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LivePortrait
✓ verifiedFreemium
Web tool that animates still photos into short talking-head videos, plus photo restoration and stylizing extras.
20K visits/mo
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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.
11M visits/mo3.7K saves
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Digen AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video platform that turns text and images into videos with lip-sync, bundling many models plus upscaling and editing tools.
4.6M visits/mo
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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
2.2M visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: $7.90/mo (100 credits/mo)
Plus: $15.90/mo (300 credits/mo)
Pro: $23.90/mo (600 credits/mo)
Max: $34.90/mo (1500 credits/mo)
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Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)
Core features
- ✦Animate static portraits into short videos
- ✦Fine control over eye and lip motion
- ✦Supports real, cartoon and artistic portraits
- ✦Template- or video-driven motion patterns
- ✦Built-in photo restore, colorize and upscale
- ✦Extra style filters (cartoon, 3D, pixel, clay)
- ✦AI Artwork Generation
- ✦Boomerang Gif & Video
- ✦Overlay & FX
- ✦Videos & Gifs
- ✦Spotify Canvas Integration
- ✦Track Selection
- ✦Customization Options
- ✦Text-to-video with AI avatars
- ✦Custom and personal avatar creation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Multi-language video translation
- ✦Template library for common video types
- ✦Team and API options
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video
- ✦Lip-sync and talking avatar videos
- ✦Access to multiple AI video models
- ✦Video and image upscaling
- ✦Watermark removal and FPS boost
- ✦Text-to-speech and sound effects
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
Use cases
- →Bring old family photos to life
- →Add subtle motion to paintings and artwork
- →Create animated avatars for social posts
- →Enhance and restore images before animating
- →Creating engaging visuals for music releases on Spotify Canvas.
- →Generating promotional videos for TikTok and other social media platforms.
- →Creating unique vinyl covers with AI.
- →Exporting full-length videos directly to YouTube.
- →Create spokesperson marketing videos
- →Localize videos into many languages
- →Produce training and explainer videos
- →Scale social video content
- →Generating short marketing or social videos
- →Creating talking avatar clips
- →Enhancing and upscaling existing videos
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
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