Methodology

How the claims on the ai sex chat comparison get sourced, checked and kept current. Every material claim on the main page traces back to one of the source types below.

Where the Facts Come From

Ranked from the heaviest to the lightest:

1. Live checks. Sign-up flows run in a regular desktop browser on 6 October 2026: building a companion until the platform asked for registration, sending a first message as a guest, and switching an NSFW filter on to see what it requires. No account was created and nothing was paid for.
2. The platform's own documents. Terms of service, privacy policies, content and community guidelines, help docs and pricing pages. Section and item numbers are quoted where the document has them.
3. Store listings. App Store and Google Play pages, checked for who actually publishes an app before it gets named or linked.
4. Regulators and independent research. New Zealand's Classification Office and Privacy Commissioner, Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Common Sense Media and MIT Media Lab, cited inline with a link to the primary page.
5. News reporting. Used for context, such as the Washington Post's reporting on teens and AI sexting, and never as the only source for a claim about a platform.

Checked Live vs Cited

Fast-moving facts - prices, free-tier caps, sign-up rules, age checks - come from the platform itself on the day of checking. Slow questions, like what heavy companion-chat use does to loneliness, come from published research and are framed as that research's finding. When a study covered general companion chat rather than explicit platforms, the page says so.

How the Comparison Table Is Built

The table on the main page has five columns after the platform name: operator and jurisdiction, whether sign-up is required, what the free tier includes, the starting price and what explicit content is allowed. Each cell repeats what the platform's own site states. Where a platform doesn't publish a figure, the cell says "Not listed publicly" instead of borrowing a number from a third-party listicle.

Freshness

The main page is re-checked at least every 90 days, and sooner when a platform changes its prices, its sign-up flow or its age checks. Each update moves the page's dateModified; datePublished never changes, so the first publication date stays on record.

What We Don't Do

• No sponsored placements. No platform has paid to appear in the comparison.
• No guessed numbers. A missing price or cap is reported as missing.
• No clinical claims. Anything about mental health comes from cited research, not from this site.
• No hidden commercial ties. Affiliate links are disclosed in the editorial policy.

How AI Tools Are Used

AI tools help with research, summarising long legal documents and drafting. They don't get the last word on facts: every price, cap, clause number and quote on the main page is checked against the source it cites before publication, and the editor is accountable for what goes live.

Corrections

Send the claim, the correction and a source through LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/melissablake1. A verified correction means an edit to the page, a line in the correction log and a dateModified bump, within seven working days.

Last reviewed: 6 October 2026 · by Melissa Blake