NovelAI

NovelAI is a creative suite from Anlatan Inc. that pairs two engines in one subscription: NovelAI Diffusion, an image generator tuned for anime and manga art, and a text generation system for fiction, worldbuilding and interactive storytelling. The current image model is Diffusion V5, which supports sharper detail, larger casts of characters and full comic pages, while the writing side runs on modern large language models such as GLM 4.6. In practice you can draft a scene in prose and then illustrate it from the same account.

The design philosophy is control and privacy. Rather than one-click generation, NovelAI gives writers and artists levers: separate character definitions for consistency across scenes, action tags, prompt editing, inpainting and Director Tools for changing clothing, lighting or poses after the fact. On the writing side, the emphasis is on a model that collaborates with your prose and remembers what happened earlier in a long document, which suits novelists and people running persistent text adventures.

NovelAI also positions itself strongly on privacy and rights. Prompts are encrypted, generated images are not retained on its servers beyond the session unless you save them, and users are not required to hand over personal information. Anlatan states that output can be used commercially without buying an additional licence tier, which matters to creators who sell their work. Access runs on a monthly subscription starting near $10, with Anlas credits available for on-demand image generation and a trial for newcomers.