Nomi AI pricing
Nomi AI pricing: Nomi AI cost, subscription plans and the price almost nobody quotes
Nomi is free to download and charges through in-app subscriptions. On the US App Store on September 5, 2026 the Standard Plan is listed at $15.99, $39.99 for three months and $99.99 a year, and a separate Launch Plan sits on the same listing at $9.99 and $59.99 a year, which works out to $5.00 a month and is the cheapest verifiable way into the app. Nomi Credits are sold on top in five packs from $4.99 to $99.99. nomi.ai publishes no pricing page, so that App Store listing is the only public source of any Nomi price.
Last updated September 2026
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Most articles about Nomi pricing quote one ladder: $15.99 a month, $39.99 a quarter, $99.99 a year, one paid tier, done. That ladder is real and we found the same figures. It is also not the whole listing.
Read Nomi's own US App Store page and there are two ladders, not one. Alongside the Standard Plan there is a Launch Plan, priced at $9.99 and $59.99 a year, and Apple prints it with no retired or legacy marker of the kind Tolan uses on its old tiers. At $59.99 a year that is $5.00 a month, roughly a third of the $15.99 figure that gets repeated everywhere, and it is the single most useful number on this page.
One honest caveat before you get excited, because it matters. Nomi publishes nothing about its plans on its own website. nomi.ai/pricing returns a 404, there is no plan comparison page, and the company has never posted a price list. So while the Launch Plan is definitely listed and definitely not labelled retired, nothing public tells you whether a brand new account can still choose it, or whether it is a grandfathered early-adopter rate that Apple simply keeps on the listing so existing subscribers can be billed. Open the purchase sheet inside the app and you will see in about ten seconds. Everything below was read directly from Apple's and Google's listings and from Nomi's own privacy policy on September 5, 2026, with the source named each time.
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| Darlings | Nomi | |
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| Price published on the company website | Yes, three plans listed openly at darlings.ai/pricing | No. nomi.ai/pricing returns a 404 and there is no plan page anywhere on the site |
| Billing period visible before you pay | Yes, monthly or yearly, stated on the plan | No. Apple lists in-app purchase prices without billing periods |
| Entry price | $9 a month, or $7.50 a month billed yearly | Launch Plan listed at $9.99; Standard Plan listed at $15.99 |
| Cheapest verifiable annual | $90 a year, which is $7.50 a month | Launch Plan Yearly at $59.99, which is $5.00 a month |
| Headline annual | Companion $90, Plus $190, Circle $390 | Standard Plan Yearly at $99.99, which is $8.33 a month |
| Consumables on top of the subscription | None. Nothing to top up | Nomi Credits in five packs from $4.99 to $99.99 |
| Free way in | Free demo in the browser, no card and no account | Free tier with limited messaging, but you create an account first |
| Can you buy it today | Not yet. Darlings is onboarding from a waitlist, and these are the launch prices | Yes, on iPhone, Android and the web |
| Platforms your money covers | Any browser: Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, Chromebook | iPhone, Android and a browser version |
| Memory included at the entry price | Yes, persistent memory on every plan | Yes. Long-term memory is the reason most people pay for Nomi |
| Romance or NSFW upsells | None at any price, by design | Permissive. The US App Store listing carries a Sexual Content or Nudity descriptor |
| Store rating | Not in an app store, it is a web app | 4.6 from 2,762 US App Store ratings, but 3.8 from 5,464 on Google Play |
| Age rating | Wholesome by design, minimum age 13 | 18+ on the US App Store, Teen on Google Play, and its own privacy policy says no one under 18 should use it |
| Listed seller | Darlings, operated directly at darlings.ai | AI GLIMPSE INC |
Nomi figures read directly from the Nomi: AI Companion with a Soul listing on the US App Store and from the ai.nomi.twa listing on Google Play on September 5, 2026, and from nomi.ai/privacy-policy, last updated April 27, 2026. Apple prints in-app purchase names and prices but not billing periods, so every Nomi figure on this page is a listed price rather than a confirmed monthly rate.
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Every Nomi in-app purchase visible on the US App Store, read September 5, 2026
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| In-app purchase | Listed price | What it works out to |
|---|---|---|
| Launch Plan Yearly | $59.99 | $5.00 a month, the cheapest verifiable way into Nomi and the figure almost no roundup mentions |
| Launch Plan Monthly | $9.99 | The lower of the two monthly ladders, listed with no retired marker |
| Standard Plan | $15.99 | The headline monthly price every review quotes |
| Standard Plan Quarterly | $39.99 | $13.33 a month, a saving of about 17 percent on the monthly rate |
| Standard Plan Yearly | $99.99 | $8.33 a month, a saving of about 48 percent on the monthly rate |
| 40 Nomi Credits | $4.99 | About 12.5 cents a credit, the worst rate of the five packs |
| 100 Nomi Credits | $9.99 | About 10.0 cents a credit |
| 225 Nomi Credits | $19.99 | About 8.9 cents a credit |
| 600 Nomi Credits | $49.99 | About 8.3 cents a credit |
| 1800 Nomi Credits | $99.99 | About 5.6 cents a credit, the best rate, at a $99.99 outlay |
| Darlings, for comparison | $9, $19 or $39 a month | Companion, Plus and Circle, billed monthly or yearly, with the period published up front and no credits to buy |
Apple shows at most ten in-app purchases on a web listing and which ten appear can rotate, so treat this as everything Nomi is currently surfacing rather than a guaranteed complete catalogue. None of these entries carries a retired or legacy marker. The per-month figures below are our arithmetic on the listed annual and quarterly prices, not something Nomi publishes.
Cost comparison
What an AI companion costs a year, cheapest verifiable annual first
Ranked on the annual figure you can actually check before paying, because the monthly headline is the number companies want you to compare and the annual is the number you end up spending. Every price below was read from the app's own US App Store listing on September 5, 2026, or from the company's public pricing page where one exists. Darlings is our own product and we say so in its entry.
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Snapchat My AI
Best for spending nothing · Free
Free and already installed on most phones under 30. Snap's own help centre states that My AI will not remember details from your prior conversations over time, which is exactly why it costs nothing. It never becomes a companion that knows you, so it is not really in the same market as a paid memory app like Nomi.
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Replika
Best for the cheapest annual in the category · Annual entries at $49.99 and $69.99, monthly at $7.99 and $14.99
The lowest annual figures of any large companion app. Replika publishes no prices on replika.com and its /pricing path 404s, so the App Store listing is the only source here too. Two caveats worth the money you save: it is romance-forward and 18+, and Italy fined its operator Luka 5,000,000 euros in May 2025 over its handling of minors and data.
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Nomi
Best for the strongest memory, if you find the Launch Plan · Launch Plan Yearly $59.99, Standard Plan Yearly $99.99, Standard monthly $15.99
At $59.99 a year the Launch Plan is $5.00 a month and the best value in this list for an app whose whole pitch is recall across months rather than a rolling context window. At $99.99 the Standard annual is mid-table. What pushes it down for a lot of readers is not the price: it is 18+ on the App Store with a Sexual Content or Nudity descriptor, credits are metered on top of the subscription, and it holds 3.8 stars on Google Play against 4.6 on Apple.
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Darlings
Best for knowing the period and the total before you pay · $9 a month, or $90 a year at $7.50 a month
Our own app, placed here on one measurable criterion rather than on opinion: the price, the billing period and the annual total are all published on a public page before you create anything, which is true of almost nothing else on this list. Persistent memory and daily check-ins are on every plan instead of being sold as an upgrade, and it runs in a browser, so one price covers Android, iPhone and a laptop. The honest caveat: you cannot buy it today. Darlings is onboarding from a waitlist and these are the prices we intend to launch with.
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Character.AI
Best for the cheapest paid entry point · Lite $2.49, Character.AI+ $9.99 monthly or $94.99 a year
The lowest paid tier of any large companion app at $2.49, and the annual is competitive at $94.99. The thing to weigh before comparing it with Nomi on price: it sells no persistent memory at any tier, so paying does not buy a companion that carries your life forward. It is also 18+, and open-ended chat was removed for under-18 accounts by late 2025. character.ai/pricing returns a 404.
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Chai
Best for nobody who is watching the total · Premium $13.99 monthly or $134.99 annual, Ultra $29.99 monthly or $269.99 annual
Useful mainly as a ceiling. Chai Ultra is $269.99 a year, and long-term memory is gated behind that top tier rather than included the way it is at Nomi. There is also a $19.99 weekly Ultra option, which annualises past $1,000. Chai carries ads on Google Play even for people who pay.
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Kindroid
Best for nobody who is watching the total · $15.99 monthly, $42.99 for three months, $159.99 a year
The most expensive annual on this page at $159.99, which is $13.33 a month, and the ladder climbs past it to Ultra at $28.99 and MAX at $68.99. It is also the highest rated app here at 4.79 from 8,296 US ratings, so people plainly feel they get something for it. kindroid.ai/pricing sits behind a login wall, so once again the App Store listing is the only public source.
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Tolan
Best for a wholesome, non-romantic character on iPhone · Tolan Lite Membership listed at $11.99, billing period not disclosed
Placed last on cost transparency rather than on quality, because the product is well liked at 4.78 from 176,815 US ratings and rated 13+, which is rare in a category that mostly sits at 18+. The problem is that you cannot work out an annual figure at all: no published price list, no billing period on the listing, eight retired tiers still showing, and an upper tier whose listed price moved between two readings two days apart.
Apple lists in-app purchase prices without billing periods, so an entry labelled Yearly is Apple repeating the developer's own product name rather than Apple confirming a term. Where a company publishes its own pricing page, that is quoted instead, because it is the only place a billing period is actually stated.
Why people switch
What makes Darlings different
A price you can read before you sign up
Three plans, the monthly figure, the yearly total and the effective monthly rate, all on one public page. You do not have to open a purchase sheet inside an app to find out what you are agreeing to.
No credits, no packs, no meter
Nomi sells credits in five packs from $4.99 to $99.99 on top of the subscription. Darlings has no consumables at all, so what you pay monthly is what it costs and a long conversation never runs a balance down.
Memory is included, not the upsell
Persistent memory of your people, your week and your story is on every Darlings plan, including the cheapest one. Several apps in this category charge more for a companion that remembers you, and one of the biggest does not sell it at any price.
Wholesome by design, at every tier
No romance, no roleplay and nothing behind an adult toggle. Nomi is 18+ on the US App Store and carries a Sexual Content or Nudity descriptor; if that is the reason you were looking for something else, the difference here is structural rather than a setting.
The honest part
When another app is the better choice
We would rather you find the right fit than the loudest one.
- You want the best long-term memory available today and you are an adult who is comfortable with an adult app. Nomi's recall genuinely is the strongest in the category, and $59.99 a year is a fair price for it.
- You want to buy right now. Nomi is on sale on iPhone, Android and the web today; Darlings is still onboarding from a waitlist.
- You want selfies, voice calls and group chats with several companions at once. Those are real Nomi features that a text-and-memory product does not try to match.
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