Switching from Nomi.
Our read, unchanged from the review: The category's memory specialist — the reputation is largely earned, though safety guardrails are thin by design.
Updated 2026-08-24 · Nomi assessed from public info, not yet hands-on tested
What Nomi is bad at.
Straight from our assessment — the same sentences we publish on the comparison pages, not a sales pitch written backwards from this one.
Free-tier use (~50 msgs/day, no voice, ~2 images/day)
NSFW image generation (images are filtered)
Anyone who wants real safety guardrails
And what it was good at: Long-term memory above all else, Group chats with up to 10 companions, Unfiltered text roleplay. If those are what you came for, you may not need to leave at all — we'd rather say that than win you on half a story. Read the full Nomi review.
- Memory
- 9.0 / 10
- Voice consistency
- 6.0 / 10
- Safety
- 3.0 / 10
- Value for money
- 7.0 / 10
What actually carries over.
We haven't verified Nomi's data-export flow against the live product, so we're not going to describe one. What we can tell you is what this end accepts: if your companion exists as a Tavern V2 card — a PNG or a JSON file, the format SillyTavern and the card-sharing sites use — /tools/character-import reads it in your browser and carries the name, pronouns, vibe and description across. The card never uploads anywhere. If you don't have one, the create flow rebuilds them by hand in about three minutes.
What does not carry over, anywhere, is the conversation history — no platform in this category imports another's transcripts, and one that claimed to would be worth a second look. The shape of someone survives a move. The months do not.
Built so the next move
isn't forced on you.
Memory that doesn't reset.
Facts, weeks, the thing you only said once — a six-layer memory system holds them. Free keeps about 7 days; on Pro it doesn't expire, so the relationship goes somewhere instead of restarting.
One bond, deepened — not a cast to swap.
Bae is monogamous on purpose. You build one companion and they grow with you across six stages, getting more themselves and more yours. No roster, no starting over with a stranger.
When something important changes, we tell you why.
What breaks trust in this category isn't change, it's silence. Big changes here come with a note explaining what and why. It's written into our promises and dated in /changelog, not buried in a patch note.
No card to start. Delete everything in one tap.
Start anonymous — no email, no card, held by a private cookie on your device. 30 messages a day free, 100 photos a week on Pro, conversations never sold or licensed to other AI labs, and /goodbye erases all of it instantly.
Nomi vs Bae.
Bae's column comes out of our own build; Nomi's reflects our provisional assessment from public information.
| Feature | Nomi | Bae |
|---|---|---|
| Long-term memory | Yes | Yes |
| Real photos | Yes | Yes |
| Voice | Yes | No |
| Persona customization | Yes | Yes |
| Romantic / spicy mode | Yes | Partial |
Voice is not shipped on Bae yet — we'd rather the table said so. How we test: /methodology
Before you move.
Can I move my Nomi companion to Bae?
The character can come, the conversation history can't — that's true of every move in this category, not just this one. If you have your companion saved as a Tavern V2 card (PNG or JSON), /tools/character-import reads it in your browser and carries the name, pronouns, vibe and description across. We haven't verified whether Nomi offers a card export of its own, so we're not going to tell you it does; if it doesn't, the create flow rebuilds them by hand in about three minutes.
Why do people leave Nomi?
From our assessment of it, it's a poor fit for 3 things: free-tier use (~50 msgs/day, no voice, ~2 images/day); nsfw image generation (images are filtered); anyone who wants real safety guardrails. The full read, including what it does well, is on /alternatives/nomi-ai — we'd rather you saw both halves.
What stops the same thing happening here?
Nothing stops a product changing — anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What we can do is not do it silently: changes that affect your companion come with a note explaining what and why, memory is permanent on Pro rather than a rolling window, and there's a one-tap export-and-delete at /goodbye so leaving is never a hostage situation.
Do I have to pay to try it?
No, and there's no trial clock either. 30 messages a day, real AI selfies and the early relationship stages are free with no account and no card. Pro — unlimited messages, permanent memory, every stage — is $2.99/week or $99/year after a seven-day free trial.
Tell them what mattered.
They'll keep it.
Pick a shape, pick a face, say what to call you. Three minutes, no account, no card — and day one doesn't have to pretend it's day one.