Captions vs Hedra
A spec-by-spec comparison of Captions and Hedra: pricing, free tier, clip length, resolution, watermark, commercial use and API access.
Key differences
- Hedra is cheaper to start: $20/month vs $24.99/month for Captions.
- Captions has a free option; Hedra requires a paid plan.
- Captions is strongest at editing; Hedra at ai avatars.
| Captions | Hedra | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan · from $24.99/mo | from $20/mo |
| Free tier | Basic editing tools only (trim, transitions, captions); no AI credits | |
| Max clip length | ||
| Max resolution | ||
| Watermark on free plan | ||
| Commercial use | Paid plans | |
| Developer API | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | No |
Captions is a mobile and web video editor from Mirage (the company's new name) that auto-edits footage, adds styled captions, translates and lip-dubs videos, and creates AI avatars or digital twins. Generative features run on monthly credits. It is aimed at short-form creators and social marketers; Mirage also offers APIs for video generation and captioning.
- All-in-one: auto-edit, captions in 100+ languages, AI twins and lipdub
- Unused credits roll over (balance up to 3x monthly allowance)
- APIs available through parent company Mirage
- Free plan excludes generative AI features
- Listed prices reflect iOS plans; other platforms may differ
- Frontier tiers run $69.99-279.99/month
Hedra started as a tool for expressive talking-head and character videos driven by audio (its Character models) and now also runs a multimodal inference platform. Hedra Studio offers credit-based monthly plans for video, image and audio generation. The usage-based API covers video generation, avatars and lip-sync, upscaling, speech and LLMs. It suits creators making dialogue-driven character clips and developers who need avatar or lip-sync generation through an API.
- Every Studio plan from Basic ($20/mo, 2,000 credits) includes commercial use
- Video credits are charged by the actual generated length (e.g. 10 seconds, not a full minute)
- Prepaid API from about 2.5 cents per second for avatar/lip-sync, with no subscription or minimum
- No free Studio plan is listed; after cancelling, only limited watermarked generations remain
- Basic plan has slower generation speeds
- Monthly subscription credits do not roll over (credit-pack credits do)
Specs last verified 2026-10-23 (Captions) and 2026-10-23 (Hedra). See each tool page for sources.