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 "slug": "heygen",
 "name": "HeyGen",
 "type": "tool",
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 "summary": "Makes videos of a digital presenter reading your script, in your browser. You can pick a stock presenter, animate a photo, or train a copy of yourself and your voice. It can translate a video with matching lip movements, and since autumn 2026 runs its own video and voice models.",
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   "label": "Talking presenters"
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   "label": "Video"
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   "id": "make.avatar.digital_twin",
   "label": "A talking presenter, a digital twin of me",
   "main": false
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   "id": "make.video.dub_lipsync",
   "label": "A video, in another language (dubbing with lip-sync)",
   "main": false
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   "id": "make.voice.clone_my_voice",
   "label": "A voice or speech, a copy of my own voice",
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  "text_to_video",
  "image_to_video",
  "video_to_video",
  "audio_to_video"
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  "id": "closed",
  "label": "Closed",
  "explanation": "Only usable through the maker's app or API",
  "open_source": false
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  "family": "proprietary",
  "family_label": "The maker's own terms",
  "name": "HeyGen Terms of Service",
  "url": "https://www.heygen.com/terms"
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  "headline": "paid_plans_only",
  "label": "Yes, on paid plans",
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  "conditions": [],
  "rights_survive_cancel": null
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  "free_option": true,
  "free_tier": true,
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  "free_to_run_yourself": false,
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    "price": 0,
    "currency": "USD",
    "period": "month",
    "billed": null,
    "price_text": "Free",
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      "unit": "outputs",
      "unit_label": "results (approximate)",
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      "unit": "credits",
      "unit_label": "credits",
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    ],
    "commercial_use": "yes",
    "note": "Credits per minute depend on the avatar engine; no per-minute rate published on the pages read."
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      "unit_label": "credits",
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      "per": "month"
     }
    ],
    "commercial_use": "yes",
    "note": "Higher credit tiers up to 100,000 credits at $4,300/mo."
   },
   {
    "name": "Business (monthly)",
    "price": 149,
    "currency": "USD",
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    "billed": "monthly",
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      "unit_label": "credits",
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      "per": "month"
     }
    ],
    "commercial_use": "yes",
    "note": "Plus $20 per extra seat a month."
   }
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  "estimates": [],
  "note": "Prices as published by the maker. Anything in estimates is Plainly's own rough comparison, not a maker price."
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    "id": "web_app",
    "label": "In your browser"
   },
   {
    "id": "vendor_api",
    "label": "Maker's own API"
   },
   {
    "id": "plugin",
    "label": "Inside another tool"
   }
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  "platforms": [
   "web"
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 "skill_level": {
  "id": "no_setup",
  "label": "No setup"
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  "name": "HeyGen Technology, Inc.",
  "country": "US"
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 "status": {
  "id": "active",
  "label": "Available"
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   {
    "kind": "face",
    "route": "photo avatar",
    "consent": "self_declared"
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   {
    "kind": "voice",
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    "consent": "self_declared"
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  "limits": null
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   "HeyGen Avatar V",
   "HeyGen Video",
   "HeyGen Voice"
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   "url": "https://www.heygen.com/",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
   "note": "No phone app mentioned on the homepage."
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "confidence_label": "Checked on the maker's own page",
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   "field": "likeness_cloning",
   "url": "https://developers.heygen.com/docs/avatar-consent",
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   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "From the pilot's reading of the developer consent docs (not re-fetched: fetch budget ran out): video twins need a live, identity-matched consent video; photo avatars and voice clones rely on the terms' promise that you have permission."
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  {
   "field": "made_by",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "note": "Terms give a Los Angeles, CA notice address."
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   "field": "modalities",
   "url": "https://www.heygen.com/",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Inferred from listed features (script to video, photo avatars, video translation). audio_to_video assumed from uploading your own voice track; not stated in one place."
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  {
   "field": "openness",
   "url": "https://www.heygen.com/terms",
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   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "'$' only; USD assumed. Only Creator shows an annual price ($24/mo billed yearly). Enterprise is contact-sales; API priced on a separate page not read. Monthly credits roll over one month."
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  {
   "field": "skill_level",
   "url": "https://www.heygen.com/",
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   "url": "https://www.heygen.com/",
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   "confidence": "high",
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   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Paid-plan terms licence your inputs and outputs to train HeyGen's AI models; no opt-out described. Free-plan section silent on training."
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   "field": "watermark",
   "url": "https://www.heygen.com/pricing",
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   "confidence": "low",
   "confidence_label": "Inferred or from a secondary source; needs review",
   "note": "Pilot read 'Watermark removal' as a paid-plan feature; recheck shows those cells blank in readable text. No C2PA mention in terms. Free plan only."
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 "attribution": "Data from Plainly Guide (https://plainly.guide). Please credit Plainly with a link to the entry page when you use it."
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