Colossyan
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveAvatar video platform aimed at corporate training and onboarding
Listed on EffectHub ·
Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $59/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Starter is free (no card) with 20 NEO minutes a month and a watermark. Professional is $59/month billed yearly or $89 month to month for one editor, plus $30 (yearly) or $45 (monthly) per extra member up to three editors, with 30 NEO and 10 NEO2 minutes a month and 360 API minutes a year. Extra NEO2 minutes come as a $1,500/year pack of 600; Enterprise is quoted.
Use tool ↗About Colossyan
Colossyan converts documents, slide decks, URLs or a prompt into a scripted video presented by a synthetic avatar, then lets you edit the scenes before publishing. It is built around workplace learning rather than marketing clips, so it supports branching scenarios, quizzes, SCORM export into an LMS and multi-language versions of the same course. Voice cloning, screen recording and viewer analytics sit in the same editor.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Starter Free (20 min/mo NEO), Professional $59/mo yearly or $89/mo monthly for one editor, $30/$45 per additional member, 30 NEO + 10 NEO2 min/mo, API 360 min/yr, NEO2 add-on 600 min for $1,500/year, SOC 2 Type II (15 October 2026)colossyan.com ↗
- Site navigation lists courses, interactive video, branching, assessments, localization, SCORM delivery, API and a new AI Agent (15 October 2026)colossyan.com ↗
Is Colossyan 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
- Sep 24, 2020 (6 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cloudflare, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 2, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2020The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Colossyan Inc., HungaryOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Colossyan
The right pick when the deliverable is a compliance or onboarding module that has to land in an LMS, not a talking-head marketing video. If SCORM, quizzes and branching are not in your brief, Synthesia or HeyGen give you better avatar fidelity for the money.
Pros
- SCORM export, quizzes and branching are native, not bolted on
- 300-plus stock avatars and 100-plus languages in one editor
- API minutes are included in the Professional tier rather than sold separately
- SOC 2 Type II and SAML SSO make enterprise procurement easier
Cons
- The split between NEO and NEO2 minute pools makes plan comparison confusing
- The free Starter plan covers only the older NEO engine (20 minutes a month), with no NEO2 minutes
- Professional caps you at three editor seats before Enterprise pricing
- Bulk NEO2 minutes are sold as a $1,500-a-year add-on, not per-minute top-ups
Best for
- L&D teams replacing slide-and-narration courses with video modules
- Compliance and onboarding content that needs SCORM packaging and tracking
- Rolling one course out in many languages without re-recording
Not for
- Short-form social or ad creative where avatar realism is the whole point
- Buyers who need transparent per-minute pricing on the newest avatar engine
Watch out: The $59 headline is the yearly-billing price for one editor; month to month it is $89, and each extra member is $30 a month yearly or $45 monthly. The newer NEO2 engine draws on a separate pool of only 10 minutes a month.
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