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NovelAI
NovelAI generates stories, roleplay text, speech, and anime-style images through a web app.
In inglese
NovelAI is a web-based AI storytelling and image-generation service for writers, roleplay users, and artists. It provides text generation, customizable text-to-speech, image creation, inpainting, character positioning, image enhancement, and comic-page generation.
Subscriptions include Tablet, Scroll, and Opus plans, with a Paper free trial. Text and text-to-speech generation are unlimited for subscribers, while image generation uses ImageAnlas; extra ImageAnlas can cost more. NovelAI Diffusion V5 has additional usage limits for some Opus image generations.
Features
- Generate and edit stories with AI text models
- Create anime-style images from tags or natural-language prompts
- Use customizable text-to-speech generation
- Inpaint and enhance generated images
- Position multiple characters on an image canvas
- Generate multi-panel comic or manga pages
- Generate images with alpha transparency
- Use Director Tools, including Pixel Snap for pixel art
Use cases
- Draft fiction, scenes, dialogue, and roleplay responses
- Build interactive stories with persistent context and lore
- Create character art, backgrounds, sprites, and illustrations
- Repair or revise parts of generated images with inpainting
- Produce comic or manga pages from written layouts
- Turn generated pixel art into cleaner pixel-grid artwork
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- Goodbye Krake & Clio
Krake and Clio are being released to the public as they are sunset.
- [Subscription Update] The Anlas Policy Change Is Live
Existing Subscription Anlas on all accounts were converted to non-expiring paid Anlas; normal Subscription Anlas resume at the next renewal.
- Introducing Pixel Snap
Pixel Snap was added to Director Tools.
- [Image Generation] NovelAI Diffusion V5 is here! (V5)
NovelAI Diffusion V5 is here.
- Subscription Updates: Usage Limits & Subscription Anlas Policy Adjustments
Subscription usage limits and the Subscription Anlas policy were adjusted.
Capabilities
- Long-form writing — “Build stories, worlds, and characters with an AI that writes with you — not for you.” source
Pricing
- Starting price
- $10/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-09-25
Subscriptions
- $10/month
- Access to the AI anime image generator and text generator