UncensoredAI vs NovelAI

What is NovelAI?

NovelAI is an AI-driven anime image generator and storytelling tool for anyone who wants to create anime-inspired art and build their own stories. Using their own trained models, NovelAI aims for a high level of creative freedom, privacy, and transparency — a limitless playground for imagination.

You can generate anime-style characters, backgrounds, and action scenes with natural-language prompting and tagging, keep character consistency across scenes, and write long stories with dedicated text models — all in the browser, including on mobile, with no local install.

Community & updates: r/NovelAi, @novelaiofficial.

NovelAI Diffusion V5

The latest image stack — NovelAI Diffusion V5 — targets sharper details, more characters in a frame, and full comic pages in one model (substantially larger architecture than V4.5).

What makes NovelAI different?

• Anime-first tooling — natural language + tags, character positioning, action tags, and per-character definitions for consistency
• No hardware barrier — fast cloud generation from desktop or mobile
• Privacy-minded — prompts encrypted; generated images are not stored on their servers by default (session-only unless you save)
• Commercial freedom — use generated anime art for personal or commercial work without buying a special commercial tier
• Editing tools — inpainting, Director Tools, and a built-in canvas for refining faces, clothing, lighting, and poses
• Undesired Content — negative-prompt control for quality, anatomy, and concepts you want to avoid

NovelAI pricing

All paid plans include both Image Generation and Text Generation. New users can start with a free trial:

• Free trial: 30 free image generations + 50 free text generations
• Tablet — $10/mo — image gen, pay-as-you-go Anlas with 20% discount, 1,000 bonus Anlas, ~32k character memory (8,192 tokens)
• Scroll — $15/mo — same image perks as Tablet with larger text context (~49k characters / 12,288 tokens)
• Opus — $25/mo — unlimited* image gen (up to 1024×1024, up to 28 steps for a single image), 10,000 bonus Anlas, largest memory (~114k characters / 28,672 tokens)

Prefer no subscription? NovelAI also sells Anlas (image generation credits) on demand. Text generation does not consume Anlas — it comes with any subscription.

* Unlimited image terms and V5 usage limits are defined by NovelAI; bonus Anlas refill monthly only if your balance is below the tier amount.

Text models on NovelAI

• GLM-4.6 355b — long context, multi-language storytelling
• Llama 3 Erato 70b — capable cowriting model
• Xialong — their latest large text-generation model
• TTS — AI text-to-speech to read stories aloud

NovelAI vs UncensoredAI — which to use?

These products solve different problems and stack well:

• UncensoredAI — uncensored multi-model chat (Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Mistral, Girlfriend). Best for conversation, roleplay, and general writing. Plans from $5/month; 3 free messages with no sign-up.
• NovelAI — anime image generation (Diffusion V5) plus dedicated story models, Anlas, and Undesired Content controls. Best for visual anime art and long-form storytelling. Free trial, then from $10/month — or buy Anlas only.

Draft dialogue and prompts in UncensoredAI; render anime stills, comics, and polished stories in NovelAI when you need that specialized stack.

Why UncensoredAI for chat?

• Lower entry price for chat ($5/mo vs $10/mo)
• 3 free messages before any account
• Multiple uncensored LLMs in one UI
• Card, crypto, Telegram Stars, and PayPal
• No Anlas math when you only need text conversation

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