What HeyGen does
HeyGen creates realistic AI avatar videos from text — choose an avatar, type your script, and get a professional talking-head video. Also generates images and animated avatars. Used by 40,000+ businesses for marketing and training content.
How HeyGen compares with its closest alternatives
3 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as HeyGen does. Among the 3 that list a starting price, the cheapest is D-ID at $6 a month and the median is $18. HeyGen starts at $24 a month, above that median. 3 of the 5 offer an API, as HeyGen does. HeyGen offers a web app. Of the alternatives, 4 offer a web app. HeyGen was founded in 2020; the alternatives were founded between 2008 and 2021, 3 of them earlier. HeyGen is based in San Francisco, United States; 1 of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters is in the United States too, and the others in Israel, the United Kingdom and China.