Synthesia pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Synthesia (synthesia.io) is a AI video generator. Free Basic plan plus Starter and Pro subscriptions that add a monthly credit pool on top of 10 included video minutes; Pro comes in 2x-8x credit tiers, Enterprise is custom.. Free plan: Basic: 10 min of video or dubbing, 3 survey responses and 500 credits a month, 9 avatars, watermarked, no MP4 download.
What Synthesia costs
- Entry plan: $29/mo (Starter $29/mo billed monthly ($18/mo billed yearly): cheapest plan with MP4 download and no Synthesia logo; Basic is watermarked and cannot download)
- 500 s of clips: $176/mo (Veo 3.1 Fast (no audio) b-roll = 115 credits per 8 s clip; 63 clips x 115 = 7,245 credits. Pro has 6,500 credits/mo (500 + 6,000), so Pro 2x (12,500 credits) at $176/mo monthly; top-up pack prices are not published)
- 10 min avatar: $29/mo (Starter includes the 10 min of video every plan gets each month, watermark-free on paid plans, plus 1,250 credits (~12 more min))
Plan compared: Starter. 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.
What Synthesia does
Core: AI avatar presenter videos, Scene and template editor, Training and e-learning output.
Important: Personal avatar clone, AI voices and languages, AI video dubbing, Prompt to finished video, Developer API, Teams, SSO and compliance (partly).
Also has: Generative video footage, Image-to-video animation, Native audio generation, Camera and keyframe control (partly), Consistent multi-shot stories (partly), Multiple third-party models (partly), Real-time interactive avatars, AI video ads (partly).
Synthesia price hikes
- Synthesia cut free AI video clips from 25 a month to 3 · Sep 28, 2026
The free Basic plan's AI-generated video assets (b-roll clips from third-party models) went from up to 25 a month to a cap of 3 a month.
Cheaper alternatives to Synthesia
At the cheapest watermark-free plan, Synthesia costs $29/mo. 2 AI video generators cost less:
Synthesia alternatives: 4 AI video generators compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Oct 1, 2026 · Repriced: Every plan now gets 10 min of video, 3 survey responses and 500 credits a month; Starter adds 1,250 credits (about 22 min total vs 10) and Creator, renamed Pro, rose to 6,500 credits from 3,600, with new Pro 2x-8x tiers. Per-clip credit costs for AI b-roll went up (Veo 3.1 Fast 48 to 115 credits).
- Sep 28, 2026 · Free tier cut: The free Basic plan's AI-generated video assets (b-roll clips from third-party models) went from up to 25 a month to a cap of 3 a month.
- Aug 2024 · Price cut: Under a 'New lower prices' banner, annual billing dropped from $22 to $18/mo for Starter and from $67 to $64/mo for Creator; monthly prices stayed $29 and $89, and Starter gained 3 personal avatars.
- Oct 2023 · Repriced: The $30/mo Personal plan (10 video credits a month, 1 seat) was replaced by Starter at $29/mo (10 min a month, 1 editor + 3 guests) and a new Creator plan at $89/mo with 30 min a month.
Sources
Pricing page: synthesia.io/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from the live pricing page (monthly toggle) and help-center credit articles, history from web.archive.org snapshots 2021-2026 and PricingSaaS. PricingSaaS logs a Mar 2026 Starter rise from $19 to $29 and shows $14/$59 annual prices, but archive snapshots show $29 monthly and $18 yearly throughout, so it was not recorded. The clips point depends on in-app b-roll credit costs that conflict between help articles (115 vs 48 credits for Veo 3.1 Fast); at 48 credits it would fit in Pro at $89.