Hedra vs Tavus
A spec-by-spec comparison of Hedra and Tavus: pricing, free tier, clip length, resolution, watermark, commercial use and API access.
Key differences
- Hedra is cheaper to start: $20/month vs $59/month for Tavus.
- Tavus has a free option; Hedra requires a paid plan.
| Hedra | Tavus | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | from $20/mo | Free plan · from $59/mo |
| Free tier | Developer Basic: 25 min of conversational video and 5 min of video generation | |
| Max clip length | ||
| Max resolution | 1080p | |
| Watermark on free plan | Yes | |
| Commercial use | Paid plans | |
| Developer API | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | No |
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)
Tavus provides APIs for building real-time, face-to-face conversational video agents and for generating videos with digital replicas trained from about two minutes of footage. It bundles the full pipeline (speech recognition, LLM, TTS, rendering over WebRTC). It also runs a consumer 'PALs' companion app, but its main audience is developers and product teams.
- Full real-time pipeline included (STT, LLM, TTS, WebRTC)
- Custom replicas from a short two-minute video
- Transparent per-minute overage pricing ($0.32-0.37/min conversational)
- Free developer tier keeps a Tavus watermark
- Growth plan jumps to $397/month
- Custom replica trainings are capped per month on paid plans
Specs last verified 2026-10-23 (Hedra) and 2026-10-23 (Tavus). See each tool page for sources.