Candy AI records 68,041,908 monthly visits with +8.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Inworld AI records 323,330 monthly visits with -29.7% growth and Usage-based (per characters, per audio hour, per tokens) + Enterprise pricing.
Multimodal AI companion platform offering customizable virtual partners, live voice calls, photo generation, and video shorts.
Realtime voice models and fast LLM inference for consumer AI apps
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | candy.ai | inworld.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Usage-based (per characters, per audio hour, per tokens) + Enterprise |
| Monthly Visits | 68.04M (68,041,908) | 323.33K (323,330) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +5.32M (+8.5%) | -136.37K (-29.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (30.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (24.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 9.64M | 136.41K |
| User Rating | 3.9 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Multimodal AI companion platform offering customizable virtual partners, live voice calls, photo generation, and video shorts.
Lets users construct bespoke realistic or anime AI girlfriends and boyfriends by customizing ethnicity, facial features, hairstyle, body type, voice pitch, personality archetype, and personal hobbies.
Renders consistent character selfies, custom outfits, backgrounds, and animated short reaction videos directly inside the chat thread using monthly or top-up tokens.
Supports expressive spoken audio replies and interactive voice calling with selectable vocal personalities ranging from soft and calming to bold and playful.
Includes a built-in streaming hub of episodic AI short dramas and digital twin series, offering the first two episodes of standard series free and unlocking later or spicy episodes with Premium tokens.
Realtime voice models and fast LLM inference for consumer AI apps
Streaming TTS with latency as low as tens of milliseconds to first audio, expressive style control and support for several hundred languages and dialects.
Realtime transcription that returns voice traits such as emotion, style, age and accent alongside the transcript.
One WebSocket or WebRTC connection that listens, reasons with any LLM and talks back, for natural turn-taking agents.
Managed hosting for open text, image, video and decision models, optimised for time to first token, cost per request and reliability.
Features massive community-driven character creation and custom API routing, but relies less on standalone built-in media generation.
Features massive community-driven character creation and custom API routing, but relies less on standalone built-in media generation.
Offers broader multi-model switching and larger community character variety, but with different photo generation limits.
Offers broader multi-model switching and larger community character variety, but with different photo generation limits.
One connected AI studio for adult character chat, images, stories and video
One connected AI studio for adult character chat, images, stories and video
SpecialistPrivate AI for unrestricted creative work
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, but features a different UI layout.
Provides completely unfiltered anime and fantasy character chats, but features a different UI layout.
Focuses heavily on customizable adult roleplay characters and voice interaction, though pricing structures differ.
Focuses heavily on customizable adult roleplay characters and voice interaction, though pricing structures differ.
Unfiltered NSFW AI character chat and roleplay
Unfiltered NSFW AI character chat and roleplay
Delivers superior emotional depth and persistent memory, but lacks the same level of raw unfiltered content.
Delivers superior emotional depth and persistent memory, but lacks the same level of raw unfiltered content.
Create an AI girlfriend, then chat, generate images, and bring her to life in video
Create an AI girlfriend, then chat, generate images, and bring her to life in video
Features remarkably lifelike independent companions with rich memory, but emphasizes emotional realism over quick image generation.
Features remarkably lifelike independent companions with rich memory, but emphasizes emotional realism over quick image generation.
Combines text, voice, and generated visual media similarly, but utilizes a distinct credit and subscription model.
Combines text, voice, and generated visual media similarly, but utilizes a distinct credit and subscription model.
Free / Open-sourceBring-your-own-key AI chat studio for personas, characters and swappable model backends
Free / Open-sourceBring-your-own-key AI chat studio for personas, characters and swappable model backends
