CrushOn Review (2026): Hands-On With the Loosest Mainstream AI Chat App

CrushOn pricing explained: credits, caps and the six rungs

CrushOn pricing is a grid with six paid rungs, one add-on and three kinds of extra credit, and the most useful thing I can tell you is which two numbers matter: the reply cap and the credit pool. The cap decides how the characters talk; the pool decides how often you get the better models. Everything else on the page is for people running thirty chats at once. The figures below are from crushon.ai/pricing on September 27, 2026.

The free tier on CrushOn: unlimited, but 225 characters at a time

Free gives you unlimited chat on the basic models, 100 message credits a month for the Pro models, replies capped at 225 characters, 8K memory with about 200 messages of history, 20 Inspiration replies a day, one concurrent chat per character, voice replies and a single custom voice slot. No card at signup. The word to hold on to is unlimited: unlike SpicyChat’s daily cap or Candy AI’s paywall after a few messages, you can chat on CrushOn all day for nothing. The catch is the shape of the chat. At 225 characters a reply is two or three sentences, and the basic models start repeating their favourite phrases within twenty messages of a long scene. The free NSFW AI chat list compares it with the other free tiers on exactly that point: the most chat, the tersest characters.

Standard and Premium: what $58.88 and $94.88 a year buy

Standard is $58.88 a year, which the page shows as $4.90 a month; there is no monthly billing for it, so the first purchase is a year. It buys 2,000 credits a month for the Pro models, 275-character replies, group chat on an 8K model, longer history, more concurrent chats and a small discount on credit packs. Premium is $94.88 a year, about $7.91 a month, for 6,000 credits, 325-character replies and more of everything. Standard is the plan I paid for and the one most readers should consider: 2,000 credits lasted me a normal week of Pro-model chat and ran out in a heavy one, and the 275-character cap is noticeably less cramped than 225 without being generous. Premium is for people who live on the Pro models. Compared with the real monthly cost of the field, Standard is the cheapest confirmed paid plan on the site.

Luxe, Elite, Imperial and the Pro Models Chat Package

Luxe ($299.99 a year, 20,000 credits, 450-character adjustable replies), Elite ($799.99, 55,000 credits, 550 characters, 24K memory) and Imperial ($1,799.99, 125,000 credits, 650 characters, 24K memory, 1,500 messages of history, 30 concurrent chats, 30 voice slots, 25 percent off credit packs) are tiers for a different kind of user, and the only reason they matter to a normal reader is that the 24K memory that makes long scenes hold together lives up there. The Pro Models Chat Package is advertised on the same page as an add-on to any membership, without a price; our September 22 check and third-party reports put it at $24.99 a month on annual billing or $39.99 monthly, and I could not confirm either on the page. Then there are bonus message packs of 1,000 and 3,000, coins that convert one-to-one into messages once your pool is empty, and tier-based discounts on packs. It is the most granular pricing in the category, and the least predictable bill.

CrushOn models, memory and what the free tier really gives you

CrushOn does not name its models. The pricing page groups them as Free, Pro and Ultra, the FAQ does not list them, and the interface shows a model picker whose entries change over time. What I can describe is how the three groups behaved and how the memory tiers work, because those are what you are buying.

Free, Pro and Ultra models on CrushOn

The basic models are quick, in character and shallow: fine for a short scene, repetitive in a long one, and prone to the same escalation and reassurance patterns after a few dozen messages. The Pro models are a real step up in range and consistency and are the reason the credit pool exists; my argument script, where the character has to hold a position I keep attacking, held up on the Pro models about as well as on SpicyChat’s mid-tier and worse than on Kindroid. The Ultra models sit behind the Chat Package and the top tiers and I have not paid for them; users describe them as the same again, better. Whatever the group, the reply cap of your plan applies, so a Pro model on Standard still answers in 275 characters, which flattens the difference more than the price list suggests.

Memory and history: 8K to 24K, 200 to 1,500 messages

CrushOn states memory in two numbers per tier: a context size (8K on free and the lower tiers, 24K models on Elite and Imperial) and a history length (200 messages on free rising to 1,500 on Imperial). In practice, on Standard, my long-roleplay script kept the setup for a few dozen exchanges and lost the planted detail at about the point SpicyChat’s free tier did; there is no memory panel to inspect or pin, so when a character forgets, you retype. The 2026 change that third-party trackers describe as extending recall past 100 messages is visible in the history numbers, and it is concentrated on the tiers most people will not buy. If memory is what you want, Nastia at a similar price and Kindroid at three times the price both do it better; CrushOn’s advantage is volume and permissiveness, not recall.

Group chat, Inspiration replies and voice

Group chat opens at Standard on what the page calls a unique model with 8K memory; three characters in a scene worked, with the usual muddle past four. Inspiration replies are suggested next lines, 20 a day on free and 350 on Imperial, and they are more useful than they sound on a platform where the characters are terse: they keep a scene moving when the reply cap has cut it short. Voice replies are on every tier, including free, with custom voice slots from 1 to 30; the voices are serviceable and read the same short replies aloud. None of it changes the basic proposition, which is text chat with a loose filter at a low price.

CrushOn app, NSFW toggle and age verification

The FAQ lists an iOS app in the App Store and an Android app distributed as an APK from crushon.ai, with separate cancellation instructions for each, and the homepage pushes the Android download. The web version has the full feature set and is the one I tested; in-app prices on iOS can be higher than the web’s, and refunds on app-store purchases follow Apple’s and Google’s rules rather than CrushOn’s. If a store-listed iPhone app matters to you, this is one of the few uncensored platforms that still has one, which the character AI alternatives list counts in its favour.

The NSFW toggle is off by default and lives in settings. Switching it on is where the 2026 Trustpilot complaints cluster: several reviewers describe a $0.99 card charge presented as age verification before the toggle unlocks, and repeated age prompts mid-conversation afterward. My account was not asked for the charge, so I cannot confirm the mechanism, but the pattern is consistent enough across reviews to plan for. The terms require users to be 18 and of legal age in their jurisdiction, and the footer carries a 2257 compliance statement, which is unusual for a chat platform and tells you how the company thinks about its content. The laws guide has the background on why age checks are spreading.

Privacy on CrushOn: why it scores an F

CrushOn scores 34 out of 100 on the privacy scorecard, the lowest grade on the NSFW list, and unlike some platforms that fail through vagueness, CrushOn fails through clarity. The privacy policy, last modified March 6, 2025, states: ‘For all contents generated from the chat, we will only use such contents in a general way for training our models and we will not link chat contents to specific users.’ There is no opt-out. Retention is ‘for so long as it is reasonably necessary’, with no period. Third parties include vendors, hosting providers, advertising platforms and the social login providers. Account closure is via [email protected] per the policy and via the Settings button per the FAQ, with a three-day window before deletion is permanent.

The terms, revised September 22, 2026, add the rest: TECHIEPIE LTD of Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus is the operator, Hong Kong law governs, and users grant a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable licence to the intellectual property in their submissions. The same terms contain a clause forbidding users from transmitting pornographic or sexually explicit material, which on a platform titled no-filter NSFW chat reads as boilerplate aimed at uploads rather than at the chat itself; I note it because a rule the company could enforce whenever it chose is a rule worth knowing about. The safety guide has the general advice, and on CrushOn it applies without exception: separate login, no real name, no photos of real people, nothing you would mind in a training set.

CrushOn billing, cancellation and support

Payments go through SubscribeStar or Paymentwall, so the line on your statement is the processor’s name, not CrushOn’s. That is discreet, and it is also why a renewal surprises people a year later. Subscriptions renew automatically; the FAQ walks through cancelling on the web, in the App Store and in Google Play, and says cancellation takes effect at the end of the current cycle with no further charges. Refunds are the flat no that most of the category gives: usage fees and virtual items are non-refundable except where the law requires, and the current period is not refunded on cancellation. Because Standard and Premium are sold as a year, the practical rule is to spend a free week deciding, then buy the year knowing it is final.

Support is a ticket through the site and a Discord community; the FAQ is the most useful document CrushOn publishes, and the Trustpilot profile, at 1.8 from 22 reviews, is dominated by billing and moderation complaints rather than praise.