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HeyGen

AI avatar + video translation platform. Custom Digital Twins, 700+ Stock Avatars, Avatar IV (expressive), Video Agent, Video Translation (175+ languages, lip-sync). Unlimited video creation + Premium Credits pool for advanced features.

Pika

Pika is a creative AI video generation platform. Subscription-based with credit system. Pika's API backend is served via fal.ai for programmatic access.

Pricing model

Credits + subscription

Subscription

Free tier

Yes

Access

API

Web UI

Cheapest plan

Creator3 plans total

Standard3 plans total

Models offered

HeyGen Avatar IV, HeyGen Avatar V, HeyGen Standard Avatar, HeyGen Video Agent, HeyGen Video Translation

Pika 2.5, Pika Pikadditions, Pika Pikaffects, Pika Pikaswaps, Pikaformance +4 more

Pros

Unlimited video creation on Creator+ ($29/mo)
Premium Credit Pack top-ups: $15/300cr monthly, $150/3600cr annual
4K export on Pro+

Unique effects (Pikadditions etc.) for creative videos
Pika 2.5 at 1080p with 10s durations on paid tiers
Roll-over credits on paid plans

Cons

Avatar IV is 20 credits per minute (expensive)
Free tier limited to 3 videos / 1-min each, 720p only
Team seats $20/month extra on Business plan

Free tier locked to 480p
Pikaframes costs scale with resolution quickly
Pro vs Standard pricing ambiguous on their page

Model availability

Every model offered by at least one selected tool, plus trending models (marked ) shown even when neither tool hosts them. A · means that tool does not host the model.

FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs

Seedream 4

ByteDance

Nano Banana 2

Google

Nano Banana Pro

Google

Midjourney v7

Midjourney

GPT Image 2

OpenAI

Recraft V3

Recraft

Recraft V4

Recraft

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability AI

Z-Image

Veo 3.1

Google

Kling 3.0 Video Pro

Kuaishou

Kling 3.0 Video Standard

Kuaishou

Ray 2

Luma AI

Magnific Creative Video Upscaler

Magnific

Sora 2

OpenAI

Runway Gen-4

Runway

Grok Imagine Video

xAI

HeyGen Avatar IV

HeyGen · 1080p

$0.0667/sec

HeyGen Avatar V

HeyGen · 1080p

$0.0667/sec

HeyGen Avatar V

HeyGen · 4K

$0.0833/sec

HeyGen Standard Avatar

HeyGen · 720p

$0.0167/sec

HeyGen Standard Avatar

HeyGen · 1080p

$0.0167/sec

HeyGen Video Agent

HeyGen · 1080p

$0.0333/sec

HeyGen Video Translation

HeyGen · 1080p

$0.0333/sec

Pika 2.5

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0343/sec

Pika 2.5

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pika 2.5

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1143/sec

Pika Pikadditions

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pika Pikadditions

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.10/sec

Pika Pikadditions

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1857/sec

Pika Pikaffects

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0514/sec

Pika Pikaswaps

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pika Pikaswaps

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.10/sec

Pika Pikaswaps

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1857/sec

Pikaformance

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.0429/sec

Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0343/sec

Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pikaframes

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1143/sec

Pikascenes

Pika Labs · 480p

≈$0.0571/sec

Pikascenes

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.10/sec

Pikascenes

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.1857/sec

Pikatwists Pro

Pika Labs · 1080p

≈$0.2286/sec

Pikatwists Turbo

Pika Labs · 720p

≈$0.1714/sec

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May 20, 2026

May 15, 2026

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