How many credits do Speechify avatars burn?
30 credits per second — thirty times the voiceover rate. Speechify Studio meters voiceover at 1 credit per second, dubbing at 3, and avatar video at 30, all from one pool. That means Studio Starter's 7,200 monthly credits ($19/month) last two hours in voiceover mode but exactly 4 minutes in avatar mode. Verified on Speechify's pages, Jul 2026.
The 30× spread is the single biggest gotcha in Speechify's pricing. The same plan that comfortably covers a dozen 10-minute YouTube narrations a month disappears in one short avatar clip — so know which mode you'll actually live in before picking a tier. Studio Creator's 28,800 credits ($49/month) stretch avatar work to 16 minutes.
Two adjacent rules from our verification: regenerated takes bill their seconds again, while unchanged re-exports are free. And Studio Free's 600 credits (20 seconds of avatar video) carry no commercial usage rights — the license starts at Starter, covered in our commercial-use read.
Convert any pool across the three modes in the Speechify credits calculator, or see the full metering system in the Studio credits explainer.
Sources checked
Official vendor pages used for pricing, rights and feature claims.
- Speechify AI voice generator - voiceover product page for Studio-style generation and commercial-use positioning
Keep going
- Speechify credits calculator — One pool, three burn rates — voiceover, dubbing, avatars.
- Speechify Studio credits, explained — The 1-credit-per-second system and the Reader/Studio split.
- Speechify review — Two products, one brand — the full verified profile.