# Alternatives to HeyGen

> Source: https://dubsheet.com/heygen/alternatives/ (re-verified)
> Updated: 28 October 2026

## At a glance

| Name | Best for | Starts at | Better than HeyGen at | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen.md) | Creators and teams localizing video into many languages without reshooting | Free, then $29 a month | — | 26 October 2026 |
| [Murf AI](https://dubsheet.com/murf.md) | Individuals and freelancers creating voiceovers | From $29 a month | Promotion and regular price, Audio you get | 29 October 2026 |
| [Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet.md) | Course makers and video teams creating multilingual narration from scripts or slides | Free, then $6 per 30 minutes | Past your allowance, Audio you get | 29 October 2026 |
| [Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma.md) | Creators who need free multilingual voice-over within per-conversion limits | Free, then $9 a month | Audio you get, Your voice trains their models | 30 October 2026 |
| [Akool](https://dubsheet.com/akool.md) | Marketing teams localizing brand video into many languages from one workspace | Free, then $12 a seat a month | Promotion and regular price, Your voice trains their models | 27 October 2026 |
| [Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker.md) | Content creators and e-learning teams making multilingual voice-overs on a small budget | Free, then $5 a month | Voices that use more, Audio you get | 26 October 2026 |
| [Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio.md) | Creators narrating videos, audiobooks and character voices from their own cloned voice | Free, then $15 a month | Promotion and regular price, Voices that use more | 26 October 2026 |
| [Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast.md) | Creators and teams making narrated video, courses and podcasts in their own voice | Free, then $5 a month | Promotion and regular price, Audio you get | 26 October 2026 |
| [TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai.md) | Creators making multilingual voice-overs, dubbing and music for social video | From $35.99 a month | Promotion and regular price, Audio you get | 27 October 2026 |
| [Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly.md) | Developers adding spoken output to apps, e-learning and phone systems | Free, then $4 per 1m characters | Voices that use more, Past your allowance | 27 October 2026 |

The ones people open most here come first, then the closest matches.

## Shortlist

### 1. Murf AI

Voice-over Studio with timeline video syncing, downloadable audio, dubbing, and a public API.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Promotion and regular price: yes — yearly shown monthly: the Studio plan cards open with the Billed Yearly switch already on, so the first figure shown for Creator is nineteen dollars a month billed as two hundred twenty-eight dollars annually, while the regular month-to-month price is twenty-nine dollars.](https://murf.ai/pricing)
- [Audio you get: yes — Paid Studio exports support MP3, WAV, FLAC, a-LAW, and μ-LAW, with selectable qualities for main formats.](https://help.murf.ai/voice-only)
- [Editing the translation: yes — Murf Dub lets users edit original and translated text, choose translation alternatives, and keep translation duration aligned.](https://help.murf.ai/edit-dub-script-editor)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): partial — Ten hours a month is not sold self-serve: Business tops out at eight hours for $99, so you must talk to sales.](https://murf.ai/pricing)
- [Instant cloning: partial — Instant voice cloning uses one short reference recording but is Enterprise API access that must be enabled for the workspace.](https://help.murf.ai/are-there-any-specifications-for-recording-the-voice-data)
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: partial — Enterprise cloning rules require ownership or clear documented consent for the voice submitted to Murf.](https://help.murf.ai/are-there-any-specifications-for-recording-the-voice-data)

[View Murf AI](https://dubsheet.com/murf)

### 2. Narakeet

Duration-priced browser voice-over and narrated-video maker with non-expiring capacity.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Past your allowance: yes — Additional capacity is sold as non-recurring top-up credit; the stated 30-minute pack costs twenty cents per minute.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Audio you get: yes — Audio can be exported as WAV, MP3, or MP4/M4A; WAV is the vendor’s recommended professional format.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/how-to/create-high-quality-text-to-speech-audio.html)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — The vendor limits itself to storing and processing your uploads on your instructions and claims no other rights, and source files are deleted after 30 days.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/data-security/)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Voices that use more: no — Charging depends on output length alone, not on which of the 900 voices you pick, so newer or more expressive voices do not drain the allowance faster.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Video dubbing: partial — Narakeet makes synchronized dubbed tracks from translated subtitle files, but documents choosing a target voice rather than cloning the speaker.](https://www.narakeet.com/create/ai-dubbing.html)
- [Lip sync: no — Its documented voice-over dubbing leaves the original visuals unchanged while replacing the audio track.](https://www.narakeet.com/create/ai-dubbing.html)

[View Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet)

### 3. Speechma

Free text to speech and creator audio tools with no account or credit card.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Audio you get: yes — Text-to-speech downloads as MP3, while voice cloning also lists WAV download for cloned audio.](https://speechma.com/voice-cloning)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — Your recordings are processed only to make the result you asked for, are not kept after processing, and infrastructure partners may not use them for their own purposes.](https://speechma.com/privacy)
- [Support: yes — Support is available by email at contact@speechma.com for an error reference code, with no stated business hours.](https://speechma.com/faq)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Cost to dub 60 minutes a month: partial — Dubbing is free and publishable, but one job accepts only a 60 MB video, so a 60-minute film must be split into parts rather than dubbed in a single pass.](https://speechma.com/ai-dubbing)
- [Voices that use more: no — Premium HD voices do not consume more allowance: they are free on the site, and every API plan includes the full voice catalog at one character rate.](https://speechma.com/api/)
- [Pronunciation fixes: partial — There is no pronunciation dictionary that applies across a project: the vendor's only stated fix is respelling the word phonetically in the script each time.](https://speechma.com/faq)

[View Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma)

### 4. Akool

AI video suite with video translation, lip sync, text to speech, voice cloning and a voice changer.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Promotion and regular price: yes — yearly shown monthly: the plan cards open on the Yearly tab, where Pro reads $21 with $30 struck through under a "30% OFF" pill; clicking Monthly shows the regular $30, and Starter stays $12 either way.](https://www.akool.com/pricing)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — The Terms of Service rule out training on customer material outright, so there is nothing to opt out of; the content policy repeats the guarantee for uploaded and generated content.](https://www.akool.com/terms-of-service)
- [Works inside: yes — Zapier, Canva and the Adobe Suite are each listed as Available on the integrations page, with Microsoft PowerPoint marked Coming soon; the plan table still labels Zapier itself as coming soon.](https://www.akool.com/integrations)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Unused credits: partial — Subscription credits are issued per billing period and expire unused on every self-serve plan; only Enterprise is listed with credits that do not expire, so rollover is a higher-tier property.](https://www.akool.com/refund-policy)
- [Commercial use: partial — The comparison table grants a business license only on the $249 Business plan; Starter, Pro and Pro Max carry a personal license and the Free plan shows no license at all, so publishing commercially means buying up.](https://www.akool.com/pricing)
- [Pronunciation fixes: partial — A Voice Dictionary fixes how words are said across a translation project, but the comparison table withholds it from the Free plan, and brand-terminology Studio Voice only starts on Pro Max.](https://www.akool.com/pricing)

[View Akool](https://dubsheet.com/akool)

### 5. Voicemaker

Credit-metered AI text-to-speech studio with 2,000+ voices, voice cloning, speech-to-speech and SRT export.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Voices that use more: yes — Yes - premium models drain the allowance faster: ProPlus Expressive, Expressive V2 and High-Res cost four credits a character, Turbo and ProV2 two.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [Audio you get: yes — Downloads cover MP3, OGG up to 192 kbps, 48 kHz 16-bit WAV, OPUS, AAC and 8 kHz telephony, with free users capped at 128 kbps.](https://voicemaker.in/faq)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — Voicemaker says it does not train its general voice models on your text, audio or training recordings unless you give separate explicit research consent.](https://voicemaker.in/terms)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Unused credits: partial — Rollover is plan-dependent: Starter and Creator get none, Pro monthly carries credits one billing cycle, Teams and Business up to three months.](https://voicemaker.in/faq)
- [Long scripts and chapters: partial — Long scripts work, but in chunks: per-conversion caps run from 250 characters free to 10,000 on Pro, with Studio Grade Stitching smoothing continuity past 1,000 characters.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [Video dubbing: partial — The site advertises AI Dubbing into 130+ languages that keeps tone and can use cloned voices, but its billing meters this only as per-second speech-to-speech redubbing and no video upload or export step is documented.](https://voicemaker.in/)

[View Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker)

### 6. Fish Audio

Expressive text-to-speech, voice cloning and long-form studio with a credit-metered API.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Promotion and regular price: yes — promotion: the plan cards opened with a campaign banner halving the first month, and the annual toggle also shows a per-month figure, so two discounts stack on the headline price.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Voices that use more: yes — Newer and borrowed voices cost more: on the MCP surface another team's professional clone is charged double, and in the API the drama-3 model lists at more than triple s2.1-pro.](https://docs.fish.audio/overview/mcp)
- [Audio you get: yes — Downloads cover MP3 with selectable bitrate, uncompressed WAV at a chosen sample rate, raw PCM and Opus, so quality can be matched to the delivery channel.](https://docs.fish.audio/features/text-to-speech)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Unused credits: no — Monthly allowances reset with the billing cycle and anything left is lost, which the vendor states plainly and pairs with advice to spend the allowance inside the period.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Commercial use: partial — Publishing commercially starts one plan above the free one: the Free Tier card lists commercial use among the features it does not include and the vendor restricts free output to personal projects, while Plus at $15 a month lists commercial use allowed, limited to voices you own and have verified.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Your voice trains their models: yes — The terms authorize Fish Audio to train its models on your content and usage data, and the only published way out is the Enterprise plan's zero data retention, not a self-serve switch.](https://fish.audio/terms/)

[View Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio)

### 7. Typecast

Expressive AI voice generator with emotion controls, voice cloning and a developer speech API.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Promotion and regular price: yes — none: the selector opens on Monthly and the plan cards show the regular monthly rate, with the yearly option advertised as a 10% saving.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)
- [Audio you get: yes — Downloads come as MP3 or WAV; paid plans export at 44.1kHz while the Free plan is limited to 16kHz standard quality.](https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): partial — Ten hours a month exceeds every published allowance; only Business may buy extra credits, and the vendor publishes no price for those web top-ups.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)
- [Emotion, pace and emphasis: partial — Emotion, pitch, intonation and dynamics are Pro features and speed starts at Plus, so the two cheapest paid plans cannot shape delivery.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)
- [Long scripts and chapters: partial — Long scripts are handled chapter by chapter through the command line tool, and single requests to the speech API cap at 2,000 characters.](https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/use-cases/audiobook-generation)

[View Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast)

### 8. TopMediai

AI studio for text to speech, voice cloning and video dubbing on one shared credit balance.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Promotion and regular price: yes — promotion - the headline figures are first-period introductory prices, and each plan card prints the regular rate that follows it in smaller type.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/pricing/)
- [Audio you get: yes — Both a compressed and a lossless download are offered, and the vendor explains which it recommends for web versus broadcast work.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)
- [Professional cloning: yes — A separate High-Precision mode trains on longer recordings and is described as capturing speaking style, emotion and rhythm rather than timbre alone.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/ai-voice-cloning/)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Cost to dub 60 minutes a month: partial — Dubbing is sold by credit allowance, not by the minute: the cheapest monthly plan covers only about 24 minutes of video translation, so 60 minutes needs a bigger or second purchase.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/pricing/)
- [Commercial use: partial — Commercial rights come with the paid plans only; the vendor's own license agreement grants non-commercial personal use unless a business license has been bought.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)
- [Pronunciation fixes: partial — Only basic pronunciation fixes are offered in the web editor; the vendor points advanced phonetic control at the API instead of the studio.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)

[View TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai)

### 9. Amazon Polly

Pay-per-character cloud text to speech from AWS, with four voice engines and a browser console.

**Where it improves on HeyGen:**
- [Voices that use more: yes — The newer and higher-quality voices cost far more per character: Neural is four times the Standard rate, Generative seven and a half times, and Long-Form twenty-five times, so voice choice drives the bill.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/)
- [Past your allowance: yes — There is no plan to exhaust: once the free tier allowance for a voice type is used up, every further character is billed at that voice type's published per-million rate, and requesting timing data is billed again.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/faqs/)
- [Audio you get: yes — Downloads and streams come as MP3, Ogg Vorbis or raw PCM, with a choice of sampling rates up to 24 kHz so you can trade file size against audio quality.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/features/)

**Trade-offs against HeyGen:**
- [Re-voice your recording: no — It converts written text only; you send text and get audio back, so there is no way to record your own line and have it returned in another voice with your timing.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/faqs/)
- [Long scripts and chapters: partial — Long scripts go through the asynchronous task operation, capped at 100,000 billed characters per submission, while a single direct request takes 3,000 billed characters and ten minutes of audio; there are no chapters or per-line regeneration.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/limits.html)
- [Several speakers: no — One request speaks in one voice: the markup tag that would switch voices inside a document is listed as unsupported, so dialogue or a two-host show needs separate requests stitched together yourself.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/limits.html)

[View Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly)