Monthly price: Chai vs HoneyChat
What Chai and HoneyChat offer
What is known
| Item | Chai | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Free mode | yes, with ads (“Contains ads”) | Google Play, 16 September 2026 |
| Subscriptions | sold in-app; Premium and Ultra are named in user reviews | Google Play reviews |
| Subscription prices | not verified — not published on the site or in listings | — |
| In-app purchases | $0.99 – $899.99 per item | Google Play |
| Mandatory subscription | “In some regions, use of the service requires a paid subscription” | chai-research.com/safety.html |
| Refunds | through the app store under its rules; the EULA refers to the store operator | EULA |
Checked on 16 September 2026.
What subscribers say
In Google Play reviews an Ultra subscriber writes that they paid “$20 for the week” because ads promised characters would never lose memory, and they still forget details. Another review: chats used to be free for watching ads, now “we have to pay”. These are reviews, not a price list, so the figures stay out of our table.
Against HoneyChat
| HoneyChat plan | Price per month | Messages | Images | Videos | What else |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 20 a day | 3 a day | — | SFW only |
| Basic | $4.99 | 60 a day | 10 a day | 2 a month | 10 voice notes, 3 characters, 8 memory facts |
| Premium | $9.99 | unlimited | 30 HD a day | 4 a month | 20 voice notes, 10 characters, story journal |
| VIP | $19.99 | unlimited | 80 HD a day | 8 a month | 4 AI models, 50 voice notes, 16K memory |
| Elite | $39.99 | unlimited | 150 Ultra HD | 16 a month | 13 models, voice cloning, unlimited characters |
| Ultimate | $99.99 | unlimited | 250 Ultra HD | 32 a month | Grok 4.20 and Claude Haiku 4.5, 64K context, 200 voice notes |
HoneyChat prices and limits were taken from honeychat.bot/en/pricing on 13 September 2026. Annual billing carried a 70 % discount on the day we checked — we quote monthly prices as the most conservative figure.
The case for Chai
A flexible checkout: pay nothing and accept ads, or buy items as you go inside the app.
The case for HoneyChat
A public price list: from $4.99 a month, a free tier without ads that never expires. Voice, photos and video are included in the plan rather than sold as items.
