Best AI Video Generators (2026): Top 9 Compared

Synthesia builds presenter-led video from a script. A user picks an AI avatar and a voice, writes or pastes text, and the platform renders a video with the avatar speaking it. The pricing page states voices and languages for 160+ languages and claims use by 90% of Fortune 100 companies, which is a vendor figure.

The plans now use credits as a shared currency across usage-based features. The free Basic plan and the $29 Starter plan both allow 10 minutes of video a month. Creator, at $89 a month, raises that to 30 minutes and adds 5 personal avatars, API access, branded video pages and multiple avatars per scene. Enterprise removes the seat cap, adds 240+ stock avatars, unlimited personal avatars, SAML/SSO, live team collaboration, SCORM export and a dedicated customer success manager.

A newer feature, Roleplay Sessions, lets learners practise conversations with an interactive avatar and receive scored feedback. It is metered by sessions per month on each plan. The product suits organisations that publish training and policy video in many languages and need it to drop into an LMS.

HeyGen is an AI video platform built around avatars. It generates video of a stock or custom avatar speaking a script, turns photos into talking avatars, clones voices and translates existing video. The pricing page states that more than 100,000 businesses use it, a vendor figure.

The plan ladder is public. The free plan allows 3 videos a month up to 1 minute each, with access to Avatar IV and 500+ stock avatars. Creator, at $29 a month, includes 600 credits, videos up to 30 minutes, 1080p export, unlimited photo avatars, voice cloning, 175+ languages and credit rollovers. Pro, at $49 a month, adds 4K export, customisable monthly usage and access to all advanced AI models. Business, at $149 a month, includes 1,500 credits, videos up to 60 minutes, 5 custom video avatars, SAML/SSO, workspace collaboration, interactive video, SCORM export and LMS integrations. Extra seats cost $20 a month each.

HeyGen suits a marketing or content team that wants to start on a card and move to team features later without a sales cycle.

Colossyan positions itself as a single platform for video-first training and enablement content. Its pricing page groups the product in stages: preparation, with a course outline editor and PPT and PDF import; creation, with 300+ stock avatars and 700+ stock voices; review; localisation into 120+ languages; and publishing.

Minutes are metered by avatar model. Starter includes 20 minutes a month with NEO and half a minute with NEO2. Professional includes 30 minutes with NEO and 10 with NEO2, removes the watermark, allows unlimited MP4 downloads and adds 5 SCORM exports a month and AI image generation. Enterprise lifts the limits. It adds unlimited custom avatars and voices, unlimited SCORM export, conversational avatars, branded and studio avatars, a dedicated customer success manager, custom SSO/SAML and a choice of EU or US data residency.

Interactive videos and auto-translations are counted per month on the lower plans. The product fits a training team that wants to build a course and its videos in the same tool and export both to an LMS.

Runway is a generative video company that trains its own models and also offers other vendors' models in its app. The pricing page lists Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo and Aleph from Runway next to third-party models including Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance and Nano Banana Pro. It states more than 60 million creators, a vendor figure.

Plans are sold in credits. Standard includes 625 credits a month, which the page converts to 52 seconds of Gen-4.5, 104 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo or 78 Gen-4 images at 1080p. Pro includes 2,250 credits, custom voices for lip sync and text to speech, and 500 GB of storage. Max includes 9,500 credits, a one-month rollover of unused credits, first access to new models, ProRes and image-sequence export, and HDR output. Enterprise adds custom credit packages, single sign-on, workspace analytics and configurable teamspaces.

The per-model cost table is the main buying aid. Gen-4.5 costs 60 credits per 5 seconds and Aleph 2.0 costs 140 credits per 5 seconds, so the same plan buys very different amounts of video by model.

Luma AI develops its own video models, the Ray series, and offers them with third-party image and video models in one product. Its pricing page shows logos of teams including Serviceplan, Dentsu, Publicis Groupe and Mazda.

All individual plans use credits. Plus includes 10,000 credits a month, access to Luma and third-party models, guest collaborators and commercial use. Pro includes 40,000 credits and four times the usage of Luma Agents. Ultra includes 150,000 credits and fifteen times the agent usage. The Team plan adds member management, projects, team-wide sharing, usage analytics, shared credits and SSO. Enterprise adds commitments, training and custom fine-tuning.

The cost table shows why the credit count matters. Ray3.2 text-to-video costs 20 credits per 5 seconds in draft mode and 400 credits per 5 seconds at 1080p, and HDR doubles the base cost. On Plus, 10,000 credits buy 125 seconds of 1080p Ray3.2 video. Luma suits teams that need cinematic output and are ready to budget by resolution.

invideo AI is a prompt-to-video tool. A user describes the video, and the product writes the script, selects or generates footage, adds a voice and assembles an editable video. The pricing page lists access to 200+ image, video, audio and music models, including Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro and ElevenLabs music, plus stock from iStock and Storyblocks.

Individual plans differ by credits, avatars, concurrency and storage. Plus includes 750 credits a month, 4 AI avatars and voice clones and 20 GB of storage. Max includes 3,900 credits, 16 avatars and 100 GB. Generative includes 8,000 credits, 40 avatars and 2 TB. Elite includes 42,500 credits, 200 avatars and 10 TB. All plans include every AI workflow and unlimited exports without watermark.

The FAQ states that generative models are charged at their original API pricing and that credit costs can change without notice. Unused credits expire each month. The tool suits social and marketing video where speed of assembly matters more than a fixed presenter.

Vyond is an animated video platform that has added AI features to its character animation tools. The pricing page lists access to AI avatars from a library of 1,300+ options, 650+ text-to-speech voices, screen and webcam recording, and Instant Video, which generates a draft from a prompt, a document, a slide deck or a URL.

Plans are priced per user. Starter includes 10,000 AI credits a user a month and up to 100 downloads. Professional adds team collaboration, access to 4 million+ Shutterstock assets, instant translation into 95 languages, generative avatars from a text prompt and 20,000 credits. Enterprise adds 200+ higher-quality voices, the Brand Management Suite, advanced collaboration, the Vyond Secure Suite and credits the page calls virtually unlimited. Agency is built for client-facing work and includes 400,000 credits a user a month.

Vyond suits HR, compliance and internal communication teams that want an animated style and predictable per-seat budgets.

Elai.io generates presenter video from text with a library of 80+ avatars and 75+ languages. The pricing page states that more than 2,000 companies use it, a vendor figure.

The plans are metered in minutes of rendered video. Free allows 1 minute and all Creator features. Creator allows up to 15 minutes a month for 1 user in Full HD, with the full avatar, voice and language library. The page puts it at $1.93 a minute at the monthly rate. Team allows 50, 100 or 150 minutes a month, 3 editors and 3 guests, custom images and fonts, 4K video and premium voices, and the page puts it at $2.50 a minute. Enterprise adds unlimited users, 3 voice clones, 3 selfie avatars, premium avatars, brand kit, workspaces, SSO and premium support.

Interactive features include branching, buttons, hotspots and text- and image-based quizzes. Elai.io suits a small team that makes a predictable number of minutes a month and wants interactivity without an LMS authoring tool.

Pictory converts existing material into video. A user supplies a script, an article, a slide deck or a long recording, and the product builds a video with stock footage, captions and an AI voice, or cuts a long video into short clips. It is closer to an automated editor than to a model that generates new footage.

Plans are priced per year. Starter includes 2,400 video minutes a year, 5 GB of storage, 1 brand kit, 720 minutes of ElevenLabs voices in 29 languages and access to 5 million stock videos. Its 1,200 AI credits a year buy up to 2,000 images, 12.5 minutes of generated video or 40 minutes of avatar video. Professional raises the minutes to 7,200 and the credits to 12,000, and adds custom avatars, voice cloning and video summarisation. Team is for 3 or more users with a shared workspace and onboarding. Enterprise adds interactive hosting with quizzes, SCORM export, SSO and a dedicated success manager.

Pictory suits content teams that already produce text and recordings and need them in video form at volume.