Is OurDream AI Free? The Free Tier, DreamCoins and What Premium Actually Costs

The short answer

Yes and no. Signup is free, and you can chat with public characters on the free tier. But every message costs 1 DreamCoin, and free users cannot buy more coins. When the balance hits zero, you are done until you subscribe.

There is no time-limited free trial. The free tier is the trial. Premium runs $19.99/month, or $9.99/month if you pay $119.88 upfront for a year. That gets you unlimited chat and 1,000 DreamCoins monthly for images, video and voice.

So the honest answer: OurDream AI is free to try, not free to use in any meaningful way. If you want pictures, clips or voice calls, you pay. Full stop.

What OurDream AI is

OurDream AI is a web-only AI companion platform run by Dream Studio USA, Inc., a Delaware company. You build characters, chat with them, and generate images and video of them. The media generation is the headline feature, and it is also where the coins go.

There is an 18+ age gate. Where required, the company uses third-party ID or facial age checks. No native app exists; you add the website to your home screen if you want an icon.

For a deeper look at the platform itself, read our OurDream AI review. We rate it 9.7 out of 10 overall.

What the free plan actually contains

Free accounts get:

• Access to public characters and text chat
• 1 DreamCoin charged per message
• No image generation
• No video generation
• No ability to buy more coins

That last point is the one people miss. It is not a pay-as-you-go system where you top up when you feel like it. Only subscribers can purchase DreamCoins. On the free tier, your balance is whatever you started with, and community giveaways or Discord events are the only official way to add more.

The company says there are no free coins outside community events. Third-party reports and coupon guides put the signup balance at roughly 55 coins. Treat that as an unconfirmed report, not a promise. If it holds, that is about 55 messages before you are locked out of the chat.

How DreamCoins work

DreamCoins are the platform's internal currency. Chat burns them slowly. Media burns them fast. Here is the published rate card:

Action	Coins
Free chat message	1
Premium chat message	0
Genius model response	1
In-chat image	5
Standard image (2 images)	10
Image edit	10
Eclipse edit	20
Video, per 5 seconds	100
Ultra-quality video	200
Audio added to video, per second	20
Voice call, per minute	50
Premium-voice narration, per paragraph	5
Create a chatbot	10

Do the math on a 1,000-coin month and it gets tight. That allowance is roughly 200 standard images, or 10 short clips, or 20 minutes of voice calls. Pick one. You cannot have all three.

A single 60-second video costs 1,200 coins. That is more than the entire monthly Premium allowance, before you add audio at 20 coins per second. If video is your reason for signing up, budget for top-ups.

Coins do not expire according to the help center. That matters if you cancel and return later; the balance should still be there, though you will need an active subscription to spend it.

Is there a free trial?

No. There is no seven-day or three-day trial window. The free tier with its coin-scarcity is the trial. You test chat quality, character creation and the interface, then decide.

That is not automatically a bad structure. It means you can kick the tires without handing over card details. It also means you never see an image or a video until you pay, which hides the platform's best feature behind the paywall. You are judging a media app on its text chat.

Pricing tiers

Plan	Price	Coins	Features
Free	$0	Reported signup balance	1 coin per message, no media
Premium monthly	$19.99/month	1,000 monthly	Unlimited chat, images, video, voice, top-ups, publishing
Premium annual	$9.99/month, $119.88 yearly	2,000 upfront, then 1,000 monthly	All monthly Premium features
Deluxe (reported)	$59.99 or $29.99/month	5,000 monthly reported	Not listed on official pages

The annual plan is the only real discount: half the monthly rate, plus 1,000 bonus coins upfront. But you are committing $119.88 before you have seen a single generated image. That is a lot of trust for an app you have only used in text mode.

Deluxe is the murky one. Reports put it at $59.99/month, or $29.99 in some accounts, with 5,000 coins monthly. It does not appear on the official pages we checked. If you see an upgrade prompt, read the price on that screen and nothing else. Prices quoted in forums go stale fast.

Top-ups are reportedly around $11.99 per 1,000 coins through third parties. That figure is not published by the company, so verify it before you buy.

Free vs Premium, side by side

Feature	Free	Premium
Text chat	1 coin per message	Unlimited
Images	No	5–10 coins
Video	No	Up to 60 seconds
Voice	Not confirmed	Coins
Character creation	Coin-limited	10 coins
Group chats	Not confirmed	Yes
Buy coins	No	Yes
Publish characters	No	Yes
Monthly coins	None	1,000

Publishing a companion to the public library is Premium-only. If you want other people chatting with your character, you are paying for the privilege.

What you can actually test for free

Text chat. That is the headline. The Genius (or Lively Genius) model charges 1 coin per response, so a free account can hold a real conversation for as long as the balance lasts. Enough to judge tone, response speed and whether the character stays in persona.

Character creation is coin-limited on free. You can build something, but not endlessly. Group chats are unconfirmed on the free tier.

What you cannot test: image quality, video quality, voice calls, and whether the memory holds up over a long roleplay. Those are the things that decide whether a subscription is worth it, and they sit behind the paywall.

Memory: the quiet limitation

OurDream AI's memory leans mainly on recent messages. Short exchanges feel coherent. Long story arcs fade. If you are running a weeks-long roleplay with a detailed backstory, expect to repeat yourself.

This is worth knowing before you pay, because memory is the difference between a chatbot and a companion. On the memory category we score OurDream AI 7.9. If continuity matters more to you than pictures, read OurDream AI vs Secrets AI before you commit.

A sample free session, costed

Say you sign up with about 55 coins and spend an evening chatting:

1. Open with a greeting. 1 coin.
2. Twenty back-and-forth messages. 20 coins.
3. Try to generate an image. Not available on free.
4. Try a voice call. Not confirmed on free.
5. Balance left: roughly 34 coins, or about 34 more messages.

You will exhaust a free balance in an evening or two of normal use. There is no path to refill it without subscribing. Unofficial "free coin generator" sites are scams; ignore them.

Ways to stretch the coins

• Take the annual plan if you are staying. $9.99/month beats $19.99, and the 1,000 bonus coins cover a decent image run.
• Refer friends only if you are already subscribed. The referral bonus applies after you have a paid plan, so it cannot unlock the free tier.
• Watch the Discord. Community giveaways are the one official source of free coins.
• Skip the 60-second videos. At 1,200 coins each, they eat a month's allowance in one clip.
• Use standard images, not edits. 10 coins for two images vs 10–20 per edit adds up quickly.

The catches worth knowing before you pay

Your media gets blurred if you lapse. Generated images, videos and community packs are blurred when a subscription ends. You do not keep clean copies of what you paid to make.

Refund rules conflict. The policy says report a defect within 14 days and expect an outcome in about 7 business days. It also says refunds are denied if more than 25% of the product has been used. Crypto payments are final.

Payment options are narrow. Cards and crypto, with G2A prepaid codes as a fallback. No PayPal.

Cancellation is straightforward. Cancel from the profile page; access lasts until the end of the billing period.

Deluxe pricing is unconfirmed. Check the upgrade screen, not a forum post.

Privacy and safety

The homepage claims end-to-end encryption. The privacy policy says encryption at rest and in transit. Those are not the same thing, and the gap matters if you care who can read your chats.

Data may be used to train AI models. A proprietary LLM moderation filter screens conversations. The content policy bans uploading real people's likenesses and deepfakes, and prohibits underage content outright.

Account deletion is processed in 24 to 48 hours and removes chats, generations and unused coins. If you have paid for coins and then delete your account, that balance goes with it.

Practical advice: do not share identifying details, and do not upload photos of anyone real. On privacy we score OurDream AI 6.9.

How it compares to other free tiers

Platform	Free tier	Paid from	Best for
OurDream AI	1 coin per message, no media	$9.99/month annual	Image and video value
Nomi AI	Limited daily messages, one Nomi reported	$8.33/month annual	Memory, emotional companionship
CrushOn AI	100 credits monthly	$5.99/month	Cheap NSFW text roleplay
Candy AI	5 messages, 1 image	$3.99/month annual	Photorealistic images
Secrets AI	20 messages daily, no media	$9.17/month annual	Memory and voice
Janitor AI	Full platform free	Janitor+ $12.99/month	Free roleplay
Character AI	Free with ads	$9.99/month	SFW characters, big library

Look at that table and the free-tier problem is obvious. OurDream AI gives you the least free chat of the bunch and no media. Secrets AI hands out 20 messages daily, every day, forever. Janitor AI is free across the whole platform.

If unlimited free chat is your priority, OurDream AI is the wrong door. If you want the best image and video output for the money, it is a serious contender once you pay. For the head-to-head, see Candy AI vs OurDream AI.

And if you are leaving because of the coin system, OurDream AI alternatives covers ten apps by price, memory and privacy.

Who should pay, and who should walk

Pay if: you want high-quality images and short video of a custom character, you are fine with roughly 200 images or 10 clips a month, and you accept that memory is shallow. Annual at $9.99/month is the sensible entry; month-to-month at $19.99 is for people testing the media features before committing.

Walk if: you want free unlimited chat, long-term memory, or a native mobile app. You will not get any of those here. For a broader ranking, see the best AI companion app roundup.

One last thing: if you do subscribe, do it for one month first. Generate images, test a video, push the memory with a long roleplay. Then decide whether the annual discount is worth $119.88. The refund policy is not generous enough to fix a rushed decision.

Bottom line

OurDream AI is free to sign up and free to try, but the free tier is a preview, not a product. One coin per message with no way to buy more means you will hit zero fast, and you never see the images and video that justify the subscription. Premium at $9.99/month annual is where the platform makes sense. Test the chat for free, pay for one month, and read the refund and privacy terms before you go annual.