InVideo Alternatives

InVideo turns a prompt into a finished video with an AI agent that writes the script, picks or generates footage and adds a voice, then lets you change it on a timeline. It is aimed at marketers and social creators who want a complete video quickly. Its plans, from the official pricing page on 11 October 2026:

• Basic: $9 a seat a month, 190 credits a month, no Seedance 2.5
• Pro: $30 a seat a month, 1,000 credits a month
• Ultra: $80 a seat a month, 3,000 credits a month
• On 11 October 2026 the page showed 50% off yearly billing ($4, $15 and $40 a seat a month)
• A Seedance 2.0 Fast video is about 30 credits; a Nano Banana Pro image is 2.5 credits

• No free plan is listed, so trying it means paying for a seat.
• The cheapest plan leaves out the newest models, such as Seedance 2.5.
• Stock-heavy results. Some creators want every shot generated in one look, with the same characters, rather than stock clips.
• A presenter on screen needs an avatar tool instead.

HeyGen and Synthesia put an AI presenter on screen; both have free plans to test.

• Free: $0, 3 videos a month, videos up to 1 minute, 500+ stock video avatars, 1 custom video avatar, 30+ languages
• Creator: $29 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly, 600 credits, videos up to 30 minutes, 1080p export, voice cloning, 175 languages and dialects, watermark removal
• Pro: from $49 a month, 1,000 credits, 4K export (tiers up to 100,000 credits at $4,300 a month)
• Business: $149 a month plus $20 a seat a month

• Basic: $0, 500 credits a month (10 minutes of video a month), videos carry a Synthesia watermark
• Starter: $18 a month billed yearly, 15,000 credits a year (up to about 150 minutes of video a year on top of the free allowance), 125+ avatars, downloads, no logo
• Pro: $64 a month billed yearly, 72,000 credits a year (up to about 720 minutes of video a year), 5 personal avatars, 180+ avatars
• Enterprise: custom pricing, unlimited video minutes
• Video uses about 100 credits a minute

Runway and Pika generate the footage itself, shot by shot, for creators who want full control of each clip.

• Free: $0, 125 one-time credits
• Standard: $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly, 625 credits a month (52 seconds of Gen-4.5), no watermarks
• Pro: $35 a month, or $28 a month billed yearly, 2,250 credits a month
• Max: $95 a month, or $76 a month billed yearly, 9,500 credits a month, unused credits roll over for a month
• Gen-4.5 uses 12 credits a second (60 credits for 5 seconds); the plans also include other models such as Kling 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro

• Free: $0, no monthly credits (credit packs only), all models, no watermark, no commercial license
• Starter: $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly, 900 credits a month, no commercial license
• Creator: $35 a month, or $28 a month billed yearly, 3,150 credits a month, commercial license
• Fancy: $95 to $880 a month ($76 to $704 billed yearly), 8,550 credits a month and up
• Credit packs: 60 credits per $1; a 5 second 720p Seedance 2.5 video is 122 credits, a 5 second 720p Wan 3.0 video 33 credits

Ziztu covers the same idea-to-video job with generated scenes instead of stock: the AI Story Video Generator writes a script, draws illustrated scenes with a recurring character, adds a voice-over and captions; the Studio's Director plans shot lists for films, anime and music videos and keeps characters the same with character sheets; and quick tools such as the faceless video generator make single clips. New accounts get 40 free credits (480p results with a watermark), and plans start at $12 a month for 1,000 credits.

If you need stock footage libraries, team seats with guests or a huge template catalog, InVideo is still the better fit.

Every price and limit on this page comes from the official pages below, read on 11 October 2026. Prices change often; check them before you buy. Ziztu's own prices come from its pricing page.

• InVideo pricing (official page, read 11 October 2026)
• HeyGen pricing (official page, read 11 October 2026)
• Synthesia pricing (official page, read 11 October 2026)
• Runway pricing (official page, read 11 October 2026)
• Pika pricing (official page, read 11 October 2026)
• Ziztu pricing