HeyGen pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
HeyGen (heygen.com) is a AI video generator. Per-user subscription tiers that each include a monthly pool of credits spent on avatar minutes, translation and generative video models.. Free plan: Free: 3 videos/month up to 1 minute each, no watermark removal.
What HeyGen costs
- Entry plan: $29/mo (Creator $29/mo monthly ($24/mo billed annually); cheapest plan with watermark removal)
- 500 s of clips: no public price (Not computed: text/image-to-video models (Seedance 2, Veo 3) moved to Pro in Jul 2026. Seedance 2 = 60 credits per 720p video (likely up to 15 s, so 34 clips = 2,040 credits); Pro base has 1,000 credits and intermediate Pro tier prices are unpublished. Business $149 + 6x100-credit packs ($30) = $179 is an upper bound.)
- 10 min avatar: $29/mo (Creator $29: 600 credits/mo; stock avatar on Avatar III video look = 4 credits/min, so 10 min = 40 credits (Avatar IV photo look 16/min = 160 credits also fits))
Plan compared: Creator. Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans are the annual price divided by 12): the cheapest watermark-free commercial plan for one creator, the cost of 500 seconds of generated clips a month, and the cost of 10 minutes of talking-avatar video a month. A dash means the product does not do that job.
HeyGen price hikes
- HeyGen dropped unlimited voice cloning from its Creator plan · Sep 21, 2026
Voice cloning on Creator changed from "Unlimited" to "Expanded usage" (Pro to "Maximum usage") with no price change. - HeyGen moved its AI image and video models from Creator up to Pro · Jul 27, 2026
Advanced AI models (image and video generation, e.g. Seedance 2, Veo 3) were removed from the $29/mo Creator plan and are now only on Pro ($49/mo and up).
Cheaper alternatives to HeyGen
At the cheapest watermark-free plan, HeyGen costs $29/mo. 3 AI video generators cost less:
- Google Flow (Veo): $4.99/mo (Google AI Plus ($4.99/mo))
- Kling AI: $8.80/mo (Standard)
- Runway: $15/mo (Standard)
HeyGen alternatives: 3 cheaper AI video generators compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Sep 21, 2026 · Limits cut: Voice cloning on Creator changed from "Unlimited" to "Expanded usage" (Pro to "Maximum usage") with no price change.
- Jul 27, 2026 · Limits cut: Advanced AI models (image and video generation, e.g. Seedance 2, Veo 3) were removed from the $29/mo Creator plan and are now only on Pro ($49/mo and up).
Sources
Pricing page: heygen.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Plan prices from heygen.com/pricing; per-minute credit rates from HeyGen's help center (pricing page no longer lists them). Third-party trackers report conflicting Pro/Business price moves in 2026 that could not be verified, so they are not recorded.