NovelAI vs Tana

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 Visit Tana Outliner + database with AI for knowledge graphs Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7 / 10 6.8 / 10
Capability 7.5
Value for money 6.5
Ease of use 5
ASEAN readiness 6
API quality 5
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 2020
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...

Tana is an ambitious, AI-native note and knowledge tool that fuses outlining with structured data through its supertags and node-graph model, letting power users build personal databases, daily notes, and AI-assisted wor...

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