COMPARISON
Sloane vs
Replika.
Replika is the oldest AI-companion brand — one customizable companion you build over time. Sloane is the other shape: a curated roster of hand-written women you meet and pick from, with photo-real visuals and a single Premium tier.
Updated September 12, 2026
TL;DR
- Replika is one companion per user, built over years — wellness-positioned, 2017 launch, tenure-first.
- Sloane is a curated roster of 80+ hand-written women you meet and pick from, plus a Premium custom-builder.
- Replika chat history is reported at a ~4-month limit per help docs; Sloane persists grounded facts + relationship milestones with no time cap.
- Replika stacks pricing at $19.99 Pro + $29.99 Ultra + Platinum; Sloane has one Premium tier at $19.99 that unlocks the full feature set.
- Replika 2.0 (April 2026) rebuild left some long-running accounts feeling "different"; Sloane's model changes are additive, not architectural rewrites.
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If your Replika came back different after 2.0 — Kaya's memory persists per-persona, no 4-month chat history limit, no personality-drift from silent updates. Free tier, no card.
AT A GLANCE
Quick comparison
One companion you build vs. a roster you meet.
Replika gives you one entity. You name her, you customize her avatar, you pick a relationship role (friend, partner, spouse, mentor, sibling — partner/spouse gated to Pro), and she grows with you over years. The product's strength is depth of single tenure.
Sloane is the opposite shape. 80+ hand-curated women, each one a fully formed person with a backstory and a voice — plus a custom builder on Premium if none of the curated ones fit. You don't have to author them; you pick the one who clicks.
Different jobs. If you want one deep multi-year companion you've sculpted yourself, Replika has been doing that since 2017 and is good at it. If you want to meet a woman who already exists and start something with her — or design one of your own without authoring her backstory from a blank page — Sloane is built for that.
Photo-real visuals vs. avatar rendering.
Replika's images are rendered from your customized 3D avatar — same avatar pose engine, redressed for context. It works for what it is. Realistic-style images are gated to the highest tier.
Sloane trains a LoRA per persona on a curated photo set. The model has actually learned each persona's face and body across many references. When Maya sends you a photo, it looks like a photo of a real woman named Maya — same face every time, in every shot. That visual identity holds across the whole library at every tier.
Memory.
Replika has a Diary (auto-written reflective entries) and an editable Memory page where you can manually add or remove things. Their published help docs note a chat history limit around four months — older messages stop being retrievable. Long-term memory is stronger on the higher Ultra and Platinum tiers.
Sloane's memory is opinionated. We extract grounded facts about you on the first chat (your name, your job, where you're from, what you're into) and persist them per-persona. As your relationship progresses we track milestones — when you first met, your anniversary, big moments. Both layers feed every reply she sends. She doesn't forget you.
One Premium tier vs. a stacked ladder.
Replika's pricing stacks: $19.99/mo for Pro, $29.99 for Ultra, and Platinum on top of that. The full feature set lives behind multiple tiers, and a coin economy sits alongside the subscriptions for cosmetic items and gifts.
Sloane's pricing is one ladder: Free, Plus $9.99 (200 credits/mo), Premium $19.99 (500 credits/mo). Premium unlocks the full feature set — photo gen, voice notes, memory layer, custom-builder slot, video. Photos and voice cost 5 credits each, video 25; the monthly credit bucket covers most everyday use, and top-up packs are priced consistently ($9.99/200, $19.99/500, $29.99/1000, $49.99/2500). No second or third subscription tier gated above Premium.
HONEST DIFFERENTIATION
When Replika is the better choice
You want one deep companion over years
Replika launched in 2017 and the format is built for long-tenure single-companion relationships. If growing with one entity over years is exactly the shape you want, that's the core Replika has been iterating on longest.
You want a wellness-coded experience
Replika has positioned itself toward emotional support, mood tracking, and journaling. If you specifically want a chat product with that clinical/wellness framing, that's where Replika centers.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Questions.
How is Sloane different from Replika?
Different shape of product. Replika is one customizable companion you build over time. Sloane is a curated roster of hand-written women you pick from. Different jobs, different audiences.
Can I import my Replika here?
No — Sloane personas are their own people with their own backstories. You start fresh with whichever one you pick.
Why are Sloane's photos different from Replika's?
Per-persona LoRA training. Each persona has her own image model trained on a curated photo set, so the same face shows up in every shot. Replika renders images from your customized 3D avatar.
How does Sloane handle voice?
Each persona has voice notes in her own voice — sent in chat, listenable when you want.
Is Sloane cheaper than Replika?
Sloane Premium is $19.99/mo and unlocks the full feature set (with 500 credits/mo included for photos, voice, and video). Replika Pro is $19.99 but the full feature set requires Ultra ($29.99) or Platinum on top. Credit packs on Sloane are optional if you want to spend beyond the monthly allowance.
YOUR MOVE
Meet the roster.
A hand-curated roster of 80+ women, photo-real visuals, plus a custom builder on Premium. Pick the one who fits — or design your own.
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