Tools that generate footage, present scripts with AI avatars or edit recordings you already have. Credits per second, minutes and watermarks decide the cost.
Cheapest paid plan billed month to month, in USD, as listed on each profile.
Mootion$6/mo
Perso AI$6.99/mo
Kling AI$8.8/mo
Dzine$8.99/mo
Videoinu$9.99/mo
Pika$10/mo
LTX Studio$15/mo
Runway$15/mo
MindVideo AI$16.9/mo
Anijam$19/mo
Cascadeur$19/mo
Cliptalk$19/mo
SJinn$19.9/mo
ShortMake$19.99/mo
HeyGen$29/mo
Luma AI$30/mo
Topaz Video$59/moVideo AI tools generate footage that was never filmed, present a script through an AI avatar, or speed up editing of existing recordings. Runway bills credits per second of generated video; Synthesia and HeyGen turn scripts and slides into avatar-led videos, billed per minute, at rates set by avatar model on HeyGen; Descript edits speech-led recordings through their transcript. All four have free plans with limits; paid plans start at $12 (Runway), USD 14 (Synthesia), USD 24 (HeyGen) and $16 per person (Descript) a month on annual billing.
51 tools
Clear filtersKling AI generates 3- to 15-second video clips from text or images, with native audio, multi-shot control and 4K, billed in credits per second.
Beeble is a browser-based VFX toolkit that relights video, swaps backgrounds, extends aspect ratios and extracts mattes and render passes.
vidIQ is a YouTube growth toolkit with keyword research, trend and competitor data, and credit-metered AI tools for ideas, titles and thumbnails.
StreamLadder turns Twitch and Kick stream footage into vertical clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, with AI highlight finding on higher plans.
Palmier Pro is a Mac video editor that Claude, Codex or Cursor can operate over MCP, with AI image, video and audio generation on the timeline.
DaVinci Resolve is a desktop editor from Blackmagic Design for editing, color, effects and audio, with a free version and a paid Studio edition.
Anijam is an AI animation agent that turns a prompt, script or image into animated scenes with characters, voices and lip sync.
A video editor with generative models built in, priced per seat, with weekly free credits and guest seats on higher plans.
Pika is a web workspace for generating video, images and audio with several models, paid through monthly credits and licensed for commercial use from Creator.
Videoinu is an AI video workstation that routes scene prompts to third-party models and charges in credits. Plans start at $9.99 a month; the free amount is unpublished.
SJinn is an AI agent for images, video, audio and 3D that routes requests to third-party models. Plans from $19.9 a month; trial size is not published.
Munch Studio is an AI social media service that learns a business, repurposes its videos into clips and posts, and publishes them on a schedule.
Start by naming the missing piece: footage that was never filmed, a presenter you do not want to film, or an edit of a recording you already have. Runway generates Gen-4.5 clips of 2 to 10 seconds at 12 credits per second, so a 5-second take costs 60 credits and every retake costs the same again. Synthesia and HeyGen turn a script, slides or a document into a video read by a stock or custom AI avatar, which suits training, onboarding and explainers more than cinematic shots. Descript edits speech-led recordings by editing their transcript, and its allowance counts every minute you import or record, retakes and re-imports included.
Budget in the unit each tool bills. Runway Standard's 625 monthly credits cover about 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 video, or about three usable 5-second shots if each takes three attempts. Avatar tools bill finished minutes: Synthesia includes 10 minutes a month on every plan and then uses about 100 credits a minute, so Starter's 1,750 monthly credits add about 17 minutes, and HeyGen Creator's 600 credits cover about 19 minutes with the Avatar IV look at 31 credits a minute, or about 12 minutes with Avatar V. Descript Hobbyist's 10 media hours cover about 13 raw recordings of 45 minutes, and its AI credits are a separate pool for Studio Sound, Underlord, avatars and generated video.
Check the deliverable before the plan. Free video is watermarked on Runway, Descript and HeyGen, and Synthesia's free Basic plan cannot download videos at all. Runway Gen-4.5 renders at 720p, so its 4K is an upscale, and ProRes or PNG sequences need Max; Descript exports 4K on Creator and Business, HeyGen on Pro and higher. Existing videos can also be translated: HeyGen's lip-synced translation costs 6 credits a minute in Speed mode, and Synthesia's AI Dubbing works on every plan. Runway ties commercial use to your plan's terms, Synthesia's stock-avatar videos may not be used in paid advertising, and recognizable people, trademarks and footage you did not create need their own clearance.
Use the Runway profile for generated shots and footage cleanup, the Synthesia profile and the HeyGen profile for avatar-presented videos and translation, and the Descript profile for transcript-led editing. Synthesia vs HeyGen compares the two avatar platforms, and Runway vs Descript works through the billing and output differences with numbers. If the missing part of your project is narration, continue to audio tools.
Runway also generates speech from scripts through supported audio models. Choose Descript for transcript-led changes to an existing recording; voice generation alone does not separate these tools. Sources: Runway Generate Speech.
Free access, starting price and the date we last checked pricing, taken from each profile and listed A–Z. Not a ranking: prices keep the period, unit and currency the vendor shows.
| Tool | Free access | Paid plans from | Pricing checked | Consider it for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aicut | Free access available | $19.99 per month | Producing and scheduling AI story shorts for a faceless channel | |
| Anam | Free access available | $12 per month | Developers and small teams who want a conversational video avatar for support, sales or tutoring and need to budget by minutes | |
| Anijam | Free access available | $19 per month | Short animated stories from a script or prompt | |
| AnimG | Free access available | $9.99 per month | Teachers, students and math YouTubers who want 3Blue1Brown-style explainer clips from a description, with an editable Manim code playground when they want control | |
| Argil | Not verified | $50 per month | Creators and teams who make many AI videos and need the same characters, locations and look to carry across every one | |
| Beeble | Not verified | $19 per month | Relighting or changing the background of short video clips | |
| BlipCut | Free access available | $16.99 per week | Dubbing and subtitling existing videos into other languages | |
| Cascadeur | Free access available | $19 per month | Editing and polishing 3D character animation with AI assist | |
| Clipin | Free trial only | 10 credits once, 7 days | Creators and small brands who want short AI videos and creator-style product clips from a prompt and accept a credit meter | |
| Cliptalk | Free access available | $19 per month | Short vertical videos from a script, product or URL | |
| Crayo | Free access available | $19 per month | Creators and clippers who turn long videos or scripts into captioned vertical clips at volume | |
| D-ID | Free trial only | $4.7 per month shown | Teams and creators who want short talking-avatar videos or an embedded avatar agent, and who accept metered minutes and a watermark on lower plans | |
| DaVinci Resolve | Free access available | $295 purchase | YouTube editing with color and audio in one app | |
| Descript | Free access available | USD 16 per person per month | Podcasts and talking-head video | |
| Dzine | Free access available | USD 8.99 per month billed monthly | Creators combining permitted images and audio | |
| Fliz | No free tier | $14.90 per month | Publishers, marketers and faceless-channel creators who turn existing articles or product pages into vertical, square or wide videos, one at a time or through automation | |
| FramePack | Free access available | Not confirmed | Local image-to-video on an NVIDIA RTX GPU | |
| Freebeat | Free access available | $4.99 per week | Turning a finished track into a vertical or widescreen music video | |
| Genmo | Free access available | $10 per month | People who want to try text-to-video in a browser, or run the open-source Mochi 1 model themselves | |
| Hedra | Not verified | $20 per month | Creators and small teams who want one agent workspace for video, image and voice, or developers who want pay-as-you-go media models | |
| HeyGen | Free access available | USD 24 per month | Avatar-presented videos and lip-synced video translation | |
| InVideo | Free access available | €20/seat/month billed annually | Teams assembling short explainers | |
| Kling AI | Free access available | USD 6.60 per month | Short cinematic AI clips with audio | |
| Korpi AI | Free trial only | $16.99 per month | Creators who post faceless short-form video at volume and want a template, script, voiceover and render in one place | |
| LTX Studio | Free access available | $12 per month | Storyboarding and producing short AI videos from a script | |
| Luma AI | Not verified | $30 per month | Short AI video and image variants across several models | |
| Magic Hour | Free access available | $10 for 4,000 credits; $30 for 12,000 | Creators and small teams who want video, image and audio generation under one credit balance | |
| MindVideo AI | Free trial only | $16.90 per month billed monthly | Trying several video and image models from one credit balance before committing to a subscription | |
| Mootion | No free tier | $6 per month billed monthly | Turning a short idea or script into a narrated story video with consistent characters | |
| Munch Studio | Free trial only | $38 per month | Small businesses that want social posts and clips generated and scheduled | |
| OpenArt | Free access available | $13 per seat per month | Creators and marketers who want many image and video models, reusable characters and storyboarded video in one subscription | |
| OpusClip | Free access available | $15 per month | Turning long recordings into short vertical clips | |
| Palmier Pro | Free access available | $29 per month | Mac editors who want Claude, Codex or Cursor to cut video | |
| Perso AI | Free trial only | $6.99 per month | Localizing short talking-head videos into several languages | |
| Pika | No free tier | $10/month billed monthly | Creators planning short licensed clips | |
| Pixel Dojo | No free tier | From $5 for 80 credits | Creators who want to compare many image and video models on one subscription instead of paying each model maker separately | |
| Predis.ai | Free trial only | 3 days | Small teams and agencies that want ads, short videos and scheduled social posts from one credit-based tool and will check credit use before paying | |
| QuickMagic | Free access available | $14.90 per month | Animators, game developers and 3D creators who want rough-to-usable character motion from phone footage and will clean it up in their own 3D tool | |
| Runway | Free access available | USD 12 per month | Generated video and footage editing | |
| ShortMake | Free access available | $19.99 per month | Faceless vertical shorts generated from a one-line idea | |
| SJinn | Free trial only | $19.9 per month billed monthly | Creators who want one credit balance across several image and video models | |
| StreamLadder | Free access available | €15 per month | Streamers turning Twitch or Kick VODs into vertical clips | |
| Symphony Creative Studio | Free access available | Not confirmed | TikTok-ready ad videos for accounts that already advertise on TikTok | |
| Synthesia | Free access available | Not confirmed | Presenter-led training and explainer videos with AI avatars | |
| Topaz Video | No free tier | USD 59 per month | Reducing artifacts in existing footage | |
| Topview | Not verified | $24 per month | Marketers, ecommerce teams and short-film creators who want one credit-based workspace for AI video, images and avatars | |
| VEED | Free access available | $12 per user per month | Browser video editing with auto subtitles for social clips | |
| Videoinu | Free trial only | $9.99 per month billed monthly | Creators who want to plan scenes with an agent and render with several video models on one credit balance | |
| vidIQ | Free access available | €19 per month | YouTube keyword research and AI-assisted video planning | |
| Vidu | Free access available | $99 billed yearly | Creators and marketers who want text, image and reference-based AI video, including anime-style clips, from one web app | |
| Zorq AI | Not verified | $14 per month | Creators who want to compare image and video models side by side without a separate subscription for each |
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Generate when the footage was never filmed; edit when you already own the recording. Runway generates Gen-4.5 clips of 2 to 10 seconds at 12 credits per second, so a 5-second take costs 60 credits and each retake the same again. Descript edits speech-led recordings through their transcript and counts every minute you import. Synthesia and HeyGen suit a script that needs a presenter nobody filmed.
Runway Standard costs $12 a month billed annually ($15 monthly) for 625 credits, and Pro $28 for 2,250. Synthesia Starter is USD 14 a month billed yearly (USD 19 monthly) for US buyers, shown as EUR 12 and EUR 19 where Synthesia lists euros, and HeyGen Creator USD 24 billed yearly (USD 29 monthly). Descript prices per editor: Hobbyist $16 a month annually ($24 monthly), Creator $24 and Business $50.
On free plans, mostly yes. Runway Free and HeyGen Free watermark every video, and Descript Free exports 720p with a watermark. Synthesia Basic skips the watermark question by allowing no downloads, and the Synthesia logo stays until Starter. Runway Standard, Descript Hobbyist and HeyGen Creator are the first plans without a watermark.
At the Gen-4.5 base rate of 12 credits per second, Standard covers about 52 seconds a month, Pro about 187 seconds and Max about 790 seconds, roughly 13 minutes, before any retakes or extra output formats.
Yes, with an avatar tool. Synthesia imports .pptx slides as editable scenes and uses the speaker notes as the script; HeyGen converts PowerPoint or PDF decks, importing the first 50 slides per upload. Synthesia Pro's 6,500 monthly credits cover about 65 minutes of finished video on top of the 10 included.
Descript, because it edits speech through the transcript. Every plan transcribes 25 languages and labels eight or more speakers, and a Rooms recording is metered once for its length: a one-hour session with five guests uses 60 media minutes, not 300.
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