How much does Synthesia cost?

Synthesia prices the editor and meters the minutes. Credits are the shared currency for video, dubbing, and generated assets.

Two things decide the real price. Download starts at Starter, so a video that has to leave Synthesia costs $19 at minimum. And every self-serve plan is one editor; guests can comment, not edit.

There is no per-seat add-on below Enterprise. The compare table lists "Custom # of editors & guests" on Enterprise only.

Annual billing changes the minute allowance as well as the price: Starter becomes 120 minutes a year and Creator 360, which is the same monthly average with more room to bunch production into a busy month. Upgrading a monthly Starter or Creator plan to annual requires contacting support.

1. Enterprise has no published price, seat minimum, or contract length. The page offers a demo.

2. There is no top-up. The FAQ says usage is capped until renewal when you run out of minutes, and the only remedy offered is to upgrade the plan. Unused minutes do not roll over.

3. The studio avatar is an add-on at $1,000 a year, for annual plan users only.

4. Lip sync in dubbing uses double credits. A dubbed minute with lip sync costs twice the dubbed minute without.

5. The page's FAQ still quotes old prices. It says Starter is $29 a month or $264 a year and Creator $804 a year, while the plan cards and the banner show $19, $14, $89, and $59. This page cites the cards. If you see $29 quoted elsewhere, that is why.

6. Re-recording, in Synthesia's form. A Synthesia video is rendered from a script and an avatar. When the software it explains changes, the screen recording or the screenshots inside the video are wrong, and the fix is to record the screens again and re-render. Nothing on the pricing page charges for this.

Synthesia and Layerpath make different things, and at one editor Layerpath sits between Synthesia's two paid plans: $50 against $19 and $89. We publish that first because a reader can check it in one click. The table shows price, not equivalence.

Layerpath prices the creator, the person who makes and edits projects. Viewers are free.

Layerpath Pro is $50 per creator per month or $500 per year, with one creator included and up to two more; Team is $500 per month or $5,000 per year for five creators, supporting four to fourteen; Enterprise starts at $10,000 per year. There are no minute caps and no separate AI credits to buy. Source: layerpath.com/pricing, checked September 11, 2026.

Where Layerpath costs more is plain: a solo creator who only needs a short presenter video pays $19 at Synthesia and $50 at Layerpath. Where Synthesia costs more is less visible: the moment a second person needs to edit, Synthesia is an Enterprise conversation and Layerpath is $100.

Both pricing pages price a person. Neither prices what the video is about.

Synthesia's price buys a presenter. You write a script, pick an avatar and a language, and a rendered person delivers the words. It is built for training and communication video where the content is the message and the screen, if any, is illustration. When the message changes, you edit the script and re-render, which is the strength of the model.

Layerpath's price buys the software itself, captured once. The project becomes an interactive tour, a step-by-step guide, and a narrated video of the real interface. When the product changes, you edit the step that changed and republish all three. There is no avatar; the product is the presenter.

So the question is not which is cheaper per seat. It is what the audience needs to see:

1. Is the video about a policy, a process, or a message, where a presenter carries it? Synthesia.

2. Is the video about how to do something inside your software, where the screen carries it? Layerpath, or a screen-capture tool.

3. Does it have to exist as a written guide and a clickable tour as well, and stay accurate every release? Layerpath.

Often, and plainly.

Choose Synthesia when you need presenter-led video at volume: compliance training, onboarding welcomes, internal announcements, sales enablement narrated by a consistent face, localisation into many languages from one script. Its avatar library, dubbing, translation, and SCORM export on Enterprise are built for learning teams, and no screen-capture tool competes with it on that job. At $19 for a solo creator it is also one of the cheapest ways to produce a finished, downloadable video.

Layerpath does not make avatar video and does not try to. If your audience needs a person on screen, Synthesia or another avatar tool is the right buy, and you can still use Layerpath for the software walkthroughs that sit alongside.

Synthesia is weighed against two groups: other avatar tools, and tools that make video from a captured screen. Cheapest paid plan on each vendor's own pricing page, monthly billing unless marked:

Read the shape. The avatar tools price minutes and editors. The capture tools price the person doing the capturing. Comparing $19 to $50 across that line says almost nothing until you know which kind of video you need.

Prices change, so every figure on this page carries a date. Where a number here disagrees with a vendor's own pricing page, the vendor's page is correct.

• Synthesia plans, minutes, credits, compare table, and FAQ: synthesia.io/pricing, checked September 11, 2026. The plan cards and banner show $19, $14, $89, and $59; the FAQ on the same page still shows $29 and $264 for Starter and $804 a year for Creator. This page cites the cards.

• Layerpath plans: layerpath.com/pricing, checked September 11, 2026.

• All other vendors in the category table: each vendor's own pricing page, checked September 11, 2026. Colossyan, Clueso, and D-ID display only yearly-billed rates.

• Team totals are arithmetic on the rates shown; no discount is assumed beyond what each vendor advertises.