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NovelAI review: anime images with commercial rights

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NovelAI, run by Anlatan Inc., generates anime-style images and co-writes stories, from $10 to $25 a month. Commercial use of the images comes with no extra tier, and generated images are not stored on its servers.

ImagesTextAnime styleCommercial use includedNo logs kept

Our verdict on NovelAI

NovelAI suits a webmaster who makes their own anime illustrations or stories for a site and wants to use them commercially without negotiating a license. It is not built for photorealism, and its API, tied to each user’s own account, is not a way to power a site’s visitors on one subscription.

NovelAI home page presenting its anime image and story generation
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What each NovelAI plan changes

All three plans include images and unlimited text. Tablet at $10 and Scroll at $15 differ only in text memory, 8,192 against 12,288 tokens, and both pay for images in Anlas with 1,000 free a month. Opus at $25 makes images unlimited, adds 10,000 Anlas and takes memory to 28,672 tokens. That unlimited covers one image at a time, up to 1,024 pixels per side and 28 steps, with further limits on the V5 model. A free trial gives 30 images and 50 text generations, and no refund is owed unless granted.

Rights over NovelAI output

NovelAI sets no limitation on commercial use of the images, and no extra subscription is needed for it. Users keep all rights and ownership of their content. Prompts are encrypted and generated images are not stored on NovelAI’s servers.

Images come from NovelAI Diffusion V5, an anime-leaning model. Stories run on three text models, GLM-4.6, Llama 3 Erato 70B and Xialong, and a text-to-speech engine rounds out the set.

A documented API covers text, image and voice generation. It runs on a subscriber’s persistent API token, and third-party apps for end users must ask each user for their own token. The terms also ban automation that strains the service’s limits. A webmaster can script their own production within their plan, but not serve site visitors from one account.

NovelAI strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Commercial use of images included.
  • Encrypted prompts and no stored images.
  • A named company with a postal address.

Limitations

  • An API tied to each user’s account.
  • An anime-leaning style.
  • Text memory capped at 28,672 tokens.

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