How much does HeyGen cost per minute?

At HeyGen's list credit rates, Creator ($29, 600 credits) works out to about $2.32 a minute for Avatar V and about $1.50 a minute for Avatar IV Video Look. These are arithmetic from the help-center rates; your account may show a different estimate.

How many videos can I make on HeyGen Creator?

At the list rates, 600 credits cover 25 thirty-second Avatar V videos or 12 one-minute ones. Re-renders, translations and other features use credits too.

Is HeyGen cheaper than FluxNote?

They sell different products, so the price alone does not decide it. HeyGen Creator is $29 a month for 600 credits of avatar video. FluxNote Rise is $20 a month ($10 billed yearly) for 2,500 credits, about 25 finished faceless videos. Pick by the type of video you need.

Does FluxNote use credits too?

Yes. FluxNote plans spend one shared monthly credit pool, a finished faceless video is about 100 credits, and credits reset on your billing date without rolling over.

Do HeyGen credits roll over?

HeyGen's pricing page lists credits rolling over one month on Creator and rollover on Pro. Check the page for your plan.

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HeyGen Cost 2026: Per-Minute Credits vs FluxNote

At HeyGen's list rates, Creator's 600 credits for $29 cover about 12 minutes of Avatar V video, which is about $2.30 a minute, or about 19 minutes of Avatar IV Video Look, about $1.50 a minute. Pro at $49 for 1,000 credits comes to about $2.35 a minute on Avatar V. FluxNote also runs on credits but makes a different product, faceless videos with AI voiceover, so compare the output you need, not only the price. Figures read from each company's own pages on 7 November 2026.

By the FluxNote Editorial TeamUpdated Nov 7, 2026

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What does HeyGen cost per minute of video?

HeyGen's help center lists credits per minute: Avatar III 4 to 7, Avatar IV 16 to 31 and Avatar V 48. Dividing each paid plan's price by the minutes its credits cover gives these list-rate costs (arithmetic, before any yearly discount):

Plan	Monthly price	Credits	Avatar V, 48 credits a minute	Avatar IV Video Look, 31 a minute	Avatar III Video Look, 4 a minute
Creator	$29	600	12.5 min, about $2.32 a minute	19.4 min, about $1.50 a minute	150 min, about $0.19 a minute
Pro (entry tier)	$49	1,000	20.8 min, about $2.35 a minute	32.3 min, about $1.52 a minute	250 min, about $0.20 a minute

Credits roll over one month on Creator, and Pro lets you raise your monthly credits any time. Your own account may show a different estimate, so run a short test render and read the credit change before you plan a month of videos.

How many short videos is that?

A 30-second Avatar V video uses 24 credits at the list rate, so Creator's 600 credits cover 25 of them and Pro's 1,000 cover about 41. A 60-second video uses 48 credits, so Creator covers 12 and Pro about 20. A 30-second Avatar IV Video Look clip uses about 15 credits, which stretches Creator to about 38 clips.

Longer videos and re-renders use credits again, and translations and generated looks have their own rates, so the real count is lower if you iterate.

A simple way to plan is to take the number of videos you want, multiply by their length in minutes and by the credits per minute, and compare the total with the plan's monthly credits before you choose a tier.

What else uses HeyGen credits besides avatar video?

Avatar minutes are only part of a HeyGen bill.

HeyGen's help center lists video translation at 4 credits a minute without lip sync, 6 in Speed mode and 10 in Precision mode; Generate Look at 1 credit per look; generated image assets at 2 credits per image; Custom Expressive Motion at 40 credits a minute; and AI model training at 60 credits per training.

A project that mixes an Avatar V presenter, a translated version in two languages and a few generated looks therefore uses more credits than the avatar minutes alone suggest.

Because Creator credits roll over one month, a quiet month does not waste the whole pool, but a heavy month can run it out. On Creator you cannot buy a one-time pack, so the choice is to wait, upgrade to Pro or pick a higher Pro tier.

Business is the plan that lists extra credits, at $0.05 each in blocks of 100 for $5. Add a margin of 20 to 30 percent to your estimate for re-renders, which is a planning rule of thumb, not a HeyGen figure.

What does the FluxNote plan cost in comparison?

FluxNote plans spend one shared monthly credit pool, and a finished faceless video is about 100 credits.

Rise is $20 a month ($10 a month billed yearly) with 2,500 credits, so up to 25 finished videos a month; Basic is $10 a month ($5 billed yearly) with 1,000 credits, up to 10 videos, for new accounts outside India.

On that arithmetic Rise costs about $0.80 a finished video on monthly billing and about $0.40 on yearly billing, if every credit goes to videos of that kind.

The two numbers are not like for like. A HeyGen minute is an AI presenter on screen. A finished video here is a new short video built from a topic or script, with an AI-written script, voiceover, captions and AI or stock visuals, and the 100 credits are for a short finished video, not a per-minute rate.

When is HeyGen the better fit?

Choose HeyGen when you need a talking presenter, a digital twin of yourself, or translation of existing video into many languages; its pricing page lists 175+ languages from Creator.

Choose a faceless workflow when you need short videos for YouTube Shorts, TikTok or Reels from a topic or script, without a presenter on screen.

Some teams need both: an avatar for explainers and a faceless workflow for volume.

Whichever you choose, the budget question is the same: how many finished videos you need each month, how long they are, and how many re-renders you expect. Multiply those by the credit cost per video in a test, not by the marketing headline.

Where do these figures come from?

Read on 7 November 2026:

FluxNote figures are from the FluxNote pricing page. HeyGen changes its plans and credit rates, so confirm the numbers on its pages before you buy.

Pro Tips

Calculate your true cost per video on HeyGen: Divide your monthly plan cost ($29 or $24) by the number of 1-minute videos you can make with your credits (~10). Add the monthly cost of any supplementary tools.
Use FluxNote's free plan to create one watermark-free video that matches your typical HeyGen output. Time the process from text to final video with captions.
If you need a human AI avatar for a specific project, consider using HeyGen's pay-as-you-go credits for that one video, and use FluxNote for all other content to save 70% or more.
For Indian creators, directly use FluxNote's India pricing (₹999/mo for Rise) via UPI. This is approximately 1/20th the annual cost of HeyGen's Creator plan when adjusted for purchasing power.
Batch your video creation on FluxNote's Rise plan. With 20 videos per month, you can dedicate one day to scripting and generation, creating a month's worth of content in under 2 hours.

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