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NovelAI
NovelAI generates stories, roleplay text, speech, and anime-style images through a web app.
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
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Pricing
- Starting price
- $10 /mo
- Pricing checked
- 2026-09-19
Paper
Free Trial
- 30 free image generations up to 1024x1024
- 50 free text generations
- 100 free text-to-speech generations
Tablet
$10 /mo
- Unlimited text generation
- Unlimited text-to-speech generation
- 1,000 monthly ImageAnlas
Scroll
$15 /mo
- Tablet benefits
- Larger story context size
- 1,000 monthly ImageAnlas
Opus
$25 /mo
- Largest context size, up to 28,672 tokens
- Exclusive access to Xialong
- 10,000 monthly ImageAnlas
- Free qualifying image generations