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Gatsbyai vs Heygen

Generating short text-to-video and image-to-video clips across four model families from one browser workspace, with the credit cost of each run shown before you spend it · AI avatars, video localization, and presenter-style business videos

Decision pointGatsbyAIHeyGen
Best forGenerating short text-to-video and image-to-video clips across four model families from one browser workspace, with the credit cost of each run shown before you spend itAI avatars, video localization, and presenter-style business videos
CategoryVideoVideo
PriceLite $19.98/mo or $119.88/yr (2,000 credits a month); Pro $39.98/mo or $239.88/yr (5,000); Ultra $77.98/mo or $467.88/yr (10,000); one-time packs 1,500 credits $29.90, 3,000 $49.90, 5,000 $69.90, 8,000 $99.90; two free guest generations a day and 10 daily credits for a signed-in accountFree + paid plans
AIToolsEssentials editorial score3.8/54.2/5

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GatsbyAI

Lite $19.98/month or $119.88 billed annually ($9.99/month equivalent, 2,000 credits a month); Pro $39.98/month or $239.88 annually ($19.99 equivalent, 5,000 credits); Ultra $77.98/month or $467.88 annually ($38.99 equivalent, 10,000 credits). The page states the yearly option as 50% off and the arithmetic is exact against twelve times the monthly price. One-time credit packs: 1,500 credits $29.90, 3,000 $49.90, 5,000 $69.90, 8,000 $99.90, valid six months, with 50% bonus credits for active subscribers. Subscription credits refresh to the monthly allowance and do not accumulate; failed generations release reserved daily credits and return charged credits. Free access: two generations a day for guests and 10 daily credits for signed-in accounts, with the default Seedance 2.0 Mini generation costing 5 credits.

Official sources checked 2026-10-21

Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-22 03:38 UTC (2026-10-21 20:38 PDT); editorial entry written independently from live pages the same working day. Plan prices were read from the rendered yearly cards on /pricing, cross-checked against the site's own llms.txt, and the monthly-billed equivalents ($19.98 / $39.98 / $77.98) plus the four credit-pack prices were read from the shipped plan config inside the served Next.js chunks, because the Monthly and Credit Packs tabs of the pricing page render client-side and carry no figures in the served HTML. Free-tier claims verified from the public credits endpoint (/api/ai-video/credits returns dailyLimit 2 for an anonymous visitor) rather than from marketing copy. /privacy (last updated 2026-10-09) and /terms (2026-10-13) read in full; neither names an operator, jurisdiction or governing law, the privacy policy names no processor and no retention period, and GA4 G-GDTETMSPS7 loads on both policy pages with no consent control. Contact route verified before relying on it: gatsbyai.app MX is Cloudflare Email Routing, support@gatsbyai.app returned 250 in an SMTP RCPT probe while a random local part returned 550. Domain registered 2026-10-01 (Spaceship, Cloudflare NS); no checkout or purchase was exercised.

HeyGen

Free $0 with up to 3 videos/month. Creator is $29/month or $24/month billed annually with 600 credits/month. Pro starts at $49/month with 1,000 credits/month; official pricing says Pro tiers scale to 100,000 credits/month at $4,300/month. Business is $149/month plus $20 per additional seat/month with 1,500 credits/month. Enterprise pricing and limits are custom.

Official sources checked 2026-09-18
Open verification questions
  • HeyGen's FAQ and some product marketing say user data is not used for model training, but the current self-serve privacy policy and terms expressly permit training and provide an opt-out. These official statements are inconsistent.
  • The public pricing page exposes many Pro credit tiers but does not provide a compact complete tier table in the retrieved text; only the verified range from 1,000 credits/$49 to 100,000 credits/$4,300 is reported.
  • Commercial-use language in the self-serve terms expressly names Creator, Pro, and Business; Enterprise rights are governed separately by the MSA and Order Form.

Terms last updated July 23, 2026 distinguish plan rights: Creator, Pro, and Business users own their User Input and User Output as between the parties, and HeyGen does not restrict commercial use of User Output; Free-plan Output receives only a revocable license for personal, non-commercial, internal evaluation and may not be sold, monetized, used for advertising, client work, or other commercial services. Terms require AI-origin disclosure where applicable and prohibit unauthorized impersonation or uploading an individual's image without consent. For self-serve paid users, the terms grant HeyGen a royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, irrevocable license to use content to operate and improve services, including training AI/ML models. The privacy policy likewise says inputs may be used for model training and that users may request an opt-out. By contrast, the Enterprise MSA expressly says Customer Data is not used to train AI/ML models and assigns Output ownership to the customer. Official avatar documentation requires proof of consent for a real-person digital twin; webcam consent is generally available, uploaded consent video is Enterprise-only, and skipping the consent flow is limited to Enterprise accounts with an indemnity agreement. Enterprise source: https://www.heygen.com/master-saas-agreement

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