Free AI Changelog — June: What Changed, What Tightened, What's New

Free AI tiers change constantly, and nobody tracks it. This monthly changelog does — verified changes to free tiers, new platform launches, and the shifts that affect your free experience. Bookmark this page; it updates monthly.

June highlights

CrushOn AI's free tier: holding steady. The restructured ~50-messages-per-day free tier (up from the old 100/month) has been stable for several months now. Guest mode (no signup, no email) continues to work. The free tier remains the most usable in the category by a significant margin. Text-only, no changes there.

SpicyChat's free tier: still tightened, still confusing. SpicyChat's free tier was tightened earlier this year, and the exact limits remain inconsistently documented — some sources say "unlimited messages" with throttling, others report a low daily cap. Users continue to report occasional mid-conversation content refusals despite the uncensored marketing. The enormous character library remains the genuine strength. Our assessment: test free, but know the experience is unreliable compared to platforms with clearer free-tier limits.

Candy AI: free tier stable, token reality unchanged. Candy's limited free tier continues to give a genuine taste of the platform's polish. The sticker-vs-real-cost gap ($5.99 marketing vs $20-40 real active cost with tokens) remains the thing to know before upgrading. No free-tier changes this month.

OurDream: free tier stable, most honest pricing. OurDream's limited free trial continues as a genuine test of the most unrestricted platform. The bundled pricing ($9.99-19.99/mo, no token traps) remains the most transparent in the category. No changes this month.

Perchance: quietly growing. The community-built NSFW generator ecosystem on Perchance continues to expand, with new interactive fiction generators and image generators appearing regularly. Still fully free, still no account needed, still the best free generation tool. The quality of the top generators continues to improve as the community matures.

Janitor AI: free model quality unchanged. JanitorLLM's ~6.5/10 quality on the free tier hasn't improved. The platform's real value continues to be on paid API connections. Free OpenRouter models remain the best free-quality path for technical users.

The industry trend this month

The tightening trend continues. No major platform loosened their free tier this month. The direction is consistent: free tiers shrink, paid tiers add features, and the gap between free and paid widens. The structural forces driving this (payment processor pressure, compute costs, regulatory environment) haven't changed.

The counter-trend: local models continue to improve. The open-source community is releasing better, more capable uncensored models at lower hardware requirements. The gap between what a local model delivers and what a hosted platform delivers continues to narrow, which makes the "genuinely unlimited free" local path more accessible over time. If the hosted tiers keep tightening and local keeps improving, the crossover point where local is better for non-technical users gets closer every month.

What to watch next month

Whether SpicyChat clarifies or further restricts its free tier. Whether CrushOn maintains the 50/day refresh (it's been stable, but the industry trend is against generous free tiers). And whether any new platform launches with a competitive free tier — the companion space still sees new entrants, and occasionally one arrives with a genuinely good free offering before tightening later.

The standing advice

Use the free tiers to test. Protect your privacy from the start (secondary email, no real details). Find the platform that fits. Pay ~$6/month when free frustrates you. And for genuinely unlimited free, go local. The Free Tier Report Card has the current grades, and the Free AI Hub links to every free guide.