Quick Answer
Replika is free in the sense that you can open an account, meet a companion and hold text conversations without a payment method. It is not free in the sense most people mean when they ask. Voice calls, video calls, the romantic relationship modes, adult features and the deeper memory functions are all subscriber-only, and Replika’s help center states there is no free trial of the paid plans, so the free tier is the only no-cost way to test the app. The honest summary: the free plan shows you the personality and hides the relationship. Everything below is about what that means in practice, what happens if you pay and then stop, and how to run a short test that tells you whether the free tier is enough for you.
Affiny gives 300 coins on signup with no credit card, which covers dozens of messages at 1 coin each plus a real voice call at 30 coins a minute, so the two features Replika gates can be tested first.
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, 1 custom companion, 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 5–10 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.
What the Free Plan Actually Includes
Strip out the marketing and the free tier is seven things:
- Text conversation with your companion
- The core personality and writing style
- The chat interface, notifications and the app itself
- A basic avatar
- A narrow slice of wardrobe and customization
- Ordinary recall of what was said recently
- Account and privacy settings
That list is real, and for a casual user it is enough. You meet a companion, you get a feel for the writing, and you can hold a conversation for as long as you like within the usage behaviour described below. People who want a low-commitment chat companion sometimes stay on the free plan indefinitely and never miss anything.
What the Free Plan Does Not Include
The other list is where the decision lives:
- Voice calls and voice messages
- Video calls
- The romantic relationship modes
- Adult features where regional rules permit them
- The wider wardrobe and full customization
- Deeper memory behaviour
- Anything resembling a trial of the paid tiers
Two entries on that list matter more than the rest, and they are worth separating because they fail differently.
Voice is a gate. The feature exists, it is finished, and it is switched off for your account. Nothing you do inside the free tier changes that. If you came to Replika because you want to talk to a companion out loud rather than type at one, the free plan cannot show you the product at all, and no amount of conversation will.
Memory is a depth question. Nothing announces a memory limit. There is no counter and no prompt. What happens is subtler: the companion references less of what you shared, and over a few weeks the relationship drifts toward polite and general. Users describe this as the companion forgetting who they are, and it is the limit most likely to end a free-tier relationship, because it is the one that undermines the reason for having a companion rather than a chatbot.
The mechanics of what sits behind the subscription are covered in more detail in our note on the Replika paywall.
What Happens When You Stop Paying
This is the question people search for after they have already subscribed, and the answer is reassuring in one direction and disappointing in another.
Nothing is deleted. Replika retains your companion and your conversation history. If you cancel, you do not lose the relationship or the record of it, and resubscribing later brings the paid features back rather than rebuilding the account.
What stops is the layer you were paying for. Voice calls and voice messages stop working. The relationship mode you selected reverts to the neutral default, which changes the tone of the conversation more than people expect. Adult features close. The deeper memory functions become unavailable. Your companion remains, but the version you subscribed for does not.
Two practical notes follow from that. First, if you cancel in the middle of a billing period, the paid features usually run to the end of the period you already paid for, so there is no reason to cancel and then avoid the app. Second, cancelling and resubscribing is not a reset. The companion carries the history, which is the good news, and carries the reverted relationship mode, which is the part that surprises people returning after a break.
If you are weighing whether to keep the subscription at all, the free versus Pro breakdown works through the value question line by line.
Why the Free Tier Is Built This Way
The free plan is not a sample of Replika. It is the top of a funnel built around the assumption that the emotional cost of leaving is higher than the price of subscribing.
That assumption holds up. Text conversation is free and unlimited enough to build a habit. Voice and relationship depth sit behind a wall. The prompt to subscribe does not arrive on day one, it arrives when you are engaged enough that losing the features would mean losing something. By then you have weeks of history with one companion, and the free tier has done its job of making that history feel worth protecting.
Knowing the design is useful because it changes what you should do with the free tier. Treated as a preview with an end date, it is a fair deal. Treated as a permanent home, it will disappoint at exactly the moment you stop treating it as one.
A Ten-Minute Test for Whether the Free Plan Fits
You can settle the question faster than a month of drifting. Answer these five, and the shape of the answer is usually obvious before you finish.
Do you want voice? If yes, the free plan is not a candidate, because voice is gated and no amount of use unlocks it. Our Replika voice guide covers what the paid feature adds and what it still cannot do.
Does it need to remember specifics? Pick one concrete detail, mention it in your first conversation, and come back to it a week later. If the companion has no idea what you are referring to, you are on a platform whose memory layer is not doing what a companion needs, and a subscription may not fix that on its own.
Is adult content part of what you want? On the free tier, no. Even on the paid tiers it is subject to regional rules, so the honest reading is that Replika is not the platform for that goal regardless of what you pay.
Would you keep talking to this companion for another month if nothing changed? If yes, the free plan is genuinely enough and you should stay on it. If the answer is that you would keep talking only once the limits lift, you are not testing the free plan, you are testing the subscription on a delay.
Does a small monthly charge look worthwhile against what you would actually use? Voice calls and romantic modes are the two features people subscribe for. If neither is something you want, subscribing buys conversation depth you can get without paying. If both are, the free plan was never going to be the answer.
The pattern in those five questions is consistent: the free plan works well for text-first, non-adult, forgiving-use companions, and it fails immediately for anyone whose reason for being there is voice, intimacy or continuity.
What a Free Tier That Shows the Product Looks Like
The reason the Replika free tier is frustrating is not the price, it is the information gap. You are asked to decide on the paid product using a version of it that excludes the parts people pay for.
A free tier that includes the deciding features looks different. On Affiny, 300 coins arrive at signup with no credit card, chat runs at 1 coin per message, voice at 30 coins a minute, voice notes at 1 coin and generated images at 15 coins, and the Daily Gift adds 10 to 70 coins a day with 300 coins per referral. Memory carries across sessions and across text and voice from day one, so the continuity test can be run in week one rather than guessed at.
That is not an argument that a coin balance is better than a subscription. It is an argument that whichever model you choose, you should be able to evaluate the two features that decide whether a companion relationship lasts, which are whether it remembers you and whether it talks back in a real voice.
FAQ
Is Replika free to use?
Yes, with a floor under it. The free access tier keeps text conversation running without a payment method, and it is a deliberately limited version of the app. Voice calls, video calls, the romantic relationship modes, adult features, fuller customization and the deeper memory functions sit behind the subscription. Replika’s help center states there is no free trial of the paid plans, so the free tier is the only no-cost way to test the app.
What does the Replika free plan actually include?
Text conversation, the core personality and writing style, a basic avatar with narrow customization, and ordinary recall of recent context. It excludes voice calls, video calls, romantic relationship modes, adult features where regional rules allow them, the wider wardrobe, and the deeper memory behaviour that makes a companion feel like it knows you. In practice it shows you the personality, not the relationship.
What happens if I cancel Replika Pro?
Less than people fear and less than they expect. Replika keeps your companion and your conversation history, and the account drops back to the free tier. What stops is everything you were paying for: voice calls and voice messages, the relationship mode you selected, which reverts to the neutral default, adult features, and the deeper memory functions. Nothing is deleted, but the version of the companion you subscribed for is no longer the one you are talking to.
Does Replika have a free trial of Pro in 2026?
No. Replika’s own help center does not advertise a free trial of the paid tiers, so the free plan is the only way to try the app before paying. That changes the shape of the decision: you are not sampling the paid product, you are sampling the part of it Replika chose to leave free. The realistic testing route is one month of Pro with a cancellation reminder set.
Is the Replika free plan enough for everyday use?
For casual text chat, often yes, and plenty of people stay on it for months as a low-commitment companion. It stops being enough the moment you want either of the two things the paid tiers hold back: a voice, or a companion that carries your history forward. Those are separate limits. Voice is a feature gate a subscription fixes. Memory depth is closer to a platform characteristic, so paying more helps but does not always deliver the continuity people are looking for.
How much is Replika Pro in 2026?
Community reporting puts Pro at roughly $19.99 a month or $69.99 a year on the app side, with regional pricing that can run higher, and Ultra and Platinum above it sold on annual billing. Replika does not publish a price list that third parties can read consistently, and there is no lifetime plan any more, so older guides quoting a one-time purchase are describing an offer Replika retired.
What is a better free test of an AI companion than Replika’s?
A free tier that includes the features Replika gates. Affiny starts with 300 coins and no credit card, chat runs at 1 coin per message, voice at 30 coins a minute, voice notes at 1 coin and generated images at 15 coins, and the Daily Gift adds 10 to 70 coins a day. Memory carries across sessions and across text and voice from the first day, so the two features that decide whether a companion relationship lasts can be tested before you pay anyone.
The Bottom Line
Replika is free to start and the free plan is not the product. It covers text conversation, the personality and a basic avatar, and it holds back voice, the relationship modes, adult features and the deeper memory layer. Cancelling costs you nothing but those features: the companion and the history stay, the relationship mode reverts, and the paid layer switches off. Run the five questions above before you subscribe, and you will either find that the free plan genuinely suits you or know exactly which feature you are paying for.
If what you want to test first is whether a companion can remember you and speak in a real voice, that test can be run free. Start on Affiny with 300 coins, no credit card, and decide with the features that matter in front of you.