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Synthesia pricing explained, plan by plan
Four tiers, one monthly ceiling, and a second price table most readers never see.
The short answer
Synthesia pricing starts at $0 and runs to $89 a month on Creator, with the Starter plan at $29 between them. The Enterprise tier is quoted.
The figure that decides your tier is not the price. It is minutes of finished video per month: 10 on Free and on Starter alike, 30 on Creator, uncapped on Enterprise.[1]
How much does Synthesia cost
Four plans, and the gap between two of them is smaller than it looks. The table below is the whole published ladder of Synthesia pricing plans, read from Synthesia's own pricing page on 2026-08-25, with the allowance that actually governs what you can ship printed beside each price.
Read it once for the money and a second time for the minutes column. The prices multiply by roughly three at each step. The minutes do not: they stand still between the free tier and the first paid one, then triple, then disappear entirely at the top.
| Plan | Price | Unit | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month, billed monthly | 10 min of video per month · 1,200 credits per month · none · 9 AI avatars A permanently free tier with no card required. Videos carry the Synthesia logo and cannot be downloaded. |
| Starter | $29 | per month, billed monthly | 10 min of video per month · 1,200 credits per month · 3 personal avatars · 125+ AI avatars The first tier that removes the Synthesia logo and permits downloads. The monthly minute allowance is identical to Free. |
| Creator | $89 | per month, billed monthly | 30 min of video per month · 3,600 credits per month · 5 personal avatars · 180+ AI avatars Triples the monthly minutes and adds API access, but the vendor prices it above three times the Starter rate. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | no published figure | unlimited video minutes · custom credit pool · Unlimited personal avatars, subject to fair use · 240+ AI avatars Billed annually only. Unlimited video minutes, so no cost per minute can be derived. |
Synthesia pricing read from https://www.synthesia.io/pricing on .
What each tier includes
Three limits do different work here and are easy to run together. Minutes per month is the finished-video allowance, and credits are the shared usage pool that video, dubbing and b-roll all draw down.
Seats are the third, and they split into editors, who can create, and guests, who can only comment. A team of five on Creator is therefore not five people making video. It is one editor and five guests, and that distinction decides more upgrade arguments than the minute count does.
- Stock AI avatars ship with the platform and any subscriber may use them.
- A personal avatar is trained on footage of someone in particular, which is why the counts are small and why the free tier has none at all.
Free
$0, 10 minutes of video a month, 1,200 credits and 9 AI avatars, with no personal avatar at all. No card is required, and the plan does not expire, which makes it a genuine evaluation tier rather than a countdown.
The limit that ends it is not the minutes. Free output carries the Synthesia logo and cannot be downloaded, so whatever you make lives inside the platform.
- Generous as a way to find out whether the avatars read convincingly for your audience.
- Closed as a way to publish anything, because the file never leaves the platform.
Starter
$29 a month, or $18 a month billed annually. It carries 125+ AI avatars, 3 personal avatars and seats for 1 editor, 3 guests.
Note what the Starter plan does not carry: any more video than the free tier. Both sit at 10 minutes a month. The money buys the download, the removal of the logo, the personal avatars and the dubbing, which is a real purchase and a different one from the one most people think they are making.
Creator
$89 a month, or $64 billed annually, for 30 minutes a month and 3,600 credits. It adds API access, multiple avatars in a scene, interactive video and 5 personal avatars.
Three times the minutes for a little over three times the price. That is the fact the next section turns into a number, and it is the reason this page does not describe Creator as better value.
Enterprise
The Enterprise tier is custom pricing, billed annually, with 240+ AI avatars and Unlimited personal avatars, subject to fair use. Video minutes are unlimited, so no cost per minute can be derived for this tier and this page will not estimate one.
For budgeting, treat a quoted tier as a negotiation rather than a price. The useful preparation is knowing your monthly minutes, your editor count and your presenter count before the call, because those are the three numbers the quote will be built from.
What a finished minute actually costs
Divide each plan's price by the minutes it permits in a month and the ladder flattens. On month-to-month billing the two paid tiers land within a few cents of each other, which is not what a price that triples usually looks like.
Cost per finished minute, by Synthesia plan and billing cycle
How the derivation works
The arithmetic is deliberately plain. Take the plan price, divide by the minutes the plan permits in a month, and print the result.
Starter at $29 over 10 minutes lands at $2.90 a minute. Creator at $89 over 30 minutes lands at $2.97.
The assumption behind it
The allowance is spent in full, stated rather than buried. Anyone who publishes less than their ceiling pays more per minute than the figure above, in both directions equally, so the comparison between tiers holds even where the absolute number does not describe your month.
Synthesia does not print this column, and neither does anyone else in the category. A figure that converts a plan into output makes two products with different metering directly comparable, which is a service to a buyer and to nobody selling one of them.
Where the curve does not bend
On monthly billing, moving from Starter to Creator raises the cost of a finished minute by about $0.07. The upgrade is buying capacity, seats and API access. It is not buying cheaper video.
Annual billing is where the unit cost genuinely falls, and it falls further on Starter than on Creator. If your reason for looking at Creator was value per minute rather than volume, the cheaper move is the same plan on a different billing cycle.
What a credit is, and why the pool is shared
Synthesia meters two things at once, and minutes cap only the first of them. Credits are a single pool spent by everything the platform generates, and the vendor describes them as the shared currency across all usage-based features.[1]
That sharing is the part worth understanding before you budget. Dubbing an existing video draws on the same pool as making a new one. A single b-roll asset with action costs 96 credits, and turning on lip sync doubles the credit cost of a dub.
- Starter includes 1,200 credits a month, which the vendor maps to 10 minutes of video or dubbing.
- Creator includes 3,600, mapped to 30 minutes.
So the headline minute count is a ceiling reached only if you spend the pool on nothing else. A team that dubs its videos into three languages will hit the credit limit well before it hits the minute limit, and the plan table gives no hint of that.
Credits are only consumed once a video has actually been generated. Drafts and previews cost nothing, which makes iteration cheap and makes the final render the moment to be careful.
The price depends on where you are
Synthesia runs geo-tiered pricing, and its page does not serve one table. Its own script selects between a standard price table and a second, lower one for markets it marks tier T1, with Japan explicitly held on the standard table.
The gap is not trivial. Starter drops from $29 to $19 a month, and a year of Creator drops from $768 to $708. Every explainer in the measured top ten quotes one of these tables as though it were the price.
| Tool | Starter, monthly | Starter, annual | Creator, monthly | Creator, annual | Who is recommending it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard table | $29 | $216 | $89 | $768 | What a reader in the United States, the eurozone or Japan is shown. |
| Tier T1 table | $19 | $168 | $89 | $708 | What a reader in a market Synthesia's own script marks T1 is shown, Japan excluded. |
How this was scored. Both tables were read out of the pricing page's own client-side price object on 2026-08-25 rather than from a checkout, and which one a visitor sees is decided by the country tier that page resolves for them. The scoring rules in full.
There is nothing improper about regional pricing, and plenty of software does it. What is worth knowing is that a figure quoted in an article carries an unstated assumption about where the writer was sitting. Before you budget, open the pricing page from the country whose card you will actually be billed on.
Monthly against annual
Twelve months of Starter costs $348 paid monthly and $216 paid annually, a difference of $132 for identical output. On Creator the same comparison runs $1,068 against $768.
| Plan | Price | Unit | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $18 | per month, billed annually at $216 a year | 120 min of video per year · 14,500 credits per year Paid month to month the same plan costs $348 across twelve months, a difference of $132. |
| Creator | $64 | per month, billed annually at $768 a year | 360 min of video per year · 44,000 credits per year Paid month to month the same plan costs $1,068 across twelve months, a difference of $300. |
Synthesia pricing read from https://www.synthesia.io/pricing on .
A year of Starter, by billing cycle and market
What annual billing actually changes
The rate is the visible half. The structural half is that the allowance becomes a yearly pool: 120 minutes on Starter and 360 on Creator, rather than a monthly ration.
That matters because unused minutes do not roll over. On monthly billing, a quiet month is simply gone, and a heavy month is capped until renewal rather than billed as overage. Anyone whose output arrives in bursts is buying flexibility as much as a discount.
One catch worth knowing first
Moving an existing monthly Starter or Creator plan onto annual billing is not a self-serve switch. Synthesia asks you to contact customer support to do it, so the cheaper cycle is easiest to take at signup rather than later.
Is Synthesia completely free
Yes, permanently, and with no card. The free tier gives 10 minutes of video a month across 9 AI avatars, and it does not expire. What ends it is not the allowance but the output: the Synthesia logo stays on the video and the file cannot be downloaded.
What the free tier can actually finish
Inside those limits: a test of whether a given avatar and voice read convincingly for your audience, a script rehearsal, an internal demonstration of what the tool does. Outside them: anything that has to live on your own site, your own channel or a client's platform, because that requires a downloadable file.
Used as an evaluation tier it does a genuinely useful job, and ten minutes is enough to form a real opinion. The most common disappointment is treating it as a production tier.
Where the vendor’s own page disagrees with itself
Two figures on Synthesia's pricing page contradict two other figures on the same page, read on the same day. This is worth naming because the higher numbers are the ones that have spread into third-party explainers.
- Annual Starter costs $264 and annual Creator $804 per year. That is the page's own FAQ, under How much does Synthesia cost?. The live plan table on the same page prices annual Starter at $216 and annual Creator at $768.
- One custom personal avatar is included with the annual Starter and Creator plans. That is the page's own FAQ, under How much is a custom avatar?. The comparison table on the same page lists 3 personal avatars on Starter and 5 on Creator.
This page uses the plan table rather than the FAQ, on the reasoning that the table is the component the vendor actually maintains and the one a buyer is charged from. Anyone budgeting from the FAQ figures is overstating a year of Starter by $48.
Where a source disagrees with itself, this desk prints both readings, names which one it used and says why, rather than quietly picking the convenient number.
Is Synthesia worth it
Worth is not a property of the product, it is a property of the fit between the product's limits and your work. Here the binding limit is monthly minutes, and the second question is whether you need a presenter with a specific face. Three situations cover most readers.
If you publish occasionally
Ten minutes a month is the ceiling that binds, and Starter clears it for most people publishing a few short pieces. Unless you have named a specific Creator feature you will use every month, the upgrade is buying capacity you will not spend.
If you publish every week
Four videos a month at five minutes each is already past Starter. Creator's 30 minutes is the honest tier, and annual billing matters more here than the rate suggests, because a weekly schedule with an occasional heavy month is exactly the pattern a yearly pool protects.
If your video needs a named presenter
Personal avatar counts become the constraint immediately: none on Free, 3 personal avatars on Starter, 5 personal avatars on Creator. Anyone training an avatar on a real person also has consent and likeness obligations to settle first, which is a separate matter from pricing and has its own page on what a personal avatar obliges you to get in writing.
What is better, Synthesia or HeyGen
Start with the unit, not the price. Both are billed as an AI video generator subscription and both are bought for talking-head video, but Synthesia meters minutes per month while HeyGen caps minutes per single video and does not ration the month at all.
Two headline figures that look comparable are therefore measuring different things, which is why so many side-by-side tables reach confident wrong conclusions. This desk has not run either product, so the quality half of the comparison belongs to reviewers who have.
On price alone
Prices are the part of this category that can be checked, so they are the part this desk works on. Put the HeyGen plan table beside this one and the metering difference is visible before any of the figures are.
The third vendor priced here, D-ID, sits awkwardly beside both of them: its own page opens on the annual toggle, so the number a visitor sees first is not what a monthly subscriber pays. Comparing it to either plan above means converting the billing cycle before the minutes.
On everything else
How lifelike a presenter looks, what the tool connects to, and whether a viewer notices it is synthetic at all are questions of judgement rather than arithmetic, and a pricing page is the wrong instrument for them.
- The reviewers cited on this site did run the software.
- They put Synthesia ahead on fidelity and HeyGen ahead on breadth of features for the money, which is a split verdict rather than a winner.
The full side-by-side lives on Synthesia against HeyGen on a stated method. The reviews desk collects the capability evidence this page deliberately leaves out.
How we priced this page
Every figure above was read from Synthesia's own pricing page on 2026-08-25 and carries that date. The desk itself prices one vendor per page and derives the rest. The derived per-minute column is arithmetic on those figures, printed rather than asserted, and the assumption behind it is stated where it is used.
- Prices, minutes, credits and avatar counts: the vendor's own page, with the date it was read.
- The second price table: the same page's own client-side price object, read on the same date.
- Per-minute cost: arithmetic on those figures, printed on the page.
- Capability and quality: named external reviewers, with their sources linked. This desk has not run Synthesia, which is why the comparison section quotes rather than concludes.
Why the numbers may move
Vendor pricing changes without notice, and this one changed recently: the page currently carries a lower-prices banner of its own. A page that prints a price and no date is making a claim it cannot support a month later. If a figure here disagrees with what you see on Synthesia's page, Synthesia's page is right and this one is stale.
What demand for Synthesia pricing is doing
Searches for this term run at roughly 720 a month in the US at a keyword difficulty of 12.[2] That is a modest, winnable term rather than a crowded one.
The trend says something sharper. The same term is down about 63 percent year on year, a much steeper fall than the category as a whole. Interest in pricing this particular tool is cooling fast even while AI video keeps expanding.
What a cooling term means for a buyer
Less shopping, not less product. When the search volume behind a pricing term falls, it usually means the people who were comparing have chosen, and a category that has stopped comparing tends to see its published prices sit still for longer.
What people search for around this
Around this plan table the same query arrives in a dozen shapes, and the shapes disagree. Monthly and yearly pull apart further here than anywhere else on the site, because the annual figure is not twelve monthly ones and the allowance changes shape when the cycle does.
Anyone searching for Synthesia subscription terms is usually asking about cancellation and rollover rather than price, and both are answered above. Anyone checking a year in the query is really asking whether the numbers moved, and the fetch date on the table is how you tell.
Why this desk cannot answer the Reddit version
Adding Reddit to a pricing query is a request for a person who has already paid for the plan and lived with the allowance. It is a fair thing to want. It is also the one thing a desk that prices from published pages cannot honestly provide, so this page does not pretend to.
What to check before you enter a card
Four answers decide which Synthesia tier you belong on, and only one of them is a number from the table. Taken in this order they leave one plan standing.
The four-line check
- Minutes you will publish in a month Compare it against the monthly allowance, not against the price. This is the limit that actually stops work, and it does not roll over. 10 or 30 min
- Whether you need the file The free tier keeps the logo on the video and blocks the download. If the video has to live anywhere but inside Synthesia, the free tier is already ruled out. $29
- How many named presenters Personal avatars, not stock ones. None on Free, three on Starter, five on Creator. Consent obligations come before the purchase.
- The price your own country is shown Open the pricing page from the market whose card you will be billed on. The standard table and the T1 table are different money for the same plan.
If the first line clears on Starter and the second is yes, stop there and take the annual cycle. Most of the money wasted on this product is spent buying monthly capacity that expires unused at the end of a quiet month.
Synthesia plan and cost FAQs
How much does Synthesia cost?
Is Synthesia completely free?
What is Synthesia pricing per month?
What does Synthesia cost per year?
What is the difference between Synthesia Starter and Creator?
How many minutes of video does each Synthesia plan include?
Do unused Synthesia minutes roll over?
What is a Synthesia credit?
Does Synthesia charge the same price in every country?
What is Synthesia Enterprise pricing?
Is there a discount code for Synthesia?
What is better, Synthesia or HeyGen?
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