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AI Writing Comparison

DeepL Write vs. NovelAI

At a glance

At a glance

DeepL Write

Best for

Best for organisations that want one enforced house style across business writing in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

NovelAI

Best for

Best for novelists and interactive-fiction writers who need a story's own lore held in context.

  • Freelancers

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion DeepL Write NovelAI
Starting price Not stated Tablet $10 / month Scroll is $15 and Opus $25 a month. Every tier includes unlimited text generation and text to speech.
Free trial Not stated Trial of 30 image generations, no permanent free tier
Output Rewritten and corrected text with alternative wordings Long-form fiction and anime images
Languages 6 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Not stated
Made in Germany, DeepL SE in Cologne Not stated
Content types Rewrites existing text such as emails, reports and presentations Long-form fiction and interactive text adventure
Brand voice Yes, Style rules apply one set of style and tone rules to every suggestion No brand-voice profile. Prebuilt Style, Theme and Inspiration modules steer prose toward a genre or an author's body of work, and Phrase Bias raises or lowers the odds of chosen words; training new custom modules is no longer supported
Content scoring No score or readability rating. The result is a corrected text, not a measurement No content score. The editor shows token probabilities behind each generated token instead, which reports the model's confidence rather than the quality of the text
Drafting tools Yes, rewriting and paraphrasing, grammar, punctuation and spelling correction, tone and style presets, word and sentence alternatives Lorebook, Memory, Author's Note, Text Adventure mode, modules and sampling presets
Templates No content templates. It reworks text you bring to it rather than starting one from a preset A story exports as a .scenario file carrying tags, a description and user-defined placeholders, so importing it reopens the story as a customisable starting point
Team workflows Yes, centralised app management, domain-based provisioning, single sign-on, multifactor authentication and audit logs Built for one writer. Work moves between accounts as files rather than seats: .story and .scenario for stories, .json, .lorebook or an image with the data embedded for Lorebooks
API Yes, DeepL API for Write, which rewrites and corrects text and sets style and tone In-app scripting rather than a public HTTP API. Extensions are TypeScript scripts running sandboxed in a Web Worker, and they cannot make network requests
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Documentation and knowledge base
Company size more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers
Integrations Microsoft 365, Google Workspace Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Company size DeepL Write Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise NovelAI Freelancers
  • Output DeepL Write Rewritten and corrected text with alternative wordings NovelAI Long-form fiction and anime images
  • Content types DeepL Write Rewrites existing text such as emails, reports and presentations NovelAI Long-form fiction and interactive text adventure
  • Brand voice DeepL Write Yes, Style rules apply one set of style and tone rules to every suggestion NovelAI No brand-voice profile. Prebuilt Style, Theme and Inspiration modules steer prose toward a genre or an author's body of work, and Phrase Bias raises or lowers the odds of chosen words; training new custom modules is no longer supported
  • Content scoring DeepL Write No score or readability rating. The result is a corrected text, not a measurement NovelAI No content score. The editor shows token probabilities behind each generated token instead, which reports the model's confidence rather than the quality of the text

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

DeepL Write

Strengths

  • Style rules apply one house style across all suggestions
  • Runs in Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, browser extensions and desktop apps
  • Rewriting is available to developers through the DeepL API for Write
  • ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA certifications, with SSO, audit logs and customer-managed keys

Limitations

  • Six languages, considerably fewer than DeepL's translator
  • Rewrites existing text rather than generating drafts from a prompt

NovelAI

Strengths

  • Unlimited text generation on every tier
  • Lorebook, Memory and Author's Note keep a long story consistent
  • Text Adventure mode for interactive fiction
  • One subscription covers both the writing and the image side

Limitations

  • No permanent free tier, only a trial of 30 image generations
  • Context size is what the tiers gate, so a long story pushes you to the top plan
  • Image generation runs on a monthly Anlas allowance rather than being unlimited

Plans

Pricing

NovelAI

  • Tablet $10 Per month. Unlimited text generation and text to speech, 1,000 subscription Anlas.
  • Scroll $15 Per month. Larger context than Tablet, 1,000 subscription Anlas.
  • Opus $25 Per month. Context up to 28,672 tokens, 10,000 subscription Anlas, and free image generation within size and step limits.
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What users say

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DeepL Write

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NovelAI

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

DeepL Write https://www.deepl.com · no check date recorded yet

NovelAI https://novelai.net · no check date recorded yet

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