We built an anime waifu on Nectar AI with a fantasy race, chatted with her and with community characters, hit the free limit on purpose and read the single plan line by line. Nectar is quick, generous once you pay, and stingy before.
Nectar AI is the quickest way to an elf, angel, devil, witch or cyborg waifu. Five builder screens, a race picker on the second one, long memory and calls on the paid plan, which costs $4.99 a month billed yearly. The free account is a short test drive.
A clean builder with real fantasy races, a chat with long memory, and one plan that includes calls and video. The free account is the weakest of our top four, which is what keeps Nectar at 8.9.
Nectar AI is a companion platform with a short, efficient builder and a community catalog. It is not the deepest builder in our ranking, and it is not the cheapest free start, but it does one thing better than anyone else: it puts fantasy races front and center. If your AI waifu has pointed ears, wings, horns or a mechanical arm, Nectar gets you there in two clicks.
We judge AI waifu apps on three questions: does she look the way you pictured her, does she stay the same person over time, and can you see and hear her when you want to? Nectar's answers are a clear yes on looks and memory, and a yes on voice once you pay. Its weak spot is the moment before you pay.
We created a free account, built an anime character with the Elf race, chatted until the free limit appeared, and looked at the plan page and the settings, including the NSFW switch that can be turned off for a calmer experience. The screenshots on this page come from that test.
Nectar's catalog is built by its users. As everywhere, quality varies; the characters we list from it are adults aged 21 or more on their cards, and we skip anything set in a school or borrowed from an existing anime.
We score all seven platforms on the same six criteria: anime style, builder, chat and memory, images and video, price, and free start. Nectar's profile is unusual: high on builder, memory and price, low on free start. Its overall 8.9 places it fourth, just behind Kupid AI and ahead of Lovescape.
The free account lets you build a character, see her portrait and send a handful of messages, around three in our test, plus one picture. Then a limit appears and asks you to choose a plan. That is enough to see the builder and the first reply, and not enough to judge the chat over a real evening.
So treat the free account as a demo of the builder. Spend your free messages on one well chosen character rather than spreading them across several, and write a longer first message: the reply will tell you more about the writing than three short hellos.
Nectar sells a single plan, Ultimate. It costs $12.99 for one month, or $59.99 for a year, which works out to $4.99 a month, with 2,500 bonus credits in the first month of the yearly plan. Ultimate includes 5,000 credits a month, unlimited messages, long memory, video, voice messages and calls.
Credits pay for the extras. Images and video use them, and calls use them by the second: a voice call costs 1 credit per second and a video call 2 credits per second, so a 5,000 credit month covers a lot of pictures but only so many long calls. We found it easy to stay within the allowance with text, images and short calls.
Against the other six platforms, Nectar's paid price is excellent, close to Candy's yearly rate, and its free start is the shortest. If you know you will pay, Nectar is a bargain. If you want to try for free for a week, look at Joi or OurDream first.
One last point about the free account: it is a good place to test the builder itself, which costs nothing. Click through every race, compare the previews, and only then decide which character to spend your free messages on.
| Plan | Price | Billed | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | about 3 messages, 1 picture | |
| Ultimate yearly | $4.99 a month | $59.99 a year | 5,000 a month (+2,500 first month) |
| Ultimate monthly | $12.99 | every month | 5,000 a month |
The charge appears as Nectar Vixen AI on your statement. The NSFW switch lives in the settings and can be turned off.
Nectar suits three profiles.
Nectar is a weaker choice in two situations.
If you want to try for free over several evenings, Joi lets free text chat run much longer on a confirmed account, and OurDream gives 55 coins that cover a real conversation or several pictures. Nectar's free account ends after a few messages.
If you want the most control over personality and backstory, OurDream's details screen goes further than Nectar's, and Candy AI's ready-made anime cast is better written than Nectar's community catalog. Nectar sits between them: faster than OurDream, more fantasy than Candy.
Seven parts of the product, each scored out of 10, with the screenshot we took.
The builder opens on a category choice, Realistic or Anime. Pick Anime and the rest of the builder, the previews and the final portrait follow that style. It is a real style switch, not a filter laid over realistic faces, and the result looks drawn rather than painted over a photo.
The builder is short: category, race and skin tone, hair and eyes, body, then name, voice and personality. Five screens, each with clear previews, and nothing you cannot change later.
Before the category, Nectar asks for a starting point: Standard, the classic step by step flow, or Photo Reference, which builds a companion from a picture you upload. We used Standard. Once you choose Anime, the builder even renames itself: the screens read Create your AI Waifu, which tells you who Nectar had in mind.
We appreciated that the category choice is the first thing Nectar asks. Platforms that bury the anime option deep in a menu tend to mix styles in their previews, and you end up with a character who looks semi realistic in one picture and drawn in the next. Nectar's choice holds for the whole life of the character.
This is Nectar's signature screen. Race offers Human, Elf, Devil, Angel, Witch and Cyborg, with skin tones below. Each race changes the character's look in a consistent way: ears for elves, horns for devils, wings for angels, a hat and a darker palette for witches, mechanical details for cyborgs.
We built an elf and the ears carried through to every picture. For our archetype pages, this screen is the fastest route to a mage, a demon girl or a monster girl look without writing a single prompt.
Each race also nudges the personality options toward something fitting, without forcing it. Our elf leaned toward calm and curious suggestions; a devil build leaned toward teasing and confident ones. You can ignore the nudge, but it helps when you are not sure what to write.
Skin tones sit under the race choice, and they work with every race, so a dark skinned elf or a pale devil is as easy as any other combination.
Hair style and color, eye color and body type come next, then the name, a voice and a personality. The options are fewer than OurDream's but well chosen, and the voice preview helps you avoid a mismatch between face and sound.
The age is set on the character card after creation, and every choice stays editable there. We always set 21 or more. If the personality feels flat after a few messages, edit it on the card rather than starting over.
The details screen is mostly free text: a personality box where you write her traits in your own words, a voice menu with previews, and Advanced Options for extra physical traits and the greeting she opens with. The result card then shows every choice as a tile, with Reroll appearance and Bring my AI to life buttons.
Voice is chosen during creation, with previews. Pick it with the personality in mind: a low, slow voice suits a calm mage, a bright fast one suits a playful witch. Since voice messages and calls are a big part of what the paid plan offers, a good match here pays off later.
Replies are fluent and in character, with a good sense of rhythm. Where Nectar stands out is memory: the plan includes long memory, and our character recalled names, places and plans from earlier sessions without a reminder.
The chat works in English and several other languages, which is handy if you prefer to write in your own. Short first messages get short replies; give her a scene and she runs with it.
Our memory test was the same as on every platform: a café name, a weekend plan, a long detour, then a question. Nectar's character remembered the plan and the café, and brought up the weekend again on her own the next session. That kind of unprompted callback is what makes a waifu feel like she lives between your visits.
If you write in a language other than English, try it. The replies stayed natural in our short test, and the character kept her personality across languages.
Pictures follow the character's race and style well, and video is included in the plan. Voice messages add a lot to the feeling of presence, and voice and video calls are there when you want them.
Calls are where the credits go. At 1 credit per second for voice and 2 for video, a ten minute video call uses 1,200 credits, almost a quarter of the month. Keep calls for the moments that matter and use voice messages the rest of the time.
Images respect the race you chose, which is not a given: some platforms lose elf ears or horns in half of their pictures. Nectar kept them consistently in our test. Video adds motion to a scene, and it is included in the plan rather than sold separately, paid with credits like everything else.
The community catalog is large and uneven. Filters help, and the NSFW switch in the settings lets you keep the experience calm if you prefer. We would still recommend building your own waifu, since that is what Nectar does best.
Our approach to the catalog: open a few characters with a fantasy race tag to see what other users built, borrow the ideas you like, and build your own. That combines the community's imagination with the consistency of your own character.
One plan, Ultimate, at $4.99 a month billed yearly or $12.99 monthly, with 5,000 credits, unlimited messages, long memory, video and calls. That is the second lowest yearly price in our ranking, and there are no tiers to compare.
The statement shows Nectar Vixen AI. The yearly plan adds 2,500 bonus credits in the first month, which is a good moment to try video calls without worrying about the allowance.
Users on independent forums praise Nectar's builder, its fantasy races and the memory, and complain about the free account ending too quickly. Our test agrees on all three points.
Another recurring remark concerns calls: people enjoy them and are surprised by how fast credits go. The per second pricing is stated on the plan page, so it is worth reading before your first long call.
Some comparison sites still list several Nectar tiers; the plan page we saw had one plan, Ultimate. When in doubt, trust the plan page over third party summaries, including ours.
Overall, the feedback describes Nectar as a platform people subscribe to with confidence once they try it, and leave quickly if they only want free chat. That matches our scores: high everywhere except the free start.
Nectar AI scores 8.9 and takes fourth place in our AI waifu ranking. It is the fastest way to a fantasy waifu, it remembers well, and its one plan includes voice and video at a price close to Candy's. The short free trial is the only thing holding it back.
Our advice: use the free account to build one character and read her first reply carefully. If it convinces you, the yearly plan is a safe bet at $4.99 a month. If you want to chat for free for longer before deciding, start with Joi or OurDream and come back to Nectar for fantasy races.
For this site's archetypes, Nectar is our pick for demon girls, angels and cyborg looks, and a strong second for mages and witches.
If you are torn between Nectar and Candy, the choice is simple. Pick Candy for a curated anime cast and the lowest yearly price; pick Nectar if your waifu has wings, horns, pointed ears or a mechanical arm, and if long memory and calls matter to you.
Written by
Tessa Hartwell @tessahw
Former UX writer from the US Midwest who builds an anime companion on every app she covers. She keeps one spreadsheet of what each platform really costs and one of the characters worth a second chat.
How we testYou can create a free account, build a character and send a few messages, about three in our test, plus one picture. After that Nectar asks you to choose its paid plan.
One plan, Ultimate: $12.99 a month, or $59.99 a year, which is $4.99 a month, with 2,500 bonus credits in the first yearly month. It includes 5,000 credits a month.
Yes. Choose Anime as the category, then pick Elf, Devil, Angel, Witch or Cyborg on the race screen. The race carries into every picture.
Long memory is included in the paid plan. In our test the character recalled names and plans from earlier sessions.
Voice calls cost 1 credit per second and video calls 2 credits per second, taken from the 5,000 monthly credits of the plan.
Yes. The settings have an NSFW switch, so you can keep chats and pictures safe for work.
The charge appears as Nectar Vixen AI.
The catalog is made by users. Every Nectar character we list is a fictional adult aged 21 or older, and the age of your own character is set on her card.
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