HeyGen
AI video with realistic avatars
71
/100
Runway
AI video generation and editing suite
59
/100
HeyGen vs Runway
Detailed side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and performance
Comparing
Our Expert Verdict
RankTool's data-driven recommendation based on scores, features, and pricing.
Winner
HeyGen
clearly
For most users, both HeyGen and Runway are strong options. HeyGen edges ahead overall, while Runway may be better for specific workflows. Use the category winners and feature matrix below to decide.
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Best Price
HeyGen
Overview
Complete side-by-side specs in one place.
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| RankScore™ | 71 /100 | 59 /100 |
| Category | AI Video | AI Video |
| Starting price | $24/month | $15/month |
| Free plan | ✓ | — |
| API available | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Platforms | Web, API, Cloud SaaS | Web, Cloud SaaS |
| Target user | team | team |
| Learning curve | Beginner | Intermediate |
| Context window | — | — |
| Image generation | — | ✓ |
| Languages supported | — | ["English"] |
| Launch year | 2022 | 2018 |
| Company | HeyGen | Runway |
| Funding | Private / Early-stage venture-backed · $74M | Private / Growth-stage · $860M |
| Team size | — | — |
Pricing Comparison
Plan-by-plan breakdown with what's included at each tier.
Free
HeyGen
Free
Free
- ✗ Monthly credits: No credits; free video quota instead
- ✓ Videos per month: 3 videos per month
- ✓ Maximum video duration: Up to 1 minute
- ✓ Export resolution: Up to 1080p on pricing page; help center references 720p sharing link
- ✓ Stock Digital Twins: 500+
- ✓ Custom Digital Twins: 1
- ✓ Photo Avatars: Up to 3
- ✗ Voice cloning
- ✓ Languages and dialects: 30+
- ✗ Watermark removal
- ✗ Credit rollover
- ✗ Translation script editing
- ✗ Team collaboration
- ✗ SSO and security controls
- ✗ API access
- ✗ Additional credit purchases
- ✓ Support level: Self-serve
Runway
Free
Free
- ✓ Credits included: 125 one-time credits
- ✓ Generative video: Gen-4 Turbo image-to-video
- ✓ Generative image: Gen-4 text-to-image and references, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 2.5, Image Apps
- ✓ Generative audio: Text to Speech and Audio Apps
- ✗ All AI image and video models
- ✗ 4K Upscaling
- ✗ No watermarks: Free plan videos include a Runway watermark
- ✓ Video editor projects: 3 projects
- ✓ Asset storage: 5GB
- ✗ Custom voices
- ✗ Credit rollover: One-time credits do not expire, but no monthly credits renew
- ✗ First access to newest models
- ✗ Highest generation volume
- ✗ Single sign-on
- ✗ Workspace analytics
- ✗ Configurable teamspaces
- ✗ Priority support
- ✗ Additional credit purchases: Credit purchases are not available on Free plan
- ✗ API usage: API credits are separate from web app credits
Plus / Pro
HeyGen
Pro
$49/month
- ✓ Monthly credits: 1,000 credits per month starting tier; up to 100,000 credits per month
- ✓ Videos per month: Credit-limited video creation
- ✓ Maximum video duration: Up to 30 minutes
- ✓ Export resolution: 4K
- ✓ Stock Digital Twins: 700+
- ✓ Custom Digital Twins: 5 Custom Digital Twin slots in help center; pricing comparison lists 1+
- ✓ Photo Avatars: Unlimited
- ✓ Voice cloning: Unlimited
- ✓ Languages and dialects: 175+
- ✓ Watermark removal: Included
- ✓ Credit rollover: Monthly unused credits roll over for one more month; annual credits accumulate until renewal
- ✓ Translation script editing: Edit and proofread translation script
- ✗ Team collaboration
- ✗ SSO and security controls
- ✗ API access
- ✗ Additional credit purchases: Upgrade to a higher Pro credit tier
- ✓ Support level: Self-serve
Runway
Standard
$15/month
- ✓ Credits included: 625 credits monthly
- ✓ Generative video: Access to paid video generation models
- ✓ Generative image: Access to paid image generation models
- ✓ Generative audio: Supported audio tools included
- ✓ All AI image and video models: Includes models listed by Runway such as Gen-4.5, Nano Banana Pro, Aleph, Veo 3.1, and more
- ✓ 4K Upscaling: Included
- ✓ No watermarks: Included
- ✓ Video editor projects: Not publicly specified on pricing page for this plan
- ✓ Asset storage: Not publicly specified on pricing page for this plan
- ✗ Custom voices
- ✗ Credit rollover: Monthly credits do not roll over
- ✗ First access to newest models
- ✗ Highest generation volume
- ✗ Single sign-on
- ✗ Workspace analytics
- ✗ Configurable teamspaces
- ✗ Priority support
- ✓ Additional credit purchases: Minimum purchase is 1,000 credits
- ✗ API usage: API credits are purchased separately in the developer portal
Team
HeyGen
Business
$149/month
- ✓ Monthly credits: 1,500 credits per month
- ✓ Videos per month: Credit-limited video creation
- ✓ Maximum video duration: Up to 60 minutes
- ✓ Export resolution: 4K
- ✓ Stock Digital Twins: 700+
- ✓ Custom Digital Twins: 10 Custom Video Avatar slots in help center; pricing page lists 5 Custom Digital Twins
- ✓ Photo Avatars: Unlimited
- ✓ Voice cloning: Unlimited
- ✓ Languages and dialects: 175+
- ✓ Watermark removal: Included
- ✓ Credit rollover: Monthly unused credits roll over for one more month; annual credits accumulate until renewal
- ✓ Translation script editing: Edit and proofread translation script
- ✓ Team collaboration: Workspace collaboration, commenting, invites, team management, centralized billing
- ✓ SSO and security controls: SAML/SSO
- ✓ API access: Integrations listed with n8n, Make, HubSpot and Zapier; API pricing is separate
- ✓ Additional credit purchases: $0.05 per credit in $5 blocks of 100 credits; optional auto-reload
- ✓ Support level: Team support; support level not further specified publicly
Enterprise
HeyGen
Enterprise
Custom
- ✓ Monthly credits: Custom usage and credit terms
- ✓ Videos per month: Flexible video generation
- ✓ Maximum video duration: No video duration max
- ✓ Export resolution: 4K
- ✓ Stock Digital Twins: Included; exact enterprise limit not publicly specified
- ✓ Custom Digital Twins: Custom terms
- ✓ Photo Avatars: Included; exact enterprise limit not publicly specified
- ✓ Voice cloning: Included; exact enterprise limit not publicly specified
- ✓ Languages and dialects: 175+
- ✓ Watermark removal: Included
- ✓ Credit rollover: Custom enterprise credit terms
- ✓ Translation script editing: Proofreader seats for video translation
- ✓ Team collaboration: Multi-workspace control, centrally managed roles and access
- ✓ SSO and security controls: Enterprise security and privacy, SCIM provisioning, Team Member MFA, roles and access control
- ✓ API access: Enterprise API options, custom scalability, dedicated developer support, advanced APIs and discounted rates
- ✓ Additional credit purchases: Contact account team to purchase or adjust credit pool
- ✓ Support level: Priority customer support, dedicated customer success manager, tailored onboarding
Runway
Enterprise
Custom
- ✓ Credits included: Custom credits
- ✓ Generative video: Everything in Max
- ✓ Generative image: Everything in Max
- ✓ Generative audio: Everything in Max
- ✓ All AI image and video models: Everything in Max
- ✓ 4K Upscaling: Everything in Max
- ✓ No watermarks: Everything in Max
- ✓ Video editor projects: Custom team usage
- ✓ Asset storage: Custom team usage
- ✓ Custom voices: Everything in Max
- ✓ Credit rollover: Custom terms not publicly specified
- ✓ First access to newest models: Everything in Max
- ✓ Highest generation volume: Scalable for large organizations
- ✓ Single sign-on: Included
- ✓ Workspace analytics: Included
- ✓ Configurable teamspaces: Included
- ✓ Priority support: Included
- ✓ Additional credit purchases: Custom credit packages
- ✗ API usage: Runway API pricing is listed separately from web app plans
Monthly cost for a 5-person team
HeyGen: $745/month
Runway: $75/month
Feature Matrix
Grouped capabilities — see who has what at a glance.
Developer Features 1 features — HeyGen: 1/1 · Runway: 0/1
Feature
HeyGen
Runway
API
✓
✗
Other 13 features — HeyGen: 6/13 · Runway: 7/13
Feature
HeyGen
Runway
Avatar videos
✓
✗
Gen-3 Alpha
✗
✓
Voice cloning
✓
✗
Video to video
✗
✓
Templates
✓
✗
Motion brush
✗
✓
URL to video
✓
✗
Lip sync
✗
✓
Translation
✓
✗
Image to video
✗
✓
Green screen
✗
✓
Interactive avatar
✓
✗
Timeline editor
✗
✓
Who Should Use What
Pick the tool that matches your workflow.
Choose HeyGen if you…
- AI video with realistic avatars
- Generate spokesperson and training videos from text scripts.
Choose Runway if you…
- AI video generation and editing suite
- Creative tools for Gen-3 video, inpainting, and motion design.
Ratings Breakdown
All 8 RankScore dimensions compared side-by-side.
HeyGen
Runway
Decision scores
Five-dimension breakdown from expert reviews and verified user ratings (1–10 scale).
HeyGen
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
Runway
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
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