AI avatar video platform for business training and communications with 230+ avatars and 140+ languages.
HeyGen
AI Video Creation & EditingHeyGen is an AI avatar video platform where users generate presenter videos from a script using stock avatars, photo avatars or a digital twin of themselves. Avatar IV adds gestures and expressions, Video Agent builds full videos from a prompt, and video translation dubs footage into 175+ languages with lip sync. Marketers, sales teams and creators use it for personalized outreach, explainers and localization.
Pricing
HeyGen pricing
Free plan (limited); Creator ~$29/mo (~$24/mo annual)
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on heygen.com
Features
What HeyGen does
- 700+ stock avatars plus custom digital twins
- Avatar IV with gestures and expressions
- Video translation in 175+ languages with lip sync
- Voice cloning and 1,000+ AI voices
- Video Agent for prompt-to-video
- API and interactive videos on higher plans
Pros
- Avatar realism and lip sync are among the strongest available
- Free plan to test the product
- Wide automation options through API and integrations
- 4K export on higher plans
Cons
- Free plan limited to a few short, watermarked videos
- Premium features such as Avatar IV consume credits quickly
- Team collaboration and brand kits require the Business plan
- Not an editor for real recorded footage
Fit
Who HeyGen is for
Look elsewhere if: Creators editing their own camera footage, podcasts or short-form trends should use an editor such as Descript, CapCut or VEED.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Enterprise includes SAML SSO, SCIM, audit logs, RBAC and a zero-data-retention option; EU-US DPF certified.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise plan
- SCIM user provisioning
- Enterprise plan
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- —
- HIPAA (BAA available)
- —
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Data residency options
- —
- No training on your data
- Enterprise plan
- Audit logs
- Enterprise plan
- Admin controls
- Yes
- Deployment
- Cloud
From the vendor's own security documentation (trust center). "—" = not confirmed. Verify during your security review. Compare all tools.
| Video feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| AI avatars / presenters | Yes |
| Generative text-to-video | Limited |
| Long-to-short clipping | No |
| Auto captions | Yes |
| Edit video by editing text | No |
| AI voiceover | Yes |
| Translation / dubbing | Yes |
| Max export resolution | 4K (Pro and up) |
| Stock media library | Yes |
HeyGen compared
- HeyGen vs Synthesia
- HeyGen vs Descript
- HeyGen vs InVideo AI
- HeyGen vs VEED
- HeyGen vs OpusClip
- HeyGen vs CapCut
- HeyGen vs Runway
- HeyGen vs Pictory
- HeyGen vs Colossyan
Buying guides
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