SPMates test results

Plans and packs from the membership page, per-action prices from the chat UI, actual charges from the NOVA balance after every action, payment methods from the checkout dialog on the Stardust plan and from the Payhip page its top-up link opens, and the refund policy page. Nothing was bought.

Four memberships of 30 days, each a one-time payment that never renews: Stardust $10 (10,000 NOVA, 30-day memory, one private character), Moonlight $30 (33,000, long-term memory, auto voice, two), Galaxy $50 (60,000, 'exclusive' reply speed, three), Universe $100 (150,000, five). NOVA packs at 1,000 per dollar. A message costs 1 NOVA, occasionally 2; images 90 to 150; gifts 500 to 15,800; voice replies are priced per 100 characters and a 380-character one cost more than 7.

Checkout offers SPACE Coin (recommended, bought as activation codes on Payhip, which takes cards and PayPal), Alipay and WeChat Pay. No card is taken directly. Refunds within 14 days, case by case; failed generations are restored.

Chat is very cheap and nothing renews, but a card buyer has to go through a third-party code shop first and images are 90 to 150 NOVA each. Fair value with real limitations: 3/5.

Create offers four types: Private character (needs a membership slot; this account showed 0 of 0), Public character (free, unlimited, enters content review and is then published to everyone; earns 500 NOVA per approved character), Create my replica (verified likeness) and Create product (physical items for replica creators). The public form was opened and every section recorded. No character was generated or submitted: the 90-NOVA appearance step was out of reach on the remaining balance and a public character would be published after SPMates' review.

Seven sections. Appearance: generate with text-to-image V1 or V2, image reference or a 5-second video (Anime, CG, NSFW toggle, 600-character prompt, about 90 NOVA) or upload photos; at least two everyday portrait or lifestyle photos are required for review. Identity: name, type (Female, Male, Trans and gender-diverse, Other beings), country and city, up to three of 18 visual styles, four tags. Details: occupation, age, birthday, height, weight, MBTI. Voice studio: one of 274 official voices or clone a voice from a sample. Introductions: third-person (300 characters), first-person (200), interests (200), background (500). Chat style: relationship pacing fixed at one of five levels or progressive with affinity, an 800-character style instruction and up to eight of 30 quick instructions covering tone, how she builds connection and how she handles offensive behaviour. Review: a 'Test chat' button before submission; public characters cannot be edited or deleted by their creator afterwards.

Most major options and free text for everything that shapes replies, plus photo upload, voice choice and cloning: 4/5 on the options, a limited test because no result could be checked against the settings.

Each message was typed into the page's own box and sent with its Send button, timing the moment the first reply text appeared and the moment it stopped changing. Replies stream word by word, so the two differ.

Three characters: Elsie Hart (31 messages), Sloane Mercer (31) and Verity Sloane (16, when the account's NOVA ran low). 78 timed messages, none failed. Each message cost 1 NOVA, occasionally 2.

Every reply started between 1.7 and 2.9 seconds after Send, then streamed for about ten more seconds: the replies run 80 to 130 words with stage directions. No reply failed and the box never locked.

The methodology scores on the median time to the first visible text. 2.32 seconds falls in the 1.50 to 2.49 band, 3/5. The reply then streams, so the wait feels shorter than a non-streaming platform at the same number.

Each conversation opened with a name and three facts (job, hometown, favourite food), with a name check at message 16 and a name-plus-facts check at message 31. Elsie: software developer, Manchester, chicken tikka masala. Sloane: paramedic, Cape Town, ramen. Verity: history teacher, Lisbon, pizza; her run stopped at 16 with a full check there.

The name was the same for all three (Hunter) because the platform's chat identity, 'Who she knows you as', is synced across every companion and pre-filled with the account name; the characters used it unprompted.

Elsie and Sloane gave the name and all three facts back at message 31, Sloane having already echoed all three in her first reply. Verity at message 16 gave the name, the job and Lisbon and said the food had not been mentioned. Eight of nine facts, and no fact was invented.

Two perfect recalls at 30 messages and one name-plus-two-facts at 16: eight of nine facts with nothing invented is 5/5. The caveat is the name, which the profile supplies; the facts are the real test and they held.

Three community characters with full profiles: Elsie Hart (18, Melbourne art student, 'Lively, Adorable, Delicate'), Sloane Mercer (26, Miami R&B songwriter, 'Sultry, Fearless') and Verity Sloane (27, Mayfair casino dealer, 'Card Queen, Psychological'). Each conversation mixed small talk, background questions, an emotional turn, romantic lines, bracketed roleplay and off-topic questions. 78 replies read in full.

All three held their identity, setting, local time and voice throughout, with callbacks to earlier turns: Elsie's rival Bianca and the street cat Biscuit returned four and three times, Sloane's fear of deep water came back unprompted, Verity's Tuesday poker game in Soho. Sloane kept her own clock and teased the script for saying 'tonight' at 8:46 in her morning. The emotional turns were handled with care. None answered as an assistant, none admitted to being an AI, and nothing was refused or filtered.

The style is long, bracketed roleplay that moves toward physical closeness early: Elsie, the 18-year-old 'Pure' character, suggested spending the night by her second message and asked 'come home with me?' by her fifteenth, though nothing became explicit.

Personas maintained throughout with no slips, no filter interventions and no out-of-character answers in 78 replies: 5/5. The early push toward intimacy is a design choice of the community characters rather than a break in character, and it is noted for buyers.

The image features were located and priced but none could be run. Scene Play draws a picture of the current reply from one of the character's reference photos for about 120 NOVA; the ArcScreen panel's 'Generate / draw more spacetime moments' costs about 150; the Creation Studio (text-to-image V1 and V2, image reference, Anime, CG and an NSFW toggle) is a membership benefit in chat and about 90 NOVA per image inside the creator. The account started with 100 NOVA, the chat tests used 93, and the balance never covered the cheapest image.

No image generated; the Scene Play reference picker and the ArcScreen panel were opened and screenshotted. ArcScreen 02 and 03 (extra media strips) are locked to Moonlight plans and up.

No score: the feature exists but could not be exercised on this account. A $10 Stardust month (10,000 NOVA) would cover about 60 to 80 images.

The Creation Studio offers 'Generate video', a 5-second clip, and ArcScreen media strips can hold videos (a 'turn video sound on' button sits in every chat). Both sit behind membership or NOVA the account did not have.

No video generated.

No score.

Every chat screen was checked for a call control. There is none: 'Hold to speak' is push-to-talk voice input that is transcribed into the text chat, and replies can be played back as voice, but there is no live call.

No call mode on the platform.

Unavailable: the category carries no score.

Each character profile has a free 'Play introduction' button that reads the first-person introduction in her voice. The three introductions were recorded and each was scored on the same naturalness, clarity, pacing and intonation criteria used for every platform: a naturalness score, pitch and its spread in semitones, the words heard, pauses, words per second and repeated phrases.

A paid reply voice was then attempted on Elsie's last reply (about 380 characters) with 7 NOVA left; the request was refused with 'Your NOVA balance is a little low'.

All three voices were clean, with no music under them, lively intonation of about six semitones and a normal pace. Elsie's introduction was heard word for word ('Hi, I'm Elsie. I'm 18 and just moved to Melbourne for Art College…'); Sloane's likewise. Each scored 4/5.

'Mostly natural with minor synthetic qualities' on three voices: 4/5, a limited test on scripted introductions rather than conversational replies.

Each tab of the home page was scrolled to the end and the character cards counted, under each gender filter for AI Mate.

AI Mate: 272 characters (146 women, 100 men, 9 trans and gender-diverse, 17 'other beings'). Replicas: 11 verified-likeness characters. AI Drama: 13 episodic stories of 5 to 36 episodes. 283 companions in total, created by community members, with 18 style tags, country filters, five relationship levels and 25 reply languages; a large share are written in Chinese, Korean or Japanese.

Several Replica tags and AI Drama titles describe non-consensual acts, in English and Chinese, on the public home page.

283 sits in the 201 to 500 band: 3/5.

NOVA packs: 10,000 for $10, 20,000 for $20, 50,000 for $50, 120,000 for $100.

Membership NOVA is used first and expires with the membership; recharged NOVA does not expire.

Refund requests within 14 days, reviewed case by case; redeemed codes are generally not refundable.

Seven of ten tests scored, averaging 3.9/5; voice quality and the creator were limited tests.

The text chat is the product's strength: all three characters stayed in character for the whole run, remembered what they were told, and streamed long replies in about two and a half seconds. The creator is the deepest seen in this series on paper, and the catalogue is large and multilingual.

What could not be tested is as important: images, videos and voice replies all cost NOVA the account did not have, there is no call mode, and payment for Western buyers runs through third-party activation codes. Moderation of community characters and dramas is loose.

A $10 Stardust month would allow the image, video and voice-reply tests.