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.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan: Translate.Video — $9/mo vs $24/mo for HeyGen
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: HeyGen has one; not confirmed by us for Translate.Video
Best fit: HeyGen: Marketing and product teams shipping talking-head video without a studio · Translate.Video: Creators localising a handful of short videos each month
Platforms: HeyGen: Web · Translate.Video: Web, Chrome extension

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

HeyGenAvatar videos and translation with lip-sync

Translate.VideoDubs and subtitles video into 75-plus languages with cloned voices

Side by side

Fact	HeyGen	Translate.Video
Category	AI Avatars & Talking Heads	Video Dubbing & Translation
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$24/mo	$9/mo
Public API	Yes	Not confirmed
Trust score	94 / 100	91 / 100
Platforms	Web, API	Web, Chrome extension
Company	HeyGen	Apex Future Labs Private Limited
Launched	2020	2020
Last verified	Oct 15, 2026	Oct 16, 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