HeyGen
8.5AI avatar
Best avatar realism in the category — but you buy credits, not minutes.
- From
- $29/mo
- Best for
- Talking-head marketing and training video
Hands-on, paid plan
Open HeyGen profile →Synthesia
AI avatar
Quick answer
Synthesia is listed in the AI avatar category and is not scored yet. We publish a score only after hands-on or trial use inside the last 180 days, and that work has not been done for this tool — so there is no rating, no verified pricing and no verified feature list on this page as of September 2026. Best for: Corporate training video that has to land in an LMS, Localising one script into many languages, Compliance-sensitive teams. Corporate avatars with SCORM export and brand kits.
At a glance
Not scoredVendor docs only — not scoredSpecs verified August 2026
Vendor documentation only. Pricing, avatar counts, language counts and SCORM export pulled from synthesia.io/pricing and synthesia.io/features in August 2026. No paid subscription and no hands-on test, matching the 2026-04-25 vendor-docs entry in our methodology log. Listed but not scored, and not eligible for the ranked leaderboard.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Included | Watermark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (Free) | $0 | $0 | 10 min | Yes |
| Starter | $29 | $18 | Not verified | No |
| Creator | $89 | $64 | Not verified | No |
| Enterprise | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | No |
Free tier: Yes · Watermark on free output: Yes
Specs
| Platforms | web |
|---|---|
| Max resolution | 1080p |
| Max clip length | Not verified |
| Languages | 160 |
| API | Yes |
| Voice cloning | Yes |
| Lip sync | Not verified |
| Commercial rights | Not verified |
| Stock library | Not verified |
| Team seats | Yes |
| Integrations | scorm |
Score breakdown
Synthesia has no published score. The six weighted criteria — output quality 25%, real-world fit 20%, pricing transparency 20%, ease of use 15%, support 10%, update cadence 10% — are only applied after hands-on or trial use, and a tool that has not been used gets no number rather than an estimated one. How we score.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Free plan includes 10 minutes of video a month and 1,200 credits with no credit card.
- SCORM export drops a finished video straight into an LMS — the reason most L&D teams pick it.
- Starter is $18/mo on annual billing, the cheapest entry point among the enterprise-grade avatar tools.
- 160+ languages and voices on every tier, including Free.
Cons
- On annual billing the video allowance is a yearly pool, not a monthly one: Starter's 120 minutes covers the whole year, so one heavy month can eat most of it. Monthly billing meters it at 10 minutes a month instead.
- Full HD 1920x1080 is the ceiling on every tier including Enterprise — there is no 4K export.
- The headline 240+ avatar library is Enterprise-only. Starter sees 125+ and Creator 180+.
- Free-plan output carries the Synthesia logo.
- We hold no paid subscription. Everything on this page comes from Synthesia's published pages, so there are no hands-on observations here and no score.
Best for / not for
Best for
- Corporate training video that has to land in an LMS
- Localising one script into many languages
- Compliance-sensitive teams
Don’t use it for
- Anyone who needs 4K delivery
- Bursty production where a year's minutes get used in one month
- Short-form social clipping
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- From
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- Best for
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- From
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