How much does HeyGen cost?
Paid plans start at
$29/mo
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from www.heygen.com/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free plan. Free plan: 3 videos a month, watermarked, up to 1 minute each, Avatar IV and Video Agent access, one Custom Video Avatar, 30+ languages. No credit card required.
Watch out for
- Going over the Business allowance costs $20 per seat/month. Included: 1500 credits.
- Their pages disagree: user count. "More than 30 million users, customers across 196 countries" vs "Used by over 40 million people and 85% of the Fortune 100."
- Their pages disagree: Fortune 100 share. "Trusted by**80% of the Fortune 100**build trust with HeyGen" vs "Used by over 40 million people and 85% of the Fortune 100."
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get started for free, Get started, Creator, Get started, Pro, Get started, Business
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup, no credit card required for Free "You can try HeyGen for free, no credit card required."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise tier is contact sales "Studio-quality video creation custom to your business needs."
- Support
- Live chat and priority support (Enterprise: priority customer support) "Priority customer support"
- Support
- Dedicated customer success manager on Enterprise "Dedicated customer success manager and tailored onboarding"
What HeyGen does
HeyGen creates videos with AI avatars from scripts, images or audio, and translates videos into 175+ languages and dialects with lip-sync. It sells self-serve plans from Free to Business and a contact-sales Enterprise tier, plus an API.
- Good for
- Creators, marketing, training and localization teams, and enterprises that want to produce and translate avatar-led video without filming.
- Channels
- Web app, API, MCP, CLI, ChatGPT plugin
- Main product
- AI avatar video generation and video translation
- Also includes
- AI avatars (Avatar III, IV, V), Video Agent, AI Studio text-based editor, Video translation with lip-sync and voice cloning, Brand glossary, HeyGen Voice text to speech
- Connects to
- Adobe Express, Airtable, Apollo, Asana, Atlassian, Autohive, Canva, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Clay, Cursor, Customer.io
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Custom glossaries
Brand glossary and a multi-lingual player give you full control across markets.
- Document file translationNot stated
- Translation API
HeyGen for Developers offers production-ready, scalable APIs, including Video Agent, Video Generation, Transla
- 100+ languages
175+ languages and dialects
- Translation memoryNot stated
- Human review workflow
Edit and proofread translation scripts
- No training on data
no training on your data
- Live speech translationNot stated
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI translation tools. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no (Enterprise contract term); standard terms grant a license to train AI models | "No training on your data"enterprise |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "We are SOC 2 Type II certified"security |
| GDPR | yes | "HeyGen meets rigorous compliance requirements for global standards, including SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), and the EU AI Act."security |
| CCPA | yes | "HeyGen meets rigorous compliance requirements for global standards, including SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), and the EU AI Act."security |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Business plan and above (SAML/SSO); SCIM on Enterprise | "SAML/SSO"pricing |
| Trust center | https://security.heygen.com/ | "Audit results inform our continuous improvement cycle and are made available to customers upon request via our Security Portal."security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free/mo | $0 | – | 3 videos3 videos a month, watermarked; up to 1 minute each | – | "$0/mo" |
| Creator/ mo | $29 | – | 600 credits | – | "$29 / mo" |
| Pro/ mo | $49 | – | 1000 creditsTiers range from 1,000 credits/mo at $49 to 100,000 credits/ | – | "$49 / mo" |
| Business/ mo | $149 | – | 1500 credits | $20/seat/month | "$149 / mo" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | –Credit volume set to your usage | – | "Contact Sales" |
Their pages disagree: user count"More than 30 million users, customers across 196 countries" vs "Used by over 40 million people and 85% of the Fortune 100."
Their pages disagree: Fortune 100 share"Trusted by**80% of the Fortune 100**build trust with HeyGen" vs "Used by over 40 million people and 85% of the Fortune 100."
Their pages disagree: language count"175+ languages and dialects" vs "HeyGen supports 177+ languages and dialects."
Free plan: Free plan: 3 videos a month, watermarked, up to 1 minute each, Avatar IV and Video Agent access, one Custom Video Avatar, 30+ languages. No credit card required.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Business users can buy one-time credit packs or enable auto-reload "Business users can purchase one-time credit packs or enable auto-reload."
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- HeyGen Technology Inc.
- Address
- 12130 Millennium Drive, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90094
- Online since
- Oct 19, 2015 Domain registration date
- Founder
- Joshua Xu
- Funding
- Valued at $500 million in funding round (Bloomberg, Jun 20, 2024) "AI Video Startup HeyGen Valued at $500 Million in Funding Round"
- Customers
- "Used by over 40 million people and 85% of the Fortune 100" their claim
- Backing
- "Backed by Benchmark, Conviction, Thrive Capital, and Bond" their words
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Questions
Is HeyGen free?
Yes. Free plan: 3 videos a month, watermarked, up to 1 minute each, Avatar IV and Video Agent access, one Custom Video Avatar, 30+ languages. No credit card required. Paid plans start at $29/month.
How much does HeyGen cost?
Paid plans start at $29 per month.
Does HeyGen train AI on your data?
No (enterprise contract term); standard terms grant a license to train ai models on your content, according to HeyGen: "No training on your data"