Is HeyGen Free? What the Free Plan Includes, Where It Stops and What Paid Adds

The short answer

Yes, HeyGen is free to start, with limits. HeyGen’s Free plan costs $0 and needs no credit card. It gives you 3 videos a month, each up to 1 minute, with a HeyGen watermark. Removing the watermark needs a paid plan: Creator is $29 a month, or $24 a month paid annually. We read HeyGen’s pricing page on 28 October 2026. All prices are in US dollars.

• Free plan: $0, “no credit card required”.
• Cost note: the free videos are watermarked. Creator removes the branding.
• Best for: trying HeyGen on short clips before you pay.

Research-based guide. We haven’t signed up for HeyGen Free and made a video yet. Everything below comes from HeyGen’s pricing page and the other makers’ pages, checked 28 October 2026. Check the live page before you decide, because plans change.

What HeyGen Free includes

From HeyGen’s plan card and comparison table:

What	HeyGen Free
Price	$0, no credit card
Videos	3 a month, watermarked
Length	Up to 1 minute each
Avatars	500+ ready-made presenters, plus one custom video avatar
Avatar IV and Video Agent	Access listed, with limited trial use
Languages	30+
Templates	75+
Voice clone	1 voice clone
Export	No export resolution is listed for Free; 1080p starts on Creator

HeyGen’s FAQ says the Free plan gives “limited trial access to premium features like Avatar IV, Video Agent, and lip-sync translation”. It doesn’t say how much “limited” is, so test it before you plan a video around it.

What you need a paid plan for

Need	Plan that lists it	Price
Remove the HeyGen branding	Creator	$29 a month, or $24 a month paid annually
1080p export, 600 credits, 175+ languages and dialects	Creator	$29 a month
Videos up to 30 minutes	Creator and Pro	$29 / from $49 a month
4K export, Seedance 2.5, “VEO 3.1 and Nano Banana”	Pro	From $49 a month
Videos up to 60 minutes, SSO, 5 custom avatars	Business	$149 a month plus $20 per extra seat

Pro tiers only change credits: “All Pro tiers include the same features: only the monthly credit allocation changes”, from 1,000 credits at $49 up to 100,000 credits at $4,300 a month.

Credits, rollover and cancelling

• Paid plans include a monthly credit allocation you spend across features. HeyGen says the number of credits a video uses “can vary based on which AI model is used, video duration, and the complexity”.
• Monthly subscribers’ unused credits roll over for one more month. Annual subscribers’ credits build up until renewal.
• Cancelling stops your next renewal. You keep paid features and credits until the end of the billing cycle, then the account “moves to the Free plan”. Unused credits don’t carry over.

Free alternatives we checked

Tool	Free plan	Source
Synthesia Basic	$0: 10 minutes of video or dubbing, 3 survey responses and 500 credits a month; videos carry a watermark	Synthesia pricing
Colossyan Starter	Free: 20 minutes a month with its NEO avatars and 15 interactive videos a month; watermark removal is listed from Professional ($59 a month on an annual plan)	Colossyan pricing

For a side-by-side look at the two best-known tools, see HeyGen vs Synthesia. If you want generated scenes instead of a presenter, see the best AI video generator comparison and Is Kling 4.0 free?.

Is the free plan enough for YouTube?

It depends on what you post. Our reading of the limits, not a test result:

• Shorts and intros: 3 clips a month, each up to 1 minute, can cover a few intros or short explainers. They carry a watermark, which some channels won’t want.
• Longer videos: Free caps each video at 1 minute, so long videos need Creator or above.
• Several languages: Free lists 30+ languages. Creator lists 175+ languages and dialects.

Writing the script first helps you stay inside 1 minute: see writing YouTube scripts with AI, and for a separate voice, best AI voice generator for YouTube. Once the video is made, you can post one video to 15+ platforms automatically with AIFix Creator Autopilot, with your approval or on rules you set. That’s our own service.

What we checked, and what we’ll test

On 28 October 2026 we read HeyGen’s plan cards, comparison table and FAQ, and the free plans of Synthesia and Colossyan. We haven’t made a video on any of them. Our plan: sign up for HeyGen Free, make one 60-second stock-avatar video, and record the watermark position, render time and what “limited” means for Avatar IV and Video Agent.

FAQ

Is HeyGen free to use?

Yes, with limits. The Free plan has no card, 3 watermarked videos a month and up to 1 minute per video. (HeyGen pricing)

Does HeyGen have a watermark on the free plan?

Yes. Creator and above list “Remove HeyGen branding”.

Is there a HeyGen free trial for paid plans?

HeyGen’s pricing page offers the Free plan as the way to try it, with limited trial access to premium features. We didn’t find a separate time-limited trial of Creator on the page.

How much is HeyGen after the free plan?

Creator is $29 a month, or $24 a month paid annually. Pro starts at $49 a month. Business is $149 a month plus $20 per extra seat.

Is HeyGen cheaper than Synthesia?

Not on the monthly price as of 28 October 2026: Synthesia Starter is $19 a month ($14 billed yearly), and HeyGen Creator is $29 a month ($24 yearly). The allowances differ, so see HeyGen vs Synthesia.