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HeyGen vs Vidu

HeyGen (HeyGen) and Vidu (Shengshu AI) both sit in Video. Vidu is the cheaper entry point at Free tier with credits. Paid plans are available but pricing is not disclosed in the text.. Vidu shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeHeyGen

HeyGen

Vidu

Shengshu AI

SegmentVideoVideo
VersionAvatar VVidu Q3
Entry costFree tier · from $29/moFree tier with credits. Paid plans are available but pricing is not disclosed in the text.
Pricing tiersFree free · Creator $29 · Pro $49 · Business $149Free Tier free
Model stackAvatar III · Avatar IV · Avatar V · ElevenLabs voices · Seedance 2.0 · Starfish Voices · Video AgentGPT2 · Vidu Q1 · Vidu Q1 Image · Vidu Q2 · Vidu Q2 Image · Vidu Q3 · Vidu S1 · Vidu S2
Context windown/an/a
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d39
OriginGlobalChina
CapabilitiesPhoto avatars, Voice cloning, 175+ language dubbing, Interactive avatars, Video translate, AI Video Generator, Stock Digital Twins, Custom Digital TwinsMulti-image reference, Anime styles, Start and end frames, Audio generation, Text to Video, Image to Video, Reference to Video, AI Sound Effect Generator

HeyGen

Spokesperson avatars, voice cloning and multi-language dubbing for business video.

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Vidu

Vidu's reference-to-video mode conditions on several images at once for consistent characters and props.

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