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AI Dungeon vs DreamGen
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose AI Dungeon if…
- you're in its core audience: interactive fiction fans, tabletop roleplayers
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Choose DreamGen if…
- you're in its core audience: role-play enthusiasts, fan-fiction writers
Side by side
Feature AI Dungeon DreamGen
Pricing modelFreeFreemium
Starting priceFree$7.83/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CategoryStory & Fiction WritingCharacters & Companions
CompanyLatitudeDreamGen
Full feature lists
A AI Dungeon
- Open-ended AI-driven text adventures
- Player choices steer the story
- Premade genres like fantasy and post-apocalyptic
- Custom scenario builder
- Community-made adventures
- Play online or in the app
D DreamGen
- Role-play chat with multiple AI characters at once
- Ready-made scenarios and fantasy worlds
- Custom world building with lore and characters
- Steerable AI that follows plot and behavior instructions
- AI story generator for any genre, including fan-fiction
- Choice of models including Gemma 4, GLM and third-party models
- Free writing prompt and story idea generators
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
AI Dungeon
Free. Plan details aren't published.
DreamGen
FreeFree
Starter$7.83/mo ($6.26 first month with 20% off)
Advanced$19.35/mo ($15.48 first month with 20% off)
Pro$48.30/mo ($33.81 first month with 30% off)
Strengths and limitations
AI Dungeon
- Described as free to play
- Players can build custom scenarios
- Library of community-made adventures
- Regular named updates from the developer
- Text-based play only
DreamGen
- Free tier gives access to all models and features
- Steerable AI follows user direction on plot and characters
- Daily extra credits on top of monthly credits
- Pro plan offers up to 60000 tokens context with Gemma 4 31B
- Starter plan has a small 5000-token context window
- Unlimited premium model access only on the $48.30 Pro plan
- Third-party models consume credits
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