Video comparison
Genjutsu Ai vs Synthesia
Creators making trend-shaped short video who already have a performance worth copying and photos of the people, pets or products to put in it - the preset library does the prompt work and the workspace shows a credit estimate before you generate. Good fit for a two-person duet, a pet dance, a car or product swap, or a group scene where each photo has a labelled role. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named company, a stated jurisdiction and a retention period before paying, for work where an exact likeness or an unchanged background is contractual, for text-to-video alone (the AI Video Maker page covers that at a much higher credit cost), or for anyone unwilling to upload photos of real people to an unidentified operator. · Enterprise training videos and AI avatar presentations
| Decision point | Genjutsu AI | Synthesia |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Creators making trend-shaped short video who already have a performance worth copying and photos of the people, pets or products to put in it - the preset library does the prompt work and the workspace shows a credit estimate before you generate. Good fit for a two-person duet, a pet dance, a car or product swap, or a group scene where each photo has a labelled role. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named company, a stated jurisdiction and a retention period before paying, for work where an exact likeness or an unchanged background is contractual, for text-to-video alone (the AI Video Maker page covers that at a much higher credit cost), or for anyone unwilling to upload photos of real people to an unidentified operator. | Enterprise training videos and AI avatar presentations |
| Category | Video | Video |
| Price | Free tier: 18 one-time signup credits, watermarked previews and downloads, roughly 3 images or 1 short clip, plus a weekly check-in worth up to 60 credits across the reward cycle. Subscriptions billed monthly: Starter $29.9 for 800 credits/month, Pro $49.9 for 1,800, Business $99.9 for 4,000. Billed yearly (the price printed on the card): Starter $100.0 a year, shown as $8.3/month, 2,400 credits/year; Pro $360.0 a year, shown as $30.0/month against a struck-through $49.9, 21,600 credits/year; Business $599.0 a year, shown as $49.9/month against a struck-through $99.9, 48,000 credits/year. One-time packs under the Pay once tab, credits never expire: Flex $99 for 2,000 credits, Starter Pack $199.9 for 4,900, Pro Pack $499.9 for 19,900. Subscription credits expire each period; card prices are USD before tax. Refund requests within 72 hours, calculated pro rata on unused purchased credits minus actual non-returned processing fees capped at 6% of the order. Read on 2026-10-26 from the rendered /pricing page on all three tabs; the plan figures are not literals in the served HTML, so they were captured from the rendered page rather than a price-token sweep. | Paid plans |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 3.9/5 | 4.2/5 |
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Three tabs on one /pricing page, all read rendered on 2026-10-26 because the plan figures are not literals in the served HTML. Monthly billing: Starter $29.9 for 800 credits/month, Pro $49.9 for 1,800, Business $99.9 for 4,000. Yearly billing: Starter $100.0/year shown as $8.3/month for 2,400 credits/year, Pro $360.0/year shown as $30.0/month against a struck-through $49.9 for 21,600 credits/year, Business $599.0/year shown as $49.9/month against a struck-through $99.9 for 48,000 credits/year. Pay once: Flex Pack $99 for 2,000 credits, Starter Pack $199.9 for 4,900, Pro Pack $499.9 for 19,900; one-time credits never expire while subscription credits expire each period. Free Basic tier: 18 one-time signup credits, watermarked previews and downloads, roughly 3 images or 1 short clip, plus a weekly check-in worth up to 60 credits across the reward cycle. Banners read "Save up to 50%" with per-plan badges of 40% OFF (Save $238.8) on Pro and 50% OFF (Save $599.8) on Business; those two reconcile against the struck-through monthly prices, but the annual Starter plan has no anchor and costs more per credit than the monthly Starter. Refunds: 72-hour request window, pro rata on unused purchased credits, actual non-returned processing fees capped at 6%. Two internal arithmetic checks recorded rather than resolved: the cards' "up to N videos" works out at about 18 credits per clip, while the AI Video Maker's default Seedance 2.5 setting (720p, 5s) estimated 119 credits on the same day; and the annual Starter's 2,400 credits are 200 a month against 800 on the monthly plan. Card prices are USD before tax. No public config or products endpoint exists to cross-check (/api/config/public and /api/payment/products both 404), and checkout was not reached - no account, signup or purchase was attempted.
Official sources checked 2026-10-26Submitted via form by the vendor on 2026-10-27 00:19 UTC (FormSubmit, contact field harris00525@gmail.com, category "Video", pricing_url https://aigenjutsu.app/pricing, docs_url blank); editorial entry written independently and no part of the submission copy was reused. New lead - no prior genjutsu hit in the repository, the held-submissions ledger or any mail folder. Domain aigenjutsu.app registered 2026-10-08T07:46:49Z at Spaceship, Cloudflare NS paige/derek (a pair that appears in no other row of this ledger). Product is live and functional, not a pre-launch draft: /video renders a working studio with a model selector (Seedance 2.5 default) and a 119-credit estimate for 720p/5s, the homepage motion studio loads presets with labelled photo roles, and /pricing sells three subscription tiers and three one-time packs. Legal set is complete on short paths - /privacy (2026-10-09), /terms (2026-09-28), /refund (2026-10-10), /acceptable-use and /cookie all 200; /privacy-policy, /terms-of-service, /refund-policy, /legal, /about, /contact, /faq, /affiliates, /partners and /referral all 404, and /llms.txt 308-redirects to /sites/aigenjutsu/llms.txt, which is the live copy. Contact route probed against the domain's own Cloudflare Email Routing MX before any mail: support@aigenjutsu.app returned 250 2.1.0 Ok while a random local part returned 550 5.1.1 Address does not exist, so the published mailbox is real and the domain is not a catch-all. Name family - crowded, asked rather than asserted: Genjutsu is Higgsfield's video-to-video model, released 2026-08-31, and seven other domains carry the name (genjutsu.app 2026-10-02, genjutsuai.app and genjutsuai.net 2026-09-30, genjutsu-ai.com and genjutsu-ai.org 2026-10-04, genjutsuai.art 2026-10-05, genjutsu-trends.com 2026-10-11), each on a different Cloudflare NS pair and each serving its own build rather than this platform's data-site template - so no single operator farms the name and no rights demand is warranted. This site discloses non-affiliation in the footer of every page, in llms.txt, on /pricing and on a dedicated /higgsfield-genjutsu page headed "Higgsfield Genjutsu Alternative" that states it does not claim the same engine; the models it actually runs are Kling 2.6/3.0 Motion Control, Wan 2.2 Animate Move/Replace and Seedance 2.0/2.5, all independently confirmed as shipped (Seedance 2.5 launched 2026-07-31; Kling 3.0 Motion Control in February 2026). Published as 3.9 with the identity, retention, training and processor gaps in cons; no affiliate program exists to wire. Terms date 2026-09-28 predates the domain's 2026-10-08 registration - asked, not asserted as stale.
Checked 2026-11-03 at https://www.synthesia.io/pricing. Basic is $0 per month with 500 credits/month. Starter is $9 for the first month and $19 per month after that, with 1,250 credits/month. Pro is $49 for the first month and $89 per month after that, with 6,000 credits/month. The served page also lists higher monthly credit rungs on the Pro card and a yearly toggle that says save up to 4 months. It does not print the 2026-09-18 figures of $29 Starter, $18 yearly, 1,200 Starter credits, $64 Creator yearly, or 14,500 and 44,000 yearly credits. Enterprise pricing is custom. No rollover rule is stated.
Official sources checked 2026-11-03Open verification questions
- The pricing page is internally inconsistent: its annual cards display Starter at $18/month and Creator at $64/month, while its FAQ states $264/year for Starter and $804/year for Creator. Those annual totals do not equal the displayed monthly equivalents, so no corrected value was inferred.
- The reviewed public terms permit use of Customer Data to improve the services but do not clearly state whether that includes general model training, nor do they identify a self-serve training opt-out. A stronger no-training claim could not be verified.
- Commercial use is not unrestricted: Stock Avatar advertising and sensitive-context uses can require written consent, an Enterprise plan, or both.
Customer Terms effective July 20, 2026 say the customer owns Customer Data, including Inputs and Outputs, while Synthesia owns Synthesia Content. Customers receive a limited license to Synthesia Content during the subscription and, after termination, to the extent that content was incorporated into generated videos, subject to continuing compliance. The terms license Customer Data to Synthesia only as reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, and improve the services, address security/support issues, comply with law, prevent fraud, or as expressly authorized in writing. The privacy policy generally describes Synthesia as processor of Customer Data under customer instructions. Personal-avatar documentation requires a live consent recording matching the person shown; stock avatars are based on actors who consented. The Acceptable Use Policy prohibits rights violations, deceptive impersonation, and disabling provenance mechanisms. It restricts paid social advertising with Stock Avatars unless Synthesia gives express written consent; Custom Avatar advertising requires appropriate consent from the depicted individual. Stock-avatar use in sensitive endorsement-like contexts, news, politics, or current-events content is also restricted. Acceptable-use source: https://www.synthesia.io/legal/acceptable-use-policy
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