Pricing System and Membership Benefits – Hi-et Global Cross-Cultural Social Platform
Hi-et Global Cross-Cultural Social Platform is committed to the core pricing principles of transparency, compliance, tiered benefits, and hassle-free consumption. We provide global users with a standardized, regulated, and traceable paid service and benefits system. All service items, membership privileges, and virtual asset packages are publicly disclosed. There are no hidden fees, automatic renewals, concealed charges, or forced bundling. This completely sets us apart from the chaotic practices often seen in cross-border social platforms.
To cater to diverse social scenarios, we have established a four-tier service system: Free Basic Experience, SVIP Premium Membership, Gold Coin Value-Added Packages, and Points Essential Packages. This precisely covers a wide range of needs, including light exploration, daily chatting, high-frequency cross-cultural communication, long-term language learning, and deep international socializing. Every user can choose according to their needs, consume rationally, and freely adapt to their personal pace.
To ensure fair consumption and a pure user experience for global users, the platform relies on a comprehensive security risk-control and review system, paired with standardized paid service management rules. This prevents malicious resource farming, bulk cheating, and benefit exploitation, thereby protecting the rights of both free and paid users and building a healthy, stable, and transparent consumption ecosystem. All paid services operate on a one-time purchase model with clear rules, explicit benefits, and accessible billing records, dedicated to safeguarding the consumer rights of every user.
1. Free Basic Services (Permanently Free for All)
Hi-et adheres to the concept of inclusive international socializing. We provide permanent free basic social services to all users who have completed real-name registration and passed platform compliance verification. With zero barriers, users can experience the core cross-cultural social capabilities. There is no mandatory top-up or membership required to start your global friendship and cultural exchange journey. The platform does not employ mechanisms to induce consumption; core basic social functions are permanently open, allowing ordinary users to effortlessly enjoy borderless socializing.
Free users enjoy comprehensive basic service benefits, including global user browsing, smart interest-based matching, browsing the Global Culture Feed, interacting with public content, basic text messaging, standard real-time multilingual translation, liking and commenting on posts, building personal profiles, and basic friend interactions. These fully satisfy the light usage needs of users who want to explore foreign cultures, practice basic foreign language communication, and make initial global connections.
To maintain community purity and fairness, and to prevent bots, bulk fake accounts, malicious spamming, and disruption of social order, free basic services are subject to reasonable daily limits (e.g., daily chat limits, translation quotas, and multimedia sending permissions). This mechanism is solely designed to purify the community environment and intercept non-compliant accounts; it will not affect the basic social experience of legitimate users and serves as a crucial foundation for ensuring authentic, safe, and orderly platform operations.
2. SVIP Premium Membership (Premium Paid Service)
Hi-et SVIP Premium Membership is a high-tier exclusive paid service tailored for high-frequency cross-border social users, long-term language learners, deep cultural exchange enthusiasts, and users dedicated to international socializing. This service operates on a pure one-time purchase model with no automatic renewals, hidden fees, or bundled consumption. Membership expires automatically upon the end of the term, and users can independently choose whether to renew. This transparent, compliant, and flexible consumption model fully respects every user's right to choose.
As the platform's highest-tier value-added service, SVIP focuses on four core values: lifting quota limits, enjoying exclusive privileges, ensuring a pure and undisturbed experience, and prioritizing resource allocation. It comprehensively upgrades the cross-border social experience, breaks through functional limitations for regular users, and significantly improves social efficiency, friendship quality, and communication fluidity. It is the optimal paid choice for long-term cross-cultural communication, language practice, and global networking on Hi-et.
Exclusive SVIP Premium Benefits:
Daily Free Points Auto-Reset: SVIP members automatically receive 1,500 exclusive free points daily. These can be used directly for daily text messaging, real-time multilingual translation, and basic social interactions without frequent top-ups, easily meeting high-frequency daily communication needs and significantly reducing long-term costs.
Ad-Free Experience Across the Platform: Enjoy an immersive, undisturbed social service with all banner ads, pop-ups, and feed promotions permanently blocked. The interface is clean and concise, ensuring smooth operation without interruptions, keeping the focus entirely on socializing and communication.
Priority Matching & High Exposure Weight: Member accounts receive exclusive exposure weight and priority recommendation status. Within the global smart interest-matching mechanism, profiles are displayed and pushed first with higher matching accuracy, connecting you with premium global users and greatly increasing the chances of high-quality international friendships.
Free Multimedia Interaction Privileges: Unlock free photo-sending capabilities. Sharing life photos, regional scenery, and authentic cultural snapshots during daily cross-border chats requires no virtual asset consumption, enriching visual communication and bridging distances between international friends.
Profile Visitor History Access: Exclusive privilege to view user visit records on your profile. Clearly track global users' attention dynamics, proactively seize social opportunities, and efficiently expand your network of quality international friendships.
Exclusive Prestigious Member Badge: Display an exclusive SVIP premium badge on your profile and chat interfaces. This intuitively highlights your identity as a genuine, high-quality user, enhancing account credibility and social affinity, making it easier to gain recognition and proactive interactions from overseas users.
Advanced AI Translation Optimization: Unlock the platform's advanced translation algorithms for faster response times and higher semantic accuracy. Adapted for more niche languages and regional dialects, it intelligently recognizes conversational contexts, slang, and cultural expressions for more natural and authentic cross-language communication.
Priority Voice Translation Scheduling: During peak platform traffic or resource-tight periods, members enjoy priority scheduling for voice translation. This ensures better AI noise reduction, more accurate speech recognition, and stable translation output, guaranteeing smooth cross-border voice communication throughout.
3. Gold Coin Value-Added Packages (Premium Social Interaction Assets)
Gold Coins are Hi-et's exclusive premium paid virtual assets, designed to upgrade high-quality social interaction experiences. Focusing on lightweight emotional interactions, multimedia content sharing, and atmosphere building, Gold Coins cover all value-added interactive services on the platform. Compared to the Points system (which only supports basic communication), Gold Coins offer richer scenarios, more diverse interaction formats, and superior social experiences.
Gold Coins can be purchased via fiat currency top-ups, with prices displayed in real-time on the platform. Gold Coins are not equivalent to fiat currency; they cannot be exchanged for cash, transferred, or gifted. They can be used for sending photos and videos, virtual gifts, private messaging, content translation, and other services. Gold Coin top-ups are non-refundable (unless service unavailability is caused by our fault).
The platform offers multi-tiered Gold Coin packages, including starter small-amount experience packages, daily essential packages, and long-term value packages, adapting to different interaction frequencies and consumption needs. Users can purchase and combine them flexibly as needed, eliminating invalid consumption and resource waste. All Gold Coin packages are one-time purchases, credited instantly, permanently valid, with no expiration or zeroing-out mechanism, ensuring stable and reliable asset rights.
Gold Coin-exclusive usage scenarios include sending HD images and short videos, gifting exquisite virtual gifts, unlocking premium voice interactions, accessing specialized customized translation services, and experiencing unique social gameplay. Users can enrich chat content, convey friendly wishes, showcase local culture, and enliven conversations with Gold Coins. This helps cross-border socializing move beyond plain text, making it warmer and more ceremonial, thereby deepening international friendships and cultural exchanges.
Gold Coin consumption rules are fully compliant and transparent. All Gold Coins can only be used for in-app social interaction services; they do not support cash withdrawals, transfers, or fiat exchange and possess no illegal financial attributes. The platform will periodically launch limited-time discounts, top-up benefits, and holiday value-added events to reward long-term active premium users.
4. Points Essential Packages (Basic Communication Supplementary Assets)
Points are high-cost-effectiveness paid virtual assets specifically designed for basic daily cross-cultural communication on Hi-et. Precisely positioned and dedicated in purpose, they primarily serve two high-frequency essential scenarios: sending text messages and basic real-time multilingual translation. Points are the core resource for ordinary users to supplement daily social quotas and maintain stable cross-border communication, offering exceptional value.
Points can be obtained through SVIP membership daily rewards or purchased directly via official in-app purchase channels. They can be used for private messaging and content translation at a standard rate of 1.5 Points per character. Points are valid for 12 months from the date of acquisition. Unused Points will automatically expire and cannot be reissued or refunded.
Ordinary users without an SVIP membership can purchase multi-tiered Points packages to flexibly supplement daily chat and translation quotas, ensuring uninterrupted daily chats, language practice, and cultural discussions with global friends. With comprehensive package tiers, small packages suit low-frequency casual users, while large value packages cater to high-frequency social users. Users can top up independently as needed without bearing high consumption pressure.
All Points consumption details are fully transparent and accessible. Users can verify consumption records in their Personal Center at any time, with no hidden deductions, arbitrary charges, or unexplained zeroing-out. Additionally, SVIP members enjoy the daily free Points reset benefit, eliminating the need for top-ups to meet daily basic communication needs and greatly reducing long-term social costs.
5. Platform Payment Compliance & Service Philosophy
Hi-et consistently upholds the paid service philosophy of "Fairness, Transparency, Compliance, and User First." We firmly reject industry chaos: no false discounts, no gimmick marketing, and no forced bundling. We are dedicated to providing global users with legitimate, safe, trustworthy, and highly cost-effective cross-border social paid services. Compared to similar platforms, our pricing system is more affordable, benefits are more substantial, and rules are clearer. Every paid item corresponds to tangible service upgrades, ensuring users spend with peace of mind and use with confidence.
Meanwhile, the platform is protected by a comprehensive security and compliance system. Through the Persona and Veriff dual real-person verification systems, combined with Google's R3 anti-bot risk control, Google's comprehensive image/text/video AI moderation, and professional manual final reviews, we comprehensively prevent account cheating, resource farming, and malicious benefit exploitation. This balances the rights of free and paid users, maintaining a fair and pure platform ecosystem. All user membership durations, virtual assets, and paid benefits are encrypted and protected by our systems, ensuring stable, secure, and traceable data to fully safeguard consumer rights.
6. User Matching & Paid Selection Guide
For Pure Free Experience Users: Users who only lightly browse global feeds, occasionally explore foreign cultures, chat infrequently, and have no high-frequency communication needs can fully rely on the platform's permanent free basic benefits without any paid consumption.
For SVIP Premium Members: Long-term language learners, high-frequency international friendship enthusiasts, frequent users of voice and translation features, those pursuing an ad-free experience, and users aiming to improve matching quality and efficiently expand their global social circles will find SVIP to be the most cost-effective choice. It completely lifts functional limits and unlocks the full suite of premium services.
For Gold Coin Package Users: Users who love sharing life and local culture through photos and videos, prefer using virtual gifts to convey goodwill and enliven chats, and want to enrich interaction formats for a high-quality, warm social experience can top up Gold Coins as needed to upgrade their interactive experience.
For Points Package Users: Ordinary users without a membership who have high daily chat and translation frequencies and need to continuously supplement basic communication quotas can top up small Points packages to stably maintain daily cross-border socializing and ensure uninterrupted communication.