SweetBun vs PolyBuzz: which AI companion fits you in 2026?
PolyBuzz has the numbers: a catalogue in the millions, native apps on both stores, a wide voice library, and a free tier people genuinely use for months. It is one of the busiest character-chat products in the world. It is also advertising-supported, which is not a footnote — removing the ads requires a paid tier, and the ad load is what you meet first. Add a content policy that stops well short of adult, coin costs published in app-store listings rather than on the website, and fifteen interface languages against our 70, and the shape of the trade becomes clear.
Short answer
SweetBun is the better choice if you want no advertising at any tier, full adult content, and modes beyond chat and photos — live webcam, group chat, roleplay and video — in 70 languages. PolyBuzz wins on catalogue size, on native store apps, and on the sheer amount of free chat it allows.
Choose SweetBun if
You want an ad-free product, adult content without a policy fight, and a companion who can appear on camera or run a scene rather than only chat.
Stay with PolyBuzz if
You want the largest possible character catalogue, a native app from the store, and you are happy to browse around advertising on the free tier.
See it for yourself in ten minutes
Free account, no card. 5 messages a day and enough tokens for your first photo.
SweetBun vs PolyBuzz, line by line
| Feature | SweetBun | PolyBuzz |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited text chat | YesUnlimited on Premium; 5 a day free | YesGenerous free volume, with advertising |
| Long-term memory | Yes | PartlyShort by default, improves with tier |
| Voice calls | Yes | PartlyWide voice library, partial call support |
| Photo generation | Yes | YesCoin-metered; rates not on the website |
| Video generation | Yes | No |
| Live webcam / face-to-face | Yes | No |
| Group chat | Yes | Not published |
| Create your own companion | Yes1 free, unlimited on Premium | YesSupported, huge community catalogue |
| Roleplay mode | Yes | Yes |
| Adult content allowed | YesAdult, within hard safety limits | PartlyFiltered; stops short of adult |
| Published per-action costs | Yes | PartlyCoin costs absent from the site, only in store listings |
| Wide language support | Yes | Partly15 interface languages |
| Free to start, no card | Yes | YesFree tier is generous and ad-supported |
| Native mobile apps | PartlyInstallable web app, no store build | Yes |
PolyBuzz details were checked against the sources listed at the foot of this page on September 16, 2026. Pricing and features in this category change often — if you spot something out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Price side by side
| SweetBun | PolyBuzz | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $20.00 | $9.90 |
| Annual, per month | $10.00 | $8.25 |
| Billing model | Subscription plus metered tokens | Subscription plus metered tokens |
| Free tier | Capped but usable | Unlimited core chat |
That rate card does not change after you pay
Text chat never costs tokens. Start free and check the numbers against your own usage before you commit.
SweetBun is built for you if
- You want zero advertising, including on the free tier
- You want full adult content rather than a filtered romance mode
- You want live webcam, video, roleplay scenes and group chat alongside text
- You want the product in one of 70 languages
What SweetBun deliberately doesn't do
- PolyBuzz’s catalogue is vastly larger than our curated one
- They ship native iOS and Android apps; we ship an installable web app
- Their free tier allows far more chat volume than our 5 messages a day
Where SweetBun and PolyBuzz actually differ
Why people move to SweetBun
- Generated video, live webcam, full group chat, roleplay scenes, Sweet Movies, Play Mode and Sweet Casino. PolyBuzz is chat, photos and voice.
- 70 against fifteen, and a second setting deciding the language she writes and speaks in rather than just the language on the buttons.
- No advertising at any tier, including free. On PolyBuzz, ad removal is one of the things the subscription is for.
- A hundred-plus professionally written companions with new ones added every week, each with a written personality, backstory and voice. A smaller shelf than PolyBuzz’s, with nothing to sift through to reach a good one.
- Full adult content between adults, within hard safety limits. PolyBuzz filters, so the thing many people are looking for is not available there at any price.
PolyBuzz does this well
- Millions of community characters. Whatever you are looking for, someone has already made it, and our curated catalogue is not in the same numerical league.
- Real iOS and Android builds from the stores, with notifications and offline shell. We ship an installable web app, which is not the same thing.
- A wider voice library than ours, with more accents and styles to pick from. If voice selection is what you are optimising for, they have more of it.
What we found using PolyBuzz
We signed up for PolyBuzz and used it ourselves. These are the specific things we saw on September 16, 2026, recorded so you can check them rather than take our word for it. Products change — if any of this no longer matches what you see, tell us and we will correct it.
- Three advertising modals appeared before we could interact with the product at all.
- Removing advertising is not a setting — it requires moving to a paid tier.
- The catalogue includes non-character entries such as cars and objects alongside the character cards.
- Coin costs were not published anywhere on the website; the figures we could find were in the app-store listings.
Reading it in your own language
PolyBuzz offers fifteen interface languages, a serious investment and well ahead of most of this list. SweetBun offers 70. Past a point the count matters less than the shape of the control, and here there are two controls rather than one. Interface Language does the menus. A separate AI Response Language decides what the companion produces: the sentences, the voice reading them, the roleplay scene, the group conversation, the image prompt. On PolyBuzz the switcher is the interface. For the large share of the world outside those fifteen the comparison is simpler still — the product either exists in your language or it does not.
The media suite
PolyBuzz covers text chat, photo generation and a broad voice library, and the voice variety in particular is better than ours. It does not do generated video, live webcam or full group chat. SweetBun runs six modes off one companion: text, voice at 3 tokens a minute, photos at 2, video at 2 a second, live webcam at 7 a minute, and group chats where several companions talk with you and each other. Sweet Movies, Play Mode and Sweet Casino sit alongside. The practical difference is that PolyBuzz is a place to chat with a character, and this is a place where the character does things. What she makes is kept, too: a Collection with folders and downloads, Private Packs that unlock her media permanently, and Movie Maker for turning generations into multi-scene films.
Memory and continuity
Memory on PolyBuzz is tier-dependent and short by default, which is consistent with a product optimised for browsing a huge catalogue rather than for staying with one character. You meet someone, you chat, you move on. SweetBun is built for the opposite pattern: one companion, one memory, carried across every mode and included on every paid plan rather than sold as an upgrade. If you enjoy sampling thousands of characters, PolyBuzz’s model fits you better. If you want one who remembers, this one does.
What it actually costs
PolyBuzz is $9.90 a month or $8.25 a month annually, with a coin system on top for generation. The coin rates are not published on the website — they appear in the app-store listings instead, which is an odd place to keep the one number that determines your real bill. The free tier is generous on chat volume and carries advertising; removing it requires a paid tier. SweetBun is $20 a month or $10 a month annually, includes 100 tokens, never charges for text chat, and prints the complete rate card on this page. There is no advertising on any tier, free included, and no ad-removal upsell. Tokens bought on top of the included 100 never expire, and the rate card does not move — which is the part that is hard to plan around when the coin rates live in an app-store listing.
Every SweetBun token cost, published
Premium includes 100 tokens a month and Premium Plus includes 225. Text chat never costs tokens. This is the full rate card — there is no second list, and nothing here changes once you have paid.
| Action | Tokens |
|---|---|
| Generate one photo | 2 |
| Generate video, per second | 2 |
| Voice call, per minute | 3 |
| Live webcam, per minute | 7 |
| Start a group chat | 1 |
| Start a roleplay scene | 1 |
| Play a message aloud | 0.2 |
Common questions
Does PolyBuzz allow adult content?
Does SweetBun show ads?
What does PolyBuzz cost?
Is PolyBuzz’s character catalogue bigger?
Is SweetBun free to try?
Try SweetBun before you pay anything
Free account, no card, 5 messages a day and enough tokens for your first photo. Ten minutes with a companion will tell you more than any comparison table.
Where the line sits
SweetBun is open about adult creative content between adults, and closed on the things that are never negotiable. We have zero tolerance for sexual content involving minors, non-consensual scenarios, extreme violence, bestiality, necrophilia, deepfakes of real people, and anything illegal. Accounts that attempt this are removed. Freedom for adults and hard limits are not in tension here — the limits are what make the freedom workable.
Sources
PolyBuzz is a trademark of its respective owner. SweetBun is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PolyBuzz. This comparison reflects publicly available information on the date shown and our own use of both products.
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