Anlatan / novelai.net
AI fiction writing platform and anime image generator tailored for creative writers and artists, featuring customisable AI storytelling, adventure mode, and anime-style image generation with privacy focus.
Pricing
$10/mo
Free plan
No
Category
Writing
Platforms
1
Free plan
No
API access
No
Open source
No
Platforms
1
NovelAI is a subscription service targeting creative writers and anime artists who want AI assistance for fiction writing and anime-style image generation with a strong emphasis on user privacy and creative freedom. Unlike mainstream AI tools that apply content policies limiting fictional scenarios, NovelAI is designed specifically for creative writing — including mature and adult fiction — with the user's creative intent as the primary constraint.
The Storyteller feature provides an AI writing assistant trained on a large corpus of fictional prose, producing writing that reads as literary fiction rather than the factual, informational style of general AI assistants. The AI maintains narrative consistency — remembering character names, settings, and plot events across long stories using a memory system that surfaces relevant context.
Adventure mode provides an interactive fiction experience similar to AI Dungeon, allowing players to describe actions and receive story continuations in real time. The text style can be tuned to different narrative voices — author, character, or third-person narrator.
NovelAI Diffusion produces anime-style images trained on curated anime and illustration datasets rather than the mixed web image datasets used by general models, producing distinctly high-quality anime character and illustration output. Users generate images using the standard anime image generation prompt vocabulary.
NovelAI runs as generative ai software built around text and image workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on web.
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating NovelAI.
Literary fiction-trained language model producing narrative prose in the style of fiction rather than factual informational text, tuned for story writing.
World-building database defining characters, locations, and lore that is automatically injected into context when relevant elements appear in the story narrative.
Anime-style image generation trained on curated anime and illustration datasets, producing high-quality character and scene illustrations for the anime aesthetic.
Tablet $10/month (1000 Anlas, 1 concurrent generation). Scroll $15/month. Opus $25/month (unlimited text, 10,000 Anlas).
Model
Subscription
Starting price
$10/mo
Free trial
No
AI Dungeon is a direct interactive fiction competitor. Sudowrite focuses on literary fiction assistance without image generation. Midjourney Niji is a stronger option for anime image generation without the writing features. Kobold AI is an open source alternative.
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Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
Anlatan (custom models)
Models
NovelAI LM, Clio, Kayra, NovelAI Diffusion V3
Platforms
Web
Deployment
SaaS
Team Collaboration
No
Launch Year
2021
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
Review NovelAI's data handling policy. User stories and generated images processed on NovelAI's servers. Privacy policy explicitly states user data not used for model training.
NovelAI's privacy policy states user content is not used for model training. Images and stories processed on NovelAI's infrastructure. Review current privacy policy for latest terms.
Editorial Verdict
NovelAI is the best AI platform for fiction writers wanting literary writing assistance and for anime artists wanting high-quality character image generation, with strong privacy protections.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
The privacy emphasis is notable: NovelAI does not train on user stories or generated content, and conversations are not used to improve the model. This privacy approach attracts users who write sensitive creative content they do not want used for training.
Tablet $10/month (1000 Anlas, 1 concurrent generation). Scroll $15/month. Opus $25/month (unlimited text, 10,000 Anlas).
No free plan. Hobby $10/month (30,000 words). Professional $22/month. Max $44/month. 3-day free trial.
Review NovelAI's data handling policy. User stories and generated images processed on NovelAI's servers. Privacy policy explicitly states user data not used for model training.
Review Sudowrite data handling policy. Story content processed on Sudowrite's servers.
NovelAI's privacy policy states user content is not used for model training. Images and stories processed on NovelAI's infrastructure. Review current privacy policy for latest terms.
Review Sudowrite's privacy policy before uploading unpublished manuscripts or sensitive story content.
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