How much does Synthesia cost per minute of video?
Roughly $2.20 per minute of finished video. Synthesia meters about 2 credits per second from an annual credit pool: Starter's ~14,500 credits a year (≈120 minutes) costs $264 annually, so about $2.20 a minute; Creator's ~44,000 credits (≈360 minutes) costs $804, about $2.23 a minute. The rate is similar across tiers because the credit-to-video rate is fixed — higher tiers buy more minutes, not cheaper ones. Re-renders cost their seconds again. Verified on synthesia.io/pricing, Jul 2026.
Avatar video is inherently pricier per minute than voice-only tools because you're rendering a synthetic presenter, not just audio — so Synthesia's ~$2.20/minute sits far above AI-voice rates (which run $0.14–0.20). Compare against other avatar tools, not voice tools, when budgeting.
Because the meter is per second from an annual pool, the real cost driver is revision: every re-render spends its seconds again. Convert credits to minutes in the Synthesia credits calculator, with the full plan math in the pricing breakdown.
Sources checked
Official vendor pages used for pricing, rights and feature claims.
- Synthesia pricing - plan tiers, minute caps, custom-avatar add-on and watermark-free export
Keep going
- Synthesia credits calculator — Credits → minutes at 2/second.
- Synthesia pricing (2026) — The annual credit pool decoded.
- Does Synthesia charge per minute or per video? — The per-second meter.