Changelog
Every “verified” stamp on this site has a receipt. This ledger records the vendor pricing and policy changes we detect while re-reading source pages, and the bench rounds and pages we ship — each entry dated, most linked to the vendor page it was read on. If a price on this site disagrees with a vendor page newer than the entry here, trust the vendor page and tell us.
July 2026
- Synthesia: full plan ladder re-verified, Creator at $89/mo
Read on synthesia.io/pricing Jul 19, 2026: Starter $29/mo or $264/yr (14,500 credits/yr ≈ 120 min), Creator $89/mo or $804/yr (44,000 ≈ 360 min), free Basic 1,200 credits/mo watermarked with no downloads. Per-second deduction confirmed by the page's own 59-second example.
- Jul 19, 2026PublishedTrue-Costs pricing set completed — Runway, Speechify, Synthesia
Dedicated pricing explainers now cover every major vendor on the bench: per-unit math, hidden-costs sections, Offer schema, and honest flags where a vendor doesn't publish a rule.
- Jul 19, 2026Published/answers batch 2 — five more verified questions
Synthesia rollover (honestly unconfirmed), HeyGen rollover, Murf's single-editor seat wall, ElevenLabs annual-plan mechanics, and the Speechify Premium-vs-Studio split.
- ElevenLabs: paid credits roll over up to 2× the monthly quota
Verified on ElevenLabs' pricing FAQ and help center Jul 19, 2026: unused paid-plan credits bank automatically (max balance 3× quota), downgrading or cancelling forfeits them, and prepaid PAYG replaced postpaid overage for new self-serve accounts (12-month expiry).
- ElevenLabs free-plan license explainer published
The exact non-commercial rule, the 'elevenlabs.io' / '11.ai' title-attribution requirement (which now lives in the help center, not the ToS), the $6 commercial floor, and the no-retroactive-license catch.
- Jul 19, 2026Published/answers launched — one verified question per page
A new page type for long-tail questions: 40–80 word direct answer first, vendor-page sources, cluster links, QAPage schema. Five seed questions across HeyGen, Speechify, Murf and ElevenLabs.
- Jul 19, 2026PublishedHeyGen and Speechify credits calculators launched
The calculator matrix grows to five: HeyGen (minutes by model — Avatar IV/V, III, translation) and Speechify Studio (the 1×/3×/30× voiceover/dubbing/avatar spread), plus dedicated Murf and HeyGen pricing breakdowns.
- Jul 19, 2026PublishedElevenLabs and Synthesia credits calculators launched
Two more interactive converters join the Runway one: ElevenLabs credits → finished narration/scripts/dubbing (built on our measured ~835 credits/minute), and Synthesia credits → video minutes at the published 2-credits-per-second rate.
- Synthesia commercial-use explainer published
Who owns the videos, the stock-avatar paid-promotion ban and what survives cancellation — every clause read on Synthesia's terms, AUP and help center on Jul 19, 2026.
- ElevenLabs review: failure ledger and cost table added
'What went wrong in our test' (v2 tag-text spoken aloud, v3 take nondeterminism, 65–72s pace spread) plus a per-plan cost-per-finished-minute table from the measured ~835 credits/minute figure.
- Murf review: clean-run ledger and $/hour table added
The bench run itself came back artifact-free in one take — logged as such — with the two billing traps (annual toggle, 24h metering) and a cost-per-generated-hour table.
- Jul 19, 2026PublishedWritesonic vs Frase rebuilt with verified 2026 plans
Both products repositioned in 2026 — Writesonic dropped its budget writing tiers (entry now $79/mo), Frase's old $19.99 solo tier is long gone. The comparison now carries the verified plan ladder and a persona matrix.
- Runway credits calculator launched
Interactive credits → seconds-of-video → dollars converter, built from the verified per-model credit rates.
- Synthesia: cancellation ends access to all videos in the account
Verified on Synthesia's help center Jul 13, 2026: after a billing period ends you "lose access to Synthesia and all videos in your account," purchases are non-refundable, and accidental cancellations reverse only within 48 hours.
- Runway: monthly plan credits don't carry over
Verified on Runway's help center Jul 13, 2026: unused monthly credits reset on the billing day and don't roll over, while separately purchased credits never expire.
- Jul 13, 2026PublishedPolicy and credits explainer batch shipped (13 posts)
Refund/cancel rules for ElevenLabs, InVideo, Jasper, Pictory, Runway and Synthesia; credits mechanics for Creatify, Speechify Studio, Browse AI and Synthesia; commercial-rights reads for Murf, Speechify and LOVO — each verified on the vendor's own pages and dated.
- InVideo pricing kept third-party-reported
InVideo's pricing page renders in-browser only, so our figures stay triangulated from third-party sources and are labeled as such — the one money page on this site not read directly from a vendor page.
- Frase: 2022-era pricing reviews are describing a dead product
Verified on Frase's live pricing page Jul 3, 2026: the $19.99 solo tier quoted by still-ranking 2022 reviews no longer exists; current entry is Starter at $39/mo billed yearly. Our review carries the current tiers.
- Writesonic repositioned: budget writing tiers gone
Verified on writesonic.com/pricing Jul 3, 2026: the low-cost individual writing plans no longer appear — new customers start at $79/mo for the AI-search visibility platform. Legacy plan holders should check their account terms.
- Four-voice ElevenLabs bench round published
The identical 991-character brief through Rachel, Adam, George and Sarah — raw MP3s, measured 9.1–12.5s synthesis times, and a 65–72s finished-length spread from casting alone.
- Murf bench sample published
Same brief via the official Murf API: 6.3s synthesis, 64 seconds of audio, first take, WAV original downloadable.
- Jul 1, 2026BenchVoice-bench pricing pass: every plan verified on live vendor pages
All published prices for the voice category were read on the vendors' live pricing pages and dated — the verification cadence every money page now states.