Akool vs Tavus
A spec-by-spec comparison of Akool and Tavus: pricing, free tier, clip length, resolution, watermark, commercial use and API access.
| Akool | Tavus | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan · from $12/mo | Free plan · from $59/mo |
| Free tier | Free plan with 720p output, full-screen watermark, 5 min of streaming avatar time | Developer Basic: 25 min of conversational video and 5 min of video generation |
| Max clip length | 10 min (free) up to 60 min on higher plans | |
| Max resolution | 4K | 1080p |
| Watermark on free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial use | Business plan and above (lower paid plans are personal license) | |
| Developer API | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | No | No |
Akool combines talking avatars, face swap, live streaming avatars and a video agent with access to third-party video and image models on one credit system. Higher plans add 4K output and API access. It suits marketers and agencies producing personalized or localized avatar content.
- Low $12/month entry price
- 4K avatar video from the Pro plan
- Face swap and streaming avatars in the same subscription
- Starter, Pro and Pro Max carry only a personal license
- Free plan has a full-screen watermark
- Credits shared across many features make costs hard to predict
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 (Akool) and 2026-10-23 (Tavus). See each tool page for sources.