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NovelAI review

Quick answer

End-to-end encrypted stories, unlimited text on every paid tier and long context, built for writing rather than chat.

Free: Paper trial: 50 text, 30 image and 100 TTS generations. Paid: Tablet $10/month.

Best for: Private long-form story writing.

At a glance

  • Platforms: Web
  • Allows: Unrestricted story writing, Text adventure mode, Lorebooks and modules
  • Content rules: Terms list no content-type bans and say user content is wholly the user's own.
  • Privacy and training: Stories, lorebooks and scripts are end-to-end encrypted with a password-derived key; prompts are not kept.
  • Age verification: Terms require users to be 18 or older; no verification method is published.

NovelAI

Official site
novelai.net
Free tier
Paper trial: 50 text, 30 image and 100 TTS generationsSubscription docs, checked
From
Tablet $10/month (Scroll $15, Opus $25; Opus has the largest context)Subscription docs, checked
Best for
Private long-form story writing
Platforms
Web
Models and context
GLM-4.6 and Xialong with 28,672 tokens of context on the site; Erato and Kayra (8,192) also listed.
Characters and tools
Story editor with lorebooks, modules, text adventure mode and scripts; no public character catalog listed.
Content rules
Terms list no content-type bans and say user content is wholly the user's own.Terms, checked
Message limits
Paid tiers give unlimited text generation; free trial is capped at 50 text generations.Subscription docs, checked
Privacy and training
Stories, lorebooks and scripts are end-to-end encrypted with a password-derived key; prompts are not kept.
Age verification
Terms require users to be 18 or older; no verification method is published.
User reports
Trustpilot 3.4/5 from 1 review, about image generation. (third-party)
Last checked
by Margot Vale

Strengths

  • End-to-end encrypted story storage
  • Unlimited text generation on all paid tiers
  • No content-type bans in terms
  • Long-form story tools such as lorebooks

Weaknesses

  • No free tier beyond a small trial
  • Largest context limited to the $25 Opus tier for some models
  • Lost passwords mean lost stories
  • Very few public reviews

Visit novelai.net ↗

Our notes

NovelAI is a subscription story-writing tool made by Anlatan, with a text adventure mode and image generation. Its terms do not list banned content types, and stories are encrypted in the browser before they are saved. Paid tiers give unlimited text generation, and the free trial is a fixed number of generations.

Check log

The vendor pages we read, the date we read them and what they said. These are document checks of published pages.

Pages checked for NovelAI, newest first
DateCheckedFound
Subscription docs Price: Tablet $10/month (Scroll $15, Opus $25; Opus has the largest context)Free tier: Paper trial: 50 text, 30 image and 100 TTS generationsMessage limits: Paid tiers give unlimited text generation; free trial is capped at 50 text generations.
Terms Content rules: Terms list no content-type bans and say user content is wholly the user's own.

Sources

  1. Homepage
  2. Subscription docs
  3. Text model docs
  4. Text docs index
  5. Terms of service
  6. Privacy policy
  7. Trustpilot

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