# NovelAI

> AI co-writer for fiction with an anime-style image generator

NovelAI is a subscription service from Anlatan that pairs an AI co-writer for fiction with an anime-style image generator. In the story editor the AI continues the text a writer starts, drawing on a Lorebook of characters and places, and stories are encrypted in the browser before they are stored. It runs in a web browser and can be installed on a phone as a progressive web app.

- **Category:** Writing Tools
- **Made by:** Anlatan Inc. (since 2021)
- **Website:** https://novelai.net
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

NovelAI is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $10 per month (Tablet).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** Paper free trial: 50 text generations, 30 images and 100 text-to-speech lines, granted once.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tablet | $10 per month (renews every 30 days) | Unlimited text and text-to-speech generation, plus 1,000 Anlas a month to spend on image generation. |
| Scroll | $15 per month (renews every 30 days) | Everything in Tablet with a larger context size, so the AI takes more of the story into account. |
| Opus | $25 per month (renews every 30 days) | Largest context (28,672 tokens), the Xialong model, 10,000 Anlas a month and Anlas-free standard images within a usage limit. |

Read from https://docs.novelai.net/en/subscription on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with NovelAI before buying.

## Key features

- **Story editor:** Write in the editor and send to have the AI continue the text. Every generation and edit is kept in a branching history, and a retry produces a new output.
- **Lorebook:** Entries for characters, locations and factions are inserted into the AI's context when their activation keys appear in the story. Lorebooks can be imported and exported.
- **Text Adventure mode:** Actions typed with a > symbol tell the AI what a character does, and it writes the narrative response. Pre-made scenarios are available to start from.
- **Text to speech:** Streamed voices read inputs and AI outputs aloud for subscribers. A local option uses the browser's own speech synthesis instead.
- **Image generation:** NovelAI Diffusion models produce anime-style images from prompts and tags, with inpainting, a canvas and Director Tools for edits. Images are paid for in Anlas.
- **Encrypted story storage:** Stories saved to NovelAI's servers are encrypted in the browser first. Text sent for a generation is transmitted unencrypted over HTTPS and, per the FAQ, not stored or logged.

## Good for

- Fiction writers who want an AI that continues their own prose
- Interactive fiction and text adventures with persistent lore
- People who want story writing and anime-style image generation in one subscription

## Worth knowing

- There is no free plan: the Paper trial's generations are granted once and do not refill.
- Subscriptions renew every 30 days, and the subscription docs list no annual option.
- There are no native apps; it runs in a browser or as an installable progressive web app.
- Forgetting the account email or password means losing access to stories stored on the server, because of the local encryption.

**Tags:** Long-form writing, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Sudowrite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sudowrite): AI writing partner for drafting and revising fiction. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/novelai-vs-sudowrite)
- [Novelcrafter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/novelcrafter): Novel writing platform with a story wiki and optional AI. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/novelai-vs-novelcrafter)
- [ChatGPT](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatgpt): OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for chat, images and voice. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chatgpt-vs-novelai)
- [HyperWrite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hyperwrite): AI writing assistant with autocomplete, chat and cited research. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hyperwrite-vs-novelai)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://docs.novelai.net/en/subscription
- https://novelai.net
- https://docs.novelai.net/en/faq
- https://docs.novelai.net/en/text/editor
- https://docs.novelai.net/en/text/lorebook
- https://docs.novelai.net/en/text/textadventure
- https://docs.novelai.net/en/text/models
- https://docs.novelai.net/en/text/usersettings/tts
- https://docs.novelai.net/en/text/usersettings/account

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