Benefits overview: membership, premium, and verification
What every member gets, why passion4u is different – and what premium and verification unlock on top.
Free for everyone – what every member gets
Even without premium you get everything you need to find real connections.
Included with every membership
- Create a profile, upload photos and present an authentic profile.
- Advanced profile search with filters for location, age and interests.
- Send up to 15 contact requests per month.
- Write up to 20 messages per month.
- Use the community – up to 3 posts and 10 comments per day.
- Create a public gallery with up to 4 media items (photos & videos).
- Send gifts from the basic selection.
- View visits and compliments.
- Basic privacy settings for your profile.
Why passion4u?
What sets us apart from other platforms – for all members.
Our strengths at a glance
- Real person verification: every verified member has been actively reviewed – no automated fake detection, but genuine checks.
- Gradual benefits: even as a standard member you can be active – premium unlocks more but is never mandatory.
- Transparent limits: you always see exactly which quotas you have and how many you have used.
- Swiss data protection standard (nDSG): your data is stored on Swiss servers without sharing with third parties for advertising.
- Quality over quantity: no algorithmic feed, no dark patterns – you decide who you write to.
- No subscription pressure: premium is optional and cancellable at any time; your profile stays fully visible without a subscription.
Premium membership
These features are exclusively available with active Premium.
Core premium features
- Unlimited contact requests per month (member: 15, verified: 30).
- Use favorites without additional verification.
- Enable travel mode in profile basics and choose duration (3, 7, 14 or 30 days).
- Actively use and manage the private gallery.
- Extended privacy controls (online visibility, hide location, private gallery audience, wall view for contacts only).
- Passkey management unlocked in account settings.
- Send premium gifts; anonymous gifts are possible without verification.
- Select more interests (up to 25 instead of 15).
- Private gallery: full management including upload, delete, captions and allowlist.
- Access private galleries of other profiles when they use the Premium members only mode.
- Read receipts in chat: sent messages show a grey checkmark (sent) and a green checkmark (read by the other person).
- Activity label in Discover: in the "Recently online" and "Recently updated" sections the last activity is visible – standard members without verification see the profiles but no time indication.
- Community without daily limit: publish unlimited posts and comments (member limit: 3 posts/day).
- Add more social channels: with premium you can store multiple channels instead of only one.
- Random profiles in Discover: the "Random profiles" section is exclusively visible to premium members.
- Profile completion in Discover: up to 12 profiles instead of 8 (verified) or 6 (standard), plus exact profile completion shown in %.
- Advanced personal statistics with additional insights into your activity.
- Distance on profile view: when both profiles are verified and premium is active, the distance in km is shown.
- New profiles and activities in Discover: up to 12 entries instead of 6, even without person verification.
- Matching in Discover: up to 14 matching profiles instead of 7 without premium or person verification.
- Discover - Most visited: As a premium member you can see up to 14 entries.
- Discover - Most gifts received: As a premium member you can see up to 14 entries.
- Members list: premium shows up to 36 profiles, uses all pools and sort modes, and keeps language, interests and person-trait filters available.
Premium in settings
- Control online status visibility with full granularity (all, verified, contacts, nobody).
- Hide location (location_private).
- Choose private gallery audience: contacts, premium, or allowlist.
- Set wall visibility to contacts only (premium-only).
- After premium expiry these premium privacy values are automatically reset to safe defaults.
More in overview pages
- Visits: up to 25 instead of 5 entries, including date and time.
- Compliments: up to 25 instead of 5 entries, including date and time.
Media advantages in chat and gallery
- Larger image uploads (for example chat/gallery up to 20 MB instead of 8 MB per image).
- Much longer videos (up to 300 seconds instead of 30-60 seconds, depending on area).
- Larger video uploads (up to 300 MB instead of 25-75 MB, depending on area).
- View-once media (image/video/voice) with expiration options available.
Message quota
- Send text messages without the standard monthly limit (standard profiles have a limit).
- Premium sees additional premium-specific answers in the FAQ area.
- Archive individual messages and show or hide archived messages in chat.
Exact media limits (free vs premium)
- Chat image: 12 MB and 3072 px edge -> 20 MB and 4096 px edge.
- Chat video: 30 s, 25 MB, 1280x720 -> 300 s, 300 MB, 1920x1080.
- Chat voice: 60 s, 5 MB -> 300 s, 20 MB.
- Gallery image: 8 MB and 4096 px edge -> 20 MB and 6000 px edge.
- Gallery video: 60 s and 75 MB -> 300 s and 300 MB (resolution in both cases up to 1920x1080).
- View-once for image/video/voice is premium-only, including 24 h or 72 h unopened expiry options.
Person verification
These benefits come with full person verification – independent of premium.
- Contact requests: monthly limit increases from 15 to 30 (premium remains unlimited).
- Message quota: standard limit increases from 20 to 50 messages/month (premium remains unlimited).
- Favorites available even without premium.
- Gifts: Desire category and anonymous gifts are allowed; premium also allows anonymous gifts.
- Wall: with the setting Only verified, profiles with person verification may post; for contacts-only wall view, premium is still required on the wall owner profile.
- Access to restricted profiles: send messages and see online status, birthday and contact list – even when the target profile restricts these to verified members only.
- Verification badge: visible badge on profile, in search results, in chat and across the platform – a strong trust signal.
- More gallery media: upload up to 8 media items (photos & videos) to galleries – standard members are limited to 4.
- Matching boost: visibility bonus in the match matrix – profiles appear more often and higher for compatible members.
- Activity label in Discover: see the last activity in the "Recently online" and "Recently updated" sections – even without premium.
- Higher community limit: publish up to 7 posts and 25 comments per day (instead of 3 / 10 for standard members).
- Create events: publish events in the community and on your wall.
- Location sharing in chat: share your current location with verified contacts.
- Unlock social channels: only with person verification can you store social channels in your profile and control their visibility.
- Profile completion in Discover: up to 8 profiles instead of 6 (standard), plus exact profile completion shown in %.
- Statistics plus for verified members: additional sections in portal statistics are unlocked.
- Unlock Nearby map in Discover: with full person verification your radius starts at 50 km (with premium at 100 km) and may be temporarily expanded when only a few matches are available.
- New profiles and activities in Discover: up to 12 entries instead of 6, even without premium.
- Matching in Discover: with full person verification you can see up to 14 matching profiles instead of 7.
- Discover - Most visited: With person verification you can see up to 10 entries.
- Discover - Most gifts received: With person verification you can see up to 10 entries.
- Members list: verified members can see up to 30 profiles, use more filters, and narrow by language, age and distance more precisely than standard members with 24 profiles.
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