We built Sylvaine, a 26 year old elf archivist, in Nectar's anime builder, chatted with her on a free account and went through the Ultimate plan up to checkout. The builder is fast and fun; the free chat is short.
By Wren Ashby
Nectar AI is the pick for fantasy anime characters. Elf, angel, devil, witch and cyborg are one click away in a free builder. Plan to pay quickly: the free chat stops after a few messages, and the single Ultimate plan costs $4.99 a month billed yearly.
A free, quick anime builder with fantasy races and an easy SFW mode, plus calls and video on one simple plan. The free tier is a test drive, not a place to stay.
Nectar AI is a web app, with no download, that you can add to your phone's home screen. The company lists an address in Delaware and Lick Labs Ltd in London, and its pricing page says it is trusted by more than a million users. It does companions, ready-made characters from its community, story scenarios called Fantasies, and group chats.
For this site we cared about two things: how well it builds an anime character, and what happens when you talk to her. We created Sylvaine in anime mode, chatted on a free account until the limit, asked for a photo, then walked through the Ultimate plan up to the checkout screen without paying. Below, the free part, who it suits, when to go elsewhere, and every piece of the product with a score.
Nectar is also the platform that makes fantasy types easiest. Where OurDream gives you three fantasy shortcuts in its ethnicity list and Candy none at all, Nectar's race step offers six, with drawn previews for each. If your idea of a hentai girlfriend has pointed ears, horns, wings or circuitry, start here.
Building is free. The whole builder, from the anime category to the result card, costs 0 credits on a free account, and you can reroll her appearance as often as you like before you start chatting.
The chat is where the free account ends quickly. In our tests a free account allowed about three messages and one photo before a window titled Message limit reached asked us to choose a plan. A free account also keeps one character: when we tried to build a second one, Nectar showed the same upgrade window. The free model is Basic Roleplay and the credit counter shows 0.
There is one plan only, Ultimate. Monthly it costs $12.99. Yearly it costs $59.99, which is $4.99 a month, and the first month adds 2,500 bonus credits. Ultimate includes unlimited messages, 5,000 credits a month, a 64K context for memory, long-term memory, faster replies, landscape and portrait images, video generation, voice messages, voice chat and custom personas.
Credits pay for the extras: premium chat models, paid memory options, voice beyond the quota, calls, the Enhance button for prompts and the higher quality image models. Calls are billed by the second: 1 credit per second for voice, 2 credits per second for video. You cannot buy credits without a subscription.
So the free account answers one question: do you like the character Nectar draws for you? If yes, you will need Ultimate to talk to her for more than a few lines.
Compared with the other four platforms, that is the shortest free chat we found. It is not a trick: the builder, the portrait and the first exchange are free and honest about where they stop. The upgrade window appears in the chat itself, so you never pay by accident.
| Plan | Price | Billed | Extras |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | a few messages, 1 photo, 1 character | |
| Ultimate yearly | $4.99 a month | $59.99 a year | +2,500 bonus credits the first month |
| Ultimate monthly | $12.99 a month | monthly | 5,000 credits a month |
The checkout showed no added tax line and no country field. The charge appears as Nectar Vixen AI on your statement. The page states no hidden fees and cancellation at any time.
Three profiles get the most out of Nectar.
Nectar's short free tier and community catalog mean two kinds of users should start elsewhere.
If you want a long free chat, Joi's free text chat on a confirmed account lasts far longer. If you want strong ready-made anime characters rather than building your own, Candy AI's Anime tab has the best written cast we found.
Seven parts of the product, each with its own score out of 10 and the screenshot we took.
Nectar asks you to sign in when you leave the first builder screen. You can use an email address and a six digit code sent by email, Google, Apple, Telegram, Discord or a crypto wallet. There is no password to remember, which is convenient, and the code arrived within seconds in our test.
The interface and the chat are fully supported in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Tagalog; other languages translate the interface only. Our character answered in the language we used from the first message.
The first screen offers two ways to start: Standard, built from scratch, and Photo Reference, which turns a photo into a companion. For an anime girlfriend, Standard is the one.
One small annoyance: the sign-in window appears as soon as you leave the first screen, so you cannot click through the whole builder as a guest the way OurDream allows.
Category sets Female or Male and Realistic or Anime; the title becomes Create your AI Waifu in anime mode. The next screen is Race and Skin Tone: Human, Elf, Devil, Angel, Witch or Cyborg, then pale, normal or tan skin. This is where Nectar beats everyone for fantasy types.
Each race has a drawn preview, so you know what an anime witch or cyborg will look like before you commit. We picked Elf with pale skin. For a succubus pick Devil; for an android, Cyborg; for a gothic sorceress, Witch.
Previews in this step show outfits such as bikinis or lingerie; with NSFW off, they stay covered.
Hair and Eyes offers six styles, including twintails and bobcut, six hair colors including silver and pink, and six eye colors including red and purple. Body Type offers Petite, Athletic, Hourglass and Curvy. Additional Information takes a name, a voice with a preview button and a personality written in your own words.
Advanced options add physical traits, a greeting, a greeting image or video, tags and an author comment. The greeting is worth writing: it is the first thing she says, and it sets the scene. Making a character public or private is an Ultimate option; by default ours stayed private.
We wrote a short personality: an elf archivist who runs a night library, dry humor, patient, teases you about your handwriting, loves old maps and herbal tea. That one paragraph shaped every reply she gave.
The result card shows the portrait next to every choice, each with a pencil to edit it: race, skin, body type, hair, eyes, physical traits and age. Reroll appearance redraws her with the same settings; Bring my AI to life opens the chat.
One thing to watch: the age on the card starts at 18 by default. Raise it before you bring her to life. We set Sylvaine to 26 and switched the body type to Hourglass, then rerolled. The second portrait was a polished anime illustration of an adult elf, as intended.
The card is also the place to fix anything you regret later, without starting a new character, which matters on a free account limited to one.
The Discover page lists community companions with filters for gender, style and companions, a long row of tags from Romantic and Magical to Elf, Maid, Succubus and Monster Girl, and the NSFW switch. With Anime and Female selected and NSFW off, the grid shows drawn characters with a conversation counter on each card.
The quality varies because anyone can publish. We found strong originals: Moira, an immortal who recognizes an old love in you; Bridgette, a devoted girlfriend; Anna von Bernus, a witch running a small curse shop; Death, who is only doing her job. We also skipped many cards based on existing anime, which Nectar's rules ban but which still appear.
Fantasies are ready-made stories with a setting and a role for you, and group chats put several characters in one scene. Both are good ways to try the chat engine without building anything.
Sylvaine opened on a scene she wrote from our personality text: the oak door of the night library clicking shut, a map spread on her desk, a steaming cup pushed toward the empty chair. When we asked for the map of the northern passes, she scrutinized us over an oil lamp and went looking along the shelves. When we asked for tea, she offered a trade.
That is good roleplay for a free model: in character, reactive, with action and dialogue mixed. The chat panel lets you change Memory, Persona, Models, Writing style, image and video model versions, Speech and Appearance, with video and voice call buttons at the top.
Ultimate's 64K context and long-term memory matter for long stories; reviewers note that very long stories can still lose details, so marking important memories helps.
In the chat, a camera button sends a photo request; the free account gets one, which arrived in about half a minute. The image generator has a free base model that draws any scene you describe but not your character's face, and an Ultimate Companion model that keeps her face. Enhance improves a prompt for 5 credits.
Video uses the Companion model on Ultimate, with up to three adjustments for style, outfit, pose or effects, durations from 5 to 30 seconds and resolutions from 480p to 1080p, according to Nectar's documentation. Ultimate can run four videos at once. The credit cost of a video is not shown before you subscribe.
Voice calls cost 1 credit per second and video calls 2 credits per second; you generate an avatar before the first video call.
A practical order that worked for us: build her, ask for one photo in the chat to see how the model reads your description, then decide whether the Companion model on Ultimate is worth it for you. If the face matters, it is.
One plan, two billing lengths: $12.99 a month or $59.99 a year. That is easy to understand, and the yearly price of $4.99 a month is the second cheapest of the five platforms we cover. Payment is by Visa or Mastercard, and the statement shows Nectar Vixen AI.
To cancel, go to Profile, Settings, Subscription and Credits; Premium stays active until the end of the paid period. Deleting the account is done by request, through a Discord ticket or support@nectar.ai, and is permanent. Support answers on Discord or by email within three to five business days.
The FAQ says conversations are private, not shared and not used to train outside models, that each person gets one account, and that real people and protected characters are not allowed.
Nectar's home page shows ratings from companion review sites between 4.25 and 4.8 out of 5. Independent directories list 4.81 out of 5 from 140 reviews on ToolDirectory and 89.5 percent of users recommending it on topai.tools, from 19 reviews. There is no Trustpilot page for nectar.ai; the Nectar pages there belong to unrelated companies such as a mattress brand.
The praise that comes back most: image quality in both realistic and anime styles, deep customization, immersive roleplay, frequent updates and a team that answers on Discord. The criticism: memory can still slip in very long stories, the free plan is very limited, and image results can be uneven. One commenter found the crypto wallet login pointless. Our test matches both lists.
Nectar AI gets 8.9 for the fastest fantasy builder we tested, a chat that builds a scene from a single paragraph of personality, and a single plan that anyone can understand. Its weak point is the free account: build for free, say hello, then decide.
If you like the character Nectar draws for you, the yearly Ultimate plan at $4.99 a month is the way to keep talking, with calls included in the credits. If you want a longer free chat first, try Joi; if you want more builder options and free coins, try OurDream.
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Written by
Wren Ashby @wrenashby
Anime fan from the Pacific Northwest who has spent the last couple of years testing AI girlfriend apps. Builds a character on every platform before writing a word about it.
How we testThe builder is free and costs no credits. The free chat gives about three messages and one photo before a limit appears, and a free account keeps one character. Unlimited chat needs the Ultimate plan.
One plan, Ultimate: $12.99 a month, or $59.99 a year, which works out to $4.99 a month, with 2,500 bonus credits in the first month. Ultimate includes 5,000 credits every month.
Yes. Choose Anime on the Category screen, then a race: Human, Elf, Devil, Angel, Witch or Cyborg. The previews and the final portrait are drawn in anime style.
On the result card after creation, use the pencil next to Age. The default is 18; raise it to 21 or more before you bring her to life, as we did with Sylvaine at 26.
Yes. The Allow NSFW switch in the settings turns explicit content off for the catalog, the builder previews and the generator.
Voice calls cost 1 credit per second and video calls 2 credits per second. With the 5,000 monthly credits of Ultimate that is about 80 minutes of voice or 40 minutes of video.
Cancel in Profile, Settings, Subscription and Credits; the plan runs to the end of the paid period. Deleting the account is done through a Discord ticket or support@nectar.ai and is permanent.
Nectar Vixen AI. The checkout showed the full price with no added tax line, and cancellation is possible at any time.
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