# HeyGen Pricing 2026: Creator $24/mo, Pro $49/mo > HeyGen in 2026: Free with watermark, Creator $24/mo annual, Pro from $49/mo, Business $149/mo. Team plan is gone. Credits and cheaper picks compared inside. HeyGen's Creator plan costs $29/month or $24/month billed annually in 2026. The long-running Team plan was formally deprecated in January 2026 and replaced by a Business plan starting at $149/month plus $20 per additional seat. A Pro tier starting at $49/month (scaling up to $4,300/month for 100,000 credits) fills the gap for higher-volume solo creators and agencies. The free plan gives 3 videos per month (1 minute each, with watermark), enough to test quality, not enough for real publishing. ## HeyGen Pricing 2026 at a Glance HeyGen moved to a unified credit system for 2026 and retired the old Team plan. Every current tier: | Plan | Price (monthly) | Annual | Credits/mo | Practical output | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | n/a | n/a | 3 videos/mo, 1 min each, 720p, watermark | | Creator | $29/mo | $288/yr ($24/mo) | 200 | ~10 min Avatar IV or ~40 min translated video, no watermark, 1080p | | Pro | from $49/mo | n/a | 1,000+ (up to 100,000 at $4,300/mo) | mid-volume creators and agencies | | Business | $149/mo + $20/seat | $1,428/yr + $240/seat | n/a | shared workspace, brand kit (replaced Team) | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom | n/a | SSO, SOC 2, GDPR, API access | Avatar IV generation burns 20 credits per minute, so the 200-credit Creator plan caps out near 10 one-minute avatar videos a month, roughly $2.40 per avatar video at the $24 annual rate. Credits do not roll over. ## HeyGen Pricing Plans for 2026: Every Tier Explained *Pricing verified against heygen.com/pricing and HeyGen's Help Center (help.heygen.com), June 2026. The Team plan was deprecated in January 2026, existing subscribers keeping uninterrupted payments retain their original terms, but the plan is no longer available for new purchase.* **Free**, $0/month. 3 videos per month, maximum 1 minute each, 720p output, HeyGen watermark on all exports. Includes access to 500+ stock avatars and 1 custom digital twin setup. Sufficient for evaluating avatar quality, not viable for ongoing publishing. **Creator**, $29/month billed monthly, $288/year ($24/month). **200 Premium Credits per month.** These credits cover all premium features: Avatar IV generation costs 20 credits per minute, lip-sync video translation costs 5-10 credits per minute. At 200 credits, Creator plan supports roughly 10 minutes of Avatar IV video or 40 minutes of translated video per month. No HeyGen watermark. Unlimited video length per render (up to 30 minutes per video) with 1080p output. 175+ supported languages for video translation. **Pro**, Starts at $49/month (1,000 credits/month) and scales to higher credit tiers, up to $4,300/month for 100,000 credits/month. Pro sits between Creator and Business and targets mid-volume creators, marketing agencies, and SaaS teams with monthly video production requirements above the 10-minute Creator ceiling. The $49 Pro tier provides 5x more credits than Creator for just 69% more cost per month. **Business**, $149/month + $20/month per additional seat (or $1,428/year + $240/year per additional seat). Introduced in January 2026 to replace the discontinued Team plan. Includes shared workspace, brand kit management, advanced avatar customization, collaboration features, and dedicated support. The base seat starts at $149/month. **Enterprise**, Custom pricing. Dedicated infrastructure, SLA guarantees, SSO, SOC 2 and GDPR compliance features, API access, and custom avatar creation from high-fidelity recording sessions. Targeted at large organizations with compliance or API integration requirements. ## The HeyGen Credit System: What Each Credit Buys You HeyGen moved away from per-minute video pricing to a unified credit system. Understanding the credit burn rate per feature is essential for evaluating whether any plan is sufficient for your output volume. **Avatar IV generation:** 20 credits per minute of output video. On the Creator plan (200 credits), this means a maximum of 10 minutes of Avatar IV video per month. For a creator posting daily one-minute Shorts with an AI avatar, the Creator plan is exhausted in 10 days. **Lip-sync video translation:** 5-10 credits per minute depending on video complexity. Translating a 10-minute video into one language costs 50-100 credits. Translating the same video into 5 languages costs 250-500 credits, more than a full Creator plan allocation. **Voice cloning and standard avatar clips:** Lower credit cost than Avatar IV. Standard avatar generation with the stock library is more credit-efficient than the premium Avatar IV model. **Credits do not roll over.** Unused credits at the end of the billing cycle are forfeited. This makes the Creator plan risky for creators with uneven monthly publishing cadences. **The practical ceiling for Creator:** Solo creators who publish 10 or fewer short avatar videos per month will find the Creator plan adequate. Anyone publishing more frequently needs Pro at $49/month minimum. ## HeyGen Free vs Paid: Is the Free Plan Enough? HeyGen's free plan is more generous than most AI avatar competitors in one respect: the 3 monthly videos are rendered at full quality, giving a real preview of what the paid product delivers. The free plan is **not enough** for ongoing content publishing for several reasons: **Watermark.** All free-plan exports include a visible HeyGen watermark, making them unsuitable for brand content, client work, or monetized channels. **3 video limit.** Three videos per month at 1 minute maximum each provides 3 minutes of monthly output, the equivalent of fewer than 2% of what a daily-posting creator needs. **720p output.** Free renders at 720p. Paid plans unlock 1080p (Creator and above). For evaluation purposes, the free plan is genuinely useful: it tests avatar selection, lip-sync quality, voice matching, and template range before you commit to a paid tier. For any real publishing schedule, the Creator plan ($24/month annual) is the minimum viable entry point. ## HeyGen Team Plan Discontinued: What Replaced It HeyGen formally deprecated its Team plan in January 2026. The Team plan (previously $39/seat/month) is no longer available for new subscriptions. Existing Team plan subscribers who maintained uninterrupted payments through the deprecation retain their original pricing terms. If a payment failure occurs on an existing Team account, the plan cancels and cannot be reinstated at the old price. The replacement is the **Business plan**, which starts at $149/month for one seat with additional seats at $20/month each (or $1,428/year + $240/year per additional seat annually). The Business plan includes collaboration features, shared brand kits, and team asset libraries that the discontinued Team plan provided, but at a higher base price. For teams that were on the Team plan, the effective price increase depends on seat count. A 3-person team previously paid $117/month total ($39 x 3). Under Business, the same team would pay $189/month ($149 + $20 + $20). An important difference is that Business includes a shared credit pool rather than per-seat credit allocation. ## FluxNote vs HeyGen: Pricing and Use Case Comparison HeyGen and FluxNote target different production workflows. Neither is a universal replacement for the other. **HeyGen's strength:** AI avatar video, a visible AI presenter lip-syncing to your script, including custom avatar creation from your own likeness. Multilingual video translation (175+ languages, lip-synced) is HeyGen's most distinctive and genuinely unique capability. For corporate training, product demos, and branded explainer content that requires an on-screen presenter, HeyGen is best-in-class. **FluxNote's strength:** Automated faceless short-form video at scale. You provide a topic or script; FluxNote generates a complete video with AI voiceover, stock or AI-generated footage, and animated captions. No avatar, no presenter, the format used by most faceless YouTube, TikTok, and Reels channels. **FluxNote plans (June 2026):** - Free: 1 AI video/month, no watermark - Rise ($9.99/month): 21 complete AI videos/month - Pro ($19.99/month): 50 complete AI videos/month - Max ($49/month): 150 AI videos + unlimited stock, UGC clips, business ad videos **Cost-per-video comparison:** HeyGen Creator at $24/month (annual) supports roughly 10 one-minute avatar videos per month, $2.40 per minute of output. FluxNote Pro at $19.99/month supports 50 complete Shorts, $0.40 per video. For high-volume faceless content, FluxNote is substantially more cost-efficient. For content that specifically requires an AI presenter, HeyGen has no direct equivalent in the FluxNote feature set. ## Is HeyGen Worth It in 2026? HeyGen is worth the price for creators and teams who specifically need what it does uniquely: **Creator ($24/month annual) is worth it if:** Your content requires a visible AI presenter, product demos, talking-head explainers, or corporate training modules. You publish 10 or fewer one-minute videos per month. You need multilingual lip-sync translation for international distribution. **Pro ($49/month and above) is worth it if:** You publish more than 10 avatar videos per month, you need faster rendering queues, or you use video translation at scale across multiple languages. **Business ($149/month + seats) is worth it if:** You have a team that previously used HeyGen's Team plan, or you need shared workspaces, brand kit management, and collaborative avatar creation in an agency or enterprise context. **HeyGen is probably not worth it if:** You create faceless content (no presenter required), you need to produce 30+ videos per month at manageable cost, or your content is stock-footage-based narration rather than avatar-led. In those cases, FluxNote or InVideo AI are more cost-efficient fits for the workflow. HeyGen's per-credit pricing model rewards focused, intentional use over high-volume output. If you know you will produce exactly 8-10 polished avatar videos per month, the Creator plan is excellent value. If you are still figuring out your cadence, the credit system's no-rollover policy means slow months burn cash unnecessarily. ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does HeyGen cost per month in 2026? HeyGen Creator costs $29/month billed monthly or $24/month billed annually ($288/year). The Pro tier starts at $49/month and scales to higher credit tiers. Business starts at $149/month plus $20/month per additional seat. The free plan gives 3 watermarked videos per month at 1 minute maximum each. The Team plan was discontinued in January 2026. ### What happened to the HeyGen Team plan? HeyGen deprecated its Team plan in January 2026. New subscribers can no longer purchase the Team plan. Existing subscribers who maintained uninterrupted payments retain their legacy pricing, but any lapsed payment cancels the plan permanently. The replacement is the Business plan starting at $149/month plus $20/month per additional seat. ### How many videos can you make with HeyGen per month? On the free plan, 3 videos per month (1 minute maximum each, with watermark). On the Creator plan ($24/month annual), 200 Premium Credits per month, roughly 10 minutes of Avatar IV video or 40 minutes of translated video. Credits do not roll over. The Pro tier at $49/month provides 1,000 credits, supporting approximately 50 minutes of Avatar IV output per month. --- Source: https://fluxnote.io/guides/heygen-pricing-2026