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AI Dungeon vs Novelcrafter
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose AI Dungeon if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: interactive fiction fans, tabletop roleplayers
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Choose Novelcrafter if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you're in its core audience: novelists, series and genre fiction authors
Side by side
Feature AI Dungeon Novelcrafter
Pricing modelFreeFree trial
Starting priceFree$4/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CompanyLatitudeNovelcrafter
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
N Novelcrafter
- Codex story bible that automatically tracks and links story elements
- Codex shared across books in a series
- Planning modes for spotting plot holes and inconsistencies
- Connect your own AI provider or local models via Ollama/LM Studio
- Generate prose from scene beats
- AI scene summarization and character extraction
- Workshop Chat for brainstorming with story context
- Collaboration with editors, co-authors and teams
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.
Novelcrafter
Scribe$4 USD/mo or $40.00 billed yearly
Hobbyist$8 USD/mo or $80.00 billed yearly
Artisan$14 USD/mo or $140.00 billed yearly
Specialist$20 USD/mo or $200.00 billed yearly
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
Novelcrafter
- 21-day free trial with all features and no credit card
- Paid plans start at $4/month
- Works with many AI providers, including local models
- Read-only access and export stay available after you cancel
- No free plan
- AI features need the Hobbyist plan or higher and your own API key
- Inviting collaborators requires the $20 Specialist plan
- No student, educator or non-profit discounts
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