HeyGen scores 6.6 out of 10 on the Humva Scorecard. On the $29.00 Creator plan a finished minute costs $0.19 on Avatar III and $2.32 on Avatar V, because the engine, not the plan, sets the price. Its terms take a training license over your uploads.
6.6/ 10
Evidence dated
Best for
Not for
How the 6.6 is calculated: weights and bands
No partner program is joined for HeyGen yet, so this link is the vendor's own URL. When Humva joins one, this note changes to the commission disclosure; the score is computed the same way either way. How Humva is paid
Visit HeyGen$0.19
per finished minute, entry plan billed monthly
5 criteria, weights 30 / 20 / 20 / 15 / 15. Terms is the lowest sub-score; cost the highest.
6.6 out of 10: total = sum(criterion score 0-10 x weight) / 100, shown to one decimal.
Evidence dated 2026-10-14. Output quality is not scored: no desk renders exist, and lip-sync metrics do not track human judgement.
Entry paid plan billed monthly: (a) the lowest documented per-minute cost (lowest-rate engine) and (b) the cost on the dearest documented avatar engine on the same plan.
8 checks on the entry paid plan, score = checks met / 8 x 10: no watermark; commercial use of output; export at 1080p or better; a single video can run 10 minutes or more; a voice clone included; 100+ languages; extra credits purchasable on that plan; plan credits usable through the vendor's own integrations.
5 checks, score = checks met x 2: paid users own their output; no training license over uploads, or one that ends with the account; a documented training opt-out; a consent check on every avatar built from a real person; a stated deletion deadline.
5 checks, score = checks met x 2: publishes a credit-to-minute rate for each avatar engine; publishes rollover and expiry rules; publishes its refund rule; one published rate applies to every account; no plan-structure change in the last 12 months.
Trustpilot TrustScore x 2, minus 1 if the one-star share is 10% or more, minus 2 if it is 20% or more.
Each sub-score is a band from documented evidence; the total is their weighted mean. Output quality, support and roadmap promises stay out of the formula.
Avatar III, IV and V: why the engine sets the price.
| Plan | Billing | Price a month | Credits | Avatar III video | Avatar IV video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator | Monthly | $29.00 | 600 | $0.19 | $1.50 |
| Creator | Annual | $24.00 | 600 | $0.16 | $1.24 |
| Pro 1,000 credits | Monthly | $49.00 | 1,000 | $0.20 | $1.52 |
| Pro 1,000 credits | Annual | $40.67 | 1,000 | $0.16 | $1.26 |
| Pro 2,000 credits | Monthly | $99.00 | 2,000 | $0.20 | $1.53 |
| Pro 2,000 credits | Annual | $82.33 | 2,000 | $0.16 | $1.28 |
| Pro 5,000 credits | Monthly | $240.00 | 5,000 | $0.19 | $1.49 |
| Pro 5,000 credits | Annual | $200.00 | 5,000 | $0.16 | $1.24 |
| Business (1 seat) | Monthly | $149.00 | 1,500 | $0.40 | $3.08 |
| Business (1 seat) | Annual | $119.00 | 1,500 | $0.32 | $2.46 |
Both: a watermarked Free plan for personal use, then credit plans from $29.00 a month.
Most quote a plan price; the minute price moves about twelvefold with the engine you pick.
Regenerations spend credits again, and the Business seat price doubles the rate per minute. HeyGen credit rates.
Unused credits outlive a month, not a cancellation.
Unused credits roll over one extra cycle, then lapse.
The monthly allocation banks until the plan renews.
The unused balance is forfeited; plan the last renders first.
Bought separately for HubSpot, Clay, Zapier, Make or n8n; plan credits cannot run them.
Translation, lip sync and the credits each one spends, from named testers.
| The question | HeyGen | What the clause says |
|---|---|---|
| Paid users own their output | Yes | Section 3: Creator, Pro and Business users keep ownership of their inputs and outputs. HeyGen Terms of Service |
| Vendor takes a training license over uploads | Yes | Section 3 also grants HeyGen a royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, irrevocable license, including to train its models, that survives termination. HeyGen Terms of Service |
| A documented training opt-out | Partly | Enterprise data is excluded by default; every other plan opts out by emailing HeyGen. HeyGen Security page |
| A consent check on every avatar of a real person | No | Consent applies to video-trained digital twins only; photo avatars pass no consent check and leave no consent record. HeyGen Developer Documentation, Avatar Consent |
| Free-plan output may be used commercially | No | Section 4 limits Free-plan output to personal, non-commercial and internal evaluation use. HeyGen Terms of Service |
| A stated deletion deadline for your content | Not stated | Section 5 says HeyGen may, but is not obligated to, delete user content; no deadline is given. HeyGen Terms of Service |
Clauses read on from the vendor's own terms and documentation. Self-serve terms only; enterprise contracts can differ.
Secure as software on its own security page; judge it on the contract, where the training license over uploads has no end date.
Their written consent, kept by you: the platform checks consent only for video-trained twins.
Operated by HeyGen Technology, Inc., with published pricing, credit rates and a cancellation path; payments are non-refundable except where law requires.
In force
In force
Volume explainers
Creator covers 150 minutes for $29.00.
Realism
Pro tiers carry the credits; read the engine cost first.
Translation
From the 600 Creator credits, by engine.
Skip it
Teams that cannot accept a training license over staff footage.
Better on one axis at a time: cost, premium engines or terms.
Cost Index
Across 9 tools with a documented rate.
Premium engines
$1.05 against $1.50 a minute.
Less so for Avatar V at volume, for cloning staff, or for buyers who depend on refunds. Every score here is a formula you can recompute.
Humva Scorecard, v1
total = sum(criterion score 0-10 x weight) / 100, shown to one decimal