Laihua 来画 vs HeyGen
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Laihua 来画
Well-funded Chinese animation engine with digital-human video tools
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HeyGen
AI avatars and video translation
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.9 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | 1 video per month up to 1 minute |
| Paid from | — | $29/month (Creator) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 31M+ registered users (100k+ paying business customers) |
| Founded | — | 2020 |
| Maker | — | Joshua Xu, Wayne Liang |
| Verdict | Laihua's differentiator from the wave of talking-head digital-human apps is that it actually built an animation engine — SkinSoul, trained on 18 million-plus licensed template assets — so it can produce genuine explainer... |
HeyGen turns a script into a polished talking-head video with photorealistic avatars, voice cloning, and lip-synced translation across 175+ languages, and it remains the reference product in its category for marketing, t... |
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