AI Companion Report 2026: SweetDream Usage Data
Which personalities people pick when they build a character, when they chat and how they talk to their characters, from anonymous totals of SweetDream's own data. One adult (18+) platform, not the whole industry, and no message text was read.
This report counts how people used SweetDream, an adult (18+) AI companion site, in 2026: the characters they built from January to September and how they chatted from July to September. It uses anonymous totals from our own database, active accounts only (call lengths cover every call), and no message text. Nympho was the personality picked most often in the character builder, 96.2% of the style-and-gender choices people made there were women, chat peaked at 23:00 local time, and 83.0% of users' turns were messages or gifts in chats.
Headline findings
Nympho is the most-picked personality
22.3% of personality choices in the builder were Nympho, ahead of Custom, where people describe the personality themselves (12.0%), and Submissive (10.6%).
Women make up 96.2% of style-and-gender choices
Each person counts once per style and gender, however many characters they built that way. Realistic women made up 80.8% of these choices and anime women 15.4%; men, realistic and anime together, 3.8%.
Chat peaks late at night
In local time, the busiest hour was 23:00 with 6.7% of user messages, and the quietest was 06:00 with 1.78%, just below 05:00 (1.80%).
Text chat still leads
83.0% of users' turns were messages or gifts in chats, 14.5% were in Live Cam shows and 2.5% in voice and video calls. Of the messages characters sent in chats, 79.3% were text.
Personalities chosen in the character builder
When people build a character, they pick one personality from a list, or choose Custom and describe it in their own words. This is how those choices split.
| Personality | Share of choices |
|---|---|
| Nympho | 22.3% |
| Custom (own description) | 12.0% |
| Submissive | 10.6% |
| Temptress | 10.5% |
| Lover | 8.3% |
| Dominant | 8.0% |
| Innocent | 7.5% |
| Caregiver | 7.3% |
| Experimenter | 5.0% |
| Confidant | 2.2% |
| Mean | 1.9% |
| Jester | 1.6% |
| Sage | 1.5% |
| Other (5 personalities) | 1.2% |
Relationship types
The builder also asks who the character is to you. We grouped its options into six groups.
| Relationship group | Share of choices |
|---|---|
| Casual: sex friend or mistress | 32.2% |
| Partner: girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband | 19.5% |
| Stranger | 11.7% |
| Work: colleague or mentor | 7.3% |
| Friend: friend or best friend | 7.1% |
| Other relationship types in the builder | 22.1% |
Realistic or anime, woman or man
Every character is built in a realistic or an anime style, as a woman or a man.
| Style and gender | Share of choices |
|---|---|
| Realistic woman | 80.8% |
| Anime woman | 15.4% |
| Man (realistic or anime) | 3.8% |
When people chat
The share of user messages sent in each hour of the day. In local time, chat climbs through the afternoon, dips a little in the early evening and peaks at 23:00. In UTC, which mixes every time zone, the curve is much flatter.
Show the numbers
| Hour | Local time (44 countries, each converted with one time zone) | UTC (all active accounts) |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 6.29% | 3.89% |
| 01:00 | 4.99% | 3.65% |
| 02:00 | 3.97% | 3.95% |
| 03:00 | 2.95% | 4.30% |
| 04:00 | 2.31% | 4.15% |
| 05:00 | 1.80% | 4.06% |
| 06:00 | 1.78% | 3.81% |
| 07:00 | 2.31% | 3.61% |
| 08:00 | 2.52% | 3.45% |
| 09:00 | 3.02% | 3.65% |
| 10:00 | 3.67% | 3.48% |
| 11:00 | 3.94% | 3.87% |
| 12:00 | 3.66% | 4.44% |
| 13:00 | 4.55% | 4.44% |
| 14:00 | 4.94% | 4.37% |
| 15:00 | 5.09% | 4.46% |
| 16:00 | 5.36% | 4.53% |
| 17:00 | 5.21% | 4.58% |
| 18:00 | 4.65% | 4.32% |
| 19:00 | 4.62% | 4.39% |
| 20:00 | 4.52% | 4.64% |
| 21:00 | 5.09% | 5.03% |
| 22:00 | 6.05% | 4.64% |
| 23:00 | 6.70% | 4.26% |
Day of the week
Chat is spread fairly evenly across the week. Sunday was the busiest day, with 15.3% of user messages, and Saturday the quietest, with 13.5%.
| Day | Share of user messages |
|---|---|
| Mon | 14.5% |
| Tue | 14.4% |
| Wed | 14.2% |
| Thu | 14.3% |
| Fri | 13.9% |
| Sat | 13.5% |
| Sun | 15.3% |
Interface language
The language version of the site people last used. It is the site's language, not necessarily the language they speak or chat in.
| Interface language | Share of accounts |
|---|---|
| English | 57.9% |
| Spanish | 9.8% |
| Chinese | 7.4% |
| Portuguese | 6.1% |
| French | 5.2% |
| German | 2.7% |
| Korean | 2.7% |
| Turkish | 2.3% |
| Japanese | 2.0% |
| Italian | 2.0% |
| Polish | 1.9% |
How people talk
Where users' turns went: a message in a chat or in a Live Cam show, or something said in a voice or video call.
| Channel | Share of user turns |
|---|---|
| Text chat | 83.0% |
| Live Cam shows | 14.5% |
| Voice calls (phone or browser) | 2.4% |
| Video calls | 0.1% |
What characters send
The messages characters sent in chats, by kind: most are text, and 17.4% are photos or videos.
| Kind of message | Share of character messages |
|---|---|
| Text | 79.3% |
| Photo | 13.6% |
| Video | 3.8% |
| Voice note | 3.3% |
Conversation length
How many messages users had sent in each chat. Most chats stay short: 46.6% never got a message from the user, and 42.3% got one to five.
| Messages from the user | Share of chats |
|---|---|
| 0 | 46.6% |
| 1–5 | 42.3% |
| 6–20 | 9.2% |
| 21–100 | 1.4% |
| Over 100 | 0.5% |
Call length
Half of voice calls lasted 63 seconds or less, and three in four lasted 207 seconds or less. For video calls the two figures were 79 and 180 seconds.
| Kind of call | Median: half lasted this long or less | 75th percentile: three in four lasted this long or less |
|---|---|---|
| Voice calls (phone or browser) | 63 sec | 207 sec |
| Video calls | 79 sec | 180 sec |
Methodology
How the figures were made and what they leave out. The totals were taken once, on October 17, 2026, with read-only queries on SweetDream's production database.
Data windows
Characters: built from January 1 to September 30, 2026, counting only characters whose creation finished. Messages, turns and calls: July 1 to September 30, 2026. Conversation length: chats started in July and August 2026, counted on October 17, 2026.
Who is counted
Only accounts that were active on October 17, 2026, are counted. The two house accounts that publish SweetDream's own characters are left out of the character and conversation-length figures. Call lengths are the exception to the active-account rule: they cover every call started in the window.
What we never read
No message text, call transcript or Live Cam chat, no memories or scenario text, no character names, bios, images or custom personality descriptions, and no IP address, city, postal code or email. Besides account status, and account IDs to count each person once, the queries used only dates, types, builder choices, the country recorded when a person completed their profile, the language code of the last page address we recorded, and call lengths.
Thresholds and rounding
Every figure covers at least 50 different people, except video call length: for it we counted calls, not callers, and it covers at least 50 calls. Some groups are combined into Other or merged, as the note under each chart says. Each chart shows shares of its own total, rounded to one decimal place (two in the hourly table), so a chart may not add up to exactly 100%. We publish shares only, no counts.
Local time
Local hours and days use the country recorded when a person completed their profile, for countries we converted with one time zone each: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela and Vietnam. Everyone else counts in the UTC curve only.
Interface language
The language version of the last page we recorded for each account seen since July 1, 2026, read from the page address: an address without a language code counts as English. It shows which version of the site people used, not the language they speak.
Limitations
These are figures from one adult platform, not from the AI companion market as a whole. People who choose SweetDream are not a sample of everyone who uses AI companions, and the builder's own options shape what they can pick. Local time covers only part of our users, those with a recorded country we converted with one time zone. Deleting or resetting a chat removes its messages, so chats deleted or reset before October 17, 2026, are missing from the message, turn and length figures, and the channel shares may lean toward Live Cam. Character choices cover nine months and activity three, so changes across the year are not visible.
Privacy
The report uses totals only: no figure describes a single person, and every figure covers at least 50 people (video call length: at least 50 calls). Our privacy policy provides for sharing aggregated, anonymous data for research that cannot identify individual users.
How to cite this report
Please cite it as: SweetDream, “AI Companion Report 2026: SweetDream Usage Data”, October 17, 2026, https://sweetdream.ai/research/ai-companion-report-2026. Questions about the data or the method: [email protected] or our contact form.