Janitor AI hands you the controls and asks you to bring your own model. Private Crush hands you 125 companions who are already written and answers on the first click. One of those is cheaper if you already pay a provider, the other works tonight, and this page is about working out which of those you are.
Choose Private Crush if you want to open a page, read two or three profiles and be talking to somebody a minute later, with no model to pick, no key to paste and nothing to set up before the first reply arrives. There are 125 companions already written here, each with a history and a way of talking, and all 125 of them are women. Five messages a month cost nothing, so you can read how somebody actually writes before you decide whether any of this is worth paying for, and whatever you start on those free messages is saved and waiting the next time you sign in.
Choose Janitor AI if you want to write a character yourself and decide which model runs the conversation. That is the shape of their product and it is genuinely not the shape of ours. Nothing here can be built: the cast is fixed at 125, every one of them is a woman, and there is no editor to open. If you already pay a model provider, Janitor AI lets you point it wherever you like and keep every setting in your own hands, which is an advantage we do not have and cannot pretend to. If that control is what you came for, this page is not going to change your mind.
| Feature | Private Crush | Janitor AI |
|---|---|---|
| Companions already written and ready on the first visit | Yes | Yes |
| You can read who somebody is before you start talking | Yes | Yes |
| Talking to somebody without building them first | Yes | Yes |
| Conversations still there when you come back | Yes | Yes |
| Adult conversation allowed on the account | Yes | Yes |
| Every companion written in advance by the people who run the site | Yes | No |
| Building a companion of your own from scratch | No | Yes |
| Images generated inside the conversation | Built into the chat | Whatever your model does |
| What it costs to keep talking | One flat price, unlimited | Your model provider bills you |
| How wide the cast goes | 125 women, fixed | A far wider community library |
| Who decides which provider sees your words | We do | You do |
Private Crush wins 2 of these 11 rows, ties 6 and loses 3. They are rows we picked, so read them that way. Every line was checked against Janitor AI's own public pages, and the sections below say plainly where Janitor AI is the better answer, which on this comparison is more often than a page like this usually admits.
On Private Crush the account costs nothing and comes with five messages a month. That is not a trial that runs out and locks the door, it is a small allowance that comes back, and it exists so you can find out how a companion writes before you decide anything at all. Reading the catalogue is free without limit: all 125 profiles are open, so you can see who somebody is, what she does for a living and how she argues before you spend one of those five messages on her. Anything you start on the free side is saved and is still there when you sign in again.
Janitor AI is free to open and free to browse, and that is a real strength of the product rather than a marketing line. What it costs to actually talk is a separate question, and the answer depends on the model you connect to it, because the model is yours to supply. For somebody who already pays a provider for other work, that arrangement can mean the conversation costs nothing new at all. For somebody who does not, it means the first step is an account somewhere else, a key of some kind, and a settings page to read before a single reply arrives.
So the two free sides are not really the same kind of thing, and comparing them as though they were would be dishonest. Ours is small and immediate: a handful of messages, no setup, an answer in under a minute. Theirs is open ended and conditional, as much as your own provider will give you, after you have gone and arranged one. If you already have that provider, their side is the better deal by a distance. If you do not, five free messages that work on the first click are worth a great deal more than an unlimited allowance you cannot actually reach yet.
Private Crush costs $20 a month, $24 for three months or $60 for a year, which is $5 a month when it is billed yearly. What paying changes is the message limit and nothing else. The five a month becomes unlimited, and that is the whole of the transaction. There is no balance to top up, no credits that expire at the end of the month and no meter running while you type, so a long evening of conversation costs exactly what a short one costs, which for this kind of product is usually the first thing anybody wants to know and the last thing they want to be surprised by later.
It is worth being precise about the caveat, because this page would be easier to write if we were vague. Only the message limit is gated by the plan. Image generation is built for every authenticated caller with no subscription check in front of it, so it is not a second thing that paying switches on, and a page implying several separate features being switched on at once would be describing a product that does not exist. Conversations are saved for everybody, the catalogue is open to everybody, and the privacy rules apply to every account in exactly the same way.
Paying on Janitor AI is a different transaction entirely, because what you are paying for is mostly the model, and you pay whoever supplies it rather than paying them. That has a genuine upside: your money buys capability you can move, and if you change which model runs the conversation, you keep the account and the characters and swap only the thing behind them. It also has a cost, which is that the bill is metered by somebody else and rises with how much you talk. One shape suits a heavy user with a provider already, the other suits somebody who wants a fixed number.
There are 125 companions on Private Crush and every one of them was written rather than generated. Each has a history, a job, a set of things she cares about and a way of talking that is hers, which is why two of them handle the same question quite differently. You do not assemble anybody. You read profiles until one of them sounds like somebody you want to talk to, and then you talk to her. It is worth saying without softening it: all 125 are women, so if you are looking for a male companion, this catalogue does not have one and is not going to.
Janitor AI is arranged the opposite way round, and that is the honest heart of this comparison. Its library is written by the people using it, which makes it far wider and stranger than a fixed cast of 125 can ever be, and creating a character of your own is central rather than a side feature. You write the description, you decide the voice, you set the scene, and if the result is not what you wanted, you go back and edit it. Nothing on Private Crush answers that. There is no editor, no import, and no way at all to make somebody new, and no plan on this page to suggest one is coming.
Which of those you want is mostly a question about how you like to spend the first twenty minutes. Some people find a blank page full of possibility and enjoy the writing as much as the talking, and for them a fixed cast will always feel like a menu missing the dish they came for. Other people find the blank page tiring, want somebody who already has opinions to argue with, and would far rather read three profiles than write one. Neither preference is the sophisticated one, and knowing which you are settles this comparison faster than any table can.
Here is what Private Crush actually does, stated plainly so that nobody reads past it. A conversation is saved and it resumes: you close the tab, come back on Thursday, open the same conversation and it is there with everything that was said in it. What does not happen is anything carrying across separate conversations. Start a new one with the same companion and she does not arrive knowing what was said in the old one. There is no profile of you being built quietly in the background, no growing model of your preferences and no accumulation over months.
On Janitor AI, continuity is largely something you author rather than something the product grows for you. The description of a character travels with the character, so anything you have written into it is present every time, and the same is true of whatever you write about yourself. That is a real difference in kind: it puts the persistence in your hands, in plain text you can read and edit, instead of leaving it to a system you cannot inspect. If continuity matters to you and you like having control over it, that arrangement is more honest than most memory claims in this category.
What neither of these products has is memory the way a person has it. Both are considerably further from that than the language around AI companions tends to suggest, and any page telling you otherwise is selling something. The practical difference is where the work sits. On Private Crush the work is none, and the limit is that a fresh conversation starts fresh. On Janitor AI the work is yours, and the reward is that you decide exactly what persists. Pick whichever of those two trades you would rather live with day to day, because neither product is going to quietly become the other one.
On Private Crush your conversations are readable by your account and by nothing else. That is not a promise in a marketing paragraph, it is a rule in the database configuration, and the practical effect is that no other user can reach what you wrote, whatever they try and whichever way they come at it, because the rule is checked on the server rather than in the page you happen to be looking at. There is no public feed, nothing you write is shared by default, and there is no setting buried anywhere that quietly turns any of it into something other people can browse.
The part both products share, and that this page will not skip past, is that a conversation with any AI companion is text a model has to process, so it reaches a provider somewhere. Janitor AI is arguably more honest about this by construction, because you chose that provider yourself: you know whose machine sees the words and you agreed to their terms directly rather than inheriting ours. If knowing exactly where your text is going matters to you, that is a real advantage of bringing your own model, and it is not one we are able to match or talk our way around.
What we can say is what happens on our side. Your account is the only key, your conversations are saved so that you can come back to them whenever you like, and no other user is ever shown a single word of what is inside them. What we will not claim is that any product in this category can promise absolute privacy, because none of them can, and a page that told you otherwise would be making exactly the kind of claim this comparison is trying not to make about anybody, ourselves included. Those are the parts we control and can describe honestly.
Asking a companion here for a picture and getting one, inside the conversation, is part of the product rather than a separate tool you have to go and find. It happens in the chat, in context, and it is there for every signed in account. It is also worth listing what is not here, because this category is full of features people assume: there are no voice calls, no phone calls and no video calls on Private Crush, there is no token balance to watch, and there are no streaks, no weekly reports and no mood graphs. It is a text conversation with pictures in it.
On Janitor AI what comes back depends on what you connected, which is the recurring theme of this whole comparison. The front end is arranged around text, and the capability behind it is whatever your chosen model can do, so two people using the same site can have quite different experiences of it. That flexibility is the point of the product and it is genuinely powerful in the right hands. It also means the answer to what happens when you ask for a picture is not something their site can settle for you, because it depends on the arrangement you made.
As for what actually gets sent, on both products it is the words, plus whatever describes the character, and on Janitor AI whatever you have written about yourself as well. Neither product sends your camera anywhere, neither is listening to a microphone, and neither has a phone number attached to it. If you are weighing these two on privacy grounds, the useful question is not which one sends less, because they send much the same thing. It is who receives it, and where the answer to that is written down, which is the question the previous section answers rather than this one.
Nothing transfers between these two, so moving is really just starting, and the useful version of this is a short honest test rather than a migration. Give it one evening, spend the free messages deliberately instead of burning them on hello, and pay attention to whether having nothing to configure feels like relief or like a cage. You will know the answer by the end of the session.
No, and that is the main practical difference between these two products. There is no key to paste, no provider to sign up with and no model setting to choose. You make an account, open a companion and start typing, and the first reply arrives without anything else being arranged first. If bringing your own model is something you actively want, that is a reason to prefer Janitor AI rather than a gap in it, and this page has said so several times already because it is true.
No. There is no editor, no character builder and no way to import somebody you wrote elsewhere. The 125 companions are written and fixed, which is a design decision rather than a feature waiting to arrive, and it is the single clearest reason to choose Janitor AI over this. If writing your own character is the part you enjoy most, nothing on this page should talk you out of the product that does it well.
No. All 125 companions are women, without exception, and nothing on this page is going to suggest otherwise. It is worth being blunt about it rather than leaving somebody to discover it after making an account. If you are looking for a male companion, a community library where anybody can write one is the place to look, and Janitor AI is exactly that kind of library.
No. There is no import from Janitor AI or from anywhere else, and no export from here either. Whatever you have written or accumulated stays where it is, which is a genuine cost of moving and one a comparison page should say out loud rather than bury near the end. If you have spent months on a character you like, that time does not travel with you, and it may well be worth more to you than every difference listed above.
Within one conversation, yes. It is saved, it resumes, and everything said in it is still there when you come back to it days later. Across separate conversations, no. A new conversation starts without knowledge of an older one, nothing is quietly accumulating a profile of you in the background, and there is no memory that spans months. If continuity across many conversations is what you are looking for, this is not the product that has it, and this answer is not going to imply otherwise.
Yes. Asking for a picture happens in the conversation rather than in a separate tool, and it is available to every signed in account rather than sitting behind the subscription. That last part is worth stating plainly, because it is easy to imply that paying switches on several separate things, when in fact paying changes the message limit and only the message limit.
Your account, and nothing else on our side. The rule is enforced in the database configuration rather than in the page, so no other user can reach what you wrote. The honest addition is that a conversation with any AI companion is processed by a model provider, here as anywhere else, so no product in this category can promise the words go nowhere at all. On Janitor AI you pick that provider yourself, which some readers will rightly prefer.
No. Neither product is treatment, neither is a crisis service and neither should be treated as one. Both can fill an evening and both can be good company, and that is a genuine thing, but it is a different thing from care. If loneliness or low mood is heavy and persistent for you, that is worth taking to a doctor or a crisis line in your country rather than to any chat product, ours very much included. Nothing on this page is written to talk you out of that.
None at all. There is no partnership, no affiliate arrangement, no sponsorship and no payment in either direction, and nothing on this page earns a commission whichever product you end up using. Every claim about them here was written from their own public pages, and where we were not certain of something, it was left out rather than guessed at.
Yes, and it is good at something this product deliberately does not attempt. Handing the model choice to the reader is a real design position rather than a shortcut, and it gives people control that most companion apps quietly keep for themselves. The community library is far wider than any fixed cast can be, character creation is a proper part of the product rather than a bolted on extra, and for somebody who already pays a provider it can be a very economical way to talk to the characters they actually want. If you like writing characters, want a male cast, or care about knowing exactly which model is answering you, Janitor AI is the better answer and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Reading the profiles is the fastest way to settle this, and it takes about ten minutes: the full cast of 125 companions is open without an account, and the plans and what they cost sit on one short page.
