Is Secrets AI Free? What the $0 Tier Actually Gets You

The short answer

Yes. Secrets AI has a free tier, and it does not expire. You get 20 messages a day, the standard character library, basic memory and one custom character. No card is required to sign up, according to third-party guides.

What you do not get is anything visual. No images, no video, no voice calls, and no way to buy your way into them without a subscription. Free users have no Moments balance and cannot purchase top-ups. That is the whole shape of the answer: free chat, paid everything else.

We rate Secrets AI 9.9 out of 10. The free tier is the strongest argument for trying it, and the weakest argument for staying on it long.

What the free tier includes

• 20 messages per day. Resets daily. No rollover.
• Basic memory. The free model remembers less than paid plans. One third-party estimate puts free memory at roughly 2–3 exchanges, so expect to repeat yourself.
• Standard character library. The pricing guide claims over 100 fantasy scenarios; reviews count about 94 characters.
• One custom character. Every additional character costs 500 Moments, which free users cannot hold.
• Message cap of 500 characters. Fine for short exchanges, annoying for long roleplay.
• S3 and X-3 chat modes. The S5 model, Time Travel and Lorebooks are paid.

Twenty messages a day sounds thin, and it is. But compare it to the field. Candy AI gives 5 messages and one image in total, ever. OurDream AI charges one Dreamcoin per message with no free media at all. Secrets AI is not generous, but it is not the stingiest door either.

Is there a free trial of Premium?

No. There is no time-limited Premium trial. The free tier is the trial, and it never expires. You either keep using 20 messages a day indefinitely or you subscribe.

One caveat worth flagging: some guides mention 200 Moments for signing up. The wiki quickstart mentions it; the tiers page does not. Treat that as unconfirmed and do not plan around it. The one bonus we can confirm is a one-time 25 Moments for enabling push notifications — which is not enough for a single image at 50 Moments.

Plan comparison

Feature	Free	Premium	Ultimate
Price	$0	$19.99/month or $109.99/year	$39.99/month or $319.99/year
Messages	20/day	Unlimited	Unlimited
Monthly Moments	None	8,000	15,000
Image/video	No	Yes	Yes
Memory	Basic	Premium, Lorebooks	Ultimate, fullest Lorebooks
Group chats/personas	No	No	Yes

Premium adds the S5 model, Time Travel, Lorebooks and 1,000-character messages. Ultimate adds the S4 model with Max thinking, group chats, personas and proactive messages. If you only want better chat, Premium is the tier that matters. Ultimate is for people who want the memory system to do real work.

Premium and Ultimate pricing, all billing options

Monthly pricing is not the only option, and the gap is large.

Plan	Billing	Effective monthly	Moments
Premium	$19.99 monthly	$19.99	8,000
Premium	$49.99/3 months	$16.66	8,000
Premium	$89.99/6 months	$15.00	8,000
Premium	$109.99 yearly	$9.17	8,000
Ultimate	$39.99 monthly	$39.99	15,000
Ultimate	$319.99 yearly	$26.67	15,000

Annual Premium saves about 54% against paying monthly ($109.99 versus $239.88 over a year). Annual Ultimate saves about 33% ($319.99 versus $479.88). The jump from $0 to $19.99 is steep; the jump from $19.99 to $9.17 is mostly patience.

Two retired tiers still show up in old guides: Lite at $5.99/month with 1,000 Moments, and Plus at $9.99/month. Neither is a current option. If a blog tells you to grab Lite, it is out of date.

Moments: the real cost of pictures, video and voice

Every media action burns Moments, and the exchange rate matters more than the subscription price.

Action	Moments
Image	50 (100 at 2K)
Adult video clip	600
Voice call per minute	50
Text-to-speech per 100 characters	10
Extra custom character	500

Premium's 8,000 monthly Moments buy roughly 160 standard images or 13 adult clips. Ultimate's 15,000 doubles that. Adult clips run about 8 seconds; SFW clips go up to 15 seconds. Voice calls are listed as a feature but cost 50 Moments per minute, so a 20-minute call eats 1,000 Moments — an eighth of the Premium allowance.

Two rules work in your favor: failed generations are refunded automatically, and purchased top-up Moments do not expire, even though plan Moments reset monthly.

If images are your priority rather than memory, Secrets AI vs Candy.ai compares the two directly — they are built for different buyers.

What you actually unlock by paying

• Unlimited messages instead of 20 a day.
• Media generation: images and adult video.
• Better memory: about 4x access and +60% context on Premium, with Lorebooks on top.
• Longer messages: 1,000 characters instead of 500.
• Time Travel and the S5 model on Premium.
• Group chats, personas and proactive messages on Ultimate.

Note what is not on the list: a native app. Secrets AI runs in the browser only, as a PWA. There are no in-app purchases, and the wiki warns that App Store and Google Play apps using the Secrets name are unaffiliated. Pay on the website or not at all.

The cheapest path that makes sense

1. Sign up free, no card. Spend a week with 20 messages a day.
2. Judge the chat, not the features. Reviewers rate chat quality 4.4/5, but that is the paid product. Free memory is the weak point, so test whether it holds a thread for more than a few exchanges.
3. If the writing works for you, buy annual Premium at $109.99 — about $9.17 a month. That is the best value in the lineup by a wide margin.
4. Do not buy Ultimate for group chats unless you have already confirmed memory is the reason you are staying. Memory is where the money goes, and our Secrets AI review covers that trade in detail.

If $19.99 a month is too tight right now, do not force it. Nomi AI gives about 50 daily messages and one Nomi free, with paid plans at $15.99/month or $99.99/year. SpicyChat is free with ads and a queue, paid from $5.95/month. Janitor AI is free on its own model with peak-hour queues, Janitor+ at $12.99/month. Our alternatives guide sorts these by complaint rather than hype.

Testing chat quality without paying

Twenty messages is enough to learn three things. First, whether the character voice holds or drifts. Second, whether memory survives a session break — free memory may not carry across sessions. Third, whether the 500-character cap cramps your style. If you write long replies, it will.

Skip the hype about scenario counts. The pricing guide claims over 100 fantasy scenarios; reviews count about 94 characters. Either way, you will find something to talk to in the first five minutes. The question is whether it remembers you on day three.

Privacy and safety on the free tier

Secrets AI is run by Secret Labs Inc. The privacy policy states AES-256 encryption at rest and encryption in transit. Voice audio is deleted after transcription, and account deletion removes chats and profile immediately. Some guides say deletion takes up to 30 days; the official policy is faster.

Two things to know before you type anything personal:

• End-to-end encryption is claimed on the homepage and pricing pages but not in the privacy policy. The policy allows data use to improve AI models, which means servers can read chats. A third-party privacy rating puts it at 2.9/5.
• Your bank statement shows S LABS INC, not Sun Clinical Laboratories. If you see the latter, something is wrong.

Refunds are limited. EU and UK buyers have 14 days to withdraw. Crypto purchases are never refundable, and Moments and subscriptions are generally non-refundable otherwise. Adult content is 18+ only.

Free alternatives at a glance

Platform	Free tier	Paid from
Nomi AI	About 50 daily messages, one Nomi	$15.99/month or $99.99/year
SpicyChat	Library and creation, ads and queue	$5.95/month
Janitor AI	Free roleplay, peak-hour queues	$12.99/month
OurDream AI	One Dreamcoin per message, no free media	$9.99/month annual
Candy AI	5 messages and one image total	$3.99/month annual

If you want volume over memory, Nomi is the better free tier. If you want images cheaply, Candy.ai and OurDream AI sell pictures first and conversation second — with the fine print to match.

Bottom line

Free Secrets AI is real, permanent and limited: 20 texts a day with any library character, no pictures, no video, no calls, and memory that may not last the week. Use it to test the writing. If the writing holds, annual Premium at about $9.17 a month is the cheapest sensible route into the full product. If it does not, walk — there are more generous free tiers, and none of them cost you anything to try.

One last note: Secrets AI is not the same product as Secret Desires. They are separate apps, and this page covers secrets.ai only.