Matthias M.

OKCUPID is a free dating site: Everything you need (email, chat, search,...) is free. It follows a freemium model where you can pay if you want some non-essential extra features (e.g., visiting profiles without being listed as visitor and fine-grained search).

There are more people on the site than on many other sites and the people usually respond to emails (I'd say I get responses to 50% of my emails while at plentyoffish this rate is more like 5%)

Overall, my favourite and totally free dating site.

Plentyoffish is a reasonable site. The people seem real (no bots and no fake profiles; many abandoned profiles) and everything is free.

However, compared to okcupid.com (which I like better), I have not managed to convince the women to chat/email with me.

Overall, I like okcupid.com better (OKC is also free, except for some advanced extras that I have not missed so far)