If you are looking for a free AI companion, start with access, limits and data handling. Aiamis has no account or sign-up, and each visitor can send up to 40 messages a day at no charge, as its How Aiamis works page explains. On any service, check its current access, limit, privacy and terms pages for the details that matter.
What “free” tells you
For any offer, read “free” as a statement about cost, then check limits and data handling separately. Aiamis is run as a non-profit project with no adverts, paid plans, affiliate or referral links, sponsored recommendations, or anything to buy, according to its About Aiamis page. Before the first message, the How Aiamis works page says you confirm that you are 18 or over; identity documents are not checked, and no name, email address or phone number is requested.
Do not assume those details travel with the word “free.” For another service, use its current pages to answer the same basic questions: whether an account is required, what information is requested, whether there are limits on use, and what happens at a limit.
The daily cap
The How Aiamis works page also sets a pace limit of no more than a few messages a minute and says every reply costs a small amount to generate; nobody pays to use the service, and the limit is what keeps it free. When you reach the daily cap, the same page says Ami tells you in the chat, the message box stays off for the day, and the limit resets the next day; there is no charge, and nothing is sold to lift it.
Here, “free” means no charge to use the chat within the stated cap, not unlimited access.
What gets stored
The Aiamis privacy page says that messages you send and the replies are stored in the chat service’s database and deleted within 24 hours of the start of the conversation; each message is cut off at 2,000 characters. Its privacy page also records a random conversation ID, the time, the page address, the language and a two-letter country code with the conversation, all deleted with it; the IP address itself is not stored with the conversation.
Within the current chat, the privacy page says the conversation so far stays in your own browser tab until you close the tab or press “New chat.” To produce a reply, your current message and the earlier messages in that conversation are sent to an AI model provider, which processes the text on its own servers under its own terms, as the privacy page explains.
Conversations are not forwarded to staff or reviewed as they happen, according to Aiamis’s privacy page. For up to 24 hours, the people who maintain the service have technical database access, which the same privacy page explains.
Because conversations are not linked to an identity and are deleted within 24 hours, Aiamis usually cannot locate a particular conversation for a request to send or delete it, according to its privacy page. Ami does not remember you between visits, as the How Aiamis works page explains.
Aiamis uses no advertising cookies or cross-site trackers, according to its privacy page. Visits are counted with a cookieless analytics tool that shows totals only, the same privacy page says.
What other policies may say
The UK National Cyber Security Centre says that, for a query to a large language model, what you type is visible to the organization providing the model; it also says queries are stored and will almost certainly be used to develop the service or model at some point.
For organizations and government agencies, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner notes that some commercial AI products have terms or settings allowing the product owner to collect what customers type for further training and development.
On another chat, do not carry an answer from a different service. Find that service’s own terms and privacy policy, then look for direct answers about storage, training, review and model providers.
A practical privacy check
Before you type, work through these points on the service’s own pages:
- Access: Is an account required? If so, what information is requested before you can chat?
- Cost: Is the stated access free from the start, and are any charges or extras clearly explained?
- Limits: Is there a daily or pace limit? What happens when you reach it, and how does it reset?
- Storage: What messages, replies, identifiers and metadata are kept, and when are they deleted?
- Use and review: Does the policy say typed text may be used to improve or develop the service or model? Is human review mentioned?
- Providers: Which model provider or other third party receives the text, and under what terms?
- Controls and tracking: Are there deletion or data settings? What do the cookie and analytics notices say?
If the wording is unclear, keep passwords, card or bank numbers, identity numbers, your address, and private details about other people out of the chat, which matches the warning on Aiamis’s privacy page.
Keep the chat in proportion
Aiamis says talking to an AI can be a comfortable way to put a feeling into words, but it calls the chat one small thing among many in its How Aiamis works page. The same guidance says that if you are choosing the chat over people you could reach, or returning because you feel you have to, you should contact a friend, relative, doctor or listening line.
Ami cannot call anyone, send help or contact emergency services, according to the How Aiamis works page. That is why a free conversation can have a place in ordinary life without becoming the only place you go for every kind of help.
If you need urgent help, Aiamis’s crisis help page lists emergency numbers and listening services by country. The same page says Aiamis has no relationship with the listed organizations and receives nothing from them.
A clear offer tells you what it costs. Clear limits tell you when use may pause. Clear data terms tell you what happens to your words. Read them before you start.