SextBots Review: A Free Bot Flea Market With No Name on the Door

My own verdict comes from a short stay. I stopped after 10 days, not out of guilt, but because a flea market is fun to walk through and exhausting to live in. The stalls were interesting and the entry was free, but after a while I wanted a shop with one owner I could complain to.

I'd point adults who want text roleplay, a huge community catalogue and a free tier that does not nag them toward a card here. Hobby bot creators get the best deal of all, because the creator is free and detailed. I'd steer away anyone who wants pictures or voice without paying, a named company behind the product, or a moderation team that keeps the public shelves clean.

The paid side is where I get careful. SextBots does not bill anyone itself, and the checkout lives on a third-party site. Until that side is clearer, I'd treat the free tier as the product and the plans as a rumour.

Most of what I did was browse. I spent more time reading bot descriptions than chatting, the way you spend more time at a flea market reading hand-written price tags than buying anything. The catalogue felt endless, and every table was run by a different stranger.

The best bot of the whole stretch was a burned-out casino dealer who complained about bachelor parties in Black Hawk. He gave me the one line from those ten days that I still repeat, about split eights and a pit boss named Gary. More on him in the conversations section.

It ended quietly. I stopped after 10 days, not out of guilt, just because a flea market is fun to walk through and exhausting to live in. The table below lists the facts; the rest of this review sets my notes next to what the site looks like on 23 September 2026.

A flea market lets you look at the tables, but it wants a name before you haggle.

Sign-up took under a minute with a throwaway email. That is faster than I name a project folder, which says more about me than it does about the app. A throwaway address felt like the right level of commitment for a site I had only just met.

Signing up today

The homepage calls SextBots the "#1 Platform" for its kind of chat bots. Nobody audits a claim like that, and I read it the way I read "world's best coffee" on a diner sign. It sets the tone without proving anything.

Browsing the catalogue is still public and needs no account. Chatting needs a free account, and the first attempt brings up the same notice as in my notes: "To prevent spam, please log in or create a free account to chat". On that point the site has not changed a word, which I count in its favour.

Two checkboxes sit at the bottom of the form. One agrees to the Privacy Policy, Terms, AI Safety page and Community Guidelines, and the other confirms the user is at least 18. There is no birthday field and no CAPTCHA.

I like a short form, but I'd note what it trades away. A checkbox is a promise, not a check, and a form without a CAPTCHA leans on the e-mail step to keep bots out. On a site that is nothing but bots, that is a slightly funny sentence to write.

The form also carries a warning in plain text: the anti-spam system prohibits multiple accounts, and breaking the rule leads to "permanent blocks on all associated accounts". I'd take that seriously. If you want a second character to play, personas cover it, so there is no reason to risk a second login.

The code, and straight in

After the form, an "Email Verification Required" page appears with a "Send Verification Code" button. A 6-digit code and a verification link arrive by e-mail in about 30 seconds. The e-mail comes from "Sextbots" with the subject "Verification Code for SextBots".

Entering the code logs the account straight in, with no onboarding. The username is auto-generated and can be changed later in My Account. A default persona is created automatically from the chat name and gender given at sign-up, with the description "... is an adult male user".

No tour, no quiz about my ideal partner, no carousel of features. I prefer that. The app hands you the keys and assumes you can find the ignition.

Profiles can be public or private, and they have fields for social links. I'd leave those links empty on a site like this. Clients do not need to find a chat persona, and a chat persona does not need a portfolio.

The whole sign-up takes about 1 minute today. In my January 2025 notes it took under a minute too, so this is one of the few places where then and now match. Fast, plain, and no speech about features I had not asked about.

The size has not shrunk. The catalogue counter shows "Total: 39,279" bots, and a third-party summary puts the library at over 30,000 chat bots, a figure no official page confirms. Both numbers point the same way, and the counter on the site is the one I'd trust.

Quality by the table

Quality swung wildly. Some bots had careful backstories and consistent voices, and others were three lines of description and a stock image. It is the flea-market problem again: one stall has a restored lamp, and the next has a box of cables nobody labelled.

I ended up spending more time reading bot descriptions than chatting. Some creators write like amateur novelists, and some write like a ransom note. As someone who gets client notes all week, I found the ransom notes weirdly useful, because they told me in one line not to bother.

Finding your way around

Discovery runs on tags, and the catalogue has 34 of them. Each bot also shows an approval percentage rating. I'd lean on that rating harder than on the tags, since a tag is what the creator claims and a rating is what other people felt.

Neither tool solves the core problem. With a catalogue that big and tags as the main map, finding the good table still takes time. Time is what the library quietly charges instead of money.

That is not a complaint about size. A big market is a good market; it just needs a shopper with a plan, and the site does not hand you one.

Two pages help once you find something worth keeping: My Favorites and My Gallery. I'd use favourites like a shortlist on a location scout. You mark the good spots on the first walk so you do not have to cover the whole market again.

The creator sets a category, public or private visibility and an AI-generated profile image. Bot descriptions can run to 4,000 characters. That is room for a real backstory, which makes the three-line bots in the library look lazier still.

The form reminds creators to "ensure all characters are clearly over 18". I'd like that line more if the public shelves followed it everywhere. The content-settings section covers where they do not.

The rest of the form reads like a screenplay template. There is a "Sexuality" section and an opening scene field. There is also an opening message with 2 alternate openings, which is a smart touch: it is the difference between one take and a choice of takes in the edit.

"Response Guidelines" and "Response Format" are editable prompt blocks, and they come with sensible defaults. A bot can be given a voice, and there is a creator-notes field. The defaults matter more than they look, because most people never touch a prompt block, and a good default quietly lifts every lazy bot built on top of it.

Sharing and forking

Public characters can be forked, edited, chatted with and favourited by other users. That is generous and a bit risky. Fork culture is how the good bots spread, and it is also how one creator's careful backstory ends up as someone else's three-line copy.

I'd think about that before making a bot public. Once it is out, it belongs to the market as much as to you, and the terms section explains why that is hard to undo.

The leaderboard

A Creator Leaderboard runs on daily, weekly and monthly periods. It ranks creators by the engagement of their bots and updates every 30 minutes. At the time of the check, the leaders had between 2 and 162 bots each.

That spread tells me something useful. A creator with 2 bots can sit on the same board as one with 162, so a single well-written character can compete with a production line. I like that, because it rewards the writing and not only the output.

I'd still treat the leaderboard as a sign of what gets clicks, not of what reads well. Engagement rewards bots that pull people in fast, and in this corner of the internet the fastest hook is rarely the best writing. The rewards themselves are covered in the discounts section.

What made the dealer work was specificity. A generic bot would have sighed about hard days at work; this one had a town, a crowd and a grudge. That is the same thing I look for in a good brief: the more specific the complaint, the more likely the finished piece feels real.

Then came the funny moment. I asked the dealer for career advice, and it told me to "always split eights and never trust a pit boss named Gary". The most demanding wedding planner I work with is named Gary.

The bot had no way to know that, which is exactly why it landed. It was a coin flip that came up on the right side and felt like a cold read. I'd call it the peak of my ten days, and it came from a character with no romance in its description at all.

I think that says something about the whole site. The bots that worked for me were the ones with a job, a place and a bad attitude, not the ones built to be a partner. The name promises one thing, and the best writing on it was about something else.

A sample reply from the Grace bot reads: "Oh, thank goodness... I was starting to think I'd never find it. Pookie's been going on and on about this game, but I have no idea what it's about." That is a decent line of dialogue, with a nickname, a worry and a gap for the user to fill.

The bot stayed in character. It also used the persona's name in its opening scene, which is a small thing that makes a story feel addressed to you rather than broadcast.

That is solid craft for a free model. The replies read like a patient community-theatre actor: a bit too much stage business, but never out of the part.

Five to fifteen seconds per reply is fine for this kind of chat. It is roughly the time it takes to read the previous reply properly, so the wait rarely feels like a wait.

Long replies are a mixed blessing, though. On a phone, a reply that runs several paragraphs means scrolling back up, and the question the bot asked you tends to hide in the last line. I'd rather have a shorter reply with a clear hook.

The bot also added small flirtatious beats on its own, such as lingering on the user's gaze. In a scenario about a holiday gift, that is the site's default setting leaking into a plain story. I don't mind a bot with some personality, but I'd rather the flirting waited for an invitation.

Two small controls earn their place. The last message can be unsent, and a chat can be cleared and restarted. Unsend is the undo button every editor reaches for by reflex, and I wish more apps had it.

Settings hold the defaults. Reply Length offers Short, Default and Long, and Reply Creativity offers Low, Default and High. Settings also cover voice mode, voice autoplay, notification sounds and profile pictures in chat.

I'd set creativity to Default and length to Short for a new bot. Long replies are fine once you trust the writing, but on an unknown bot they are a lot of footage to scrub through for one usable line.

The model dial

The Chat Experience has three tiers: Limited on free, then Standard and Premium, set in Settings and per chat. In practice that is the quality dial for the model behind the bot, and free users sit on the first notch.

Whether that notch is good enough depends on the bot more than the model. I never paid, so the dealer's best lines came on a free account. A good description does more work than a bigger model, the same way a clean shot does more than a fancy grade.

My verdict on conversations: good when the creator did the homework, forgettable when they didn't, and the free model is not the bottleneck. I'd pick bots by their description first and worry about tiers later, if at all.

Between chats, the official line is blunt. The AI Safety page says "Characters don't remember you between sessions/conversations". I respect a site that says this out loud, even if the product would be better with the opposite sentence.

It is not much, but it is free, and it is more honest than a memory feature that promises everything and keeps half.

I'd treat that box like a continuity sheet on a shoot. You write down what matters before you wrap, because nobody will remember which hand held the glass. For a bot with a running joke, a few lines there keep the joke alive into the next session.

What I would not do is expect the bots to grow with you. A companion that forgets you by design is a story engine, not a relationship, and SextBots seems comfortable being the former. For casual storytelling that is honest; for anyone looking for a partner who remembers last week, it is a dealbreaker.

For paying users, the generator offers aspect ratios 1:1, 4:3 and 3:4, and the styles Normal, Semi-Real, Cool and Comic. It takes an optional reference image from the gallery. Generated images are moderated before and after generation "via API provider".

That is a short menu. As an editor I care about aspect ratios, and those three cover a square post and a couple of photo frames, with nothing wide. The style names read more like filter presets than looks, but I'd reserve judgement, since the free tier gives no way to see the output.

The reference image is the most interesting line on the list. In theory, a reference is how you keep a face consistent from picture to picture, which is the hardest job for any generator. Without a free preview, that stays a theory.

Pictures inside chats work differently. "Request Picture" in chat only works with bots that carry the site's tag for adult pictures. Bots can also hold up to 5 "Unlockable Pictures", given out as story rewards.

Voice is further along. Each chat has a voice picker with voices like "Female 3", and three voice modes: Everything, Dialogue Lax and Dialogue Strict. Voice autoplay can be switched per chat.

The mode names suggest a choice between reading everything aloud or only the spoken lines. I'd pick Dialogue Strict. Hearing a synthetic voice narrate stage directions would be like a trailer voice reading the end credits.

My take on media: SextBots is a text site with a paid picture annex. If images and voice matter to you, the free tier will not show you what you would be paying for, and that is a poor way to sell a feature.

That feeling shaped the whole stay. I never had the vending-machine moment where a character stops mid-sentence to ask for coins, so my attention went to the bots instead of a balance.

So the label says 50 and the counter says 75. The extra messages look like a day-one allowance, but nothing on the site explains the gap between 50 and 75. I'd plan around 50 and treat the rest as a tip.

The Terms are vaguer still. They describe the free tier as limited daily messages and features, with no API key required. The free tier is subject to availability and rate limits, and the Terms do not publish the number of free daily messages.

That combination is the part I'd watch. A number on the account page with no number in the Terms means the allowance can change without the rules changing. Next to my cap-free week in 2025, the free tier has gone from an open bar to a drinks ticket.

What free leaves out

Free gets the "Limited" chat experience, the lowest model tier. The "Chat Experience" switch in the chat menu opens an "Upgrade Required" modal on free, with the line "This feature is not available to free users". It is a polite door, but a closed one.

There is no image generation on free, and no adult images. Voice message playback is not included either. That makes the free tier a text product, which is fine, because text is what the site does best.

A queue applies on free, and skipping it is a paid perk. No queue wait was noticed on free during the check. There are no ads.

No ads is a bigger deal than it sounds. Many free tiers pay for themselves with banners and pop-ups, and SextBots simply does not. On a quiet evening the queue is a threat on paper, not a wait in practice.

What free is good for

I'd use the free tier the way the library invites: read descriptions, open a few chats, and keep the ones that earn it. Fifty messages a day covers a long evening with one good bot, or a quick tour of several.

Where it stops is anything visual or audible, and anything that needs the bot to remember yesterday without a note. For a text storytelling habit, though, the free tier is still the best part of the product.

It is also the right tier to judge the site on. The library, the creator and the chats are all on it, and everything behind the paywall is something you cannot see until you pay.

Yearly billing is advertised as "Save 25%". Standard on yearly billing costs $14 a month, billed as $168 a year, which saves $60 a year. Premium on yearly billing costs $29 a month, billed as $348 a year, which saves $120 a year.

The math holds up: twelve monthly Standard payments come to $60 more than the yearly bill, and twelve Premium payments to $120 more. I'd still skip yearly here. A year up front is a big commitment to a product whose company has no name and whose checkout runs somewhere else.

"Other Exclusive Features" is the pricing-page version of "and more" on a gift card. I'd give it zero weight.

Standard leaves out two things: the Premium Chat Experience and Increased Usage Caps. So Standard buys the extras around the chat, not a smarter chat.

For a text site, that is an odd split. The thing SextBots does best is conversation, and the cheaper plan does not touch the chat model at all.

What Premium adds

Premium includes everything in Standard. It adds the "Premium Chat Experience", which its tooltip describes this way: "Uses a more intelligent AI model for superior roleplay quality with better plot consistency, deeper character development, and enhanced handling of complex or multi-character scenarios". It also adds "Increased Usage Caps".

Increased from what, the page does not say. I'd want a number before paying double for caps, the same way I'd want a mileage figure before buying a used car.

Who actually takes the money

"Upgrade" opens a new tab on a third-party site, wiserouter.ai, with the plan, e-mail and billing period in the URL (?plan=premium&email=...&annual=1). The SextBots tab then shows "Checkout Opened... Awaiting purchase confirmation". It polls for that confirmation, with a line like "Next check in 14s".

Putting an e-mail address in a URL is a small thing that bothers me. Addresses in URLs end up in browser history and logs, and I'd rather mine did not.

In other words, the plan is a key and SextBots is the lock. The public pages do not list which API providers are supported. The Terms describe API-tier usage as unlimited, depending on the user's own plan with the AI provider.

That last line sits awkwardly next to Premium's "Increased Usage Caps". Unlimited in the Terms and capped on the pricing card cannot both be the whole story, and I'd ask WiseRouter which one applies before paying.

Is the step up worth it?

For text chat, I don't think so. The free tier covers the part SextBots does well, and Standard mostly buys pictures and voice that the free tier never lets you preview. Premium at $39 a month is priced like a streaming bundle for a model upgrade described only in a tooltip.

Put in plain money, Premium on yearly billing is $348 before tax for a model the site describes in one sentence. I'd want to hear a sample of that model before paying, the way I'd want a test clip before renting a camera for a whole season.

If you want images, Standard on monthly billing is the one I'd try, for one month, with a card you can freeze. I'd skip the yearly discount until the checkout, the caps and the company behind them are all clear.

I'd read that as a hidden fuel gauge. The plan price is flat, but something inside it is counting, and the public pages do not say how many credits a plan includes or what happens when they run out. A flat fee with a hidden meter is a gym membership where the towels are quietly rationed.

For text chat, the cost story is simple: free, or a flat monthly price through WiseRouter. For images, the real cost per picture cannot be worked out from the public pages, and I would not buy a plan for images until it can.

The table below lists the extras side by side. Most rows give the same answer in different words: included in a paid plan, priced in a unit nobody shows you. For a flat-fee site, that is one unknown too many.

The inbox stays quiet too. No welcome or marketing e-mail arrives after verification; the code e-mail is the only one. For a site with this name, a quiet inbox is a feature.

I appreciate that more than a coupon. A discount you have to dig out of a marketing e-mail is rarely a discount; it is a reminder to come back and spend.

The creator rewards

The one bonus system is for creators, not buyers. The top 3 bots of a period get rewards, and for "Yesterday" they were 250, 150 and 100. A separate "Top Creator Bonus" of 100 goes to the creator with the highest combined engagement.

Rewards are paid out automatically at the end of each period. The reward unit is shown only as an icon; it is probably credits, but that is not confirmed.

An unnamed currency is my least favourite kind of prize. It is like winning a raffle and being handed an envelope with no amount written on it.

Still, I'd call this the healthiest bonus on the site. It pays people for writing bots others want to talk to, and that is what keeps a flea market worth visiting. If you like building characters, the leaderboard gives the hobby a scoreboard; just don't count the prize as money until the site says what it is.

The Terms call SextBots an adult entertainment service that permits mature content where legally allowed. They warn that users may meet or create sexual themes or content without warning. Using the service confirms the user is an adult and accepts the content policy.

That is honest labelling. It also means there is no way to keep a session plain if a bot drifts, apart from choosing bots carefully.

The looseness cut both ways for me in January 2025: nothing interrupted a story, and nothing stopped a bad one either. A sandbox is fun until you find what the last visitor left in it.

Bots you don't want to see can be hidden, and they end up listed under "Hidden Bots" in My Account. I'd use that button liberally. It is the closest thing the site has to a personal filter.

What the Guidelines ban

The rules have grown since my stay. The Guidelines ban hate speech, and graphic violence and gore, including sexual violence and torture. They ban animal abuse in any form, sexual or otherwise.

They also ban the promotion of self-harm, real people and celebrities, doxxing, copyrighted content and spam. Uploading images of real persons is not allowed.

The list reads like a standard content policy, and I mean that as a compliment. The real test of a rulebook is whether the shelves reflect it.

Moderation uses "automated systems and human review", and users can report content. Back in January 2025 spam was the only rule I felt, and today the written rulebook is long. Whether enforcement matches the rulebook is another question, and the last part of this section answers it in part.

I think that belongs on every companion site. I'm glad it is here, on a site that could easily have skipped it, and I'd rather see it and never need it.

Age checks and gaps in the public listings

Age is confirmed by a checkbox only, with no birthday or ID check. A checkbox is a door with a sign on it, not a lock.

The Guidelines are clear on paper. They ban content involving minors, including anyone who "is or may appear to be under 18". That wording is broad on purpose, and it is the right standard for a site like this.

The public listings do not keep up with it. On 23 September 2026, the homepage and browse list, logged out and logged in, showed a bot whose description presents a character who is plainly not a grown-up. Several anime bots built around classroom settings and fan characters were listed publicly as well.

These listings go against the Guidelines' own "may appear to be under 18" rule. The check did not open these bots, and I won't name them here.

What it tells me is simple. The rulebook is clear, the shelves are stocked by strangers, and moderation is not keeping pace with them.

That gap is the main reason the content score is low. I'd use the report button on listings like these, and I would not treat the site as a place where the rules are enforced at the door.

Reading the Terms today, that caution still looks sensible. Not because anything in them is a trap, but because of what they leave out.

Who runs it

The operator is named only as "SextBots.com". No company name or address is given anywhere, and no governing law or jurisdiction is given. Claims must be brought within one year.

A one-year deadline with no named court is a strange combination. You get a clock, but no idea which building to walk into when it runs out. I'd call this the biggest gap in the Terms.

Contacts are a contact form, [email protected] and legal[at]sextbots.com. The site says it typically responds within 7 business days. The footer holds only Contact, Guidelines, Safety, Terms, Privacy, Removals and 2257, and the 2257 page says all visuals are AI-generated.

The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Guidelines are all marked "Last Updated: August 2025". The minimum age is 18.

Who takes your money

The Terms describe two tiers, a "Free Tier" and an "API Tier". SextBots does not bill anyone itself: a paid plan is a subscription with the "API provider", WiseRouter. It states "We do not process payments for any tier."

All payments are handled directly by API providers, and SextBots says it does not process or store payment information. There are no refunds for API subscriptions; users must contact the provider directly. SextBots may receive referral compensation when a user subscribes to API services through the platform.

Liability is capped at $0 on the free tier and at $100 on the API tier. For a subscriber, $100 is about five months of Standard on monthly billing. That is the kind of number that tells you nobody expects to pay out.

Your content and your chats

Users keep copyright ownership of all their content. Public content cannot be made private again once shared. Deleting public content anonymises it, and copies stay in other users' private spaces.

That is the fork culture from the creator section, written as law. Once a bot is public it belongs to the market as much as to you, so I'd publish only what you are happy to lose control of.

Chat content may be used to improve AI responses and safety filters. Chat data is aggregated and anonymised before it is used for training. SextBots says it does not sell personal information, but it shares data with vendors for AI generation, hosting, CDN and analytics.

A browser fingerprint is collected for security purposes. Account data is kept while the account is active. None of that is unusual, but a fingerprint is one more reason a throwaway e-mail only hides so much.

For chat users, the training clause is the one to weigh. Anonymised is better than raw, but I'd write anything typed into a bot as if a stranger may one day read a version of it.

Deleting and auto-delete

Chat logs auto-delete after 7, 30 or 90 days of inactivity, as set by the user. The default on a new account is 7 days. Deleted chats are removed immediately, while backups are kept for 7 days.

So "immediately" means immediately from the live site, with a backup copy around for a week. A 7-day default is a privacy-friendly choice, and a rare one in this category.

My read on the Terms

The Terms are short, readable and mostly fair to free users. What they lack is an owner: no company, no address, no jurisdiction, and a payment chain that runs through someone else. My 2025 caution was a hunch built on two scam checkers, and in 2026 the paperwork gives it a reason.

Bare-bones is not a complaint on its own. I'd take a plain page over a cluttered one any day, but plain has to mean working, and on a phone it did not always.

The paid path is worse. The WiseRouter checkout page did not load, even after reloading, and showed "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred". The "Learn more ->" links on the pricing cards did nothing.

There is no public pricing or FAQ page either: /pricing, /premium, /subscribe and /faq return the site's 404 page. So a would-be subscriber gets pricing cards with dead links, no page to read, and a checkout on another site that errors out.

That is three strikes on the one path where most companies polish everything. I would not call it a dark pattern; it looks more like nobody has checked the till in a while. The effect is the same, though: you cannot read the fine print before you pay, because there is nowhere to read it.

There are Report Bug and Request Feature pages. I'd use them, but I would not expect quick answers from a site that quotes 7 business days for its contact form.

Friction elsewhere is low. Sign-up is fast, there are no popups, and the chat itself is quick. The rough edges sit on mobile and on the money side, which are the two places a new user meets first and last.

I'd put myself in the first group, at least for a while. The library and the free tier are the reasons to go, and both are still there.

It is not for anyone who wants SFW-only content or strict moderation, since questionable bots are visible in public listings. It is not for users who need images or voice on the free tier. And it is not for people who want a clear company identity, jurisdiction and refund policy, since payments go through a third party.

Mobile users should know the limits too. There are no mobile app links, and SextBots is web only; no SextBots app exists in the Apple App Store or Google Play. I'd be suspicious of anything in an app store using the name.

No social links exist either: no footer or menu links to Discord, X, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Telegram or app stores, logged out or logged in. That rules it out for anyone who needs mobile apps or community social channels.

I don't mind the missing app. The missing community channels bother me more, because a site built by its users gives those users nowhere to talk to each other or to the owners.

Both paid plans say "Cancel anytime". Cancellations and refunds are handled by the API provider, and subscriptions are managed through the API provider. Removing the API key returns the account to the free tier.

That split matters. Removing the key changes what SextBots shows you, but nothing on the site says it stops the provider from billing you. I'd cancel with WiseRouter first and remove the key second.

Account deletion is in My Account. A deleted account can be reactivated within 7 days, but "User Content will not be restored" on reactivation.

So the 7-day window saves your login, not your bots or chats. If there is anything you want to keep, copy it out before you press delete.

That order of events matters for creators more than for chatters. A public bot has already left your hands under the Terms, but private bots and your own chats go with the account. I'd treat the delete button like formatting a memory card: check twice that the footage is backed up, then press it once.

Two counters, one exit

The awkward part is that there are two places to leave from. SextBots controls the account, the key field and the content, while WiseRouter controls the subscription and the money. Cancelling in one place does not tidy up the other.

Before you pay

• Read WiseRouter's own terms, since the refund and cancellation rules live there.
• Pay monthly, not yearly, until you have seen a renewal go through cleanly.
• Note where the subscription is managed before the first charge, not after.
• Use a card you can freeze in case the provider does not answer.

"Cancel anytime" is true on the SextBots side of the counter. The other side is where your money went, so that is where the cancelling has to happen.

Read before you chat. I spent more time on descriptions than on conversations, and I'd do it again. Check the approval rating, skip anything that reads like a ransom note, and favourite the few that don't.

Look beyond the obvious bots. My best one was a burned-out casino dealer, not a girlfriend. Characters with a job and a grudge often write better than characters built only to please.

Use the memory box. Characters do not carry memory between chats, so a few lines of notes do the job a continuity sheet does on a shoot.

Raise auto-delete if a story matters. The short default is good for privacy and bad for long stories.

Hide what you don't want to see, and report listings that break the Guidelines. The hide button helps you; the report button helps everyone.

Stay on free until the checkout works and the caps are explained. My ten days never needed a card, and the free tier still covers the text side today.

Know when to leave. A flea market is fun to walk through and exhausting to live in. When browsing starts to feel like work, it probably is.

The free tier rates strong: a daily allowance, no ads, no coins and no queue in practice. Value for money is mixed, since the free side is generous and the paid side sells pictures and voice you cannot preview first.

Images and voice rate weak, because both are locked on free and the paid versions are thinly described. Privacy and terms rate weak for the missing company name and jurisdiction, even with a good auto-delete default. Cancelling and billing rate weak too, because the money, the refunds and the cancelling all sit with a third party whose checkout failed.

Content settings rate weak as well. The rules are long and sensible on paper, but a checkbox is the only gate and some public listings break the site's own rules.

Where it is better is the free tier. Apps built on coins and tokens put a meter on every message, picture and minute of voice, and SextBots had none of that in my week. Even today's daily counter is kinder than a coin balance.

The library is another win. Tens of thousands of community bots is a bigger shelf than a polished app with a handful of house characters, and the creator tools cost nothing.

My rule of thumb: if you want a partner who looks and sounds real, the polished apps in the table are where the money goes. If you want to read, write and play out stories without a meter running, SextBots is a better place to spend an evening than its name suggests.

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The worst version is the same market with nobody watching the stalls. Rules exist on paper, some listings break them, and the till belongs to somebody else.

I left because walking through was fun and living there was tiring. I'd go back to browse, with a throwaway address and no card, and I'd leave again before it started to feel like work.