Synthesia is $29 or $89 a month. Every public tier includes exactly one editor.

Basic is free: 1,200 credits a month, which the page says covers up to 10 minutes of video a month, and 1 editor seat.

Starter is $29 a month, or $18 a month billed yearly. 14,500 credits a year, described as up to 120 minutes of video or AI dubbing a year, with 1 editor and 3 guests.

Creator is $89 a month, or $64 billed yearly. 44,000 credits a year, described as up to 360 minutes a year, with 1 editor and 5 guests.

Enterprise is custom credits, a custom number of editors and guests, and a price on request.

One piece of arithmetic is worth doing before you buy. The free tier's 10 minutes a month is 120 minutes across a year, which is the same figure Starter publishes for its yearly allowance. On minutes alone the $29 tier is not buying you more video, it is buying what else that tier unlocks and a yearly bucket instead of a monthly one. Read the free tier's other limits on the same page before drawing a conclusion.

All figures from synthesia.io/pricing, read 1 September 2026. Tiers move, and this page is only useful if you check it against theirs.

An earlier version of this page told you to work out whether seats or minutes would bind you first. On the plans published today that question has no answer, and saying so is more useful than repeating the old advice.

You cannot buy a second editor on a public tier. Starter is 1 editor and 3 guests. Creator is 1 editor and 5 guests. Enterprise is where a custom number of editors appears, and Enterprise is a quote.

So the seat question is a threshold, not a slider: one editor, or a sales call. There is no middle tier for a team of three people who all make videos.

That reframes the evaluation. If two people will build videos, the public prices on the page are not your prices and the honest budget is unknown until you have spoken to them.

Guests are the release valve and it is worth asking exactly what a guest can do. If guests can review and comment but not build, then a five-person team with one builder fits Creator and a five-person team with three builders does not.

Starter's 14,500 credits and Creator's 44,000 are published per year, not per month. That is unusual in this category and it changes how you plan.

The good half: a heavy March can borrow from a quiet April. A monthly meter never allows that, and teams producing in bursts routinely overbuy on monthly plans to survive one launch week.

The bad half: a heavy year has nowhere to borrow from. Once the annual bucket is spent, the next refill is on the renewal date rather than on the first of next month.

So the number to forecast is a year of output, including the versions you will regenerate after a product change. Ask explicitly when the year resets and what happens to anything unused when it does.

Ask about regeneration too. If a script edit rebills the full minutes in every language, an annual bucket that looked generous at launch is half gone by March.

Compare against what the same work used to cost rather than against another software plan. That is the comparison that decides whether a platform is worth a quote at all.

Nine language versions of a training module traditionally means nine bookings, nine voice artists, nine rounds of scheduling and nine sets of revisions when the product changes in March. On a platform the March change is one script edit and a regeneration.

Now put that against the published allowance. A 45-minute library in nine languages is 405 minutes. Creator publishes up to 360 minutes a year. So a nine-language library of that size does not fit the top public tier at all.

That is the clearest signal in their pricing, and it is more useful than any feature list: serious localisation is an Enterprise conversation by arithmetic, not by sales policy.

Count the reshoots you avoided rather than the videos you made. That is the line a platform actually replaces, and it is the one that repeats every year.

Once a second editor or a bigger library puts you into Enterprise, vendors quote against what you tell them, so two vendors given two framings will produce two incomparable numbers.

Write one brief and send it to both. Minutes per year including localisation. People who build, people who only review. Retention, security and accessibility requirements. Expected revision frequency per asset.

Then ask both for the same three answers: price at your stated volume, price at double it, and what happens to unused allowance at renewal. The second number tells you how the deal ages when you succeed.

Do not negotiate on the sticker. Negotiate on the meter that binds you, because a discount on editors is worthless to a team constrained by minutes.

For contrast, a tool where the entire bill is printed before you sign up and no line on it says on request.

A batch is 100 credits and covers transcription, the director pass and the b-roll search. Export is 20 credits per output minute, so a thirty-second ad costs 110 credits end to end. Nothing is priced per person.

Three finished videos are free in your first 7 days, no card. A free export carries a Cutroom mark across the middle of the picture. Lite is $19.99 a month, Basic $39.99 for 2,500 credits and Premium $79.99 for 5,000.

Where it wins is the short vertical ad aimed at somebody who did not ask to see it. One filmed take goes in and a finished 9:16 MP4 comes out, the hook directed, cutaways landing on the words that need them and captions burned in for mute.

The facts a buyer needs beside that: one language per take, three minutes maximum at upload, 9:16 only, no approval workflow, no template library, and somebody has to film.

The trade is range against legibility. One language, one shape and one type of video, in exchange for a bill you can compute before you sign up.