# HeyGen: what's new, verdict & setup

Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/heygen · First covered by us (no vendor release date published): 2026-10-25 · Last verified: 2026-10-25 · Evidence: Reported (not run by us) · Vendor: HeyGen · Official site: https://www.heygen.com/

> AI avatar video with a Free plan and paid tiers at $29, $49 and $149 a month.

## Verdict

**AI avatar video with a Free plan and paid tiers at $29, $49 and $149 a month.**

Good for:
- Marketers and trainers making avatar videos

Skip if:
- You need cinematic text-to-video

Status: Reported. Written from official release notes and docs; we have not run this release ourselves.

Pricing: Official page, dated. Read from heygen.com/pricing on 2026-10-25. (checked 2026-10-25)

## Best for

- [Best AI tool for video](https://theagenticweekly.com/best/ai-video) (#-): Avatar video with a personal avatar of your face and voice.

## Key facts

HeyGen's pricing lists Free ($0), $29 a month (600 credits, rollover one month), $49 a month (1,000 credits) and $149 a month (1,500 credits, team seats at $20 each), plus Enterprise; the site also mentions a HeyGen plugin for ChatGPT.

- License: Proprietary
- Platforms: Web
- Pricing model: Freemium
- Free tier: Free: $0 a month
- Paid plans: $29/month (600 credits); $49/month (1,000 credits); $149/month (1,500 credits, $20 per extra seat); Enterprise custom
- How to start: Sign up free and create a Personal Avatar.
- Catalog entry: facts read from the vendor's pages on 2026-10-25. We do not track release notes for this entry.

## How to set it up: Get started with HeyGen

These steps come from the vendor's own pages as read on 2026-10-25. We have not run HeyGen.

1. **Get access.** Sign up free and create a Personal Avatar.
2. **Check the limits and costs first.** Free: $0 a month. Paid: $29/month (600 credits); $49/month (1,000 credits); $149/month (1,500 credits, $20 per extra seat); Enterprise custom. Read from heygen.com/pricing on 2026-10-25.

## Pros and cons

Pros:
- Free plan
- Credit rollover on $29

Cons:
- Credits are used per video minute and feature

## Alternatives

- [Synthesia](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/synthesia): Business video platform with AI avatars in 140+ languages and a free credit allowance.
- [Runway](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/runway): AI video and creative suite with an MCP server, Agent, and many partner models.
- [Descript](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/descript): AI video and audio editor where you edit by editing text; Free plan, paid plans measured in media hours and AI credits.
- [invideo](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/invideo): AI video editor with agents; plans at $10, $30 and $75 per seat a month billed annually.
- [OpusClip](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/opus-clip): Turns long videos into shorts and posts to social platforms; Free forever plan.
- [Pika](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/pika): AI creative platform with a free plan and monthly tiers at $10, $35 and $95.
- [Luma](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/luma): AI video and image studio with its own Ray models and now Kling 4.0, all in one project board.
- [ComfyUI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/comfyui): Node-graph engine for local and cloud image, video, audio and 3D generation.
- [Kling AI](https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/kling): AI video and image generator whose latest model is Kling 4.0.

## FAQ

### What is HeyGen?

HeyGen's pricing lists Free ($0), $29 a month (600 credits, rollover one month), $49 a month (1,000 credits) and $149 a month (1,500 credits, team seats at $20 each), plus Enterprise; the site also mentions a HeyGen plugin for ChatGPT.

### Is HeyGen free?

Free: $0 a month. Paid: $29/month (600 credits); $49/month (1,000 credits); $149/month (1,500 credits, $20 per extra seat); Enterprise custom. Read from heygen.com/pricing on 2026-10-25. Checked 2026-10-25; prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page.

### What license is HeyGen under?

Its license: Proprietary. Read from the project's own pages on 2026-10-25.

## What we have not verified

- Release date (none published on the pages we read; the date shown is the day we first covered this entry)
- Plan names

## Sources

- [HeyGen](https://www.heygen.com/) (fetched 2026-10-25)
- [HeyGen pricing](https://www.heygen.com/pricing) (fetched 2026-10-25)

## How to cite

Agentic Weekly, "HeyGen: what's new, verdict & setup", last updated 2026-10-25, https://theagenticweekly.com/tools/heygen

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