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MNovelAI vs Squibler
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose NovelAI if…
- you want the lower entry price ($10/mo vs $15.83/mo)
- you want to trial it before paying
- you're in its core audience: anime artists, content creators
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Choose Squibler if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: aspiring and first-time authors, novelists
Side by side
Feature NovelAI Squibler
Pricing modelFree trialFreemium
Starting price$10/mo$15.83/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CategoryAnime & Art StylesStory & Fiction Writing
CompanyAnlatan Inc.Squibler, Inc.
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
S Squibler
- Full-length book generation organized into chapters and scenes
- Formatted screenplay generation with scenes and dialogue
- Story outline generation covering structure, pacing and character arcs
- AI Smart Writer that proposes revisions you accept or reject
- Character and setting elements used to keep the story consistent
- Image and short video generation from highlighted passages
- AI book cover and illustration generation
- Translation of English books into 80+ languages
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
NovelAI
Starting subscription$10/mo
Squibler
Free$0
Plus$15.83/mo billed annually ($29.99 monthly)
Pro$49.17/mo billed annually ($89.99 monthly)
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
Squibler
- Free tier has no time limit and includes 500 AI credits a month
- Pro plan includes unlimited AI credits
- Users keep full rights to their work
- Work stays accessible in free mode after you cancel
- No built-in publishing or sales-tracking tools
- Doesn't produce audiobooks directly
- Books are written in English first, then translated
- PDF/DOCX export is listed as a paid-plan feature
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 8, 2026. Editorial policy