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Both cover ai video & voice. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| HeyGen | invideo AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $29 | From $17 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Not stated | Web |
| Covers | AI Video & Voice, AI Content Tools | AI Video & Voice, Video Editing |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | YouTube, TikTok, Instagram |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
A presenter generated from a script, in 30 languages
HeyGen turns typed text into video of an avatar saying it, including one trained on your own face, which is how a course module or a product update gets recorded with no camera set up. Translating a finished video into other languages is the part most people buy it for. It still looks like what it is, so a video whose whole job is being trusted on camera is the wrong job for it.
Our note
Buy it for the languages rather than the avatar. Redubbing a video that already works is worth real money; generating a presenter for a channel that has none is how a feed starts to feel synthetic.
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A prompt in, a narrated video out
invideo AI takes an idea in a sentence and returns a video with stock clips, a script, a voiceover and captions, then lets you fix it by typing corrections rather than by dragging on a timeline. That is a different way to work and it suits people who write faster than they edit. Everything is metered in credits, and unused ones do not carry to the next month.
Our note
Credits expiring monthly is the detail that decides whether the entry plan works for you: it suits steady weekly output and punishes anybody who batches a month of videos in one weekend. There is no free plan, so budget for at least one month to evaluate it.
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