Synthesia vs HeyGen
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Synthesia
AI avatar video and live avatar roleplays for corporate training
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HeyGen
Script-to-video with AI avatars, digital twins and lip-synced translat...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Basic (free): 10 minutes of video or dubbing, 500 credits and 3 survey responses a month, 9 avatars, watermarked | Free plan: 3 videos a month up to 1 minute each, Avatar IV access, 1 custom video avatar, 30+ languages |
| Paid from | $29/month Starter, or $18/month billed yearly | $29/month (Creator, 600 credits), or $24/month billed annually |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 60,000+ companies | 31M+ registered users (100k+ paying business customers) |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
| Maker | Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, Matthias Niessner, Lourdes Agapito | Joshua Xu, Wayne Liang |
| Verdict | Synthesia is the established choice for training and internal-communications video at scale: script in, avatar video out, translated and exported to an LMS as SCORM on Enterprise. The newer Sessions product, live avatar... |
HeyGen is the established choice for avatar-presented training, sales and marketing video: Avatar V digital twins from a short recording, lip-synced translation in 175-plus languages, SCORM and LMS output on Business, an... |
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