Anam.ai
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveAPI for real-time video avatars that hold a conversation, with a claimed 180 ms average response
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $12/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free tier: 30 minutes a month, API access, 3-minute conversation cap, one session, no commercial use. Paid: Starter $12/month (50 minutes, then $0.16/min), Explorer $49 (250 min, $0.14), Growth $299 (2,000 min, $0.12), Professional $999 (8,000 min, $0.11); Enterprise is custom, from $0.04/min at scale.
Use tool ↗About Anam.ai
Anam sells conversational video avatars as an API. You point it at a persona and a knowledge source and it renders a photorealistic face that listens and answers in real time, with expression control, tool calling, retrieval from a knowledge base and support for more than 70 languages. JavaScript and Python SDKs and LiveKit and Pipecat integrations sit next to a no-code lab for building an avatar without code. The company behind it is Anam.AI Ltd in London, founded by Caoimhe Murphy and Ben Carr. Plans pair a monthly fee with included minutes and per-minute overage, from a free tier with 30 minutes up to enterprise contracts.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page shows Free $0, Starter $12, Explorer $49, Growth $299 and Professional $999 per month with 30/50/250/2,000/8,000 included minutes and overage from $0.16 to $0.11 per minute; Enterprise custom from $0.04/min (15 October 2026)anam.ai ↗
- Terms of service name Anam.AI Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company 15214363) with its office in London, under English law (15 October 2026)anam.ai ↗
- Home page states 180 ms latency, 70+ languages and LiveKit (Python and Node) integrations (15 October 2026)anam.ai ↗
Is Anam.ai legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jul 29, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 15, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 19, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Anam.AI Ltd, United KingdomOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Anam.ai
This is an infrastructure product, not an avatar video maker: the whole pitch is latency low enough that the face answers while you are still expecting it to. Tool calling and knowledge-base retrieval mean it can actually do things rather than just talk. Paid plans run from $12 to $999 a month with included minutes plus per-minute overage, which suits demos and pilots but adds up fast for anything always-on.
Pros
- Real-time interaction rather than rendered clips, with a published latency figure
- JavaScript and Python SDKs plus LiveKit and Pipecat integrations
- Tool calling and knowledge-base retrieval inside the conversation
- Free tier includes API access and custom avatars, not just a canned demo
Cons
- Overage billed per minute ($0.16 down to $0.11) makes sustained usage hard to forecast
- The free tier cuts conversations off at three minutes, allows one session at a time and excludes commercial use
- Removing the embed watermark starts at the $49 Explorer plan
Best for
- Developers embedding a talking agent into a product with LiveKit or Pipecat already in the stack
- Customer-facing kiosks, tutoring and training flows that need a face in real time
- Teams that need the avatar to call tools and read from a knowledge base mid-conversation
Not for
- Producing scripted marketing videos from a text file
- Anyone who needs a flat monthly cost rather than usage billing
Watch out: The benchmark showing its model first is Anam's own, published by Anam — treat the ranking as a vendor claim and test latency yourself on the free minutes.
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