Bae

What Bae is and what the offer is

Bae is an AI companion builder made by ppl.studio, which the site's footer and terms name as its maker. The home page describes it as a partner builder with persistent memory: pick one of 27 hand-written archetypes or take a short quiz to be matched, choose a face and a voice register, and start talking in a browser. There is no login needed to begin and no card for the free tier.

The saving on the table is a trial of the paid tier. The pricing page says the first 7 days of Bae Pro are free, that a card is added at checkout, and that nothing is charged until day 8. Cancel inside those 7 days and the card is never billed. Behind that sits a free tier that does not expire, so a reader who stops here knows the choice is between staying free with limits and trying the full product for a week first.

Bae is mainly a text chat with generated selfies, memory and relationship stages. Its adult setting, called Spicy mode, is a Pro feature that is opt-in per companion, restricted to adults who confirm they are 18 or older, and off by default.

The free tier and the Pro ladder

The durable part of the ladder is simple. There is a free tier, and there is Bae Pro, which is sold weekly, monthly or annually. The pricing page says the period is picked at checkout, after the trial, and that the upgrade sheet shows the periods side by side with the exact amounts before anything is confirmed.

The free tier is described as generous on purpose. It allows unlimited companions, 30 messages a day (100 once an email is added), 2 selfies a week, and memory of the past 7 days plus anything pinned. The relationship arc runs through the Crush stage. Pro removes the daily message limit, raises the selfie allowance to 100 a week, keeps memory permanently, opens the arc through to the Forever stage and adds Spicy mode.

In October 2026 the home page lists Pro at $2.99 a week or $99 a year, in USD. The pricing page title reads "7 days free, then $1.90/week" and the page ties that $1.90 weekly figure to the annual plan, billed annually. The two pages therefore quote different weekly numbers, and the lower one belongs to the annual plan. No page prints the monthly plan's price, although the pricing page says a monthly plan exists.

The pricing page also says annual bills once and works out cheaper per week than paying weekly, and that a weekly subscriber can switch to annual at any time from the customer portal. It does not say whether the switch can be made in the other direction.

What the trial turns into

Because the trial takes a card, the practical question is what the first charge is and when it lands. The page answers the timing but not the amount. The charge arrives on day 8, and the plan billed is the period chosen at checkout. The FAQ describes the trial as cancel-anytime: cancel inside the 7 days and the card is never billed, the account stays on free terms, and the relationship history stays intact.

What the pages do not state is just as useful. No page names the exact amount of the first charge for each period in a single table. The pricing page points to the upgrade sheet for that. No page says in plain terms that weekly plans renew every week, although the annual-plan answer speaks of not chasing "the renewal" every week, which tells a reader how the weekly plan is meant to behave. The terms of service have a money section that covers only one thing: if prices change, or a feature a member already uses becomes paid-only, the site says it will post the prices clearly and give notice first.

No pre-selected add-on, bundle or cross-sale appears on the pricing page or the home page. The trial is the only offer on those pages, and it comes with no coupon code, no discount percentage and no closing date.

If the trial is canceled, the account falls back to the free terms. The relationship history is described as staying with the account either way, and free memory covers the past 7 days plus anything pinned, so a lapsed Pro member keeps the companion but loses the older memories until Pro is taken up again.

Billing

The pricing page carries the line "Secure via Stripe" beside the trial button, and its closing line repeats Stripe, the one processor Bae names. The home page gives the currency as USD, and the only payment step described is adding a card at checkout; no wallet, crypto or bank option appears, and no statement wording or line on taxes is given. The terms list bae@ppl.studio as the address for billing questions as for everything else, and ask a member with a problem to write there first.

Upgrades and plan changes run through a customer portal, which the pricing FAQ names for switching from weekly to annual. The terms promise that new plans or a feature moving behind the paywall will be posted clearly before it affects a member, and that a material change to the terms is announced on the changelog and emailed at least 14 days before it takes effect to anyone who has given an email address.

Getting out

The cancellation path is stated twice. The pricing FAQ answers "Can I cancel?" with "Anytime, from the account page", and adds that the relationship history stays intact and the account goes back to free terms when the period ends. The weekly-to-annual answer mentions a customer portal for plan changes. The closing line of the pricing page says cancel any time, with no exit survey.

Canceling and deleting the account are separate routes. The "Help me leave" page removes the account in one click and lists what goes with it: every companion and conversation, the sign-in, every session, and the subscription, which it marks as "canceled, no refund". A member with an email on file gets one restore link that works for 48 hours, after which the account cannot be recovered, and the terms say all data, backups included, is deleted within 30 days. That page is the only place a refund rule appears, and it is a no-refund rule for an account closed mid-period. Nothing on the pages says how far ahead of a renewal date to cancel, so the trial window is the stated protection: cancel in the first 7 days and no charge is made.

For a dispute, the terms set Delaware law and Delaware courts, keep the right of users elsewhere to bring claims where their own law allows, rule out class actions, and cap liability at the greater of what the member paid in the last 12 months or a fixed sum in dollars.

What the money buys, and who it suits

For the money, Pro buys memory that never expires, the removal of the message cap, a much larger selfie allowance, the full relationship arc and access to Spicy mode. The site's pages also list voice registers, a four-step creator, companions that message first, photo sharing in chat and a days-together counter, and they describe the app as running in a browser, with no download. For readers coming from the AI girlfriend and AI boyfriend pages, the same builder serves both: it offers girlfriend archetypes, boyfriend archetypes and some that are not tied to a gender.

The offer suits someone who wants to test memory and the relationship stages for a week before committing, and who is comfortable adding a card to do it. It also suits a reader who may never pay, because the free tier is a working product on its own and asks for neither card nor sign-up. The caveats are short. The first charge per plan is shown only on the upgrade sheet, the monthly price is not printed, deleting the account mid-period brings no refund, and the weekly figure depends on the page: the general pages quote the weekly plan, the pricing page the annual plan's per-week rate.