The guide to Lerk AI · Updated
Lerk AI, reviewed and explained
Lerk AI is an AI companion website for adults: chat with realistic and anime AI girlfriends and boyfriends, create your own, and make photos and videos of them. This guide covers how it works, what it costs today, how your privacy is handled and who it suits.
Written by Lerk Studios, the company that makes Lerk AI. We say so up front, we list the downsides we know about, and prices are read live from Lerk AI. How we write
Lerk AI at a glance
- What it is
- An AI companion website for adults 18 and over
- Companions
- 206 ready-made companions: 170 AI girlfriends and 36 AI boyfriends, 129 realistic and 77 anime, plus any you create
- Free account
- Free to sign up and browse, with a limited number of messages every 24 hours, and 120 stars once you verify your email
- Plans
- VIP and Lerker, monthly or yearly, from $9.99 a month billed yearly (all prices)
- Chat
- Texting or Roleplay, with long-term memory in every conversation
- Photos and videos
- In chat and in a studio, paid for with stars
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese
- Where it runs
- In your browser on desktop and mobile, with nothing to install
- Sign-in
- email, Google or Apple; conversations sync across devices
- Payments
- Card, or crypto for star packs and yearly plans. Statements show “Lerk Studios”
The basics
What is Lerk AI?
Lerk AI, at the address Lerk.ai, is a website where adults chat with AI companions: fictional characters with their own looks, personality and backstory. You can pick one from the catalog on Explore, filtering by gender, style and age, or design your own in a six-step creator. A conversation can feel like texting someone you're getting to know, or like a roleplay where you're both in the scene, and each one keeps its own long-term memory.
Every companion is an AI character and every image and video is AI-generated. There are no actual people or performers behind the chats, Lerk AI doesn't accept photo uploads, and companions are never based on anyone who exists. All of them are adults, and Lerk AI is for adults 18 and over only.
New to the idea? What is an AI girlfriend? explains how AI companions work in general. If you'd rather jump in, getting started with Lerk AI walks through the first five minutes, and the full Lerk AI review goes through everything in order.
Features
What can you do on Lerk AI?
Talk to a companion who remembers
Each conversation keeps its own long-term memory, so a companion can bring back details from earlier and adapt to how you text. Paid plans recall much further back.How memory worksChoose Texting or Roleplay
Pick how a conversation works when it starts: messages from a companion who is out living their life, or a scene you play out together. The mood, Flirty or Spicy, can change any time.How chats workCreate your own companion
Design an AI girlfriend or boyfriend in six steps: style, appearance, hair, body, personality and a final summary. What you create is private to your account.See the six stepsMake photos and short videos
Ask for a photo in chat, or use the studio for photos from presets or your own prompt, edits of saved photos, and short videos with sound.Photos and videos
Pricing
How much does Lerk AI cost?
Signing up is free, and a free account includes a limited number of messages every 24 hours. For more, there are two plans, VIP and Lerker, each billed monthly or yearly. Both add unlimited messages and a monthly allowance of stars, the credits that pay for photos, videos and creating characters.
- VIP: $19.99 a month or $119.88 a year ($9.99 a month), with 3,500 stars every month.
- Lerker: $49.99 a month or $299.88 a year ($24.99 a month), with 7,500 stars every month.
- Stars: a photo is 60 stars, a video starts at 600 stars and creating a character is 60 stars.
Prices as of , read from Lerk AI's live price list.
Safety and privacy
Is Lerk AI safe and private?
Private to your account
Chats, characters and media are never published. Lerk AI doesn't sell conversations or use them to target ads, and you can delete chats, characters and media at any time.Discreet billing
Card payments go through a secure payment processor, so card details never reach Lerk AI. Your statement shows “Lerk Studios”, never what you bought.Adults only, checked for safety
Lerk AI is for 18+ only. Messages, prompts and media are checked automatically, with the same rules in every chat mode and on every plan.AI characters, clearly
You are always talking to an AI. Companions are fictional, every image is AI-generated, and none is based on anyone who exists.
Is it for you?
Who Lerk AI suits, and who it doesn't
Our view as the people who build it. Lerk AI does a few things well and leaves some out on purpose, so it won't be right for everyone.
Likely a good fit if you want
- Companion chats that remember what you've talked about
- To design your own AI girlfriend or boyfriend, realistic or anime
- Photos and short videos of your companion
- Something that runs in the browser, in English, Spanish, French, German or Japanese
Probably not for you if you want
- Spoken conversations or calls: chats on Lerk AI are text-based
- Something to install from an app store: Lerk AI runs in the browser
- A fully free experience: free accounts have a daily message limit, and photos and videos cost stars
- To upload photos of yourself or anyone else: Lerk AI doesn't accept uploads
- A general assistant for work or study
Guides
Guides to AI companions
Plain-English explainers for anyone curious about AI girlfriends, boyfriends and companion apps in general, not only Lerk AI.
Guide
What is an AI girlfriend?
How AI girlfriends work, what they remember, what they can't do, and how to start.
ReadGuide
AI boyfriends: a beginner's guide
What an AI boyfriend is, how chatting works, and how to find or create one.
ReadGuide
Anime vs realistic AI companions
How the two styles differ in looks and feel, and how to pick between them.
ReadGuide
How to choose an AI companion app
A 12-point checklist: memory, privacy, pricing, billing, age rules and support.
ReadGuide
AI girlfriend photos and videos: how they work
How AI companion photos and videos are made, priced and kept private.
ReadGuide
Is an AI girlfriend worth it?
What an AI girlfriend can and can't offer, and signs it's a good fit for you.
Read
FAQ
Questions people ask
Is Lerk AI a real company?
Yes. Lerk AI is made and run by Lerk Studios, Inc., a Delaware corporation. You can reach the team at support@lerk.ai, and its policies, from the terms of service to the refund policy, are published in Lerk AI's Help and Legal pages.
Is Lerk AI the same as Lerk.ai?
Yes. Lerk.ai is the website's address and Lerk AI is the name of the product. There is one Lerk AI, and it lives at Lerk.ai.
Who writes this site?
The team at Lerk Studios, the company that makes Lerk AI. This is the maker's own guide, not a third-party review, so we say that on every page, list the downsides we know about and don't publish ratings or testimonials. How we write explains the rest.
Is Lerk AI free?
Signing up and browsing are free, and a free account includes a limited number of messages every 24 hours. Verifying your email adds a one-time gift of welcome stars. The VIP and Lerker plans add unlimited messages and a monthly star allowance; Lerk AI pricing has today's prices.
Is there a Lerk AI app?
Lerk AI runs in the web browser on desktop and mobile, so there is nothing to install. Sign in on any device and your conversations are there. Getting started with Lerk AI shows the first steps.
Disclosure
About this site
Lerk AI Reviews is published by Lerk Studios, Inc., the company that makes Lerk AI. That makes this the maker's own guide rather than a third-party review, so we hold ourselves to a few rules. Every feature we describe is checked against Lerk AI's code and live data. Prices and limits are read live from Lerk AI and shown with an “as of” date. We don't publish ratings, scores or testimonials, and we don't make claims about other companies' apps.
About Lerk AI Reviews explains how pages are written and kept up to date, and how to send us a correction.