AI Dungeon
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveText adventure engine where the AI improvises every scene
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $14.99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free Wanderer tier caps context at about 4k tokens and 25 memories with no credits; Journey $14.99 (8k context, 100 memories, 760 credits), Legend $29.99 (16k, 200, 1,650), Mythic $49.99 (32k, 400, 2,750) and Ultimate $99.99 (32k and beyond with credits, 800, 5,200) a month, with 6- and 12-month terms discounted but not priced on the help page; 1 credit per action buys extra context on some models. App Store purchases still carry older SKU names (Adventurer $9.99, Champion $14.99).
Use tool ↗About AI Dungeon
AI Dungeon generates an open-ended interactive story from a prompt or a community-published scenario, reacting to whatever the player types instead of following authored branches. Players choose between several text models, maintain persistent memories and world entries, generate illustrations, and can publish their own scenarios for others to play. Membership tiers largely buy context length, memory slots, model access and a monthly credit allotment.
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Help center membership page: Wanderer free with 4k context and 25 memories; Journey $14.99, Legend $29.99, Mythic $49.99, Ultimate $99.99 per month with 8k/16k/32k context, 100/200/400/800 memories and 760/1,650/2,750/5,200 monthly credits; 12-, 6- and 1-month billing; 1 credit per action for extra context (15 October 2026)help.aidungeon.com ↗
- App Store listing: seller Latitude Inc.; in-app purchases AI Dungeon Adventurer $9.99, Champion $14.99, Legend $29.99, Mythic $49.99, credit packs 800 for $9.99 and 1,700 for $19.99; version 1.4.33 released two days earlier (15 October 2026)apps.apple.com ↗
- aidungeon.io answered HTTP 403 to automated clients while play.aidungeon.com answered 200 (15 October 2026)play.aidungeon.com ↗
Is AI Dungeon legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 30, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2019The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Latitude Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of AI Dungeon
Still the deepest AI text-adventure product there is, with seven years of scenario library behind it, and the only one where memory and world-state tooling is the actual product. It is entertainment, not a writing assistant — do not buy it expecting to finish a manuscript.
Pros
- Memory, world info and scenario tooling are far more developed than in general chatbots used for roleplay
- Multiple model choices per tier, including newer models added through 2026
- Native iOS and Android apps, not just a mobile web wrapper
- Large public scenario library gives an immediate starting point
Cons
- Five-tier ladder from $14.99 to $99.99 is steep, and context length is the thing being sold at every rung
- Credits do double duty for images and for extra context, so heavy sessions drain them quickly
- No API, so scenarios cannot be driven from outside the platform
- The service has changed content and moderation policy sharply in the past, which still colours community trust
Best for
- Long-running solo roleplay campaigns where world state has to survive dozens of sessions
- Players who want to author and share scenarios rather than only consume them
- Anyone curious how far a story engine can go without authored branches
Not for
- Drafting publishable prose — output is improvisational and needs heavy rewriting
- Anyone unwilling to manage memory and context settings by hand
Watch out: Context length is the real paywall — on lower tiers the story quietly forgets earlier events unless you spend credits per action to extend it.
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