Candy AI pricing 2026: plans, tokens and what Shorts really cost

I have spent more time on Candy’s plans page than on my own retirement account, which says something about both of us. Here’s exactly what it showed from a US connection on October 2, 2026.

That’s Candy AI pricing 2026 in one table, and two numbers jump out. The annual plan saves exactly $120 a year against paying monthly. And the weekly option, which looks harmless at $5.60, costs about six times the annual plan over twelve months. Small numbers, big appetite.

Candy says every plan “renews automatically for the same price and term” and that additional local taxes may apply, so your checkout total can land slightly above the sticker depending on where you live. We didn’t verify how many tokens the weekly and two-week cycles include, so everything below sticks to the three main plans.

There’s only one tier of Candy AI Premium. The length you pick changes the price, not the features. Per Candy’s plans page, every member gets:

• Unlimited text messages with any character (how the chat works)
• Create your own AI girlfriend(s)
• 18+ image and video generation
• The “Full Live Action Experience” (Candy’s phrase, listed as a benefit)
• 100 tokens every month

On a free account, image generation, video generation and AI phone calls each stop at an “Upgrade to Unlock” prompt, so treat them as part of what the subscription buys, not as free samples.

Premium is also the key to the Shorts paywall. Unlocking an episode requires Premium, so a free account can’t buy its way to episode 3 any other way. It’s also the only way into the 9 Spicy series, where even episodes 1 and 2 are included with Premium (0 tokens) rather than free.

One thing the upgrade pop-up oversells: it promises to “unlock all premium episodes,” which reads like an all-you-can-watch pass. It isn’t. Premium gives you the right to unlock, and each locked episode still costs tokens. What you unlock stays unlocked, though. Candy’s own line is “Yours forever. No ads, no waiting.”

What Premium doesn’t include is a free pass to everything. Locked Shorts episodes, Scene Videos, phone calls and Private Content packs all draw on the same 100 tokens, so the membership and the token budget are really two separate decisions.

The good news is that 100 tokens finishes two standard series a month without spending another cent. If that’s roughly your pace, the 12-month plan is the one to pick.

Tokens are Candy’s second currency, and they’re where the real decisions happen. Here’s every token price we logged:

Scene Video is the budget-eater: a whole month of tokens buys 40 seconds of footage, less than the average free Shorts episode (about 66 seconds). Phone calls stretch much further, but Candy labels 3 tokens a minute a beta price, so don’t treat it as permanent.

Private Content is the bigger budget-eater. Mila Nowak’s two packs cost 290 tokens each, for a video of roughly 6 to 8 minutes plus about 20 photos, and unlocked packs land in your gallery. No monthly allowance covers one. Spicy titles, listed on our Spicy tag page, cost 30 tokens an episode (50 on the two Creators ones), so a 10-episode run like Tori’s broken vows is 240.

Three things we couldn’t verify, so I won’t pretend: a per-image token cost for the image generator, whether unused tokens roll over to the next month, and what extra tokens cost. On that last one, the token store isn’t available on a free account (it redirects), so top-ups are for Premium members, and I haven’t seen their prices. Every number on this page assumes you live on the allowance, which for most people is plenty.

Plans are abstract. Habits aren’t. Here’s what a month actually costs depending on how you watch, assuming the 12-month plan wherever money changes hands:

The binger is where tokens, not dollars, become the bottleneck. YES MA’AM has 18 locked episodes; the allowance covers 8 a month, so you finish in month three, or $11.97 of plan time. The longest series in the catalog, My bestie betrayed me, has 32 locked episodes at 384 tokens: four months of allowance for one story.

And if you wanted every locked episode across the 124 non-Spicy series? 5,988 tokens, or just under five years of monthly allowances. Add the 9 Spicy series and it climbs to 7,528. I ran that number so you don’t have to feel bad about never finishing the catalog. I certainly haven’t.

Step one is free for everyone: watch episodes 1 and 2 of a few series on a free account, no card required. There are 248 free episodes, about 4.5 hours, so you can afford to be picky (everything that’s free).

Step two depends on how long you’ll stay:

The monthly plan’s break-even is brutal: by month four, it has already cost more than a full year of annual. So here’s my rule, and I’ll stand by it: start free; if you’re going to finish more than one series a month, the annual plan at $3.99/mo is the cheapest way in.

The only honest case for the 1-month plan is a one-off. You want to finish one or two specific series and leave. Buy a month, spend the 100 tokens, and turn off the renewal before it hits (how to cancel).

On a tight budget, also pick standard series over Creators series: two standard series (72 tokens) cost less than one Creators series (90) and give you twice the story.

Here’s the lens I find most useful: treat the subscription purely as a token budget and price everything off that. It shortchanges the unlimited chat and the generators, but it’s the honest way to price Candy Shorts.

On the annual plan, finishing a standard series costs less than a vending-machine soda. On the monthly plan, the same three episodes cost about $5, which is roughly when people start searching for leaks.

Don’t. The “leaked” uploads floating around are re-posts of the free episodes, cut-down social teasers, or something worse aimed at your login. I’ve written up what the leak sites really serve; the short version is that $1.44 a series is a lot cheaper than cleaning malware off your phone.

One more angle: that 48 cents per episode only holds if you actually spend the tokens. A month where you watch nothing still costs $3.99, which is the best argument for staying on the free account until a series genuinely hooks you.

Your bank statement won’t say Candy. Charges appear as “EverAI,” after the operator, EverAI Limited in Malta. Handy for discretion; less handy when you’re auditing your card three months later and wondering who EverAI is. Now you know. If you share a card with someone, it’s worth knowing the name before they ask.

Three billing facts to know before you pay:

• It renews automatically, for the same price and term. The annual plan renews at $47.88 a year after you start, the 3-month plan at $26.97 every quarter, the monthly at $13.99.
• Local taxes may be added. Candy’s plans page says so, which means the Candy AI price at checkout can sit slightly above the sticker.
• You can cancel any time in settings, according to Candy. Do it a few days before the renewal date, not the night of.

You also don’t need a coupon. The 70% annual discount is applied automatically on the plans page, and the sites selling “codes” are selling clicks (the promo code situation).

Candy AI pricing is simpler than it first looks: one membership, three sensible lengths, and tokens on top. The membership is cheap on the annual plan; the tokens decide how much Shorts you can actually watch.

My recommendation, in order:

1. Watch the free episodes first. Two per regular series, no card, 248 in total.
2. If you’ll finish more than one series a month, take the 12-month plan. $3.99/mo, $47.88 billed once, 100 tokens every month.
3. If you only want one series, buy a single month at $13.99 and spend the tokens before it renews.
4. Skip the weekly and two-week cycles. They cost $254–$291 a year.

The one downside I won’t sugarcoat: no plan gives you unlimited Shorts. Tokens cap your pace at about two standard series a month, and Spicy runs and 290-token Private Content packs eat the allowance faster. For most people that’s a limit you’ll never hit; for bingers, it’s a slow-release diet. Either way, episode 3 of whatever you’re watching is 12 tokens away.