Both put a talking avatar in front of your visitors. They are priced differently, built for different buyers, and one of them is ours. Prices below came from their own pricing page on 2026-09-18.
The short answer. Smara costs under half as much per minute at entry, $0.073 against $0.171, and an extra minute is $0.04 against $0.22.
| Product | Plan | Per month | Minutes | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smara | Starter | $29 | 400 | $0.073 |
| LemonSlice | Starter | $7 | 41 | $0.171 |
| Smara | Growth | $99 | 1,800 | $0.055 |
| LemonSlice | Creator | $33 | not published | n/a |
Their price covers the whole conversation, as ours does, so these are comparable numbers.
Character-led real-time avatars with a free public playground, aimed as much at consumer and creator use as at business websites.
Seven dollars to start, a genuinely free way to chat with their stock avatars with no subscription, and enterprise concurrency into the thousands.
Their base model runs $0.164 a minute with overage at $0.22, and hosted avatars add $0.09 on top. Against our $0.04 for an extra minute that is four to five times, and their published plans stop listing included minutes above Starter.
Underneath, the thing that makes our price possible is that the engine runs without a GPU. That is also why the same software can run inside a clinic or a law firm's own building, why the stream fits a 100 kbps connection, and why we can charge four cents for an extra minute rather than thirty-seven.
She can also operate the page she is on: point at what she is describing, fill in a booking form from what you told her, and finish the job rather than describe it.
Where we are weaker: we are newer, we are one product rather than a platform, and if you need a hundred simultaneous conversations today, several of the names here have been doing this longer.
You want a character or companion experience, or you want to try real-time avatars free before spending anything.
You want an avatar on a normal business website that greets visitors, answers their questions and completes tasks, installed with one script tag, at the lowest running cost per minute of any complete product here.
No signup, no card.