--- title: "Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Minute" url: "https://dupple.com/learn/synthesia-pricing" description: "Synthesia pricing in 2026: free Basic, Starter at $19/mo ($14 billed yearly), Pro at $89/mo ($59 yearly). How credits work and what a minute of video really…" published: "2026-11-09" updated: "2026-11-09" llms_txt: "https://dupple.com/llms.txt" --- # Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Minute Trusted by 800,000+ Techpresso subscribers · Editorial policy · How we make money Written by Louis Corneloup Founder at Dupple, covering AI tools and strategies for 800K+ readers. How our guides are researched . November 9, 2026 · Updated November 2026 8 min read Short answer: **Synthesia's Basic plan is free** with 10 minutes of video a month and a watermark. **Starter costs $19 a month** ($14 a month billed yearly, $168 a year) with 1,250 credits, and **Pro costs $89 a month** ($59 billed yearly, $708 a year) with 6,000 credits; both show a lower first-month promo. Video uses about 100 credits a minute. Verified on synthesia.io in October 2026. ## Synthesia plans and prices at a glance *Synthesia plans and prices at a glance: Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Minute. Last updated November 2026.* | Plan | Monthly price | Yearly price | Credits | Extra video minutes (Synthesia's estimate) | Editors and guests | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $0 | $0 | 500 a month | None beyond the free 10 minutes | 1 editor | | Starter | $19 a month ($9 first month, promo) | $14 a month, $168 billed yearly | 1,250 a month (15,000 a year) | Up to about 12 | 1 editor, 3 guests | | Pro | $89 a month ($49 first month, promo) | $59 a month, $708 billed yearly | 6,000 a month (72,000 a year) | Up to about 60 | 1 editor, 5 guests | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom volumes | Unlimited video minutes | Custom editors and guests | Source: [Synthesia pricing](https://www.synthesia.io/pricing), read 28 October 2026. Prices in US dollars before tax. Every plan, free or paid, also gets 10 minutes of video or dubbing, 3 survey responses and 500 credits each month. **What changed this year:** Synthesia now sells usage as credits, which it calls "the shared currency across all AI usage-based features - one common pool for everything you create." Video, dubbing, surveys, AI b-roll and its Syren video agent all draw from the same balance. Guides that still describe Synthesia plans by fixed video minutes per seat describe an older lineup. ## How much does Synthesia cost per minute of video? Roughly $1 to $1.50 per extra minute on paid plans, depending on billing. Synthesia's FAQ says a typical finished minute uses about 100 credits, "more if the avatar is on screen throughout," so these are best-case figures. All per-minute costs below are our arithmetic on the prices Synthesia printed on 28 October 2026, at 100 credits a minute. *How much does Synthesia cost per minute of video?: Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Minute. Last updated November 2026.* | Plan and billing | Price | Extra minutes from credits | Cost per extra minute | Cost per minute including the free 10 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Starter, monthly | $19 a month | 12.5 | $1.52 | $0.84 | | Starter, yearly | $14 a month | 12.5 | $1.12 | $0.62 | | Pro, monthly | $89 a month | 60 | $1.48 | $1.27 | | Pro, yearly | $59 a month | 60 | $0.98 | $0.84 | | Pro, 48,000 credits, monthly | $676 a month | 480 | $1.41 | $1.38 | | Pro, 576,000 credits a year, yearly | $448 a month | 480 | $0.93 | $0.91 | **Dupple data:** on yearly billing, Pro's extra video minutes cost $0.98 each against $1.12 on Starter, and the largest Pro credit level brings that to $0.93; on monthly billing the two plans cost almost the same per minute, $1.48 against $1.52 (our arithmetic, October 2026). The real takeaway is that Pro is not the premium choice per minute; it is the volume choice. **If you make more than about 22 minutes of video a month, Pro is the plan**, because Starter's credits plus the free allowance top out there. Credits are only spent when something is generated, never while editing or previewing. Synthesia counts new avatar footage, not finished video length, so regenerating three seconds of an existing video costs three seconds. That makes small fixes to training videos cheap, which matters for teams that update content often. ## What are Synthesia credits used for? One pool covers every usage-based feature. The rates Synthesia lists in its pricing FAQ: *What are Synthesia credits used for?: Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Minute. Last updated November 2026.* | Feature | Credit cost | | --- | --- | | Video creation | About 100 credits per finished minute; first 10 minutes a month included | | Dubbing | 80 credits per minute with lip-sync, 40 without; the plan picker uses 76 | | Survey responses | 350 credits per response after 3 included each month | | Interactive Avatars (API) | 10 credits per minute for the avatar only, 20 with the full widget | | Customizable avatar b-roll with action | 230 credits per asset | | Syren AI video agent | A 1-minute video typically uses 1,000 to 2,000 credits | Source: [Synthesia pricing FAQ and comparison table](https://www.synthesia.io/pricing), read 28 October 2026. The Syren line deserves a warning. **A Syren-made minute can cost 10 to 20 times a standard Studio minute**, so Synthesia's own estimate for a whole month of Starter credits is "up to ~2" Syren videos. Synthesia hands out limited-time Syren-only promo credits per user, valid for one month, after which Syren uses your normal credits. Unused credits do not roll over: your monthly allowance and credits reset each billing period. On yearly plans, the whole year's credits are available up front, and credits bought separately stay valid for 12 months. ## Is Synthesia free? Yes, on the Basic plan. You get 10 minutes of Studio video creation or dubbing a month, 3 survey responses, 500 credits, 9 AI avatars, templates and share links. The catch is that **every Basic video carries a Synthesia watermark** and you cannot download it: downloading and removing the logo start on Starter. Basic works for testing whether an avatar video fits your audience. It does not work for anything you plan to post, embed in an LMS or send to customers. See our list of the [best free AI video generators](https://dupple.com/learn/best-free-ai-video-generators) if a watermark-free free plan matters more than avatars. ## Is Synthesia cheaper yearly? Yes, by a wide margin. Synthesia advertises "save up to 4 months with yearly," and the arithmetic backs it up for Pro. *Is Synthesia cheaper yearly?: Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Minute. Last updated November 2026.* | Plan | Monthly billing, year one | Monthly billing, later years | Yearly billing | Yearly saves | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $218 | $228 | $168 | $50 in year one, $60 after | | Pro | $1,028 | $1,068 | $708 | $320 in year one, $360 after | Totals are our arithmetic: year one on monthly billing includes the first-month promo ($9 or $49), then 11 months at the regular price. The first-month promos are the reason monthly billing looks cheap at signup. **Budget on the regular $19 and $89**, because those are what you pay from month two. Monthly billing still makes sense for a one-off project: Synthesia lets you cancel any time, and a three-month Pro sprint costs $227 with the promo (our arithmetic) against $708 for a year paid up front. ## How many editors does each plan include? One, on every self-serve plan. Basic, Starter and Pro each include a single editor seat; Starter adds 3 guests and Pro 5 guests, who can comment on videos to give feedback but not edit. Live team collaboration, where several people edit a video together in real time, sits on Enterprise along with SAML/SSO, brand kits and SCORM export. This is the main limit for a learning and development team. Three instructional designers sharing one login is not a workflow most companies allow, so **a team that needs several editors is looking at an Enterprise quote**, which Synthesia does not publish. Two other line items appear on the plan cards. Learner seats, which let learners sign in rather than use a public link, are not included on any self-serve plan, and each card shows them at $87 a month. A Studio Express-1 avatar is a $1,000 a year add-on for annual plans only and can take up to 10 days to process. Pro includes 5 personal avatars, your own digital twin, at no extra cost. ## What does a training team pay for 30 or 60 minutes a month? Synthesia's plan picker opens at 30 minutes of video a month, so take that as the base case. Totals are our arithmetic on 28 October 2026 prices at 100 credits a minute. *What does a training team pay for 30 or 60 minutes a month?: Synthesia Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits and Cost per Minute. Last updated November 2026.* | Monthly volume | Credits needed after the free 10 minutes | Plan that covers it | Monthly billing | Yearly billing | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 10 minutes | 0 | Basic (watermarked) or Starter to download | $0 or $19 | $0 or $168 a year | | 30 minutes | 2,000 | Pro | $89 a month | $708 a year | | 60 minutes | 5,000 | Pro | $89 a month | $708 a year | Starter falls short at 30 minutes: its 1,250 credits plus the free 10 minutes make about 22.5 minutes, and even the extra 500 credits every plan receives only stretch that to about 27.5 (our arithmetic). Synthesia's FAQ says that when you run out, video creation pauses until renewal unless you buy extra credits or move up a plan; it does not print the price of extra credits on the pricing page. At 60 minutes, Pro still covers the month with 1,000 credits to spare, roughly 10 minutes of headroom for re-renders or dubbing. Past about 70 minutes, move up a Pro credit level: 12,000 credits cost $176 a month, or $117 a month on yearly billing. ## Synthesia vs HeyGen on price HeyGen is the usual alternative for avatar videos, and its pricing works differently. Rather than repeat it here, see our [HeyGen pricing](https://dupple.com/learn/heygen-pricing) breakdown and the head-to-head [HeyGen vs Synthesia](https://dupple.com/learn/heygen-vs-synthesia) comparison, which prices both for the same team. For the wider field, our ranking of the [best AI avatar generators](https://dupple.com/learn/best-ai-avatar-generators) and the [best AI video generators](https://dupple.com/learn/best-ai-video-generators) cover other options, and the [best AI video editors](https://dupple.com/learn/best-ai-video-editors) handle cutting and captioning once a video exists. If your videos are walkthroughs rather than presenter clips, [screen recording software](https://dupple.com/learn/best-screen-recording-software) may do the job for less, and teams publishing courses should check which [LMS platforms](https://dupple.com/learn/best-lms-platforms) accept SCORM files. Creators can start with [how to make AI YouTube videos](https://dupple.com/learn/how-to-make-ai-youtube-videos). **Toolradar data:** Toolradar, our software directory, tracks 158 AI video generation tools as of 28 October 2026, and the median cheapest paid plan among the 46 that publish a price is $19.95 a month, which puts Synthesia's Starter right at the category's typical entry price ([Toolradar AI video generation ranking](https://toolradar.com/best/ai-video-generation), [Synthesia on Toolradar](https://toolradar.com/tools/synthesia)). Our sister newsletter AIpresso has its own [Synthesia pricing guide](https://aipresso.com/blog/synthesia-pricing) for AI tool buyers. ## How we checked Every price, credit rate, seat count and limit on this page was read on [synthesia.io/pricing](https://www.synthesia.io/pricing), including its plan cards, comparison table, plan picker and FAQ, on 28 October 2026. Per-minute costs and yearly totals are our arithmetic at the 100 credits a minute Synthesia gives as typical, before tax. We did not create videos to measure credit use. ## FAQ **How much does Synthesia cost per month?** Basic is free. Starter costs $19 a month on monthly billing or $14 a month billed yearly ($168 a year), and Pro costs $89 a month or $59 a month billed yearly ($708 a year). The first month is discounted to $9 on Starter and $49 on Pro on monthly billing. Enterprise is custom. **How many minutes of video do I get on Synthesia Starter?** About 12 minutes from Starter's 1,250 monthly credits, on top of the 10 free minutes every plan includes, so roughly 22 minutes a month. Synthesia's typical rate is 100 credits per finished minute, and more if the avatar is on screen throughout. **Do Synthesia credits roll over?** No. Monthly allowances and credits reset each billing period. On yearly plans the full year's credits are available up front, and credits you buy separately are valid for 12 months. **Can I download videos on Synthesia's free plan?** No. Basic videos carry a Synthesia watermark and can be shared by link only. Downloading and removing the logo start on the Starter plan. **Does Synthesia charge per video?** No. Synthesia sells monthly and yearly subscriptions only, with credits that pay for video, dubbing, surveys and its Syren agent. You cannot pay per video. **How much is a custom avatar on Synthesia?** Personal avatars are included with paid plans, with 5 on Pro. A Studio Express-1 avatar is a $1,000 a year add-on for annual plans only and can take up to 10 days to process. ## Bottom line Synthesia is affordable for a single creator on yearly billing: $14 a month for occasional videos, or $59 a month on Pro for up to about 70 minutes. The limits are elsewhere: one editor on every self-serve plan, Syren videos that burn credits fast, and no published price for extra credits or Enterprise. 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