Promptchan AI vs CrushOn AI: Images, chat, and customization compared

PROMPTCHAN  ·  PER IMAGE

$0.12 → $0.36 each

Plus is $11.99/mo for 100 Gems. A standard image costs 1 Gem. A Max-quality 4K image costs 3.

$11.99 ÷ 100 Gems = $0.12/Gem

Standard image (1 Gem) = $0.12

Max 4K image (3 Gems) = $0.36

One video clip (28 Gems) = $3.36

CRUSHON  ·  PER MESSAGE

$0.0025 → higher on Pro

Premium is $14.99/mo for 6,000 credits. One credit is roughly one message on a free model, more on Pro and Ultra.

$14.99 ÷ 6,000 = $0.0025/credit

Free-model message = ~$0.0025

Pro/Ultra message = multiples of that

Annual Premium ($7.90/mo) = $0.0013

THE NUMBER THAT CHANGED SINCE I FIRST REVIEWED PROMPTCHAN

When I tested Promptchan in April 2026, Plus was $11.99 for 300 Gems. It is now widely listed at $11.99 for 100 Gems, with Premium at $18.99 for 400 and Pro at $26.99. Same price, one third of the Gems. If those listings are accurate, the cost per image roughly tripled without the sticker price moving at all.

That is exactly the failure mode of a currency-based pricing model: the vendor can reprice the product without touching the number the customer remembers. My April table said 300 Gems bought ~300 standard images. On today’s allocation, the same money buys ~100. Check the live page before you buy, because I cannot promise the figure above will still be true next month either.

The diffusion models are trained on anime and manga datasets, so stylized characters with vibrant colours and expressive eyes come out consistently well. Most images land in a few seconds even at higher quality.

What actually matters: the seed value. Set a seed and you can recreate or iterate a previous output, which is the mechanism behind character consistency across a whole set. That is the difference between a novelty and a workflow.

Where it falls down: photorealistic output is a mixed bag, and hands remain the giveaway they are on every diffusion model. It is an illustrator, not a photographer.

CrushOn is not an image platform. Image generation exists on paid tiers and is widely described as unreliable, and one reviewer’s summary is blunt: it is the wrong pick for users who want photos or video.

What it does instead: the screenshot alongside is the product. A four-word prompt returned a formatted two-character scene with bolded names and italic stage direction, instantly.

The honest framing: asking CrushOn to compete on images is like asking a novelist to draw. It is not a weakness so much as a category error.

NOT A CONTEST

Promptchan wins images by default, and by a distance. If images are why you are reading this, the comparison ends here and the answer is Promptchan. The only useful question left is whether the Gem maths above works for your volume, because at ~$0.36 for a Max-quality image, a serious portfolio session costs real money.

This was the feature I was most sceptical about and the one that surprised me most. Responses were fast, the tone stayed consistent, and none of the robotic phrasing that gives most chatbots away.

The depth test: I asked about her past, her preferences, her opinions on abstract topics. She held character across all of it. The 8x expanded context window means characters retain far more history.

The wall: NSFW chat, extended memory and HD image exchange all need a subscription. As a free user you get a flavour, and hitting the wall after a few exchanges is jarring.

CrushOn opened with prose that had a hook in it and let me read all of it before mentioning login. I typed "you good? what happened" and got back a full two-hander: two characters, distinct voices, bold names, italic narration, no lag.

The mechanic underneath: the toolbar reads CO Leo 8K. That 8K is the context window, the ceiling on how much scene the AI can hold at once. Ultra models advertise up to 24K.

The catch: reply length is capped by tier. Premium caps AI messages at 325 characters. Your plan decides how much the AI is allowed to write back.

THE DISTINCTION THAT DECIDES THIS ROUND

Promptchan writes a person. CrushOn writes a scene. Kim held a consistent character across an interrogation about her own past, which is genuinely hard and genuinely well done. But CrushOn managed two personalities, paced a beat, and held formatting across a long response from a four-word prompt. If you exchange lines with a companion, Promptchan is closer than its reputation suggests. If you write fiction, CrushOn is doing more work per prompt and it is not close.

BOTH METER THE THING YOU CAME FOR

Promptchan charges Gems per chat message, and a Trustpilot reviewer’s complaint is specific: every message costs money and drains all the available gems. So a Gem is not just an image, it is also a sentence, and the two compete for the same wallet.

CrushOn charges credits per message too, but its credits are cheap in absolute terms. That $0.0025 buys a lot more conversation than $0.12 does. If chat volume is your use case, Promptchan’s currency is the wrong shape for you. Its Gem is priced like an image, because that is what it was built for.

You define a character by describing how they look and choosing from menus: emotion, pose, resolution, art style. For a first-timer the breadth is a bit overwhelming; for anyone who has used Midjourney it is familiar within minutes.

The real customization is the prompt plus the seed. Lock a seed and you can hold a character’s face across an entire set of images, which is the whole game if you are producing a series.

The documented gap: beyond a reference face, there is no way to set body type, height, or any other physical detail. Character creation also sits on the Pro tier.

That 17.1K figure is the character definition itself, and it is the number to watch. CrushOn’s builder lets creators go that deep with detailed traits and background settings, and the depth is why the personality holds.

The metadata is the feature: message count, creation date, full tag list, creator following, supporters, comments. In a catalogue where anyone can publish anything, that is the quality filter.

The trade: you are customizing a personality, not a face. Group chat runs up to 5 characters, with 40+ voice options on paid tiers.

SAME WORD, OPPOSITE MEANINGS

Promptchan’s customization is a slider: you tune appearance and lock a seed. CrushOn’s is a script: you write 17,000 characters of who someone is. Neither is deeper than the other, they are perpendicular. The tell is what each platform shows you on a character page. Promptchan shows you the prompt that made the picture. CrushOn shows you how long the definition is and who wrote it.

Free: 10 Gems/day, thin to the point of being a demo. A single 4K image costs 3, so your day is two images.

Plus $11.99 · 100 Gems · Premium $18.99 · 400 Gems · Pro $26.99 · 800 Gems plus unlimited casual generations, and the only tier with video, voice and custom characters.

The good part: unused Gems roll over month to month and stay in your account even if you cancel. Entry gem packs start near $0.99.

Free: changed in April 2026 from 100 messages/month to 50 per day with ads, which is a real improvement.

Standard $5.99 ($4.19 annual) · Premium $14.99 ($7.90 annual) · 6,000 credits · Luxe $25 · 20,000 credits. The ladder runs past that to Elite and Imperial at $199.99.

The catch: credits are not messages, reply length is capped by tier, and a $24.99 Pro Chat Package sits outside the tiers entirely.

THE TIER WHERE EACH PROMISE ACTUALLY LIVES

Promptchan: Pro at $26.99. Video, voice, max quality and custom characters are all Pro-only. Everything below it is the image generator with the interesting parts removed. CrushOn: Premium at $14.99 monthly, or $7.90 annual. Standard is too thin and Luxe is for people running long scenes daily. Both platforms’ entry tiers are marketing, and in both cases the tier you actually want is roughly double the advertised number.

PRICES MOVE, AND MINE ARE A SNAPSHOT

Promptchan’s displayed pricing includes a launch discount; at full price the three tiers are quoted at $14.99, $23.99 and $33.99 respectively. Users have also reported prices changing between visits: one noted that prices had increased from what they had seen during sign-up when they returned the next day.

CrushOn is quoted inconsistently across sources: Premium appears as $7.90, $9.99 and $14.99 depending on who is reporting and whether annual billing is assumed. Annual billing saves roughly 30 to 47 percent, which explains most of the spread. Payment shows on your statement as subscribestar.com, which is worth knowing in advance.

Treat every number in this article as a reading, not a quote. Check the live page before you pay.

“It's a powerful AI-driven character creator. Unlike many AI art generators that focus solely on static images, Promptchan also offers real-time image editing, pose adjustments, and an interactive AI chatbot designed for human-like conversations. For anime and fantasy, the quality is genuinely impressive.”

CLARK B. · 5 STARS    POSITIVE

“Lots of possibilities and options for creating pictures, good quality. So far every time there was an issue it was worked on by the team. Love the community surrounding it.”

LONG-TERM PRO USER · 5 STARS    POSITIVE

“0 stars. Basic models, limited options, poor images, and the editor is now gone meaning I have over 2,500 credits that might as well be in the trash.”

TRUSTPILOT    NEGATIVE

“They removed features that made the app worthwhile, such as the ability to base a character on an image. The chat is useless: every message costs money and drains all the available gems. Very disappointed to have renewed my subscription only to discover this.”

TRUSTPILOT · 2 STARS    NEGATIVE

“Giving this one star for now. The chats themselves seem decent, but the earn gems feature appears to be a total scam as you can't claim even after helping them astroturf their socials.”

TEALGREEN · 1 STAR    NEGATIVE

“Upgraded to the standard plan within a day. Hours of entertainment shared with my wife, and you can create a more complex character profile for the bot as well as for your own character.”

APP STORE REVIEWER    POSITIVE

“Since the model was taken away to be fixed and returned, all it does is give low quality responses. I preferred it before the update.”

IOS REVIEWER    NEGATIVE

“Recent updates have made explicit content scarce on characters that used to allow it, met with a warning message instead. Outrageously expensive just for a chat and roleplay app.”

APP STORE REVIEWER    NEGATIVE

THE PRIVACY GAP BETWEEN THESE TWO IS NOT CLOSE

Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included team gave CrushOn its worst rating, finding 45 trackers loading within the first minute including Google’s DoubleClick, health data appearing 23 times in the privacy policy, and biometric collection covering face images, keystroke patterns and voice recordings. An independent audit graded its data safety an F. There is one bright spot: Mozilla found no known breach in three years.

Promptchan is not audited to that standard, so the comparison is not symmetric and I will not pretend it is. What I can say from my own testing is narrower: its privacy policy is vague on public versus private mode, and images set to public can be viewed, shared and cloned by other users, with defaults that are not obvious to a new user. That is a smaller problem than 45 trackers, but it is the one that will surprise you.

Promptchan AI

For anime and fantasy output it is among the best I have used from a diffusion model tuned to this niche, and the seed lock turns it from a toy into a workflow. The companion chat is also better than its reputation: Kim held character through an interrogation about her own past without a single robotic phrasing. If you generate images, this is the product.

Go in knowing: a Gem is not an image, Pro at $26.99 is the real entry point, the free tier is a demo, features have been removed without notice, and chat drains the same currency as your pictures.

CrushOn AI

It gave me a two-character scene with held formatting from a four-word prompt, showed me a full character dossier before I clicked anything, and let me read an opening scene before asking for a login. The metadata is the quality filter in a catalogue anyone can publish to, and CrushOn hands it over unprompted. If you write fiction rather than exchange lines, nothing here competes.

Go in knowing: credits are not messages, Premium’s 325-character reply cap bites in exactly the long scenes you came for, Luxe at $25 is what the marketing describes, and Mozilla rated its privacy the worst in the category.

An invented currency between you and the product

Both platforms took a simple question, what does this cost, and answered it in a unit they control. Promptchan can change what a Gem buys without touching $11.99. CrushOn can change what a credit buys by changing which model you want. In both cases the customer discovers the real price after paying, and in both cases the loudest reviews come from people who did.

The practical defence: do the division before you subscribe, not after. If a platform will not tell you the cost per image or per message, calculate it yourself. It takes thirty seconds and it is the only number that survives a pricing page redesign.

IF YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE

Pick by output, not by price. Want pictures of a character you designed? Promptchan Pro. Want a scene with two characters who argue convincingly? CrushOn Premium. Want both? You are looking at roughly $42 a month across two subscriptions, and I would rather you picked the one that matches your actual output than half-fund two.

And if you are genuinely undecided, that is a signal. Start on CrushOn’s free tier, because 50 messages a day tells you something real. Promptchan’s 10 Gems a day tells you almost nothing except that the images look good, which you already knew from the Explore gallery.