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HeyGen vs Translate.Video

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, Translate.Video at $9. Both have a free tier. Only HeyGen ships a public API.

HeyGenAvatar videos and translation with lip-syncTranslate.VideoDubs and subtitles video into 75-plus languages with cloned voices

Side by side

FactHeyGenTranslate.Video
CategoryAI Avatars & Talking HeadsVideo Dubbing & Translation
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$24 month$9 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, Chrome Ext
CompanyHeyGenApex Future Labs Private Limited
Launched20202020
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

Translate.Video

Cheap way to try dubbing occasionally, but the per-minute economics turn hostile fast — $9 buys twenty minutes and the next rung is $99. Count your monthly minutes first, because that number decides everything about whether this works for you.

Pros

  • Seventy-five-plus languages in one upload-to-output flow
  • Voice cloning is included rather than sold as a separate add-on
  • $9 entry price is unusually low for a dubbing product
  • Companion Chrome extension plus sibling tools for image and website translation

Cons

  • The Basic-to-Pro jump is eleven times the price for five times the minutes
  • The $0 plan grants no dubbing minutes, so it cannot exercise the core feature
  • No public API
  • Attention is split between the Translate.Video and Vitra.ai brands, which clouds where development goes

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 Translate.Video if you need

  • Creators localising a handful of short videos each month
  • Marketing teams testing whether a second-language audience exists at all
  • Anyone who wants subtitles, dubbing and a voice clone from a single upload

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