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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

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Latest updates

2026-10-20 [Text Generation Notice] Retiring Genji, Krake, and Snek models
Genji, Krake, and Snek are being removed from novelai.net.
2026-10-13 NovelAI Diffusion V5: Opus Usage Boost Now Available (V5)
Opus users can boost past the V5 Usage Limit when they run out of free generations.
2026-10-08 Announcement: NovelAI Diffusion V5 Full now has a "Medium" and "High" Effort Toggle (NovelAI Diffusion V5 Full)
NovelAI Diffusion V5 Full added Medium and High Effort toggles.
2026-09-24 Goodbye Krake & Clio
Krake and Clio are being released to the public as they are sunset.
2026-09-22 [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.

Pricing

Starting price: $10/mo
Prices checked: 2026-10-24

Subscription

start at $10/month

Access to the AI anime image generator and text generator

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