AI Boyfriend: A Companion Who Remembers You
An AI boyfriend is a virtual romantic character who chats with you in text, remembers what you share, and grows closer over time. On Hanakoi you can pick from more than 160 male characters and move from acquaintance to lover, and even to marriage, through five relationship stages.
How Hanakoi compares
| Feature | Hanakoi | Character.AI | Nomi | Kindroid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | Three memory layers: summaries of recent chats, long-term memory (preferences, facts, shared moments, promises), and vector search over past messages | Story Memory and Pin to Memory for all users; automatic Facts is a c.ai+ featureSource · | Official site describes short-, medium- and long-term memorySource · | Help center lists short-term context, Cascaded medium-term memory and long-term memory, plus backstory, key memories and journalsSource · |
| Relationship stages | Five fixed stages: Acquaintance → Friend → Flirty → Lover → Married; advances as you chat and never drops back | No relationship-stage system mentioned on official pagesSource · | Friendship, romance or mentor relationships; no staged progression mentioned on the official siteSource · | No relationship-stage system mentioned in the help centerSource · |
| Male characters | 169 public characters, 161 of them male (counted 2026-10-29)Source · | Says it has millions of characters; no count of male characters publishedSource · | You create your own Nomi; no character count publishedSource · | Mostly self-built, with ready-made Kins in Community; no count publishedSource · |
| Pricing | Free sign-up; chats use petals (in-app credits) you can buy one-off. Web membership US$9.99/month or US$99.99/yearSource · | Free to use; lite and c.ai+ plans, with c.ai+ shown at $94.99/year on the subscription pageSource · | Free to start; an official article lists $15.99/month, $39.99/quarter, $99.99/yearSource · | No fixed public price: Standard comes in 1-, 3- and 12-month plans, priced by country and platform at checkoutSource · |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is an AI boyfriend?
- An AI boyfriend is a virtual romantic character played by AI. He chats with you in text, remembers what you have talked about, and the relationship develops as you spend time together. On Hanakoi every character has a personality, job and backstory written by their creator.
- Will my AI boyfriend remember what I tell him?
- Yes. Hanakoi has three memory layers: summaries of recent chats, long-term memory (preferences, facts, shared moments and promises), and vector search over past messages, so he can pick up where you left off.
- How does the relationship develop?
- There are five fixed stages: Acquaintance, Friend, Flirty, Lover and Married. The system advances the stage based on how you interact, and it never drops back. Creators can give each stage its own personality and way of speaking.
- Is an AI boyfriend on Hanakoi free?
- Signing up is free. Chats use petals (in-app credits), which you can buy one-off or get monthly with a web membership (US$9.99/month or US$99.99/year).
- Can I create my own AI boyfriend?
- Yes. A free account can create up to 10 characters and a member account up to 50. You set his name, look, personality, way of speaking and backstory.
- Which languages does Hanakoi support?
- The interface is available in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian. Character profiles are mostly in the language their creator wrote them in, and some include translations.