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MNovelAI vs Reface
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose NovelAI if…
- you want to trial it before paying
- you work on Web
- you're in its core audience: anime artists, content creators
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Choose Reface if…
- you're in its core audience: social media users, content creators
Side by side
Feature NovelAI Reface
Pricing modelFree trialPricing unknown
Starting price$10/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb—
CategoryAnime & Art StylesFace Swap
CompanyAnlatan Inc.Reface
Full feature lists
N NovelAI
- NovelAI Diffusion V5 anime image model
- Natural-language and tag-based prompting
- Separate character definitions for consistency across scenes
- Inpainting to change selected areas of an image
- Director Tools for clothing, lighting and pose edits
- Built-in canvas to guide generations
- Story generator powered by GLM 4.6
- On-demand Anlas credit purchases
R Reface
- Face swap in photos and videos
- AI avatar generation
- Make photos sing with Revive
- AI filters for photos and video with Restyle
- Tattoo design and try-on with Ink ai
- Virtual clothing try-on with Letsy
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
NovelAI
Starting subscription$10/mo
Reface
Pricing unknown. Plan details aren't published.
Strengths and limitations
NovelAI
- Commercial use allowed without an extra tier
- Prompts are encrypted and images are not stored on its servers
- Image and story tools come in one subscription
- Runs in the browser, including on mobile, with nothing to install
- No free plan; access after the trial needs a subscription or Anlas credits
- Image generation focuses on anime style
Reface
- Company reports more than 300M downloads across its apps
- Several related AI photo and video apps from one developer
- Support available by email at hello@reface.ai
- Made for mobile, with no desktop tools listed
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