What the NovelAI Subscription and Anlas Policy Updates Say

The blog at blog.novelai.net carries two 2025 posts announcing changes to subscription usage limits and to how subscription Anlas is handled. Both are framed as important notices for NovelAI subscribers, and the posts are dated separately — one in English and one in Japanese — so the effective details live in each post rather than in a single combined policy. If you are a subscriber, the practical step is to open the specific post that matches your language and billing context and read the effective dates and limit changes there.

What the posts are

The blog, written by Anlatan on Medium, is NovelAI's announcement channel. Alongside earlier technical write-ups — such as the October 2022 post on Stable Diffusion improvements — it publishes service and account notices. The two subscription posts are:

The Japanese title translates to an important notice about NovelAI subscriptions covering usage limits and changes to the handling of subscription Anlas. The two titles describe the same two areas of change, which suggests they are companion announcements rather than unrelated policies.

What the titles tell you, and what they don't

From the titles alone you can establish three things:

• Scope: the changes apply to subscriptions — usage limits and subscription Anlas, not to one-off purchases or to the image models themselves.
• Direction: both are described as adjustments or changes, meaning existing limits and Anlas handling are being revised rather than introduced for the first time.
• Audience: subscribers, since the notice is addressed to people already using a NovelAI subscription.

What the titles do not give you is the substance: the new limit values, how subscription Anlas is now treated, and when each change takes effect. Those details are inside the posts, and the analysis notes point readers to the specific dated posts for exactly this reason. Do not assume the numbers from an older announcement still apply.

How to use the posts

1. Open blog.novelai.net and locate the two subscription posts by their titles above.
2. Read the post in the language you are most comfortable with; if you rely on the Japanese notice for billing, use that one, since it is the version addressed to that audience.
3. Note the publication date on the post and any effective date stated in the body — the change may not apply immediately.
4. Compare the stated limits against your current plan usage before your next billing cycle.
5. If a detail in the post is ambiguous for your situation, treat the post's own wording as the source and check whether a later post supersedes it.

Common sticking points

• Assuming the two posts are identical. They cover the same topics, but they are separate documents in different languages; read the one that applies to you rather than skimming the other.
• Applying old limits. Because the posts announce adjustments, any limit figure you remember from before the announcement may be out of date.
• Missing the effective date. An announcement published in 2025 can set a later start date; the publication date is not necessarily the date the policy changes.
• Looking for pricing on the blog. The blog announces policy changes; it is not a plan comparison page. For what a plan costs or includes, use NovelAI's own account and plan pages.

The blog also hosts earlier posts on image-generation improvements, which are useful background on the product but are not part of the subscription policy. Keep the two categories separate when you are checking what applies to your account.