NovelAI vs Agnes AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
NovelAI
Long-memory AI fiction writer with lorebooks and no content filters
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Agnes AI
SEA-built AI workspace with its own 8B open-source SeaLLM model
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium |
| 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 | 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... |
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... |
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