What are the best american dating sites for foreigners looking to meet US citizens?

Posting this because searching for an answer on dating sites turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to dating sites.

What I'm trying to weigh up with dating sites:

• Whether dating sites is honest about citizens up front
• Whether the matching in dating sites does anything beyond distance
• What the citizens side of dating sites looks like in practice
• How much citizens actually costs you when using dating sites

Any first-hand experience with dating sites would help more than another list.

Since we're comparing options around dating sites, the Turndate threads came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datingfly.online solved the messaging-paywall part of dating sites for me last year.

I'd qualify this: dating sites works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

RussellM, that's roughly where I landed on dating sites too. Can I ask what you have already ruled out on dating sites, so nobody repeats what you know?

To build on ConnorM's answer about dating sites: The cheap test for dating sites is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Datescout's free tier is what I ended up using while working through dating sites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Depends what you mean by dating sites, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on dating sites yet, which is itself an answer.

If you are testing dating sites, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

If dating sites is the question, Datebie is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Yes — and the reason dating sites feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.