Synthesia Pricing Guide 2026: Which Plan Should You Buy?

How Synthesia pricing actually works

Synthesia doesn't charge a flat per-seat fee alone. Every plan includes a monthly allowance of video minutes and a separate credit allowance — video minutes cap how much finished video you can generate, while credits are spent on generation and certain features. Both scale up together with each paid tier, along with avatar count and language coverage.

That makes Synthesia's pricing a little more involved to reason about than a simple 'per video' competitor, but it also means a lean team producing a handful of short videos a month can stay comfortably on a lower tier.

Every Synthesia plan, summarized

• •Free (Basic) — $0/month: 9 stock avatars, 1 personal avatar, 10 video minutes/month, 1,200 credits/month, 1 editor, no credit card required.
• •Starter — $29/month or $18/month billed annually: 125+ avatars, 3 personal avatars, 120 video minutes/year, AI Dubbing, no watermark, 70+ dubbing languages, 1 editor + 3 guests.
• •Creator — $89/month or $64/month billed annually (most popular): 180+ avatars, 5 personal avatars, 360 video minutes/year, API access, interactive videos, multiple avatars per scene, 1 editor + 5 guests.
• •Enterprise — custom pricing: 240+ avatars, unlimited personal avatars, unlimited video minutes, SSO/SAML, unlimited translation, SCORM export, dedicated Customer Success Manager.

The best plan for most teams

Creator is Synthesia's own recommended plan, and for good reason: it's the first tier with API access and multiple avatars per scene, at a price that still fits a departmental budget rather than requiring a sales conversation. If you're a single person validating whether avatar video fits your workflow at all, Starter is the more sensible entry point — jump to Creator once you need API access or your team grows past a couple of editors.

How Synthesia's pricing compares

Synthesia's $64/month (annual) Creator plan sits above HeyGen's comparable mid-tier pricing, reflecting Synthesia's heavier enterprise tooling (LMS export, SSO-ready Enterprise tier, dedicated CSM) rather than a like-for-like avatar-generation comparison. If your use case is purely marketing-style short video without the enterprise compliance requirements, HeyGen or a lighter competitor may deliver a lower total cost for similar avatar output — see our Synthesia vs HeyGen comparison for the full trade-off.

When to upgrade

Watch for a few concrete signals rather than upgrading preemptively: repeatedly hitting your monthly video-minute cap, running low on credits before the cycle resets, needing API access or multiple avatars in one scene, or needing more than a couple of editor seats.

If none of those apply yet, staying on your current tier is usually the cheaper move than upgrading early.