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HeyGen vs OtherYou

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. HeyGen starts at $24, OtherYou at $10. Both have a free tier. Only HeyGen ships a public API.

HeyGenAvatar videos and translation with lip-syncOtherYouSwaps the face and the voice in your own video footage for a stock or custom avatar.

Side by side

FactHeyGenOtherYou
CategoryAI Avatars & Talking HeadsAI Avatars & Talking Heads
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$24 month$10 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
CompanyHeyGenOtherYou
Launched2020—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

HeyGen

The strongest avatar fidelity on the market right now, but the credit arithmetic decides whether it is affordable, not the sticker price.

Pros

  • Avatar and lip-sync quality is ahead of most competitors at the price
  • Free plan lets you judge output quality before paying anything
  • Video translation covers a wide language list with synchronised lips
  • Credits roll over for a month rather than expiring at the billing date

Cons

  • Newer avatar models cost roughly seven times the credits of the older ones
  • Free tier is watermarked and capped at three one-minute videos
  • Business tier stacks a $20 per-seat charge on top of a $149 base
  • Custom avatars and the better models are gated behind higher tiers

OtherYou

A narrow tool that does face plus voice replacement on footage you already have, priced by output minutes. Cheap to start and it includes a commercial licence at every paid tier. The build looks frozen - the plan configuration on the site dates from 2023 - so buy it for what it does today.

Pros

  • Replaces face and voice together rather than one or the other
  • Custom avatars supported, not just a fixed library
  • Commercial licence included on every paid tier
  • 20 free credits to test before paying

Cons

  • Minute allowances are small - 8 minutes a month on the entry plan
  • No company name, address or country published anywhere
  • Site is a 2023-era single-page build with no visible changelog or API

Which one fits

Choose HeyGen if you need

  • Marketing and product teams shipping talking-head video without a studio
  • Localising existing footage into other languages with matched lip movement
  • Creators who want a cloned avatar for repeatable short-form output

Choose OtherYou if you need

  • Presenters who want to appear on camera without showing their own face
  • Localising a recorded delivery with a different voice
  • Small-volume creators who need a few minutes of output a month

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