, Rubii pricing page (rubii.ai/topup), Rubii refund policy, Apple App Store listing, Domain registration record, ToolCenter and ZEGOCLOUD directory reviews). Official site and social accounts are listed at the end of the page.
Part 2 · What people say
What people say about Rubii AI
I bought a membership and tested Rubii AI myself, but I don’t take my own word for it. Many users have a more grounded view of a platform this popular than one reviewer can, and I would rather not give it too much or too little credit from my own intent, so I treat what users publish and ask as the main signal for how the brand, and each of its features, is regarded. On October 7, 2026 I found 2 YouTube videos with 99 views between them, 0 Reddit threads that Google surfaces, and 0 news articles in the last year. I did not stop at the titles: I read 2 video transcripts (78 words), and classified each one as positive, mixed, neutral or negative.
Favourability at a glance
Each item was classified after I read it, not from its title. A walkthrough or a passing mention counts as neutral.
| Source | Read | Pos.Positive | Mixed | Neut.Neutral | Neg.Negative | Fav.Favourable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube videostranscripts read in full | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| All sources | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% |
In one line: YouTube videos 0% positive, 1 negative of 2.
Each feature, and what people think of it
What users say about each part of it, drawn from the videos, threads and articles below, and whether my own paid test agrees.
| Feature | Verdict | What people say |
|---|---|---|
| Chat and roleplay | Positive | Google's AI Overview frames it as chat with anime-style characters that 'grow relationships over time', and the two directory reviews I found call the onboarding fast, the replies 'emotion-aware' and the free tier good enough for multi-day roleplay. The one complaint is persona drift in long arcs (1 directory review). No video or Reddit source tests it (0 videos, 0 threads).My test: Agree. The free models held character and tone through an evening of roleplay; the better Rubii+ models were noticeably sharper and cost Rubies per message. |
| Memory | Mixed | The AI Overview promises an 'extended memory system'; the site's docs and ZEGOCLOUD describe it as a window of 30, 100 or 200 message rounds depending on the model tier, plus pinned facts the character keeps as permanent references. ToolCenter says memory is reliable short-to-mid conversation and degrades over longer arcs.My test: Partly disagree with the AI Overview. Within the window it recalled details well, but across sessions what survived was what I pinned; 'remembers past interactions' is true only if you do the pinning or pay for the bigger window. |
| Image generation | Positive | 'Summon' generates character art inside the chat, which ToolCenter calls the real differentiator against Character AI. The pricing page sets daily quotas: watermarked images on Plus, 15 a day on Pro, 50 a day on Premium, with a small free allowance. Nobody has published a quality comparison (0 videos, 0 threads).My test: Agree. Anime art from the chat scene was consistent with the character card and quick; the watermark on the lower tier is the main nudge to upgrade. |
| Video and animation | Neutral | The AI Overview and the site list photo animation, AI video and background music as 'multimedia tools', and the site ranks for 'make an ai video' and 'ai video gen' at positions 103 and 106. No source has tested the video output (0 videos, 0 threads, 0 articles).My test: Agree that it exists. The short animations I made were a few seconds of motion on a still, pleasant as a character flourish and not something I would pay Rubies for on their own. |
| Voice | Mixed | Voice synthesis with emotional tone, voice cloning and voice calls are all claimed by the AI Overview and the site's docs; ZEGOCLOUD praises 'natural voice TTS' with multilingual support. No independent source has tried a call (0 videos, 0 threads).My test: Partly disagree with the 'responds to expressions' claim. The text-to-speech was good, especially for non-English characters; the call mode was a turn-based read-aloud rather than a conversation. |
| Characters and community | Positive | Public characters, shared 'moments' and story worlds, with creators earning 12% in Rubies plus Rubii+ time when others chat with their characters, according to the site. The 268,343-member Discord is the largest in this group of profiles and is where codes and updates are posted. ToolCenter's caveat: a smaller library than Character AI.My test: Agree. The library skews anime and romance and is thinner than Character AI's, but the creator payout keeps new characters arriving daily in the categories this audience wants. |
| Free tier | Positive | The site says you can browse, enter the web app and start 'without an upfront purchase'; ToolCenter calls the free tier 'generous in practice' with multi-day roleplay before any paywall, and ZEGOCLOUD mentions a starting grant of 50 Rubies. Free models and a daily quota carry the chat; images and the Rubii+ models need Rubies.My test: Agree. I chatted for days on the free models without hitting a wall, which is rare in this category; the limit I felt was model quality, not message count. |
| Price and Rubies | Mixed | Plus $7.99 (800 Rubies and a 200-a-day free quota on Plus models), Pro $14.99 (3,000 Rubies), Premium $29.99 (6,600 Rubies and a 300-a-day Ultra quota), all shown as discounts from $10.99, $19.99 and $39.99; top-ups from $5.99 for 800 Rubies to $49.99 for 12,000 on the App Store. Messages are metered per model, so the cost of a session depends on which model you pick. ToolCenter's complaint that there is 'no public pricing page' is out of date.My test: Disagree with ToolCenter: the /topup page lists all three tiers. Agree that per-model metering is confusing at first; once I understood the daily quotas, Plus was the sensible tier for a chat-first user. |
| Privacy and billing | Mixed | The terms grant Perchy, LLC a perpetual, worldwide licence to your content and generated assets 'to operate, provide, maintain, promote, and improve the Services'; the privacy policy says chats are not shared with advertising partners but does not rule out training. Refunds: requests within 14 days, decided case by case, with dissatisfaction with AI output excluded; app-store purchases follow Apple's and Google's rules.My test: Agree. Billing through the App Store was tidy; the licence clause is broad, and public 'moments' are visible to everyone, so I kept anything personal in private chats. |
| Safety and legitimacy | Mixed | A real company with terms, privacy and refund pages and apps on both stores, but two names appear: the site and terms say Perchy, LLC under Singapore law, the iOS listing's seller is YoMio Tech Limited. Age is 16+ in the terms, 13+ on the App Store and 18+ for NSFW areas. The risk outside the site is the 'code' install-bait, which is already on YouTube.My test: Agree on both counts. Nothing went wrong with my account or card; the age gate was a birthdate field and the NSFW toggle sat behind it, which is lighter than I would like for an app rated 13+. |
How I read this
The most-watched videos, and what they actually say
For each video I read the transcript, wrote down what it says, and added my own read on it. Most viewed first.
Rubii ai 👍Tommy Ch. · 5mo ago · 0:21 · 55 viewsNeutral, no verdict · what the video says
A 21-second clip titled 'Rubii ai' with a thumbs-up, 55 views, from a Thai channel. The transcript is a single line of Thai song lyrics and the word 'oh'; there is no narration about the app, no feature shown that I can read, and no opinion. What it does tell me is where the audience is: Google Trends puts Thailand at 100 and Laos at 87 on the regional index for 'rubii ai', with the United States nowhere in the top ten.
My read: Not a review, but a useful data point about who uses Rubii. I agree with what the clip implies and the Trends map confirms: this is a Thai and South-East Asian product first, which is why an English-language YouTube search finds almost nothing. The upload exists because someone liked the app enough to post 21 seconds of it, and that is the whole signal.
Rubii AI code - guide to get unlimited resources on iOS AndroidLiam Roach · 1mo ago · 1:38 · 44 viewsNegative · what the video says
A 98-second 'guide to get unlimited resources on iOS Android', 44 views, a month old, from a channel that uploads the same script for every app with a brand search. The instructions are to 'visit this page', search for the app, 'download any two apps from the list', 'play each app you've downloaded for about 15 seconds' and then relaunch Rubii to 'get the resources you need'. No footage of Rubii, no code, and no explanation of how installing two unrelated apps would add Rubies to an account.
My read: An install-bait funnel aimed at the 'rubii ai code' search, which is up 180% in Trends. I disagree with the premise that there is anything to unlock this way: Rubies are bought through the site or the app stores, and the only real codes are the redemption codes Rubii posts on its own Discord. The two-app 'task' is how the uploader gets paid per install; the viewer gets nothing.
What the videos add up to
Reading across the 2 transcripts, this is the picture that emerges.
Of the 2 most-watched videos whose transcripts I read, 1 is a neutral walkthrough with no verdict and 1 is negative.
YouTube has nothing to say about Rubii in English. The two videos with transcripts are a 21-second Thai clip with a song lyric for a transcript and a 'free resources' install-bait funnel from a channel that makes the same video for every app. Between them they have 99 views. There is no walkthrough, no test of the chat or the images, and no price quoted.
Both are still evidence. The Thai clip matches the Google Trends map, where Thailand and Laos lead the regional index and the US does not appear, and it matches the traffic split in the numbers, where the US is 3% of search visits. The 'code' video exists because 'rubii ai code' is the fastest-rising related search, which tells me the audience is young, budget-conscious and looking for free Rubies.
So the user signal for this profile is my own test plus the app-store ratings and the directory reviews Google cites. The iOS app sits at 4.0 from 87 ratings, which is modest praise from a small, engaged base; the 268,000-member Discord is where the actual conversation happens, and that is a community I could observe but not count the way I count Reddit.
What gets praised
- Someone liked the app enough to post a 21-second clip of it (1 of the 2 videos)
- Nothing else: no feature, chat, memory or image praise exists on YouTube (0 videos)
- No complaint about the product either, for want of anyone reviewing it (0 videos)
What gets criticised
- A 'free resources' install-bait funnel targets the brand search (1 video)
- No hands-on test of chat quality, memory or image generation anywhere on YouTube (0 videos)
- No price or free-tier information in either video (0 videos)
In the press
The latest articles that mention Rubii AI, newest first. For each one: what it says, then my take on its view of the brand.
How Google’s AI describes it
The AI Overview Google showed for a US search of "rubii.ai" on October 7, 2026, quoted as is.
Rubii AI is an interactive platform for creating, customizing, and chatting with anime-style virtual characters. Key Features Character Creation: Design original characters with custom personalities, backstories, visual styles, and voices. Immersive Chat: Converse with chatbots that use an extended memory system to remember past interactions and grow relationships over time. Multimedia Tools: Generate character images, animate photos, or produce AI videos and background music. Voice and Video: Use advanced voice synthesis, voice calls, and video features that respond to expressions. Platform Access Web and Mobile: Accessible via web browsers or the iOS app store as Rubii: AI Characters…
Google cited: X, F6S, Apple, WebCatalog, Rubii | Docs Site
How AI systems regard it: my take
Why this matters: a growing share of people never click a result. They read Google's summary, or ask an assistant, and decide from that. The overview above is the brand as Google's AI currently understands it, and it is the version most newcomers meet first.
The framing is Character AI with pictures: 'creating, customizing, and chatting with anime-style virtual characters', then an extended memory system, image, animation and video tools, voice calls, and the iOS app. Its sources are the brand's X account, the App Store listing, two directories and Rubii's own GitBook docs, so this is the feature list read back in Google's voice. It is accurate about what the app contains and says nothing about who it is for, which the Trends map answers: Thailand, Laos and China.
One claim I partly disagree with: 'an extended memory system to remember past interactions and grow relationships over time' reads like a companion app's cross-session memory. In my test the memory is a window of 30, 100 or 200 message rounds set by the model tier, plus facts you pin yourself; across sessions it kept what I pinned and let the rest go. That is a sound design for a roleplay app, but 'grow relationships over time' promises more than the free tier delivers.
What people type into Google before they sign up
Google's own suggestions after "rubii ai" and the related searches Google Trends ranks highest over the last 12 months, retrieved October 7, 2026.
These are the questions people have before they sign up, in their own words. I group them by what they tell me, because the mix says more than any single search: a brand searched mostly with “free” has a different audience from one searched with “review”.
| Theme | Searches | What it tells me |
|---|---|---|
| Other | "rubii ai code", "rubii ai discord", "rubii ai discord server" | Related searches that do not fit a theme. |
| Apps and where to get it | "rubii ai app", "rubii ai app download", "rubii ai play store" | People expect a mobile app. Where none exists, these searches end at clones and look-alike domains. |
| Price and free access | "rubii ai redemption code free", "rubii ai apk", "rubii ai download apk" | People want a way in without paying. Whether the free tier is usable decides whether they sign up. |
| Features people want | "rubii ai character chat" | Which parts of the product people search for by name: what they have heard about, or what they could not find inside. |
Rising alongside it, last 12 months
- “rubii ai code”+180%
- “discord”+70%
Google Trends “rising” related queries; “Breakout” means growth over 5,000%.
My take
Everyone typing the name wants the app, then a free code. 'rubii ai app', 'app download', 'apk', 'download apk' and 'play store' are five of the ten autocomplete suggestions, 'redemption code free' is a sixth, and 'discord' and 'discord server' are two more. Only 'character chat' and 'guide' describe the product. That is a mobile-first, Discord-native audience looking for a way in and a way to avoid paying, which is also why the one English video with any views is an install-bait 'code' clip.
The Trends data says the same and adds a map. 'rubii ai code' is the fastest-rising related query at +180%, 'discord' is +70%, and the top related searches are 'ai chat', 'character ai' and a local rival, 'khui ai'. The regional index puts Thailand at 100, Laos at 87 and China at 30, with no Western country in the top ten. The US brand search has fallen from 4,400 a month last autumn to 2,400 now while the worldwide figure is 33,100, so the name is growing where the English-language web is not looking.
The rival people compare it with is Character AI, not an AI girlfriend site. The keyword peer group is Joyland, SeaArt, Privee, Dippy, Perchance, CrushOn, Harpy and PixelChat, and the site ranks for 'privee ai' and 'risuai' as well as 'ai roleplay platform' and 'chat with ai characters'. Rubii is shopping in the character-roleplay aisle, and its 'ai girlfriend' position (not in the top 20) is what I would expect from that.
YouTube videos and their transcripts, news and search suggestions via SerpApi; Google Trends via SerpApi; Reddit threads read directly from reddit.com in a browser. Retrieved October 7, 2026. Transcripts, threads and articles read and classified on October 8, 2026.
Part 3 · Traffic rank and reach
How much traffic Rubii AI gets, and where it ranks
How I track this: search-traffic estimates miss direct visits, apps and social, so for all-traffic reach I use Tranco, a daily ranking of every domain on the internet built from DNS and browser data (Cloudflare Radar, Cisco Umbrella, Majestic, Farsight and Chrome), and I check it against Google’s own Chrome UX Report each month. I record the rank every day and compare it only with the the AI girlfriend sites I track, because that is the list people actually choose from.
On the Tranco list of October 6, 2026, rubii.ai ranked #109,008 among every domain worldwide, up 1,330 places since August 31, 2026, and Chrome's data puts it in the top 500,000 most visited sites. Among the AI girlfriend sites I track, that makes it #33, behind MiniApps.ai and Sakura.
How I read this
- #33
- among the AI girlfriend sites I track, on the combined data
- #109,008
- all domains worldwide, Tranco October 6, 2026
- Top 500,000
- Chrome UX Report tier, September 2026
Tranco rank, day by day. Higher on the chart is better; hover or tap a point for the exact rank.
AI girlfriend sites, ranked
The top 10 of the sites I track: AIGirlfriends.ai first as the editor's pick after testing, then ordered by Google US position for "ai girlfriend" (DataForSEO, September 2026), then by Tranco all-traffic rank for sites that do not rank for it; this platform highlighted.
- 1AIGirlfriends.ai#1#633,137
- 2RomanticAI#2#411,319
- 3Kupid.ai#7#254,630
- 4Nomi.ai#9#131,225
- 5Candy AI#11#12,246
- 6Couple.me#15#985,985
- 7Luvr.ai#39#2,762,931
- 8DreamGF#53#287,472
- 9LoveCoreAI#55#2,343,466
- 10Fantasy.ai#62#588,409
- 31MiniApps.ai–#103,285
- 32Sakura–#104,417
- 33Rubii.ai–#109,008
- 34Joyland–#113,646
- 35Nastia–#127,013
Tranco blends Cloudflare Radar, Cisco Umbrella, Majestic, Farsight and Chrome data into one daily ranking of the top million domains. Chrome UX tiers via the Chrome UX Report (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved October 7, 2026.
See where every AI girlfriend site stands
Every platform I track, ranked by the same indicators, updated monthly.
Part 4 · The numbers
The numbers, all in one place
Every indicator I track for Rubii AI: the latest value, how it changed, and the period it covers. Retrieved October 7, 2026. Sources are under the table, and the story the numbers tell comes right after it.
How I read this
| Metric | Latest | Change | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search traffic | |||
| Organic visits, worldwideSeptember 2026 | 21,726 | ▲ +5.1% vs Aug 26 | September 2026 |
| Same month a year earlierSeptember 2025 | 1,915 | ▲ +1034.5% since then | September 2025 |
| Organic visits, United StatesSeptember 2026 | 644 | 3% of worldwide | September 2026 |
| Last 12 months, totalOct 25 to Sep 26 | 122,667 | — | Oct 25 to Sep 26 |
| Peak in 24 monthsSeptember 2026 | 21,726 | now at 100% of peak | September 2026 |
| Low pointFebruary 2025 | 73 | ▼ 68% below the Jan 25 peak | February 2025 |
| Brand demand | |||
| "rubii ai" searches, USAugust 2026 | 2,400 / mo | ▼ -45.5% vs Sep 25 | August 2026 |
| "rubii ai" searches, worldwideAugust 2026 | 33,100 / mo | — | August 2026 |
| Google Trends interest, worldwideweek of October 4, 2026 | 66 / 100 | 66% of the 12-month peak | week of October 4, 2026 |
| Popularity, all traffic | |||
| Rank among the AI girlfriend sites I trackSeptember 2026 | #33 | no tracked position for "ai girlfriend"; placed by Tranco | September 2026 |
| Tranco rank, all domains worldwideOctober 6, 2026 | #109,008 | ▲ up 1,330 since August 31, 2026 | October 6, 2026 |
| Chrome UX Report tierSeptember 2026 | Top 500,000 | — | September 2026 |
| Authority and links | |||
| Domain Rating by AhrefsOctober 7, 2026 | 37 / 100 | — | October 7, 2026 |
| DataForSEO domain rankSeptember 2026 | 39 / 100 | — | September 2026 |
| Referring domainsSeptember 2026 | 870 | ▲ +256.6% vs Sep 25 | September 2026 |
| BacklinksSeptember 2026 | 4,558 | ▼ -99.2% vs Sep 25 | September 2026 |
| Keywords ranking in GoogleSeptember 2026 | 859 worldwide | 210 in the US | September 2026 |
| Community and coverage | |||
| Official DiscordOctober 7, 2026 | 268,343 members | 4,497 online | October 7, 2026 |
| TikTokOctober 7, 2026 | 0 followers | 0 likes · 0 videos | October 7, 2026 |
| Facebook pageOctober 7, 2026 | 4 followers | — | October 7, 2026 |
| YouTube videos about itOctober 7, 2026 | 2 | 99 combined views | October 7, 2026 |
| News articles, last 12 monthsOctober 7, 2026 | 0 | — | October 7, 2026 |
| Sources read and classifiedOctober 8, 2026 | 2 | 0 positive · 0 mixed · 1 negative | October 8, 2026 |
Sources. Traffic, keywords, links, category positions and WHOIS: DataForSEO. Search volume and cost per click: Google Ads data via DataForSEO. Domain Rating: Ahrefs. Popularity ranks: Tranco and Google’s Chrome UX Report. Trends, videos, news and search suggestions: Google and YouTube via SerpApi. Reddit: read directly. Discord, TikTok and Facebook: each platform's public page. Starting price: the platform’s own pricing page. ▲ and ▼ mark a change of more than 3%.
Reading the data
What the numbers tell me about Rubii AI
First the facts, each one derived from the table above and nothing else. Then the story I read in them.
The facts
| Finding | Detail |
|---|---|
| Traffic up 5% on the month | Estimated organic search traffic in September 2026 was 21,726 visits worldwide, +5.1% versus August 2026 and +1034.5% versus September 2025. |
| A 68% collapse, then a recovery to 9571% of peak | Traffic fell from 227 visits in January 2025 to 73 in February 2025, then climbed back to 9571% of that earlier peak by September 2026. |
| 3% of visits come from the United States | The United States accounts for 644 visits, followed by Indonesia and Canada. |
| 2.4K people a month search the brand name in the US | Google Ads data puts US searches for "rubii ai" at about 2,400 a month in August 2026 (-45.5% since September 2025), and worldwide searches at about 33,100. |
| 97% of top-keyword traffic is branded | 97% of the traffic from the top 10 US keywords comes from people typing the brand name, which indicates demand driven mostly by name recognition rather than generic search rankings. |
| 870 referring domains, Domain Rating 37 | 870 websites link to rubii.ai, +256.6% over the last 12 months; its Domain Rating by Ahrefs is 37 and its DataForSEO domain rank is 39 (64 a year ago). |
| #33 among the AI girlfriend sites I track | Rubii AI sits #33 among the sites I track on the combined data; it holds no tracked position for "ai girlfriend", so its reach across the internet carries more of the weight. Among all domains on the internet it ranks 109,008th in the Tranco list of October 6, 2026, up 1,330 places since August 31, 2026; Google's Chrome UX Report places it in the top 500,000 most visited sites worldwide. |
| Two videos, 99 views between them, and neither one reviews the app | Of the 2 most-watched videos whose transcripts I read, 1 is a neutral walkthrough with no verdict and 1 is negative. YouTube offers nothing on Rubii except a 21-second Thai clip and an install-bait 'code' video, so the video record confirms where the audience lives and what it searches for, not what the app is like. |
My take: the story in the numbers
What moved, and why I think it moved: the numbers read together, with the reviews in hand.
Rubii grew from nothing to its peak in 21 months, and the line never bent down. Search traffic was 166 visits in December 2024, 1,043 in June 2025, 5,817 in December 2025 and 21,726 in September 2026, up 1,035% year on year. The steps were June 2026 (9,569 to 13,716) and August 2026 (14,725 to 20,668), and referring domains climbed from 11 to 870 across the same months without a single reversal. That is the shape of a product spreading by word of mouth and directory listings, not a campaign.
But almost none of that growth is American. US search visits were 644 in September, 3% of the worldwide total, and fell 61% from August's 1,645. US brand searches have dropped from 4,400 a month in late 2025 to 2,400 since May, while the worldwide brand figure is 33,100, so the US is about 7% of demand for the name. Google Trends puts Thailand at 100 and Laos at 87 on its regional index with no Western country in the top ten, and the one Thai YouTube clip agrees. The English-language web is measuring a product whose audience lives somewhere else.
The keyword list shows a site reaching past its name. It ranks for 859 keywords worldwide and 210 in the US, but outside 'rubii ai' (#1, 3,600 a month) the US positions are deep: 'ai roleplay platform' at #86, 'chat with ai characters' at #102, 'ai video gen' at #106, with rival names 'privee ai' (#33) and 'risuai' (#50) in the mix. The keyword peer group (Joyland, SeaArt, Privee, Dippy, Perchance, CrushOn) is the Character AI alternatives aisle, and the site is not in the top 20 for 'ai girlfriend', which is correct for what it is.
The backlink history is a clean-up, not a collapse. Raw backlinks peaked at 1.44 million in February 2025 and are 4,558 now, a 99.7% drop, while referring domains rose every month from 11 to 870. That combination means one sitewide placement with a million-plus pages was removed over 2025 and early 2026 while hundreds of individual sites started linking once each. The profile is broader and more honest than it was, and Domain Rating 37 reflects the latter.
Reach is far ahead of search. Tranco improved from 110,338 to 109,008 between late August and early October, and the site sits #33 of the AI girlfriend sites I track, well above what 21,726 search visits would earn on their own. The gap is the apps and the Discord: 268,343 members, 4,497 online when I checked, the largest server in this set of profiles, and iOS and Android apps that bring people in without Google. Trends at 66 against a late-May peak of 100, with 'rubii ai code' rising 180%, says attention is steady and the audience is hunting for free Rubies.
Verdict. Growing on every indicator except US brand demand: traffic at its peak, referring domains up 257% in a year, Tranco improving, Discord enormous. The watch item is whether the US decline is a leading indicator or a rounding error for a Thai-centred brand. With no reviews and no Reddit threads to read, what users think shows up only as app-store ratings (4.0 from 87) and the creator community's output, and both are consistent with a small, loyal base rather than a mass audience.
Written on October 8, 2026 from the figures above and the sources in Part 2.
Part 5 · Over time
How the numbers moved
One chart per indicator. Hover or tap any point for the exact value and the change against the month before and the same month a year earlier.
Search traffic, worldwide
Visits from Google results each month, 24 months.
The shape is the story: a 68% fall between January 2025 and February 2025, then a climb back to 9571% of the old peak by September 2026. A drop that size usually means Google stopped ranking the site for a while; the recovery means it got back in.
- 21.7K
- latest, Sep 26
- 21.7K
- peak, Sep 26
- 123K
- last 12 months
Estimated organic search traffic. Source: DataForSEO
Search traffic, United States
The US is 3% of worldwide visits.
The US line is going the other way from the worldwide one (-0.5% year on year against +1034.5% worldwide), which tells me the overall trend is being driven by other countries.
- 644
- latest, Sep 26
Estimated organic search traffic. Source: DataForSEO
Searches for “rubii ai”, United States
Brand searches are the best demand signal I have: nobody types a brand name unless they already know it. Google Ads rounds volumes into bands, so flat stretches are normal.
- 2.4K
- latest, Aug 26
- -45.5%
- vs Sep 25
Monthly search volume, Google Ads keyword data. Source: DataForSEO
Searches for “rubii ai”, worldwide
The US is about 7% of worldwide brand searches, and worldwide demand is -33.1% year on year. Traffic is up faster than brand demand, which usually means the site is winning generic searches rather than relying on its name.
- 33.1K
- latest, Aug 26
Monthly search volume, Google Ads keyword data. Source: DataForSEO
Google Trends, last 12 months
Relative interest in "rubii ai" worldwide on a 0 to 100 scale, where 100 is the busiest week. A trend, not a count. Thailand is where interest runs highest.
- 66 / 100
- now
- May 24
- peak week
Google Trends via SerpApi. Source: DataForSEO
Google Trends, last 5 years
Interest only became measurable in January 2025, so this is a young brand by search standards.
Google Trends via SerpApi, monthly average of weekly values. Source: DataForSEO
Around the brand on Google Trends
Where interest is strongest, and which related searches are growing fastest.
Most interested countries
- Thailand100
- Laos87
- China30
- Hong Kong5
- Taiwan5
- Malaysia3
- Singapore1
- Vietnam1
Fastest-rising searches
- rubii ai code+180%
- discord+70%
Top related searches
- ai chat100
- rubii ai code80
- discord61
- character ai58
- khui ai39
- rubi ai26
Google Trends via SerpApi, retrieved October 7, 2026. “Breakout” means growth over 5,000%.
Where its visitors come from
Estimated organic visits by country. United States leads with 6% of the total.
The top three countries make up only 10% of visits, so the audience is spread out, which makes the total more resilient to a dip in any single market.
| Country | Visits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,405 | 6.5% |
| Indonesia | 389 | 1.8% |
| Canada | 300 | 1.4% |
| Turkey | 250 | 1.2% |
| United Kingdom | 187 | 0.9% |
| Germany | 168 | 0.8% |
| Brazil | 146 | 0.7% |
| South Korea | 135 | 0.6% |
| Philippines | 72 | 0.3% |
| France | 70 | 0.3% |
| Japan | 70 | 0.3% |
| Mexico | 65 | 0.3% |
22 countries checked; together they account for 16% of estimated worldwide visits.
Organic traffic by country. Source: DataForSEO
The searches that bring people in
US Google, ranked by estimated visits. 97% of this traffic is people typing the brand name, so the audience mostly already knows it.
| Keyword | Pos. | Searches | Visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| rubii aibrand | #1 | 3.6K | 536 |
| rubii ai appbrand | #1 | 90 | 17 |
| rubii ai chatbrand | #1 | 20 | 10 |
| ai roleplay platform | #86 | 33.1K | 4 |
| chat with ai characters | #102 | 5.4K | 4 |
| privee ai | #33 | 1.6K | 3 |
| make an ai video | #103 | 1.6K | 2 |
| risuai | #50 | 880 | 1 |
| ruby ai | #18 | 480 | 1 |
| ai video gen | #106 | 14.8K | 1 |
Ranked keywords, United States. Source: DataForSEO
Websites linking to it
Unique referring domains pointing to rubii.ai. More linking sites usually means more staying power in Google.
Links are still being earned (+256.6% in 12 months), which is what I want to see behind a traffic recovery: it suggests the growth is backed by the wider web, not just one ranking.
- 870
- referring domains
- 37 / 100
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs
- 39 / 100
- DataForSEO domain rank
Referring domains and domain rank. Source: DataForSEO
Total backlinks
- 4.6K
- latest, Sep 26
Backlinks. Source: DataForSEO
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In short
What I learned, and what I expect next
Pulling it together, from my own paid test, from what users say, and from my indicators: Rubii AI is growing right now. Here is the whole picture in a few lines, then the scorecard behind it.
How it is performing
Rubii AI drew an estimated 21,726 visits from Google search in September 2026, +5.1% on August 2026 and +1034.5% on a year earlier. The year-on-year figure flatters it because it is measured against the February 2025 low; against the January 2025 peak it is at 9571%. Over the last quarter the trend is growing (+92.4% against the three months before). Counting all traffic, it is #33 among the AI girlfriend sites I track, behind MiniApps.ai and Sakura.
Reading the trend with the reviews in hand, except there are none: the traffic line is up 1,035% and still rising, and the only published user signal is a 4.0 App Store rating, a 268,000-member Discord and two directory reviews that praise the free tier and in-chat art and worry about long-arc memory and pricing clarity. My test matched that: a generous free tier and good anime art, with memory that depends on the model window and what you pin. The thing to watch is geography. US brand searches are down 45% from last autumn while worldwide searches and traffic climb, so the growth is South-East Asian; if the US line keeps sliding, Rubii stays a regional success that the English-language rankings will undercount.
What changed
Brand demand is the standout: about 2,400 US searches a month (-45.5% year on year) and 33,100 worldwide. Traffic is up faster than brand demand, which usually means the site is winning generic searches rather than relying on its name. In popularity terms it has climbed 1,330 places since August 31, 2026. Links are still being earned (+256.6% in 12 months). On the reputation side: of the 2 most-watched videos whose transcripts I read, 1 is a neutral walkthrough with no verdict and 1 is negative. YouTube offers nothing on Rubii except a 21-second Thai clip and an install-bait 'code' video, so the video record confirms where the audience lives and what it searches for, not what the app is like.
What I expect
With demand, traffic and links moving the same way, I expect Rubii AI to keep gaining ground over the next few months. The thing that would change my mind is a month-on-month drop that repeats, which is why I refresh these figures monthly. 8 of its 8 closest search rivals currently get more US search traffic than it does, which is the gap to watch.
Scorecard
Each indicator, its latest reading, and which way it is pointing.
- ▲
- Search traffic, latest monthvs August 2026
- +5.1%
- ▲
- Search traffic, last quarterlast 3 months vs the 3 before
- +92.4%
- ▲
- Search traffic, year on yearvs September 2025
- +1034.5%
- ▼
- Brand demand (US searches)vs September 2025
- -45.5%
- ▼
- Google Trends interest66% of the 12-month peak
- 66 / 100
- ▲
- Popularity rank, 30 days#109,008 worldwide
- up 1,330 places
- ▲
- Referring domains, 12 months870 sites link to it
- +256.6%
- ●
- Public attention99 combined video views
- 0 articles · 2 videos
- ●
- YouTube reviews, by transcript2 transcripts read, 1 neutral
- 0 positive · 0 mixed · 1 negative
▲ improving · ▼ worsening · ● steady or not directional. Thresholds: a change of more than 3% counts as a move.
What I will check next month
- Whether September 2026’s traffic figure held, rose or fell once the next month is in.
- Whether US brand searches move out of the 2.4K band they have sat in.
- Whether the Tranco rank keeps the direction it showed over the last 30 days.
Official links
Official site and social accounts
The accounts linked from Rubii AI’s own footer, with the public follower counts I could read on October 7, 2026.
- Website
- rubii.ai →
- Discord
- discord.com/invite/rubiiai · 268,343 members, 4,497 online
- X (Twitter)
- @RubiiAI
- TikTok
- @rubii.app · 0 followers, 0 likes, 0 videos
- facebook.com/rubiiai · 4 followers
Part 7 · Method
How I measured all this
I bought a Rubii AI membership and tested it myself, and I come at the write-up as a data researcher. Everything on this page is measured, because the whole point of this site is to rank AI girlfriend platforms by real usage and interest rather than by anyone’s taste, and every brand page uses the same indicators in the same order so they can be compared. I pulled every figure on October 7, 2026.
- Traffic, keywords, backlinks, competitors, WHOIS
- From DataForSEO, refreshed monthly. “Organic traffic” is an estimate of visits from Google results, modelled from the keywords a site ranks for. It leaves out direct visits, app traffic, paid ads and social referrals, so the real audience is bigger; that is why I also show an all-traffic popularity rank.
- Brand search volume
- Google Ads keyword data via DataForSEO. Google rounds these into bands, which is why months often repeat the same figure.
- Domain Rating
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs, a 100-point measure of backlink strength, published under Ahrefs’ Domain Rating license. The DataForSEO domain rank is a separate 100-point backlink score.
- Popularity rank
- The Tranco list, an academic ranking of the top million domains built from DNS and browser data; a rank, not a visit count. The Chrome UX Report tier is Google's own popularity bucket from real Chrome users.
- Trends, videos, forums, press, search suggestions
- Google Trends is relative interest on a 0 to 100 scale, not a count. News, YouTube, Reddit and autocomplete data come through SerpApi from public Google and YouTube results; video views are summed across the videos I found. For the most-watched videos I also pull the caption transcript through SerpApi, read it in full, and write a short account of what the video says plus my own conclusion; videos without captions are listed by title only. For Reddit I read each thread Google surfaces directly from reddit.com in a browser, record its upvotes, comment count and top comments as they stood that day, screenshot the post as it is publicly visible, and classify it after reading; threads with no analysis yet are listed by title. Press articles are read in full and classified the same way; pages that block automated readers are marked as unread. The category search check is a live Google result for the category's own term (United States, desktop) via DataForSEO. Discord counts come from the server's public invite page.
- Hands-on testing
- I purchased a Rubii AI membership and used the product myself: chat, memory, images and the paid extras. My own test tells me what each feature does; the verdict on each feature comes from what users publish, because for a brand this size their view is more grounded than one reviewer's.
- Rounding and independence
- Figures are rounded for display; charts show the exact values. Top AI Girlfriends is not affiliated with DataForSEO, Ahrefs, SerpApi, Google, or Rubii AI.
Part 8 · Final verdict
One last word on Rubii AI
Rubii is a Character AI alternative with pictures and voice built in, and a good one, but it is not an AI girlfriend app in the way this site usually means. The chat is anime roleplay first, the characters are community-made, creators earn Rubies when their characters get used, and the free tier let me roleplay for days without a paywall, which almost no rival allows. The numbers back the enthusiasm: search traffic up 1,035% year on year to its peak, referring domains up from 11 to 870, a Discord of 268,000 and apps on both stores.
The trade-off is the meter and the memory. Messages on the better models cost Rubies, so the price of a session depends on which model you chose, and the memory is a window of 30 to 200 rounds set by the tier plus whatever you pin; across sessions it kept my pinned facts and let the rest go. Nobody has reviewed it in English, so the only public criticism is two directory reviews flagging persona drift in long arcs and pricing that was unclear before the /topup page went up.
Who should pick it: anime roleplay fans who want Character AI-style chat with in-chat art and voice, a real free tier and a creator community, and anyone in Thailand or South-East Asia where this is already the local favourite. Who should not: someone who wants a photoreal companion with memory that just works across sessions, anyone who dislikes per-model metering, and anyone hoping for a 'free code' from YouTube, because those videos are install-bait.
Where it stands today: #33 of the AI girlfriend sites I track, growing on my scorecard with traffic at its peak, a Domain Rating of 37 on a cleaned-up link profile, and a US brand search that is shrinking while the world's grows. It stays a recommended pick for roleplay rather than companionship; it would move up if English-language reviews and Reddit threads appeared and agreed with my test, and down if the US decline turned into a worldwide one or the free tier tightened.
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