# HeyGen vs InVideo AI: Presenter Studio or Editing Timeline (2026)

> HeyGen vs InVideo AI, November 2026: per-user vs per-seat plans, credit rollover, avatars, dubbing, API and SCORM, and which buyer each tool fits best.

_Source: https://professionalstoolkit.com/articles/heygen-vs-invideo-ai — The Professional's Toolkit · updated November 2026_

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HeyGen and InVideo AI answer different questions, and most of the price and credit differences follow from that. HeyGen is a presenter studio: you write a script, pick or clone an avatar, and AI Studio renders a talking video with no timeline. InVideo AI, as of November 2026, is the free invideo Editor plus Agent Two, an agent that routes each shot to one of 200+ third-party models (invideo's count), and an avatar is one clip on that timeline. **Pick HeyGen for avatar-led training, sales and translated presenter videos; pick InVideo AI for edited videos built from many shots.** The sharpest money difference is credits: monthly HeyGen web plans carry unused credits one more cycle, while InVideo AI plan credits never roll over.


**1 cycle** — How long unused credits roll over on monthly HeyGen web plans; InVideo AI plan credits never roll over.



- **$20 a seat/mo** — InVideo AI Starter, billed monthly, 400 credits a seat (US, Nov 2026)
- **$29 a month** — HeyGen Creator billed monthly, one user, 600 credits a month
- **1080p** — InVideo AI timeline export ceiling; 4K needs a paid upscale model


## Presenter first or timeline first

HeyGen builds everything around the person on screen. AI Studio is a script-based editor where timing is set by markers in the script, with scenes, caption styles and a music library (a screen recorder is added on Business). Lip sync renders only when you submit, and a submitted video cannot be edited in place. Its Video Agent turns a prompt plus decks, PDFs, images or video into a script, scenes, voice-over and captions, shows a Video Plan to approve before rendering in its Plan mode (Autopilot skips that step), and leaves the result editable in AI Studio.

InVideo AI builds everything around the timeline. The invideo Editor, launched in September 2026, is a multitrack editor with Edit, Color and Audio rooms, keyframes and a track mixer. Agent Two, launched in August 2026 as the successor to Agent One, generates and assembles shots directly on that timeline as real clips you can trim or undo. A finished cut exports as a 1080p MP4 or as an editable project for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve [1]. The original prompt-to-video flow survives behind the Older versions button.

That changes the daily work. In HeyGen, a fix usually means editing the script and rendering again. In InVideo AI, trimming, regrading or rearranging clips costs no credits; you pay for generation, transcripts and paid stock. invideo also runs HeyGen's own models, HeyGen Photo Avatar, HeyGen Video and HeyGen Lipsync, as clips inside its timeline, charged per second in invideo credits. That is not the HeyGen studio, though: changing what an avatar says means generating new footage.

| Item | HeyGen | InVideo AI |
|---|---|---|
| Editor | Script-based AI Studio, no timeline | Multitrack timeline, free on every plan |
| Billing unit | Per user; Business adds seats to one shared credit pool | Per seat, each seat with its own monthly credits |
| Unused plan credits | Roll over one more cycle on monthly web plans | Never roll over, monthly or annual |
| Dubbing | One-pass translation with voice clone and lip sync, paid plans | Built step by step by the agent |
| Developer access | REST API v3 with keys, Remote MCP, CLI | invideo MCP and CLI, no API keys |
| SCORM | Business plan | Not offered |

## Plans and seats: per user against per seat

Every InVideo AI price is a per-seat price, US figures read in November 2026. Starter costs $20 a seat a month billed monthly, with 400 credits a seat a month, Agent Two Lite only and no Seedance 2.5. Plus costs $60 a seat a month billed monthly, with 2,000 credits and all three Agent Two tiers. Max costs $150 a seat a month billed monthly for 5,000 credits [2]. The annual card showed $10, $30 and $75 a seat a month billed annually as an offer in November 2026. By our arithmetic, under that offer a year costs the same as six monthly payments, so annual wins only if you would stay more than six months.

HeyGen prices by user, not by seat. Creator costs $29 a month billed monthly, or $24 a month billed yearly ($288 a year), for one user with 600 credits a month and 1080p export. Pro starts at $49 a month billed monthly, or $41 a month billed yearly, with 1,000 credits a month at the entry tier and credit tiers that climb to 100,000. Business costs $149 a month billed monthly, or $119 a month billed yearly, for the first seat with a shared pool of 1,500 credits a month. Each added member costs $20 a seat a month and brings no credits.

Team growth runs in opposite directions. HeyGen Creator and Pro are single-user plans, so a shared workspace starts at Business, where every new person draws on the same pool. InVideo AI Starter already takes up to five seats, Plus up to ten plus ten guest seats with 190 credits each, and Max up to twenty plus twenty guests. Each paid InVideo AI seat brings its own monthly credits. **For a team, compare the minimum plan that fits**, not the cheapest card on either page.


> 💡 **Count seats before comparing cards:** HeyGen Creator and Pro are single-user plans, so a shared HeyGen workspace starts at Business. InVideo AI Starter already takes up to five seats, each with its own monthly credits.


## Credits, rollover and the two free plans

InVideo AI credits reset monthly on the date the plan started, on annual plans too, and unused plan credits do not roll over [3]. They pay for generation, transcripts, paid stock and Agent Two's own work, while timeline edits and exports are free. Retries are the real budget: invideo's own documented productions averaged about three generations per usable shot. Fees are non-refundable; invideo's Terms allow a refund request within 24 hours of a first purchase or renewal only if no credits or premium features were used, and credits are never refunded. Our [InVideo AI pricing guide](/articles/invideo-ai-pricing) has the full billing rules.

HeyGen is more forgiving with leftovers. On monthly web plans, unused credits roll over one more billing cycle; on annual plans, monthly credits accumulate until the renewal. Subscriptions bought through the Apple or Google app stores do not roll over, and dropping to Free or pausing wipes the balance. HeyGen's payments are also generally non-refundable, though it may consider a request within 15 days (14 on the App Store), case by case. Rates differ by engine, with Avatar V at 48 credits a minute. Creator and Pro have no credit packs on the web, since top-ups are a Business feature. The two platforms' credits buy different things, so we do not compare the counts.

The free plans differ in kind. HeyGen Free needs no card and gives up to three watermarked videos a month, between one and three depending on region, each up to one minute and for personal, non-commercial use only. InVideo AI has a $0 Free plan that is not shown as a card on the pricing page, with a weekly limit on credit-based AI actions whose size invideo does not publish. invideo says exports from the invideo Editor are free and carry no watermark on every plan, Free included; for Agent Two or classic-flow videos on Free, its help does not say. Neither page lists a paid-plan trial.


> ⚠ **InVideo AI credits expire monthly:** InVideo AI plan credits reset on the plan's start date each month, on annual plans too, and unused credits are lost; retries cost credits again.


## Avatars, voice clones and dubbing

This is HeyGen's home ground. It runs Avatar III, IV and V engines, with 500+ stock avatars on Free and 700+ on paid plans. Photo Avatars come from one photo. Digital Twins come from about 15 seconds of footage plus an on-camera consent clip and are ready in about 10 to 20 minutes. If a recurring on-screen host is the product, our [HeyGen review](/articles/heygen-review) covers that studio in depth.

InVideo AI treats a presenter as one ingredient. The avatar library and AI twins sit behind Older versions, while Agent Two and the Editor use third-party models such as HeyGen Photo Avatar, Kling Avatar and OmniHuman 2.0, priced per second. Human avatar actors may not be used for topics such as alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, crypto, gambling, MLM, political endorsement or commentary, or religion; our [InVideo AI for marketing teams](/articles/invideo-ai-for-marketing-teams) guide covers ad use. InVideo AI requires explicit consent from the person in the recording, captured in a separate in-product step that can be withdrawn; celebrities and politicians cannot be cloned, and an avatar of anyone under 18 is forbidden even with parental consent.

Dubbing shows the design gap clearly. HeyGen translates a video in one pass with a voice clone and lip sync into 175+ languages and dialects on paid plans, up to 10 target languages per job, with SRT export. InVideo AI has no single model that dubs a video. Its agent transcribes, translates, voices the script, replaces the audio and re-syncs lips where a mouth shows, one branch per language; invideo says it covers 50+ languages. Neither translates text burned into the picture.


> 💡 **Use HeyGen avatars inside invideo:** invideo runs HeyGen Photo Avatar and HeyGen Lipsync as models on its timeline, charged per second in invideo credits. Changing what the avatar says means generating new footage, and the face must be yours or someone who consented to appear.


## API, SCORM and what happens to your data

For developers, HeyGen sells the conventional route: a REST API v3 with keys, webhooks, a CLI for macOS and Linux, and a Remote MCP server on all plans, with key-based integrations running on separately purchased API credits. InVideo AI has no API keys by design; every call runs as a named, signed-in person in their workspace [4]. Outside agents such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor drive the timeline through invideo MCP or the CLI. It is not built for unattended volume rendering.

Training teams should check two lines. HeyGen Business exports SCORM 1.2 and 2004 packages with LMS integrations and SAML/SSO. InVideo AI offers no SCORM export, and SSO appears only as basic SSO on Scale's card and custom SSO on Enterprise. On training data, the InVideo AI Terms let invideo train on content from Free, Starter, Plus and Max; the Team and Scale cards promise no training, so get it in writing. HeyGen's Terms license user content for training outside Enterprise, with an opt-out.


**What users rate it, by platform**

| Platform | Rating | Reviews | As of |
|---|---|---|---|


_Rendered from our current record; these are other platforms' user scores, separate from our own Toolkit Score._


Read the scores as a map of where buyers get hurt, not a quality rank. Reviewers on Trustpilot most often complain about InVideo AI's refunds, support, billing and charges, and credits running out faster than expected. That lines up with the credit rules above. **Start on monthly billing** with either tool, measure real credit use on a few finished videos, and only then weigh an annual plan.


## FAQ

**Can I bring a HeyGen avatar video into InVideo AI?**

invideo's docs say a HeyGen avatar clip crosses into invideo as an MP4, and recommend the clean version without burned-in captions so captions stay editable on the invideo timeline.

**Which one exports 4K video?**

HeyGen lists 4K export on its Pro plan. InVideo AI exports a finished timeline at up to 1080p; 4K or HDR delivery needs a paid upscale or HDR model, or a finish in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

**Can several people edit the same video at once?**

In InVideo AI, workspace members edit one timeline live together with visible cursors, and review links take timecoded comments from reviewers who sign in. HeyGen offers comments in AI Studio and draft commenting on Business.


## The bottom line

Choose by the shape of the video. If a presenter carries the message, especially across languages or into an LMS, HeyGen's script studio, Digital Twins, one-pass dubbing and SCORM on Business fit the job. If the video is a cut of many shots, with color, sound and an editable handoff to Premiere Pro or Resolve, InVideo AI's free timeline and Agent Two fit better, as long as you budget for retries and credits that expire every month.



## Sources

[1] invideo docs: Export an MP4 video — https://docs.invideo.io/projects-and-exports/how-to-export-video-audio-or-a-png-still-from-invideo-editor (2026-11)
[2] invideo pricing (US): plans, seats and credits — https://invideo.io/pricing/ (2026-11)
[3] invideo docs: What costs credits — https://docs.invideo.io/account/credits (2026-11)
[4] invideo docs: Why there are no API keys — https://docs.invideo.io/api (2026-11)
[5] invideo Help: subscriptions and refunds — https://invideo.io/help/billing/subscriptions-and-refunds/
[6] invideo Terms of Service — https://invideo.io/terms-of-service/
[7] invideo news — https://invideo.io/news/