AI Boyfriend Statistics

You want an AI boyfriend who texts back, remembers Tuesday, and does not fade to black. You did not come here for another girlfriend roundup with a male face stuck on top.

US Google prints 22,200 searches a month for “AI boyfriend.” “AI girlfriend” is 135,000. That is six to one. The brands tell a louder story. Kindroid is 60,500. Nomi and Replika sit at 27,100 each. People who want him search his name.

This page settles three things. How big the AI boyfriend search really is. Who is actually dating him. And which four apps XXXFuel would open tonight.

Girlfriend ads sell stills. A boyfriend holds on voice. One name. One thread. That is the product.

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What an AI boyfriend actually is

An AI boyfriend app sells a man you can keep. Not a chatbot in a hoodie. You pick a face. He remembers your name. He can send a voice note. Sometimes a still. The name stays the same next week. That is why you come back after midnight. That is why you pay.

If he forgets the hotel, he is not a boyfriend. If the photo belongs to a stranger the model made at 3am, he is not a boyfriend. If the only job is a male card on a wall of bots, that is a library. Different page.

• This product: a named man, a memory thread, a voice that stays his, an AI boyfriend subscription you do not treat like a toy
• Next door: girlfriend apps with a gender switch, character libraries with a male PNG, dating helpers
• Not the same number: there is no clean published “boyfriend market size.” The $2.91 billion bag is coded female. Don’t paste it next to him.

The search mix

The generic phrase is stable. About 18,100 to 27,100 a month for a year. Not a meme spike. Kindroid already outruns it. So do Nomi and Replika.

Query	US / month	What they want
ai girlfriend	135,000	The big sister search
kindroid	60,500	A person you design, often him
nomi ai	27,100	Memory first. Boyfriend is a setting
replika	27,100	The famous name. Cooling
ai boyfriend	22,200	The category itself
romantic ai	2,900	Soft romance apps
ai boyfriend chat	1,300	The thread, not the selfie pack
ai boyfriend app	1,000	Someone to install
best ai boyfriend	260	A list. Thin demand
ai husband	210	A joke tag, almost

Polybuzz (5,000,000) and Talkie (368,000) are character malls. They will play boyfriend. They are not boyfriend demand. Leave them on the uncensored chat numbers.

Don’t build a boyfriend app from a slide

Appfigures said 17% of companion apps put “girlfriend” in the name. Only 4% said “boyfriend.” “Best AI boyfriend” is 260 searches. Don’t build a boyfriend company just because a slide looks pretty. Most paying users still want a girl. The people who want him already know Kindroid, Nomi, or DreamBF.

Replika cooled. Kindroid did not.

Replika is still the journalist’s word. It is not the growing one. US search for “replika” sat near 40,500 in late 2025. By June to July 2026 it was 14,800.

Kindroid went the other way. High 40,000s into 74,000 in May and July. That is the product people open when Replika feels like entry level.

Replika still sells AR, a relationship status, and voice. Kindroid and Nomi took the memory, and the heat that does not flinch. Lauren Oyler in the Yale Review (June 2026) called Replika entry-level after being pointed at Kindroid and Nomi for dirty roleplay. Replika’s own user claim in that piece: on the order of 40 million.

Don’t buy Replika if you need him to stay filthy. You’ll pay for a famous logo and a careful mouth.

Who is dating him

Match, Singles in America: 16% of US singles have tried a romantic AI companion. Gen Z: 33%. Millennials: 23%. Match does not split those by the gender of the bot. The boyfriend sits inside the same 16%.

Who they asked	Share	Source
US singles, tried a romantic AI	16%	Match, Singles in America
Gen Z singles	33%	Match
Millennial singles	23%	Match
All US adults, chatbot for company	4%	Pew 2026
Singles 18 to 39 who view AI romance badly	47%	Match, via CNET 2026

Pew asked every US adult, not just singles: 4% use a chatbot for companionship. The New Yorker (16 March 2026) treated the boyfriend as default. One quoted user keeps three at once: a Replika, a Nomi, a Kindroid.

Kindroid founder Jerry Meng, 28, called companions a “humanity amplifier.” He said for some middle-aged users it is the most important app on the phone. Nomi’s homepage lists friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, fantasy partner in one line. Gender is a setting. Most 135,000-search ads still shoot a woman. That is marketing, not a model limit.

China flipped the product

Outside China, a web pass on the top 55 companion apps still ran about eight men to two women. Inside China, the boyfriend apps flipped the gender. Wired (January 2026) described Gen Z women there dating AI boyfriends on MiniMax’s Xingye and on Zhumengdao, with Tencent and Baidu in the mix.

Don’t export that lesson to Candy. US ads still sell her. China built him on purpose. Two products. Same hunger. Different homepage.

Voice is the intimacy product

Girlfriend ads sell stills. A boyfriend holds on voice. Kindroid meters calls. Nomi puts voice on Premium. Replika has sold calls for years. DreamBF advertises voice messages. Candy does notes in the character’s tone, not a FaceTime clone.

• If you want him in your ear, buy the call tier
• If you only want a filthy paragraph, a library is cheaper
• If you want him to text at 1am and still know your dog’s name, buy memory

Group chat is the other tell. Nomi will put more than one companion in a room. That is a scene. It is not him texting at 1am. One thread. One name. One voice. That is the boyfriend product. Everything else is a library wearing his face.

Four apps XXXFuel would open

Skip another list that is Candy with a male PNG. Rank the four that actually hold a man.

DreamBF is a boyfriend company the way Candy is a girlfriend company. Male-first catalog. Voice messages. Stills. Kindroid is the memory door. You design him. Search already picked it. Nomi is the honest setting: boyfriend is one of four jobs, and the memory is the reason to stay. Candy AI is the cheap yearly door. The catalog is female-first. The character can be a man. Same thread. Same voice. Same stills.

We’d open Kindroid if you want him to remember. We’d open DreamBF if the homepage has to show men. We’d open Candy if you already live there and just need the gender switch. We’d skip Replika if the heat is the point.

What each one is built as

App	Built as boyfriend	Voice	From
DreamBF	Yes. Male catalog	Voice messages and calls	Intro $12.99, then $25.99/mo
Kindroid	You design him	Metered calls	Web $13.99/mo. Ultra and MAX extra
Nomi	Setting	Calls on Premium	$15.99/mo or $99.99/yr
Candy AI	Character gender	Voice notes	Free. Yearly from $3.99/mo
Replika	Toggle + status	Calls on Pro+	Free. In-app plans
Romantic AI	Either in the pitch	Adjustable voice	Free to start

A gender switch is not a boyfriend company

Candy, and half the AI girlfriend apps, will let you pick a man. The ads and the first ten characters are still her. A switch is a courtesy. It is not a category.

Nomi is honest: boyfriend is one of four jobs. Kindroid does not bother with the word. You build a person. DreamBF bothers. Romantic AI bothers. If the hero on the homepage is a woman, you are in the girlfriend business. Shoppers who type “AI boyfriend” notice. That is why 22,200 queries still land on girlfriend roundups with a male PNG.

What he costs

Text is cheap. Voice and stills are not. A filthy paragraph is a library. Him saying good morning in his voice is a plan.

App	What they show	What you actually pay
DreamBF monthly	$12.99 intro	Then $25.99 a month
DreamBF yearly	About $5.99/mo first year	About $69.99 year one. Then $311.88 a year. Read that twice
Nomi	$15.99/mo	Or $99.99/yr ($8.33/mo)
Kindroid web	$13.99/mo	Ultra +$24.99. MAX +$59.99 for memory
Candy yearly	From $3.99/mo	Monthly costs more. Tokens cover the body

A simple budget map

• About $0: a queue, a 50-message cap, or a three-still trial. Janitor’s homepage is free. A long scene is $12.99 plus a key
• $4 to $8 a month, billed as a year: Candy yearly. Fine for text. Thin for a body unless you buy tokens
• $10 to $16 a month: Nomi. Kindroid web before Ultra. The real boyfriend band
• Above $20: DreamBF after intro. Kindroid with a memory add-on. You are paying to keep him, not to browse him

Don’t buy yearly if you only wanted one voice note. Don’t buy monthly if you already know you’ll stay, unless the renewal is a jump like DreamBF.

Companion heat vs library heat

If he forgets the hotel, the smut is cosplay. Want a new male card every night? That is a library, not a boyfriend. Start at uncensored AI chat 2026 for that job.

The 6-to-1 will not close this year

Ad photos. Affiliate stills. “Girlfriend” as a business model. Research and Markets’ $2.91 billion 2026 bag is coded female. There is no published boyfriend market size. Kindroid at 60,500 is the unisex product eating both searches without putting “boyfriend” on the box.

How to choose

• Want a male homepage? DreamBF. Read the renewal
• Want the brand people actually type? Kindroid or Nomi
• Want voice, photos, video, and a $3.99 yearly with a gender setting? Candy AI
• Want a new male card every night? Janitor, SpicyChat, CrushOn. Not a boyfriend
• Want the famous name? Replika. Know the search is cooling

Start at AI boyfriend. Then open one of the four. Don’t collect six apps and wonder why none of them remember you.

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