novelai

novelai

NovelAI is an online AI-powered creative suite for generating anime-inspired images and writing stories, offering an image generator, writing assistant, and tools like Image2Image, Vibe Transfer, and inpainting for creators.

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Freemium Enterprise
#251 in Image & Design (251 tools)
Just launched
Data reviewed Jul 22, 2026

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What it does

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Freemium from $10/mo (USD)

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novelai

NovelAI is a web-based creative platform focused on AI-generated anime-style imagery and story writing. It provides an Image Generator and a Writing Assistant designed to help creators produce high-quality art and text with controls for prompts, visual tags, and composition. The product offers specialized tools such as Image2Image, Enhance, Vibe Transfer, inpainting, background removal, line art extraction, colorization, and other editing utilities to refine and repurpose generations.

NovelAI targets a wide range of creators (writers and AI artists) with subscription plans and pay-as-you-go options, a free trial of 30 generations, and a currency system called Anlas for on-demand image generation.

AI-assisted storytelling and image generation platform with subscription-based access.

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Key Features

Image Generator

Generate anime-inspired characters and scenes using a purpose-built creative editor and prompt/tag system tailored for visual generation.

Writing Assistant

Tools to create stories and written content alongside image generation (site lists Writing Assistant as a core offering).

Image2Image & Enhance

Change details while following the original composition or increase detail level using Image2Image and Enhance modes.

Vibe Transfer

Transfer aesthetics from a source image to new generations by pulling visual inspiration directly from an example image.

Inpaint / Edit Brush

Inpaint parts of images with a brush to correct mistakes or add new details before finalizing creations.

Utility Tools (Remove BG, Line Art, Sketch, Colorize, Emotion, Declutter)

Post-processing and utility features to remove backgrounds, extract line art, colorize, apply emotion filters, and declutter images for reuse.

Random Prompt / Prompt Dice

Generate random prompts for inspiration with a dice button to help users who are out of ideas.

Advanced AI Settings

Control sampling, steps, guidance, seeds, and other generation parameters to tune outputs.

Pricing

Free Tier Available

Free trial: 30 free generations at up to 1024x1024 resolution

Tablet

$10/mo (USD)
  • Access to image generation features
  • 1,000 monthly Anlas (bonus currency)
  • 20% Anlas purchase discount

Scroll

$15/mo (USD)
  • Access to image generation features
  • 1,000 monthly Anlas (bonus currency)
  • 20% Anlas purchase discount

Opus

$25/mo (USD)
  • Unlimited images (subject to stated resolution/step limits)
  • 10,000 monthly Anlas (bonus currency)
  • 20% Anlas purchase discount

Pay As You Go

On-demand pricing
  • Purchase Anlas as needed for image generation

Use Cases

AI Art Creation

Create anime-style characters, scenes, and illustrations using tailored prompts, visual tags, and editing tools.

Story & Narrative Generation

Use the Writing Assistant to develop stories and written content alongside generated imagery for visual storytelling projects.

Concept Iteration & Refinement

Iterate on designs using Image2Image, Enhance, inpainting, and Vibe Transfer to refine looks and transfer aesthetics between images.

Content Preparation for Publication

Use utilities like background removal, line art extraction, and colorization to prepare images for use in projects or sharing.

Integrations

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Benefits

Fast, purpose-built UI tailored for creative image generation and editing.
Multiple editing and refinement tools (inpaint, enhance, image2image, vibe transfer) to produce polished results.
Flexible pricing with subscription tiers, pay-as-you-go, and a free trial to evaluate the service.

Limitations

Images supported up to 1024x1024 pixels and up to 28 steps for single-image generation (as noted in the plan fine print).
Monthly Anlas refill only occurs if you have less than the amount allotted to your subscription tier.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Getting Started

  1. 1 Step 1: Visit NovelAI and create an account to start the free trial (30 free generations).
  2. 2 Step 2: Choose between Image Generator or Writing Assistant depending on your goal, or select a subscription plan (Tablet, Scroll, Opus) or pay-as-you-go.
  3. 3 Step 3: Use the creative editor to enter prompts, apply visual tags, or import an image for Vibe Transfer/Image2Image, then refine with inpaint and utility tools.

Support

Contact

Contact Us link on the NovelAI website (site footer header contains 'Contact Us').

Support

Support link available on the site (referenced as 'Support' in the footer/navigation).

Community

Community page for browsing shared work and interacting with other users ('Community' and 'Explore' sections).

Status

System status page referenced as 'Status' in the site footer.

API

Available: No

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