Heygen lets you transform text into AI Spokesperson Video using their digital humans. Heygen can also dub videos into another language. Heygen AI adjusts the lip movement as well.
Heygen will cost you a minimum of $1 per minute. At the same time, Creator’s initial subscription will cost you $2 per minute of video.
These are the best Heygen alternatives, some of them are free, while some offer Lifetime deals, and open source as well.
Every product has its own pros and cons. I have listed all of them as well along with the price.
1. Capcut Avatars – Free Heygen Alternative
Cacput is a video editor available across platforms (android, iPhone, Mac, Windows) and web versions as well.
Capcut recently added AI avatars to transform the text into Spokesperson Videos. Currently, capcut is offering free access to AI avatars. Capcut’s free plan lets you generate unlimited videos.
There are multiple avatars along with multiple text-to-speech voices. It lets you only transform text into videos. Capcut also offers Custom Avatar along with voice clone.
Capcut can’t dub your video into another language like Heygen.
You can’t customize avatars directly however most avatars have multiple angles such as holding the phone, standing, walking, etc. Capcut has more than 100 avatars while writing this blog post. Overall, lip sync is quite accurate.
Capcut provides more editing features than Heygen.
Price
Capcut does not watermark videos in the free plan however paid plan offers more cloud storage, assets, etc. All stock avatars are available in their free plan.
Paid plans offer other video editing features mentioned below.
Free | Capcut Pro -$9/month |
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Export Unlimited Videos | Export Unlimited Videos |
Transcribe Unlimited Videos | Transcribe Unlimited Videos |
Premium-quality effects, Filters, and transitions | |
5 GB Cloud Space | 100 GB Cloud Space |
Custom Avatar will cost you $29/month.
Pros
- Free & Unlimited
- Accurate Lip Sync
- Multiple Poses
Cons
- No Video translation
- No Custom Avatar
- Only TTS For voiceover no Audio Upload
2. Synthesia- Similar to Heygen
Synthesia was the first product to introduce AI avatars way before Heygen. It is very similar to Heygen.
Synthesia recently launched Emotional-based AI avatars. However overall, Heygen is affordable, and provides better lip sync and other features such as voice clone.
Synthesia is offering a voice clone in the enterprise plan, which would cost you more than $89/month While Heygen is offering in the creator plan (starting at $29/month).
Synthesia’s video translation lets you translate videos that you made using AI avatars. It would also translate your text while doing it.
However, you can’t upload your video and translate it into another language like Heygen.
Synthesia announced some features in their 2.0 event that will added later in the videos. For example interactive video editor, Multilingual video player, etc.
However, while writing this blog post, Heygen is a better choice. Synthesia has one advantage over Heygen which is Expressive avatars.
Price
Free – No Credit card required | Starter $29/month | Creator $89/month |
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1 user | 1 Editor & 3 Guest | 1 Editor & 5 Guest |
36 Minutes of Video/year | 10 minutes/month | 30 minutes/month |
70+ AI avatars | 90+ Avatars | |
1 Personal avatar with Annual plan | 1 Personal avatar with Annual plan |
Pros
- Express Avatars
- 36 Minutes Videos Free/year
Cons
- No Video translation
- Expensive
- Poor Lip Sync
3. Wav2Lip – Open Source
Wav2lip is an open-source alternative to Heygen. Wav2lip code is available on GitHub and can be run locally.
Wa2lip is a source lip sync model it does not have stock avatars like Heygen. Basically you have to upload videos on your own to create avatars. There is also no UI to interact with. You should have programming experience to utilize Wav2lip.
You would also need a powerful GPU to run smoothly on your device.
Wav2lip is not available for commercial purposes. You have to contact their team for commercial and enterprise licenses.
Wav2lip is created by the Synclabs team. Synclabs provide lip sync. It even provides lip sync in real-time.
Wav2lip is offering lip sync at the lowest quality. While Synclabs is offering Lip sync in HD quality.
Pricing
Wav2lip is free. Its parent company Sync Labs which offers HD Quality lip sync pricing is starting at $19/month (offers 20 minutes).
Pros
- Open Source – Run locally
Cons
- No Commerical license
- Programm experience required
- Poor Lip Sync
4. ActorMonster – Most Affordable
ActorMonster is the new AI spokesperson Video creator. It offers multiple avatars, each avatar has multiple dresses to fit various scenarios.
You can also add gestures such as clicking the link, Hello, pointing to the left, introduction, etc while creating videos.
ActorMonster is the fastest and most affordable AI avatar platform. It is offering 300k characters per month in the offers. You can create approx 2 hours of video each month.
Heygen would cost you $238/month for 2 hours of video content. It would cost you approx $2,856 per year to create 2 hours of video every month.
ActorMonster would cost you only $67 for a lifetime and let you create 2 hours of content every month.
ActorMonster is new and is adding features quickly. Once it has all the features, there would be no lifetime deal but it would be always more affordable than Heygen.
However, Actormonster doesn’t have Video editing features, Video translation, or custom avatars and there are only 6 avatars. Each avatars have multiple outfits.
Actormonster is recommended for creating content on scale.
Pricing
ActorMonster Lifetime – $67 |
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6 Unique Avatars (Multiple Outfits) |
Custom Gestures |
100k Characters/month |
Pros
- Most Affordable AI Spokesperson Creator
- Custom Gestures
- Lifetime Deal
- Faster Results
Cons
- Missing Video editing, translation, or custom avatar feature
5. D-id
D-id is another platform that lets you transform text into an AI spokesperson. Overall, D-id is offering a similar service to Heygen and a similar price.
However, D-id is better than Heygen in custom avatars.
D-id provides better lip sync, and head movement while converting photos into AI avatars.
D-id also lets you generate custom avatars using text prompts. D-id offers Agents which is basically creating custom avatars and embedding them on your website.
D-id does not offer Video translation.
D-id plans are convenient however watermark lower price plans.
Pricing
D-id watermark videos even some paid plans. Here is more information.
Lite – $5.9/month | Pro – $29/month | Advance $196/month |
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10 Minutes/ Video | 15 minutes/ video | 100 minutes/video |
Personal License | Commercial License | Commercial License |
D-ID Watermark (Over the Avatar Shoulder) | AI Watermark ((Over the Avatar Shoulder) | No watermark |
Standard Avatars | Standard & Premium Avatars | Standard & Premium Avatars |
50 Avatars | 100 Avatars | 600 Avatars |
Canva & Powerpoint Plugin | Canva & Powerpoint Plugin | Canva & Powerpoint Plugin |
Pros
- Better Lip Sync for Custom Avatars
- Custom Avatar generator
- Free plan watermark results
Cons
- No Video Translation
- Watermark in low Price plans
6. Colossyan
Colossyan is another AI spokesperson video maker for content creators. Colossyan is offering very similar to Synthesia such as conversational videos where you can include multiple avatars talking to each other.
It also offers a translation player allowing users to watch videos in multiple languages. However, it does not offer Video translation like Heygen.
It also lets you create interactive videos. Colossyan recently introduced hand gestures.
Currently, it is in beta and there are only 4 gestures ( Thumbs up, point left, Point right, ok)
Colossyan features include screen recording, auto subtitles, templates, and custom avatars.
Studio Avatar and Lite Avatar. Studio Avatar would cost you an additional $85/year while Lite Avatar is free with plans. It does not offer any free plan but offers a free trial (requires a credit card)
Pricing
Colossyan is offering a 30% discount on their annual plans
Starter $27/month | Pro $87/month |
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10 minutes/month | 30 minutes/month |
Starter avatars | Starter + Pro avatars |
3 translations/month | 10 translations/month |
AI image generator |
Pros
- Hand Gestures
- Video Translated Player
- Free plan watermark results
Cons
- No Video Translation
- Watermark in low Price plans
7. Vidboard
Vidboard is another new emerging tool in AI Spokesperson. Overall, Vidboard is offering low quality spokesperson however it is more minutes.
A few months ago they launched a lifetime deal on Appsumo.
Vidboard also lets you convert photos into avatars. It also offers better subtitles than Heygen.
Overall, Vidboard is best if you want more minutes and a custom avatar however can’t afford Heygen.
Final Words
AI Spokesperson is new technology that’s why it is pretty expensive.
However, there are platforms like Capcut, and ActorMonster providing this at the lowest price.
On the other hand alternatives like Synthesia, Colossyan, and D-id offer similar services at a higher price.