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HeyGen pricing explained plan by plan, what the free plan includes, and who HeyGen is (and isn't) for. Updated with current plans.
Often used for AI avatar video
HeyGen
on HeyGen's website
Lowest paid plan: $29/mo (Creator)
Annual billing: $24/mo
HeyGen is listed as an avatar product: a person on camera, plus the vendor's own description of voice cloning and translation. This page explains the checked plan math. It is not a watched demo. A reader who needs a script-to-timeline tool should leave for invideo AI or Fliki. A reader who needs to trim a recording should leave for the editors on the category page.
Who it may fit, as a common use rather than a test: teams making talking-head videos in more than one language. Who it may not fit: anyone who needs a published quality score, a confirmed commercial-license clause, or a free quota larger than 3 videos a month. Those three things are not established here.
The checked paid names are Creator at $29 a month, or $24 a month when billed annually. No other paid tier is printed, because no other tier was confirmed on the vendor's pricing page. The anchor on this heading is the pricing target used by the Synthesia comparison.
The checked free plan is 3 videos a month. The vendor's pricing page does not say how long each video may be, whether the export is watermarked, or whether those 3 videos include translation. Treat those as open questions on the vendor's current help page.
Creator is the only paid name printed: $29 month to month, $24 if you pay annually. The $5 gap is a billing difference, not a finding that annual buyers get a better avatar. Commercial use of either plan is Not confirmed.
The feature line used on the cards is the one the product is known for in this project: avatars, voice cloning, and translation. That line is a filing label. This page does not count voices, does not list language names, and does not show a clone recorded on this site. If translation quality is the purchase reason, the missing hands-on session is the gap that matters.
What the checked data supports: a named free quota of 3 videos a month, and a named Creator price with a lower annual figure. What it does not support: a quality ranking, a watermark answer, a license answer, or a claim that HeyGen is worth the fee. "Worth it" would be a test result. There is no test result.
Synthesia is the closest checked neighbor: same $29 monthly entry, a lower annual Starter price of $18, and a free Basic plan instead of a 3-video quota. Colossyan's checked paid line is higher, at $59 a month on the annual Professional plan. The alternatives page adds Vidnoz, Elai, invideo AI, Pictory, and ElevenLabs, with Vidnoz and Pictory prices omitted.
The checked Creator plan is $29 a month, or $24 a month on annual billing. Other paid tiers are not printed. The free plan is 3 videos a month. Commercial terms for those plans were not on the vendor's pricing page.
There is a checked free plan of 3 videos a month. The vendor's pricing page does not say the videos are watermark-free or licensed for ads. A free quota is not the same thing as a free commercial license.
This page cannot answer that. Worth depends on a hands-on session that is not published. What is published is the plan math: 3 free videos a month, then Creator at $29 or $24 on annual billing.
We only show a price we could confirm on the vendor's site on the date shown.