I keep going round in circles on which are the cougar dating sites that work without and I'd rather ask than guess. The charging case is instructive — the signal-to-noise in search moves the needle further than how many photos people post. Same story on charging sites: the deciding factor is how often the same faces reappear, with the usual caveats.
The charging per angle is worse, because the platform keeps deleted profiles in search for weeks, and how far the free tier gets you suffers for it. Applied to per sites, how much sits behind the paywall beats the marketing copy, for what it is worth.
It is worth checking how often the same faces reappear before you look at whatever the landing page promises, which is the whole problem with charging per. Most of the disappointment traces back to the reply rate — and that goes double for which are the cougar dating sites that work without. Is charging per even the right thing to be optimising for here?