How much does Synthesia cost?
Paid plans start at
$14/mo billed yearly
or $19/mo billed monthly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from www.synthesia.io/pricing on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- No long-term contract. Recurring monthly or annual subscription; cancel anytime in account settings
- No overage charges. No automatic overage; creation pauses until renewal, extra credits can be bought
- Free plan. Basic plan is free: 500 credits a month, about 10 minutes of video or dubbing, 3 survey responses, Synthesia watermark. Allowance resets each month; video creation pauses when used up.
Watch out for
- Service stops at the limit. No automatic overage; creation pauses until renewal, extra credits can be bought
- Their pages disagree: Dubbing credits per minute. "Dubbing minutes 0 min / mo 76 credits per minute" vs "per minute of video dubbed: 80 credits with lip-sync, 40 without."
- Their pages disagree: Dubbing output languages. "Get access to over 140 languages and voices, including various narrati" vs "70+ languages"
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get started, Get started for free, Book demo, Try for FREE
- Sign up
- Free signup, no credit card required "Yes, our Basic plan is free, with no credit card required."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise requires booking a demo for custom pricing "Custom credit volumes"
- Support
- Starter: chat/email support "Chat/email support"
- Support
- Pro: priority chat/email support "Priority chat/email support"
What Synthesia does
Synthesia lets teams create videos with AI avatars from prompts, PowerPoints or documents, then translate, dub, publish and measure them. It also offers interactive avatar Sessions and an API for video creation, dubbing and real-time avatars.
- Good for
- Business teams in training, onboarding, sales enablement, compliance and communications that need localized video at scale, and developers building avatar or dubbing features into products.
- Channels
- Web app, API, Chrome extension (AI Screen Recorder), LMS via SCORM export
- Main product
- Synthesia AI video platform (Video, Sessions, API)
- Also includes
- AI avatars, AI Video Assistant, 1-Click Translation, AI Dubbing with voice preservation and lip-sync, Custom glossary for dubbing, Brand Kits
- Connects to
- 360Learning, Articulate 360, BambooHR, Crowdin, Docebo, Continu, Coassemble, Easygenerator, Excel Add-in, LiveKit
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Custom glossaries
Define brand terms, product names, and jargon to keep messaging consistent and pronunciations correct.
- Document file translationNot stated
- Translation API
Automate dubbing workflows and translate video at scale through the API.
- 100+ languages
Automatically translate your videos into 140+ languages
- Translation memoryNot stated
- Human review workflowNot stated
- No training on dataNot stated
- 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? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC2 | "SOC2. GDPR. ISO42001. SAML/SSO. Locked down."home |
| GDPR | GDPR | "SOC2. GDPR. ISO42001. SAML/SSO. Locked down."home |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | SAML/SSO on Enterprise | "SAML/SSO"pricing |
| Trust center | security.synthesia.io | "Learn more about security"home |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basicper month | $0 | – | 500 credits10 minutes of video per month, 3 survey responses, Synthesia | – | "$0 per month" |
| Starterper month | $19 | $14per month | 1250 creditsFirst month $9; 1 editor, 3 guests | – | "then $19 per month" "synthesia watermark see all features anchor-yearly-pricing starter 3 months free $19 $14 p" |
| Proper month | $89 | $59per month | 6000 creditsFirst month $49; higher credit tiers available; 1 editor, 5 | – | "then $89 per month" "s chat/email support see all features anchor-yearly-pricing pro most popular 4 months free" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | UnlimitedCustom credit volumes | – | "Custom pricing" |
Their pages disagree: Dubbing credits per minute"Dubbing minutes 0 min / mo 76 credits per minute" vs "per minute of video dubbed: 80 credits with lip-sync, 40 without."
Their pages disagree: Dubbing output languages"Get access to over 140 languages and voices, including various narration styles and local " vs "70+ languages"
Free plan: Basic plan is free: 500 credits a month, about 10 minutes of video or dubbing, 3 survey responses, Synthesia watermark. Allowance resets each month; video creation pauses when used up.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Video charged on new avatar footage generated, not finished length "We only count new footage: edit three seconds of an existing video and regenerate, and you're charged for three seconds."
- Billed beyond usage
- No automatic overage; creation pauses until renewal, extra credits can be bought "Video creation and survey response collection pause until your plan renews."
- Contract
- Recurring monthly or annual subscription; cancel anytime in account settings "Yes. Simply go to your account settings in Synthesia and cancel your plan."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Recurring payment "No, the payment for using Synthesia is recurring."
- 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
- Synthesia Limited
- Address
- 20 Triton Street, Regent's Place, 3rd Floor, London NW1 3BF, United Kingdom
- Online since
- Apr 20, 2017 Domain registration date
- Founder
- Victor Riparbelli, CEO & Co-founder
- Founder
- Steffen Tjerrild, COO & Co-Founder
- Founder
- Prof. Matt Niessner, Co-Founder
- Founder
- Prof. Lourdes Agapito, Co-Founder
- Customers
- "Trusted by 90% of the Fortune 100" their claim
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Questions
Is Synthesia free?
Yes. Basic plan is free: 500 credits a month, about 10 minutes of video or dubbing, 3 survey responses, Synthesia watermark. Allowance resets each month; video creation pauses when used up. Paid plans start at $19/month.
How much does Synthesia cost?
Paid plans start at $14 per month billed yearly, or $19 billed monthly.