Best AI Voice Call Companions 2026: Call Features & Prices Compared

By Tom | Published: October 31, 2025 · Updated October 2026

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What this page is based on: the vendors' own homepages, pricing, token and subscription pages, Nomi.ai's refund policy and US App Store listing, Replika's help center, OurDream.ai's coin guide, Candy.ai's and Joi.com's terms of service, SecretDesires' subscription page and web app, and Character.AI's launch post for its calls, all checked October 2026; prices marked "July 2026" from our July 2026 fact check; the SecretDesires plan screen shown below (July 2026); and our AI companion privacy scorecard (policies reviewed September 19, 2026). Ratings are overall ratings from our app ranking, our app directory or the app's own review here, not voice-only scores. Kindroid's rating comes from our app directory (we have no full Kindroid review), and Character.AI is not rated. We have not timed calls, so this page gives no latency figures.

Voice calls vs. voice messages

"Voice" means different things in different AI companion apps. A voice call works like a phone call: you speak, the app turns your speech into text, the AI writes a reply and a synthetic voice reads it back while you wait. A voice message (or voice note) is a recorded clip you play in the chat. On a call every pause is audible, so calls are harder to get right. When an app says it has "voice", check which of the two it means and whether it costs tokens or credits on top of the plan.

AI voice call companions compared

The table uses each vendor's own description of its voice features. Prices change often and vary by region, so check the checkout screen.

The apps one by one

Nomi.ai: our first choice for calls

Nomi.ai, run by Glimpse.ai, Inc., a Maryland corporation, invites you on its homepage to "send and receive voice chats or hop on a hands-free call" and says the voice's tone, emphasis and cadence change with the companion's mood. Voice is a paid feature: Nomi's refund policy says that after a downgrade, voice messaging and calls become read-only, while your Nomis and one-on-one text chat stay. The same policy says payments are non-refundable except at Nomi's discretion. Web prices appear only after you sign in; the US App Store lists Standard at $15.99 a month and the Launch Plan at $9.99 a month (checked October 2026). Cancel where you bought the plan; on the web that is Profile, then Subscription, Manage and Cancel.

Best for: a long-running companion you talk to by text and by call. Our Nomi.ai review covers memory and pricing in detail.

Sweetdream.ai: a per-minute call price you can turn into euros

Sweetdream.ai, a browser-based adult AI girlfriend site, prices "LIVE phone calls" on its token page (checked October 2026) at 2 tokens a minute plus 1 to start in the browser, or 20 a minute plus 10 to start on your own phone number; a voice message costs 3 tokens. Premium includes 400 tokens a month, so a 10-minute browser call uses 21 of them and the same call to your phone 210. Because its token packs have public prices, this is the one call price here you can convert into money (OurDream.ai also lists a per-minute rate, but only in coins). Video calls are listed only with featured characters, without a price. Premium was €10.99 a week, €67.99 for 3 months or €149.99 a year, with no monthly plan, and refunds are possible within 7 days only if you have not used it. Its privacy policy got a D (7/16) in our scorecard, the lowest grade here. See our Sweetdream.ai review.

SecretDesires: the lowest documented monthly plan with calls

SecretDesires, run by Playhouse Media LLC in the US, says on its homepage that your companion "can make real-time voice calls where you actually talk back and forth like a phone conversation". Its plan screen (July 2026, pictured) lists "Phone & Voice Features" on the $7.99 Pro plan and "Voice Cloning" on the $13.99 Ultra plan, and its subscription page showed the same prices in October 2026: the lowest documented monthly price with calls among the paid apps here. The free plan has daily message and image limits. Paid plans also include monthly Hearts (100, 200 or 300), the site's credit for extras, and its web app ties Hearts to phone calls, voice notes, images and videos. SecretDesires does not publish what a call costs in Hearts, so heavy calling can cost more than the plan price. The screen says "No commitment, cancel anytime."

Best for: adult roleplay with calls on a budget. See our SecretDesires review.

Candy.ai: voice messages and beta calls, paid with tokens

Candy.ai, run by EverAI Limited in Malta, says companions "can engage in voice conversations" and send voice notes. Its terms of service (revised September 22, 2026) say a subscription includes unlimited messaging plus a monthly token amount, "generally 100", for extended features "like image generation or voice notes". Its help center says playing a voice message and voice calls (marked beta) use tokens, but Candy.ai does not publish how many, so check in the app before a long session. Under the terms, unused tokens expire when the subscription ends.

As listed in July 2026, Premium costs $12.99 a month, or about $3.99 a month on the annual plan. Refunds are possible only within 24 hours of payment and only if you have used no more than 20 tokens; EU and UK buyers also have a 14-day withdrawal right on a first purchase. You cancel under Settings, then Unsubscribe. See our Candy.ai review.

OurDream.ai: calls at 50 DreamCoins a minute

OurDream.ai's homepage says you can "even make voice calls" with your companion. It costs $19.99 a month, or $9.99 a month on the yearly plan ($119.88 paid upfront), and both plans include 1,000 DreamCoins a month. Its help center's coin guide lists voice calls at 50 DreamCoins a minute (checked October 2026), so the monthly coins cover about 20 minutes of calls if you spend them on nothing else. Extra coins can only be bought with an active subscription, and their price is not public. See our OurDream.ai review.

Kindroid: the clearest audio allowance

Kindroid, run by Beautifully Incorporated in Los Angeles, lists "voice calls, video calls and more voice messages" among subscriber benefits in its subscription docs, together with "1 million complimentary audio credits per month". A 3-day premium trial starts with 150,000 audio credits and turns into a paid subscription unless you cancel. Kindroid shows prices only at checkout and says buying on the web is usually cheaper than through the App Store or Google Play. Refunds are case by case; by default, sales are final. We have no full Kindroid review; its 4.1 rating comes from our app directory.

Replika: calls on Pro, prices only in the app

Replika, run by Luka, Inc. in San Francisco, advertises calls on its homepage: "Call your Rep whenever you need to talk, or just to hang out." Its help center lists voice messaging, background calls and premium voices under the Pro plan (checked October 2026). Replika puts no prices on its website; they are shown in the app and the app store, and its US App Store listing does not say which price belongs to which plan, so check the plan screen in the app before paying. Its terms of service (March 30, 2026) say all sales are final. See our Replika review.

Kupid.ai: voice messages, not calls

Kupid.ai, run by SNB Technologies LTD in Cyprus, talks about voice messages on its homepage, not calls. Its subscriptions page lists voice messages with a weekly minute allowance (12 minutes on Pro and 35 on Ultra in the version we saw in October 2026) and no live calls. The pricing page says "One payment, nothing renews", while its terms describe rebilling and make all sales final. For voice notes inside a roleplay chat it can fit; for real calls it is the wrong app. See our Kupid.ai review.

Character.AI: the free way to try a call

Character.AI is a general chatbot platform with user-made characters, not an AI girlfriend app. When it launched Character Calls on June 27, 2024, its announcement said the feature was "available to the general public on our app or web completely free of charge". That makes it the easiest way to hear what an AI voice call is like before paying anywhere else; check whether it is still free where you live. In late 2025 Character.AI also announced the end of open-ended chat for users under 18 (see our timeline).

Latency: why some calls feel natural and others don't

A study of conversations in 10 languages (Stivers et al., PNAS, 2009) found that speakers in all of them keep the silence between turns short, which is why even a short delay on an AI call is easy to notice. Most AI calls run a chain of steps, and each one adds time:

1. Your audio travels to the server (slower on a weak or mobile connection).
2. Speech recognition turns it into text.
3. The language model writes a reply; long replies and busy servers slow this down.
4. Text-to-speech turns the reply into a voice, which streams back to you.

Some newer systems go straight from speech to speech and skip the text steps. The app also has to judge when you have finished speaking: wait too long and it feels slow, jump in too early and it cuts you off.

How to check it yourself: during a trial or your first paid days, screen-record a few exchanges at a busy evening hour and at a quiet time, and note the gap between the end of your sentence and the companion's first word. If the gaps break the flow for you, cancel before the plan renews.

How AI voice is billed

• Included in the subscription: Nomi.ai and Replika (on Pro) list calls as plan features and publish no cost per call. This is the easiest model to budget.
• Credits, tokens or allowances: Kindroid gives subscribers a monthly pool of audio credits, Kupid.ai counts voice-message minutes per week, SecretDesires' monthly Hearts (100, 200 or 300 by plan) pay for calls, voice notes, images and videos at a cost per action it does not publish, and Candy.ai's included tokens (generally 100 a month) pay for voice messages and beta calls; unused tokens expire when the subscription ends.
• Pay per minute: Sweetdream.ai charges 2 tokens a minute plus 1 to start for a browser call, or 20 a minute plus 10 to start on your own phone number, and OurDream.ai 50 DreamCoins a minute (both checked October 2026). In 2023 the influencer chatbot CarynAI was marketed as a "virtual girlfriend" at $1 per minute (see our timeline).

Our view: billing a companion by usage ties what you spend to how attached you are, because the more you enjoy the calls, the more they cost. If an app charges voice by tokens or minutes, set a monthly limit before your first call. Our AI girlfriend pricing guide and free vs. paid comparison go deeper.

Privacy and healthy use

A call adds your voice to what the company processes. No app here earned an A in our privacy scorecard: Candy.ai and Replika scored B (12/16), Kindroid B (11/16), OurDream.ai C (10/16), Nomi.ai, Kupid.ai and Character.AI C (9/16), SecretDesires C (8/16) and Sweetdream.ai D (7/16). Of the 15 apps graded, only Character.AI describes a training-specific opt-out. Before your first call, read what the policy says about recordings and transcripts, avoid saying names, addresses or workplace details out loud and delete chats you don't want kept.

Voice cloning: if a plan lets you clone a voice (SecretDesires lists it on Ultra), use only your own voice or one you have permission to use. From December 2, 2026, EU rules ban AI systems that generate realistic sexual images, video or audio of an identifiable person without their explicit consent (see our laws tracker).

Voice and wellbeing: in a four-week randomized study by MIT Media Lab and OpenAI with 981 participants, using voice instead of text had no significant effect on its own, but people who chose to use the chatbot more had worse outcomes on loneliness and emotional dependence (details in our statistics). It is a preprint and the link is correlational, but it is a good reason to keep calls part of your day rather than all of it.

Apps not in this comparison

Joi.com is in our overall ranking, and its terms describe a Video Call Feature to talk with a character "via real-time audio and video interface (where available)", with availability that may vary by device, region and plan. We could not find which plan includes it or what it costs, so it is not compared here.

Xeve.ai, which is made by our team, has no live calls. You type into the chat, the character's replies are read out in an AI voice (Xeve's privacy policy names ElevenLabs for this), and the video is made of clips prepared in advance that the platform picks during the chat, not a live stream. We do not rate our own app on this page.

Our take

For calls, start with Nomi.ai, the strongest app in our ranking. On a budget, SecretDesires has the lowest documented monthly plan with calls among the paid apps here, though calls draw on its Hearts. Sweetdream.ai publishes a per-minute call price you can convert into euros, but its privacy policy graded lowest. Kindroid is the most open about its audio allowance. To hear an AI call for free, try Character.AI. Skip Kupid.ai if you want real calls.