HeyGen

“HeyGen is too expensive at scale — what are you using instead. Need an AI avatar tool for daily 12-min YouTube videos (~360 mins/month). HeyGen Avatar V works out to $370/mo at this volume. Not viable.”

“I purchased the Creator plan with Unlimited Avatar III, and Heygen is charging me for credits to use it. I just paid $29 for something that was supposed to be unlimited, and now they're charging me more to use something that should be inclu…”more

“I’m working on creating a hyper-realistic talking head avatar for bite-sized corporate learning modules (I'm hoping to scale to at least 50–100 videos), I've yet to render a single usable video. Based on how HeyGen has marketed their platfo…”more

“does it actually make creating content faster or better? does it still look like fake AI once learners see it? my e-learning company is thinking about getting heygen for our content team and id love to hear from people who have experience w…”more

“I spent the last month testing HeyGen, Synthesia, and Veo 3 to see if any of them could realistically replace on-camera video for marketing and ads. Short answer: none of them fully lived up to the hype for real-world use.”

“I just lived through a creator's worst fucking nightmare. I spent several full days meticulously polishing a complete 25-minute video in their editor. My video is gone. It's not hiding in some folder. It's not a upload delay. It has utterly…”more