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Synthesia
AI Video Creation & EditingSynthesia is an AI video platform where users type a script, choose a stock or personal avatar and generate a presenter-led video in 160+ languages. It adds screen recording, templates, one-click translation, AI dubbing and, on higher plans, interactivity and SCORM export. Large enterprises use it mainly for training, onboarding and internal communications.
Pricing
Synthesia pricing
Free Basic plan (up to 10 min video/mo); Starter $29/mo monthly or $18/mo billed yearly
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on synthesia.io
Features
What Synthesia does
- 240+ stock AI avatars and personal avatars
- Express-2 avatars with gestures and lip sync
- 160+ languages with one-click translation
- AI dubbing of existing videos
- Voice cloning
- Interactive videos, video agents and SCORM export
Pros
- Mature enterprise security and compliance certifications
- Wide language coverage for localization
- Free plan to try the product
- Collaboration and API on the Creator plan
Cons
- Export limited to 1080p
- Brand kits and SCORM export only on Enterprise
- Credit and minute limits make long videos costly
- Free plan has a watermark and few avatars
Fit
Who Synthesia is for
Look elsewhere if: Social creators editing their own footage or chasing short-form trends will get more from an editor like CapCut, VEED or Captions.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Also ISO 42001 (AI management) certified; customer data is stored in the EU (Ireland) by default.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise plan
- SCIM user provisioning
- Enterprise plan
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- HIPAA (BAA available)
- —
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Data residency options
- EU
- No training on your data
- —
- Audit logs
- —
- 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 | Script-to-avatar video, not generative |
| Long-to-short clipping | No |
| Auto captions | Yes |
| Edit video by editing text | No |
| AI voiceover | Yes |
| Translation / dubbing | Yes |
| Max export resolution | 1080p |
| Stock media library | Yes |
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