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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.

11M visits/mo3.7K saves
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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium

A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.

2.2M visits/mo
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AI Video by Media.io
✓ verifiedFreemium

Media.io offers free online AI tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, plus viral content workflows.

5.4M visits/mo6.5K saves
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Vidu
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.

3.3M visits/mo50K saves
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Magic Hour
✓ verifiedFreemium

All-in-one AI studio for generating and editing video, images, and audio, with face swap, lip sync, and an API.

1.6M visits/mo
Pricing

No public pricing

Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Creator: $15/mo ($10/mo billed annually, 120k credits/yr)
Pro: $39/mo ($25/mo billed annually, 300k credits/yr)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Text-to-video with AI avatars
  • Custom and personal avatar creation
  • AI voice cloning
  • Multi-language video translation
  • Template library for common video types
  • Team and API options
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
  • Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
  • Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
  • Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
  • Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
  • Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
  • AI video generation (text and image to video)
  • AI image creation and enhancement
  • AI audio tools
  • AI ad and story video generators
  • Viral content studio
  • Video enhancer and effects
  • Text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation
  • Multi-reference consistency using up to 7 images
  • First and last frame transition control
  • Anime art-to-video animation
  • Unlimited free generation in off-peak mode
  • AI sound effect and AI image generation tools
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
  • Face swap across video, photos, and GIFs
  • Lip sync and talking-photo tools
  • AI image generation and editing
  • Upscaling and animation
  • REST API and SDKs
Use cases
  • Create spokesperson marketing videos
  • Localize videos into many languages
  • Produce training and explainer videos
  • Scale social video content
  • Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
  • Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
  • Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
  • Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
  • Creating social and marketing videos
  • Generating AI images
  • Editing and enhancing media
  • Marketers producing branded video ads with consistent characters
  • Anime creators animating static art
  • Creators reusing saved characters/props across multiple videos
  • Users wanting fast, low-cost video generation via off-peak mode
  • Produce social and ad videos
  • Localize or dub clips with lip sync
  • Generate marketing images
  • Automate video creation via API
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