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Captions vs HeyGen
Captions or HeyGen? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Text to video, AI presenters, Lip sync, Dubbing, Captions, Sound and music
- Only Captions states: Edits video
- Only HeyGen states: Image to video, 4K, Commercial use, API
Captions
Captions is an AI video editor for creating, editing, captioning, translating, and generating short-form videos.
Plans
Max
- $24.99/mo
- Access our library of curated AI Edit styles
- Create a fully-produced video with AI
- Create digital twins or custom AI actors
- Use a chat-based editor to handle changes for you
- Turn a long video into a batch of post-ready clips
- Access 500 credits per month
Frontier
- $69.99/mo
- Everything in Max, plus
- 1,400 credits per month
- Make more videos per month with customized usage tiers
- Access our most sophisticated tier of generative AI models
Frontier 2x
- $139.99/mo
- 2x usage
- 2,800 credits per month
- Make more videos per month with customized usage tiers
- Access our most sophisticated tier of generative AI models
Frontier 4x
- $279.99/mo
- 4x usage
- 5,600 credits per month
- Make more videos per month with customized usage tiers
- Access our most sophisticated tier of generative AI models
Enterprise
Price on request
- Bulk credit discounts
- Custom seat options
- Dedicated account management team
- Training data exclusion
- Customer onboarding, priority training, and hands-on support
- Early access to beta and new features
Free
Free
- Basic tools like trimming and transitions
- Some media library assets
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to video — “Prompt to video” source
- Edits video — “Captions' AI editing transforms footage into a fully edited video that's ready to share.” source
- AI presenters — “Make an AI twin or choose from digital avatars.” source
- Lip sync — “AI Lipdub” source
- Dubbing — “Translate and subtitle in 100+ languages.” source
- Captions — “Create auto-captions with stylized fonts.” source
- Sound and music — “Generate royalty-free music or sound effects that complement your video.” source
HeyGen
HeyGen creates AI videos from scripts, prompts, images, URLs, and PDFs using avatars, voices, B-roll, captions, and translation.
Plans
Free
Free
- 3 videos per month
- Videos up to 1 min
- Access to Avatar IV
- Standard video processing
- 500+ Stock Video Avatars
- 1 Custom Video Avatar
Creator
- $29 / mo
- $24/month if you pay annually
- 600 credits
- Videos up to 30 mins
- 1080p video export
- Unlimited Photo Avatars
- Voice Cloning
- 175+ languages and dialects
Pro
- $49 / mo
- $4,300
- 1,000 credits
- Videos up to 30 mins
- 4K video export
- Unlimited Photo Avatars
- Customizable monthly usage
- Access to all Advanced AI models
Business
- $149 / mo
- 1,500 credits
- Videos up to 60 mins
- 4k video export
- 2x more concurrency than Pro
- 5 Custom Video Avatars
- Workspace collaboration
Enterprise
Price on request
- Flexible video generation
- No video duration max
- 4k video export
- Multi-workspace control
- Enterprise-grade security & privacy
- Dedicated customer success manager
Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to video — “Create complete videos from a script using Text to Video.” source
- Image to video — “Transform any image into a dynamic AI video in seconds.” source
- AI presenters — “Create business presenters, talking avatars, or custom characters with studio-quality results.” source
- Lip sync — “Phoneme-level accuracy across every supported language.” source
- Dubbing — “No reshoots, no manual dubbing.” source
- Captions — “Brand Kit, auto captions, and B-roll deliver finished videos without switching tools.” source
- Sound and music — “The platform will generate a video with realistic AI motion and voice.” source
- 4K — “4K video export” source
- Commercial use — “You own your AI-generated videos and visuals, allowing you to publish content for marketing or training with confidence, knowing your materials are produced ethically and securely.” source
- API — “HeyGen for Developers offers production-ready, scalable APIs, including Video Agent, Video Generation, Translation, and Lipsync models.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “We are SOC 2 Type II certified, reflecting our ongoing commitment to robust cybersecurity practices.” source
- SOC 2 — “We are SOC 2 Type II certified, reflecting our ongoing commitment to robust cybersecurity practices.” source
- GDPR — “HeyGen meets rigorous compliance requirements for global standards, including SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), and the EU AI Act.” source
- Not: Data kept in the EU — “All HeyGen customer data is stored in the United States on AWS infrastructure.” source
- Not trained on your data — “Enterprise customers' data is excluded from AI model training by default.” source
Latest updates
- HyperFrames Render API — Decomposed Resolution + Aspect Ratio
resolution is now a tier; aspect_ratio is a separate field.
- New Aspect Ratios for Social Formats
POST /v2/videos and POST /v3/videos now accept four additional values for aspect_ratio: 1:1, 4:5, 5:4, and auto.
- New Endpoint: Get Asset
GET /v3/assets/{asset_id} returns asset metadata, including owner, upload timestamp, file type, and a publicly accessible URL.