Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plan Costs and Cost per Video
Oct 22, 202615 min read
Synthesia's two self-serve plans cost $29 (Starter) and $89 (Pro) a month, dropping to $18 and $64 a month when billed yearly, according to AIPresso.
Those prices are the entry fee, not the cost of a finished video, which also depends on the scripting, review and publishing steps around it, whether you handle those by hand or string them together with a tool like Activepieces.
Because Synthesia is an AI video platform that turns a typed script into a presenter-led video using avatars, the cost per video depends on the minutes of footage each plan lets you render.
Synthesia Pricing by Plan, Checked October 2026
Plan table with price, minutes, seats and features
I could confirm only part of this table on 22 October 2026, and every cell marked unverified is one I couldn't check. Treat it as an open question to resolve before you budget, not as zero or unlimited.
| Plan | Monthly price | Annual price per month | Minutes/credits | Seats | Avatars | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29 | $18 | unverified | unverified | unverified | unverified |
| Pro | $89 | $64 | unverified | unverified | unverified | unverified |
| Enterprise | unverified | unverified | unverified | unverified | unverified | unverified |
Without minutes you can't calculate a cost per minute, and prices are the only complete columns here. Minutes are the denominator that turns price into a per-video cost.
Activepieces connects to 744 integrations, but a team feeding renders into it still needs the API column settled first.
What the monthly versus annual toggle changes
Billing yearly cuts Starter from $29 to $18 a month, a saving of $11, or about 38%. Over twelve months that's $216 instead of $348, so you keep $132 by committing for the year.
On Pro, $89 falls to $64 a month. That saves $25 a month, about 28%, or $300 a year ($768 against $1,068). The percentage discount is smaller than on Starter, but the dollar saving is more than double.
If you don't use the year, the discount isn't a bargain.
A team that renders in bursts and pays for twelve months of a plan it needs for four is paying more per video than the monthly price would have cost. Check your expected volume before you accept the lower number.
If you don't use the year, the discount isn't a bargain.
Synthesia Enterprise Pricing and Contact Sales Limits
When you look for Enterprise pricing, none is published on the plans I could check, so I could verify nothing in its row. You can't compare it against Starter or Pro until a quote exists.
The features gated behind that tier and the minutes bundled with it decide whether a revision-heavy workflow stays affordable.
Before asking for a quote, write down your monthly minutes, your seat count and whether you need API access. You can compare a quote built on those three numbers against the self-serve rows. You can't compare a vague one.
If you are running this arithmetic for your own team, see what the same workload costs on Activepieces.
Real Cost per Synthesia Video at Typical Usage
Pricing comparisons for video production:
- Synthesia's benchmark works out to $1.58 per finished minute, but your bill depends on rendered minutes, not finished ones, and the gap between the two is where quotes diverge
- Colossyan puts traditional production at $10,000 per finished minute, roughly 6,300 times higher
- Against a film crew the comparison is clear-cut; between plans it isn't
Divide plan price by finished minutes and you have the formula. The table prices three workloads at the $1.58 benchmark, then shows what happens when each finished minute takes 1.5 renders.
| Scenario | Minutes rendered | Cheapest plan | Monthly cost | Cost per finished minute | Assumptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 short videos | 4 | Entry self-serve tier | $6.32 | $1.58, or $2.37 with revisions | 1 minute each, one render |
| 20 training videos | 60 | Higher self-serve tier | $94.80 | $1.58, or $2.37 with revisions | 3 minutes each, one render |
| 100 localised videos | 200 | Enterprise quote | $316.00 at benchmark | $1.58, or $2.37 with revisions | 2 minutes each, one language per video |
Whenever a plan's allowance goes unused, a real invoice sits above these monthly figures, because they are benchmark arithmetic, not list prices. Each scenario below shows where that happens.
$6.32 buys four minutes at the benchmark, against $40,000 for the same four minutes made traditionally. At this volume, the risk is paying for an allowance you don't use, since every unrendered minute raises your real cost per finished minute above $1.58.
At the benchmark, 60 minutes costs $94.80. But one revision pass on every video pushes rendered minutes to 90 and the cost per finished minute to $2.37.
If the cheapest plan's cap sits between 60 and 90 minutes, revisions alone force an upgrade. Ask what a re-render consumes before comparing plans.
Synthesia Pricing at 100 Videos a Month
Price 200 minutes at the benchmark and you get $316, but localisation is where the benchmark stops holding. Each language is a separate render, so a video localised into five languages is five times the minutes.
At that scale the vendor quotes you a price instead of listing one, so test the quote against the benchmark.
That test is simple. Divide the quoted monthly fee by your finished minutes, then again by your rendered minutes. The distance between those two results is what revisions and localisation cost you.
Hidden Costs and Limits Synthesia Users Hit
Three things move a Synthesia bill: credits that expire, edits that spend them a second time, and features reserved for higher plans.
Minutes that expire or count twice
Per Synthesia's credit consumption guide, a video minute costs about 100 credits. Re-rendering a corrected script spends those credits again, so a five-minute video fixed once has consumed ten minutes of allowance.
Add a language and you spend more credits on that video, because a dubbed minute costs 80 credits with lip-sync. A survey response costs 350 credits, nearly three video minutes (350 ÷ 120 ≈ 2.9), so interactive formats get expensive as respondents accumulate.
Repeat anything per language or per viewer and it outweighs the original render.
If a plan's minutes don't carry forward, you pay for a quiet month and lose it, and your effective cost per finished video rises. That is the other leak: unused allowance.
Features gated to higher plans
To get custom avatars, voice cloning, higher resolution output or API access, you need a tier above the entry plan. Each is a price step, not a setting.
If a project needs a cloned presenter voice, the relevant question's the cost of the plan that unlocks it, not the headline rate you started from. Check each gate against Synthesia's current plan page before committing, because tier boundaries change.
Synthesia Seat, Avatar and Add-on Costs
Add an editor and you add a seat charge, and everyone draws on one credit pool, so more people drain the same allowance faster. The six limits to price before you sign are below.
- Minutes that don't roll over. Docs-only: this comes from plan descriptions, and we haven't tested it.
- Revisions that re-spend credits. Source: Synthesia Help Center, linked above.
- Extra seats beyond the plan's included number. Docs-only.
- Custom avatar and voice cloning gating. Docs-only.
- Resolution caps on lower tiers. Docs-only.
- API access reserved for higher plans. Docs-only.
Of the six, only the credit figures come from a help article. The other five come from plan documentation, so verify them against your own quote. Together they supply the inputs for the cost-per-video formula that follows.
Worth checking against a plan that does not meter every step: one credit covers a whole run on Activepieces.
Synthesia Alternatives Compared on Price and Limits
None of the four rivals is cheaper per finished video by default:
- Each turns the same formula, plan fee divided by the minutes you actually finish, into a different result depending on how it caps usage
- The figures below are left out because they change often and I have no confirmed ones for this edition
- The table shows what each vendor's price is built from, so you can run your own 20-video month through it
Read the table for how each tool meters usage and where the 20-video calculation changes, and take from it that the cap type matters more than the sticker price.
| Tool | Entry price | Included minutes | Languages | API | Cost per minute at 20 videos/month | Check date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synthesia | Monthly or annual plan | Fixed minute allowance per plan | Broad multilingual library | Offered, usually on higher plans | Plan fee ÷ (20 × average length), plus an upgrade if the cap is hit | Confirm on the vendor's pricing page the day you buy |
| HeyGen | Monthly or annual plan | Credit-based or capped, depending on plan | Broad multilingual library | Offered, billed separately from the app plan | Plan fee ÷ (20 × average length), with credits consumed by revisions | Confirm on the vendor's pricing page the day you buy |
| Colossyan | Monthly or annual plan | Fixed minute allowance per plan | Broad multilingual library | Offered on selected plans | Plan fee ÷ (20 × average length), plus an upgrade if the cap is hit | Confirm on the vendor's pricing page the day you buy |
| D-ID | Monthly plan | Credit-based | Broad multilingual support | Core part of the product | Plan fee ÷ credits used across 20 videos | Confirm on the vendor's pricing page the day you buy |
Where a plan meters credits rather than minutes, every re-render spends the allowance again, so your real cost per minute rises with each revision.
Where each tool is weaker than Synthesia
Against Synthesia, each rival gives something up, but the gap depends on what you produce. Try to budget HeyGen from a flat fee and you run into credit metering, which makes monthly spend harder to forecast.
Because Colossyan's minute caps behave much like Synthesia's, it rarely wins on cost alone. D-ID leans toward API and streaming use, so a team that wants an editing studio for finished training videos's paying for the wrong strength.
Choosing a Synthesia Plan by Video Volume
At 20 videos a month, choose on the cap type first and the headline fee second. If your videos are short and rarely revised, a minute-capped plan is predictable and the choice comes down to features.
If revisions are routine, credit-based plans can cost more than they appear to. If you're building video into your own product, D-ID's API focus matters more than any studio feature. Run your own average length and revision count through the formula before comparing vendors.
Automating Repeat Synthesia Videos with Activepieces
What Activepieces can remove is the manual copying around a Synthesia video, and it does so on a free plan of 1,000 credits a month with unlimited flows.
It can't reduce the minutes Synthesia renders or the revisions you burn, so your cost per finished video stays where the formula put it.
What changes is the labour wrapped around each render: the pasting, the checking and the chasing.
Only the third step touches Synthesia's meter; every other step in the flow below is handoff work, not rendering work. The whole chain runs in five steps.
- Trigger when a new row appears in a spreadsheet or CRM (customer relationship management) record.
- Pull the script text from that row.
- Call Synthesia to create the video from the script.
- Wait for Synthesia to report that the render is complete.
- Post the finished video's link to a Slack channel.
Steps one, two, four and five are where a person used to sit, so those are the hours you recover. Step three is the one that costs money, and it fires exactly as often as the trigger does.
Once the flow is running, the next question is what it genuinely covers and what it leaves untouched.
What can realistically be automated
Activepieces charges 1 credit per flow run, however many steps the run contains, so the five-step chain above costs the same as a two-step shortcut that skips the wait and the Slack post.
Zapier bills per task and Make per module, which means each extra step in a chain like this adds to the bill there and adds nothing here.
For a recurring batch such as onboarding videos or personalised sales outreach, that means you can split the work into small, checkable steps without paying for the discipline.
That matters in the unit economics because the labour per video is a real cost even though it never appears on Synthesia's invoice.
A person who spends part of each video moving text between tabs and messaging colleagues is a cost you haven't yet put in the formula.
That line shrinks with automation, and the Slack message means reviewers learn a video is ready without anyone watching a progress bar.
Activepieces has an MIT-licensed core and can be self-hosted, so a team that wants the flow on infrastructure it controls can run it there. Check what Synthesia exposes to automation on your plan before you design around it, since higher tiers unlock some features.
What it doesn't reduce
It doesn't reduce rendered minutes, and it doesn't reduce revisions. If a script is weak, the flow renders the weak script faithfully and posts the link with equal confidence. Each bad render consumes the same allowance a hand-started one would.
Spend can in fact rise once the flow is on. A trigger that fires on every edited row, or on a row someone added by mistake, creates a video each time, and every one counts against your minutes.
Before switching the flow on, add an approval column or a status field so only rows marked ready start a render. Then the savings in labour aren't offset by minutes spent on drafts nobody wanted.
Frequently asked questions
Does Synthesia have a free plan?
Treat the free tier as a trial, not a production budget. Synthesia has offered one, but it caps the minutes you can render and limits which features you can use.
It tests whether the output suits your use case; it gives no guide to what a finished video will cost you at volume.
Confirm the current limits on the pricing page before you plan around it.
Can I cancel Synthesia or downgrade mid-term?
On self-serve monthly billing, cancellation generally takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You keep what you paid for until then, but you shouldn't expect a prorated refund of unused minutes.
Annual and Enterprise contracts are a different matter. The agreement you sign sets their terms, so a mid-term downgrade is something to negotiate before signing, not after.
If your rendering volume is uneven, ask whether unused minutes roll over, because that changes your cost per finished video more than the plan name does.
Is Synthesia cheaper if I pay annually?
On the self-serve plans, annual billing is typically priced below the equivalent twelve months paid monthly, so the headline rate looks better. The saving is real only if you would have used the plan for the full year anyway.
If you pause for a quarter, the unused months raise your effective rate, and you're locked in.
Compare the annual total divided by the videos you expect to finish, not the monthly rate on its own. Enterprise pricing is quoted per contract and isn't a simple annual discount.
Do I own the videos I make on Synthesia?
Not unconditionally, though Synthesia's terms generally let you use the videos you produce for your own purposes, including commercial ones.
The avatars, voices and templates are licensed to you under the plan's terms, and a custom avatar built from your own likeness carries separate consent requirements.
Read the licence terms for your plan before you publish at scale. If a legal team has to sign off, that review is a cost to count.
Does Synthesia charge extra for translations and dubbing?
In practice each language version counts as another render, because translation and dubbing are usually drawn from the same minute allowance as original videos.
A script localised into several languages multiplies your minutes by the number of versions, and any revision to the source can trigger a re-render in every language.
Higher tiers may also gate some localisation features. Budget for translated minutes as separate finished videos, not as a free add-on.
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