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D-ID vs HeyGen
D-ID 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, Image to video, AI presenters, Lip sync, Dubbing, Commercial use, API
- Only HeyGen states: Captions, Sound and music, 4K
D-ID
D-ID creates avatar-led videos and interactive visual agents from scripts, images, audio, or video.
Plans
Trial
$0
- 14-day trial
- Up to 3 min. of video
- Up to 10 min. of streaming video
- 1 Personal Avatar
- Full-screen watermark
Build
$14.4/month
- 64 credits
- Up to 16 min. of video
- Up to 32 min. of streaming video
- Photo & 2 Video Avatars
- Use your own S3 storage
Launch
$35/month
- 180 credits
- Up to 45 min. of video
- Up to 90 min. of streaming video
- Commercial license
- 1 Voice clone
Scale
$138.6/month
- 800 credits
- Up to 200 min. of video
- Up to 400 min. of streaming video
- 5 Personal Avatars
- 3 Voice clones
Enterprise
Let's talk
- Custom plan
- Reasonable use limits apply
Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to video — “Generate polished, multilingual avatar videos from scripts. briefs, decks, or documents.” source
- Image to video — “Seeing our ancestors’ faces come to life through video reenactment deepens our connection to our family history and is simply breathtaking” source
- AI presenters — “Create professional, pre-scripted videos with AI avatars that deliver a defined message.” source
- Lip sync — “Automatic voice cloning and lip-sync create localized versions without requiring new recordings.” source
- Dubbing — “Translate existing videos into multiple languages while preserving the speaker’s voice and visual identity.” source
- Commercial use — “The Creative Reality™ Studio was developed for businesses and individual content creators who want to use avatars to create AI videos featuring digital humans for a wide range of commercial and creative purposes.” source
- API — “Add AI video generation and visual AI agents to websites, applications, platforms, and internal tools.” source
Security
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Certification : This framework ensures that data stored, processed, and shared in the cloud is protected against unauthorized access and with verified uninterrupted continued service level.” source
- ISO 27001 — “ISO/IEC 27001:2022 : A testament to our robust information security management.” source
- ISO 42001 — “ISO/IEC 42001:2023 : An international standard that specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) within organizations.” source
- GDPR — “ISO/IEC 27018:2019 : Ensures the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in cloud environments and compliance with data protection laws like the GDPR.” source
Latest updates
- Expressive Avatars are live in D-ID Studio (V4)
D-ID Studio now lets users create videos with V4 Expressive Avatars and control the sentiment they convey.
- Generate Better AI Presenters from Text
D-ID updated the image-generation engine for Studio photo-based avatar creation.
- Faster Starts for Builders: New API Docs and MCP Server
D-ID launched upgraded API documentation and an MCP server for MCP-compatible tools to access D-ID context.
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.