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Both cover ai video & voice and ai content tools. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| HeyGen | Speechify | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $29 | From $29 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | None |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Not stated | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android |
| Covers | AI Video & Voice, AI Content Tools | AI Video & Voice, AI Content Tools |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| 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.
Reads anything aloud, and clones a voice
Speechify began as a reader for people who take text in better by ear, and grew into a voice generator with cloning, dubbing and an API. The reading half runs as a browser extension and a phone app across documents, PDFs and web pages. The generating half competes with the studio tools, and the two sit on one subscription.
Our note
Two products share one bill here, a reader and a voice generator, and most people want one of them. If it is the voiceover, ElevenLabs is the sharper tool; if it is getting through a stack of reading, nothing else in this catalog does that job.
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