Synthesia is best for agencies, training teams and sales teams. Its clearest advantage: Professional avatar quality.
- Avoid if
- individuals who only need occasional short videos
- Cheapest useful plan
- €19.00/mo · Starter
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup effort
- easy: 30 min
- Main limitation
- Free tier capped at roughly 10 minutes of video a month
- Professional avatar quality
- Good for localized training
- Template library
- individuals who only need occasional short videos
What it actually does
AI avatars, video templates, multi-language dubbing with burned-in captions, AI B-roll up to 20 seconds with synced audio, videos generated from inside ChatGPT or Claude.
Before you pay
Free or Starter
The free plan gives roughly ten minutes of video a month, enough to try avatars and templates. Starter is for regular short videos, such as training or onboarding clips. Pro, formerly called Creator, is the next tier up.
What a year costs
Starter is 19 € a month billed monthly, 228 € a year, or 12 € billed yearly, 144 € a year. Pro is 79 € a month, 948 € a year, or 49 € billed yearly, 588 € a year. The page opens on the yearly view, so the first figure is the discounted one.
What we would check before paying
How many minutes of video you will make a month, and how many avatars you need on the base plan. The record was first read in dollars from another locale; we never convert one currency into the other, so compare only euro figures here.
The limits to know
- Free tier capped at roughly 10 minutes of video a month
- Avatar limits on base plan
- Often requires annual commitment
Pricing & billing commitment
- Rate on record
- €19.00/mo · Starter
- What that figure is
- Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view. The plan is capped by an allowance (credits, tasks or minutes) rather than by time.
- Commitment
- None: payable one month at a time
- The vendor's exact condition
- €19/mo billed monthly; €12/mo billed yearly
- Usage cap
- This plan is capped by an allowance (credits, tasks or minutes), not only by time. Going past it costs extra or stops the work, depending on the vendor.
The pricing page, as read
In practice
- Platforms
- Web
- Integrations
- API, LMS, Sales tools
- Setup
- easy: 30 min
Synthesia in our comparisons
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Frequently asked questions
What is Synthesia?
Synthesia is a tool used mainly for AI avatar video, training content, sales explainers. Main features: AI avatars, video templates, multi-language dubbing with burned-in captions. It has a permanent free plan; the paid entry point is €19.00/mo · Starter.
How much does Synthesia cost?
The paid entry point is €19.00/mo · Starter. Month-to-month rate per account, read on the vendor's monthly view. The plan is capped by an allowance (credits, tasks or minutes) rather than by time. The exact condition attached to that figure: €19/mo billed monthly; €12/mo billed yearly. Read on the official pricing page on 25.10.2026. Prices move quickly: confirm before subscribing.
Does Synthesia have a free plan?
Yes. Synthesia publishes a permanent free plan. Check this before settling on it: free tier capped at roughly 10 minutes of video a month.
What devices and tools does Synthesia work with?
According to the vendor's documentation, Synthesia runs on: Web. Documented integrations: API, LMS, Sales tools. Listed from the official sources, not tested by us: check your own setup on the free plan.
How we checked this record
The evidence record
- Evidence level
- Vendor documented: Official documentation and pricing page reviewed and dated. No independent verification, no hands-on test recorded.
- Affiliate status
- No affiliate link on this record, no commission.
Hands-on test
No automated hands-on test has been completed for this review cycle. This record rests on the vendor's official documentation and pricing page, re-read and dated. We say so rather than imply otherwise.
The research record
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France; screenshot kept
Read on the vendor's monthly view, from France
Read on the vendor's monthly view
Sources
The official pages this record rests on. No tracking links here: these addresses name the vendor.
Evidence freshness
Each kind of check has its own clock and its own threshold. A price ages in weeks and a feature list in months; sharing one date between them would let an old review pass for a recent check.
| Check | When | State |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Checked 18 days ago | Fresh |
| Features | Checked 41 days ago | Fresh |
| Privacy & data | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Hands-on test | Never checked | Not independently checked |
| Page review | Checked 98 days ago | Due soon |
What remains unverified
- No workflow was run inside the product. Everything here comes from the vendor's documentation and public pages.
- Data handling and the privacy policy were not independently verified during this research cycle. We therefore publish no conclusion about security or where data is stored.
- Export terms and the real cost of leaving are not on this record: we have not tested them.