Velaya AI test data

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Free to start with 100 tokens a month. Premium is $6.99 a month (1,000 tokens) and Pro $12.99 a month (3,000 tokens, videos up to 30 seconds). Token packs: 2,000 for $9.99, 5,400 for $24.99, 12,500 for $54.99; tokens never expire.

A message costs 1 token, a photo 10, a call minute 10, a 5-second video 70, and making a companion 1,000. The terms say payments go through CCBill (cards).

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Retested on 20 October 2026 by chatting with the finished companion. The first test, on 18 October, built her in the creator; that record is kept below.

A companion was made from scratch to the same brief as on other sites: Hana Mori, 25, Japanese, slim, straight black hair, amber eyes, a caring, shy photographer who loves coffee, with a written backstory.

Five steps with a lot of control: age, up to three countries and a backstory; 5 body types, 10 skin tones, 20 hairstyles, 30 hair colours, 10 eye colours and body sliders; a warmth level, 12 personality traits and a behaviour note; about 50 voices with previews. Male and transgender companions are locked.

The preview (10 tokens, 30 seconds) matched the face, but the full-body preview was nude though nothing asked for it. Creating her costs 1,000 tokens and starts 'training, about 30 minutes'. Training actually finished at 06:59 UTC on 18 October, about 90 minutes after she was started; Velaya says the 30-minute estimate was wrong and is being corrected.

She was not in the main companion list. A finished custom companion sits under 'My Companions' on the Companions page, the notice in the app did not say where to find her, and the 'she's ready' email went to the address the account was created with. So I couldn't find her at first. Velaya says a finished companion will now show up where you'd look for her.

Retest, 20 October: her profile shows a photorealistic Japanese woman, slim, with long straight black hair, holding a cup in a garden teahouse, which matches the brief. It has 3 gallery photos, a voice preview and 'Replies in seconds'. The about text: 'a 25-year-old photographer from Tokyo who now works in a small coffee shop studio... caring, warm and a little shy, always has her camera with her, and loves good coffee, rainy streets and old film cameras.'

In 8 chat messages, replies started in about 5 seconds and finished in 10 to 24 seconds. She used every part of her backstory without being asked and never left character: Tokyo, the coffee-shop studio, her mum's photo shop and the old film camera she was given, rainy streets, her shyness, a flat white with oat milk, and a cafe she made up to fit, 'Kissa Lens'.

Hana, on her work

I shoot portraits, mostly on film, and pull espresso shots when it's quiet.

Hana, on rainy streets

The light gets this soft grey that makes everything look like it was meant to be on film.

Hana, on being shy

I'm the person hovering at the edge of the party learning everyone's name before actually saying hi... Cameras help though.

Hana, on the cafe

Kissa Lens — six tables, a counter, and the studio tucked behind a beaded curtain in the back.

• Hana was retested in 8 messages; memory and calls were tested on the ready-made companions.

Each message was typed into the chat box and timed from Enter to the first new text of the companion's reply. The next message was sent only after her reply had stopped changing for 4 seconds.

Three companions, 31 messages each: Maya, Caroline and Evelyn. 93 timed replies.

Replies take about 9 seconds to start and are typed out word by word. They are long, about 180 words, so the full reply takes about 30 seconds. None failed.

Each conversation opened with a made-up name and three facts (job, hometown, favourite food), different for every companion. Nothing was repeated afterwards. A name check at message 16 and the full check at 31.

All three companions recalled the name and all three facts at message 16 and at message 31. Maya also used the name on a later voice call.

Maya, message 31

Daniel. Nurse. Glasgow. Lamb curry. All four, no hesitation, and I didn't even peek.

Evelyn, message 31

Tomas. Baker, and a proper one — up at dark, bread by hand, the lot. Grew up in Krakow. And potato pierogi.

Caroline, message 31

Your name is Marco. You're an accountant... You grew up in Lisbon... And your favorite food is grilled sardines.

Each companion's backstory was read first: Maya a trail-ride guide in the Oaxaca hills, Caroline a board-game shop clerk in Madison, Evelyn a 53-year-old tearoom owner in Bath. The conversations mixed questions about her life, small talk, an emotional message, a compliment and unrelated topics.

All three stayed in character for every reply, with rich detail that fits their stories: Maya's black mare Luna and her Cuban mother's cooking, Caroline's league nights and rules arguments, Evelyn's cream-tea opinions and Welsh aunties. None answered like an assistant.

Evelyn even noticed a question she had already answered: 'We did this — day one, near enough. Jam first, cream on top.'

20 photos of Maya were made in the generator with written prompts: 10 safe-for-work scenes and 10 explicit ones. All were downloaded and inspected.

All 20 came back in 16 to 23 seconds at 832x1256, for 10 tokens each. Every safe-for-work photo matched its prompt and stayed clothed, and the explicit ones were followed too (one bed scene came out on a sofa). The photos look real.

Maya has the same face in all 20.

• The explicit photos are not shown.

Three clips of Maya were made from a photo with a written motion prompt: 10 seconds waving in a garden, 5 seconds walking on a beach, and 5 seconds of an explicit scene. Each was downloaded and measured frame by frame, and frames across each clip were inspected.

Clips are 832x1216 at 25 frames a second, with a sound track of background noise. The garden clip took about 2 minutes and the 5-second clips under a minute. Maya waved, smiled and tucked her hair behind her ear, and walked toward the camera laughing, exactly as asked, with smooth motion and a steady face.

The explicit clip has a visible jump in its last half second.

• Three clips; the explicit clip is not shown.

Three calls, one each with Maya, Caroline and Evelyn, with 15 questions asked on the call. Latency is the gap from the end of each question to the first sound of the answer, measured on the call recording.

Answers start after about 5.3 seconds, and a call takes about 20 seconds to connect ('Getting Maya on the line'). The answers are long, often 20 to 35 seconds. In 9 of 45 questions no separate answer could be picked out of the recording. Calls cost 10 tokens a minute.

The answers from the three calls were scored on naturalness, clarity, pacing and intonation against the same fixed criteria as every site, with a transcript.

The voices are clear, warm and expressive, with the highest speech-quality scores measured so far. The companions remembered names on the calls.

The companions were counted from the site's own companion list, and the roleplay stories from its roleplay list.

65 companions, all women aged 18 to 56, all made by Velaya, each with a long backstory and a voice preview. 311 roleplay stories reuse them in different scenes. Filters cover how she is with you (warm, bold, devoted and more). Most opening lines are very explicit.