Best AI video tools
Almost everything here is metered — minutes of video, credits, or avatar seats — so the monthly figure is a floor rather than a bill. Every figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date beside it. The ordering is cheapest entry price first — a basis you can check rather than a ranking you have to trust.
What “best” means on this page
“Best” is not a mood — it is whichever axis you actually care about, measured. Our record can say which tool is cheapest to start, whose free plan is real, who bills local currency and whose prices just moved; it cannot say which tool fits your work, which is what the full comparisons are for. Cheapest never means best — it means cheapest. Each verdict below names its axis, and every tool links to its own site so you can check us against the source. No vendor paid for any position.
Entry at $9/mo — the lowest published paid plan in this set. Cheap is a fact, not a verdict; the profile below says what you get for it.
site ↗pricing ↗A plan priced at zero on the vendor’s own page — trials not counted. What each one caps differs; the profiles say.
Showed us different money in different countries on the same day — measured, not assumed. The profiles carry the figures.
A change only counts once a second clean read agrees. The change log →
Tool by tool
Renderforestsite ↗pricing ↗
An online toolkit for video, logo, website and mockup creation, sold as one subscription. Paid plans start at $9/mo (Premium Website); no free plan is published. It bills by country — entry £9.99/mo to a UK reader and €9.99/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. Its published prices moved on 2026-10-02 — the change log holds the rows.
Synthesiasite ↗pricing ↗
An AI video platform for corporate training and internal communication, built around presenter avatars. Paid plans start at $14/mo (Starter); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $59/mo (Pro). It bills by country — entry £19/mo to a UK reader and €19/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. Its published prices moved on 2026-10-03 — the change log holds the rows.
Runwaysite ↗pricing ↗
An AI video generation and editing tool aimed at filmmakers and motion designers. Paid plans start at $15/mo (Standard); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $95/mo (Max). We read the same $15/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country. Its published prices moved on 2026-09-06 — the change log holds the rows.
DeepBrain AIsite ↗pricing ↗
An AI video generator that turns text into presenter-led video, sold for corporate and news-style content. Paid plans start at $24/mo (Personal); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $55/mo (Team). We read the same $24/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country.
Colossyansite ↗pricing ↗
An AI video platform for workplace learning, built around presenter avatars and scenario scripts. Paid plans start at $27/mo (Starter); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $59/mo (Professional). We read the same $27/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country.
HeyGensite ↗pricing ↗
An AI video platform that generates presenter-led video from a script, with avatars and translation. Paid plans start at $29/mo (Creator); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $49/mo (Pro). We read the same $29/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country.
Riversidesite ↗pricing ↗
A remote recording studio for podcasts and interviews that captures each participant locally in high quality. Paid plans start at $35/mo (Pro); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $99/mo (Webinar). It bills by country — entry £35/mo to a UK reader and €35/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
Side by side
| Tool | Paid from | Free plan | Currency | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renderforest | $9/mo | — | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Synthesia | $14/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Runway | $15/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| DeepBrain AI | $24/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Colossyan | $27/mo | — | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| HeyGen | $29/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Riverside | $35/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
How to choose in this category
- Minutes, credits and avatar seats are not interchangeable — work out which unit binds you before comparing prices.
- Two plans at the same monthly figure rarely include the same output; the allowance is the comparison, not the price.
- Check what a free row actually allows before treating it as a plan you could stay on.
Questions the record can answer
How much do AI video tools cost?
Between $9/mo and $35/mo. The lowest entry price we hold for any of the 7 AI video tools we track is Renderforest, at $9/mo; the highest is Riverside, at $35/mo. Both are the vendor's own published list price, read on 2026-10-13. Cheapest is not best; it is cheapest, and it is the one axis a price record can settle on its own.
Which AI video tools publish a plan priced at zero?
5 of the 7 we track: Synthesia (Basic), Runway (Free), DeepBrain AI (Free), HeyGen (Free) and Riverside (Free) — the entry each zero price sits on is named beside it. A free trial is not counted here: a trial is a deadline, not a price.
Do AI video tools charge in my own currency?
Some do. We read every pricing page from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany on the same day, and 3 of the 7 AI video tools we track showed us a different currency in at least two of those three markets: Renderforest, Synthesia and Riverside. The rest billed the same money to all three.
Have any AI video tools changed their prices recently?
Yes — 3 confirmed changes in this category, most recently Synthesia on 2026-10-03. A change is confirmed only when the vendor's own page showed us one set of figures and then another; the old reading stays in the record rather than being overwritten.
How many AI video tools does Wicketry track?
11 in this category, last read on 2026-10-13. 7 of them publish a plan ladder we can put in the table; we also track FlexClip, Fliki, HeyGen Enterprise and VEED, but hold no named ladder for them in US dollars yet, so they are absent rather than converted or guessed.