AI Realm vs Friends & Fables: Plan & Feature Comparison
12/4/2025By Friends & Fables
There are a lot of AI D&D-style games out there right now. AI Realm and Friends & Fables both promise an AI Game Master, 5e-inspired rules, and built-in tools that help you jump straight into an adventure. At a glance they look similar, but they focus on slightly different kinds of play. This post walks through their core features and subscription plans side by side so you can see which one fits the way you like to play.
Free Tiers and Entry Plans
AI Realm Pricing (as of late 2025)
- Free plan
- New accounts start with a small bundle of free messages, plus an extra bonus for joining the Discord.
- You earn additional free messages roughly every 4 hours, and your pool resets on a renewal date each month.
- Includes access to the AI GM, basic campaign tools, and built-in image generation (including at least one free portrait).
- Silver – $4.99/month
- 300 messages per month
- 10 image regenerations
- Gold – $9.99/month
- 750 messages per month
- 25 image regenerations
- Platinum – $14.99/month
- Unlimited messages per month (with reasonable anti-bot limits)
- 40 image regenerations and access to an “uncensored AI beta.”
AI Realm’s pricing is very straightforward: you’re mainly paying for more messages and more image rerolls.
Friends & Fables Pricing (as of late 2025)
If you're interested in checking out any of the subscription tiers to Friends & Fables, go ahead and click the link below:
Friends & Fables Pricing Guide
- Free – $0/month
- Between 5-25 AI turns per day (Franz’s responses).
- Long-term memories, unlimited campaign slots, and access to all public and featured worlds.
- Up to 3-player campaigns, plus basic customization options.
- Starter – $19.95/month ($16.63/month with a yearly subscription)
- Unlimited turns.
- Text-to-speech narration, 4-player campaigns, larger custom block size, and 100 bonus monthly credits.
- Pro – $29.95/month ($24.96/month with a yearly subscription)
- Unlimited turns for up to 5-player campaigns.
- Larger custom blocks and 300 bonus monthly credits.
- Legend – $39.95/month ($33.29/month with a yearly subscription)
- Unlimited turns for up to 6-player campaigns.
- Biggest custom block size and 600 bonus monthly credits.
Credits in Friends & Fables are used for premium narration models (like higher-end story AIs) and premium image generation in the Image Studio, while the base AI GM and free world-building tools remain available without extra cost.
Feature Comparison
| Features & Focus | AI Realm | Friends & Fables |
|---|---|---|
| Text-based AI roleplay and story chat | ✅ | ✅ |
| Message-metered free tier | ✅ | ✅* |
| Built-in image generation and regenerations | ✅ | ✅ |
| 5e-style rules | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI Game Master that tracks HP, inventory, and conditions automatically | ❌** | ✅ |
| Character sheets | ✅ | ✅ |
| Turn-based combat system | ✅ | ✅ |
| Tokens & battlemaps with in-game movement / location tracking | ✅ | ✅ |
| Chat-based virtual tabletop (world maps, quests, NPCs, items, sheets) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Dedicated AI world-building suite (chars, monsters, items, spells, locations) | ❌ | ✅ |
| World-building tools free to use with no ads | ❌ | ✅ |
| Long-term lore system (lore pages / notes that the AI reads during play) | ✅*** | ✅ |
| Monthly credit system for premium narration and images | ❌ | ✅ |
*Friends & Fables’ free tier is limited by daily AI turns (Franz’s responses), not by a monthly message bucket.
**AI Realm’s combat map tracks HP and turn order, but inventory and other resources are still managed manually by the player.
***AI Realm uses campaign notes and summaries as its long-term memory; Friends & Fables uses world lore pages and long-term memories tied directly into campaigns.
At a glance, AI Realm covers the core: AI GM, 5e rules, maps, and turn-based combat. Friends & Fables leans into being a full creation platform: AI Game Master + Virtual Tabletop + a deep, free world-building suite and a structured lore system that the AI reads from during play.