Agnes AI vs NovelAI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Agnes AI
SEA-built AI workspace with its own 8B open-source SeaLLM model
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NovelAI
Long-memory AI fiction writer with lorebooks and no content filters
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.1 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription |
| Free tier | — | 30 free images + 50 free text generations (email-verified accounts, trial only) |
| Paid from | — | $10/month (Tablet); Opus $25/mo unlocks the Xialong text model |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 2.5M+ total users (2023) |
| Founded | — | 2021 |
| Maker | — | Anlatan LLC |
| Verdict | Agnes AI is the most credible homegrown case for a Southeast Asian model company right now: instead of just reselling access to OpenAI or Anthropic, Sapiens AI shipped Agnes-SeaLLM-8B, an open-weights 8B model on Hugging... |
NovelAI earns its niche by refusing to be a general-purpose chatbot: the lorebook system tracks characters, locations, and plot threads across genuinely long stories, and the house models — Kayra, now joined by the GLM-4... |
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