Best D-ID alternatives in 2026

D-ID is #25 of 26 in our AI video generators ranking. Here are the other 25, on the same score, with what each does differently from D-ID — every fact read from the maker's own pages on Oct 23, 2026.

D-ID from: Not published
Free plan: Not published

Creatify

✓ Champion

Marketers making avatar ads with a budget API

9.9

from $10/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Visit Creatify →

HeyGen

Best free

Avatar videos with text, image and reference-to-video

8.9

from $24/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Visit HeyGen →

InVideo

Best for avatar videos

Prompt-driven video with text, image and avatar tools

8.9

from $10/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm API

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
–API

Visit InVideo →

Steve AI

Best value

Explainer and animated videos from text prompts

8.9

from $120/yr

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video

✓Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Runway

Creators generating cinematic clips with Gen-4.5

8.8

from $12/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm AI avatars

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
–AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Synthesia

Presenter-style business videos from a script

8.4

from $18/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video

✓Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Visit Synthesia →

Elai.io

Small teams making avatar videos from scripts or URLs

8.0

from $23/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video

✓Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Pictory

Turning scripts and URLs into stock-footage videos

7.9

from $25/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Confirms Text to video

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

LTX Studio

Storyboard-first filmmakers using LTX video models

7.8

from $12/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm AI avatars and AI voiceover

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
–AI avatars
–AI voiceover
✓API

Colossyan

Training and course videos with stock avatars

7.5

from $59/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video

✓Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Descript

Editing video by text with AI voice and avatars

7.5

from $16/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video and API

✓Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
–API

Kapwing

Browser editing with an AI video generator and voiceovers

7.5

from $16/mo

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm AI avatars and API

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
–AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
–API

CapCut

Social editors wanting AI text-to-video inside an editor

7.1

from $19.99/mo

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video and API

✓Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
–API

Krea

Pay-as-you-go compute across many video models

7.0

from $5/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video, AI avatars and AI voiceover

✓Text to video
–Image to video
–AI avatars
–AI voiceover
✓API

Pika

Short stylised clips on a low entry price

6.9

from $10/mo

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video, AI avatars and AI voiceover

✓Text to video
–Image to video
–AI avatars
–AI voiceover
✓API

VEED

Browser video editing with a bundle of AI tools

6.5

from Not published

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Lumen5

Marketers turning blog posts and scripts into videos

6.3

from $19/mo · yearly

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video, AI avatars and API

✓Text to video
–Image to video
–AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
–API

Luma Dream Machine

Creators wanting several video models in one subscription

6.1

from $300/yr

Compared with D-ID

Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm AI avatars

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
–AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Hailuo AI

Short text-to-video and photo-to-video clips on credits

6.1

from $14.99/mo

Compared with D-ID

Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm AI avatars and AI voiceover

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
–AI avatars
–AI voiceover
✓API

Captions

Talking-head creators wanting AI actors and voiceovers

5.8

from $24.99/mo

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Doesn't confirm Image to video and API

–Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
–API

Fliki

Turning scripts and blog posts into voiced videos

5.5

from Not published

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm Image to video

✓Text to video
–Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Vidnoz

Free-tier avatar videos with a large template library

5.5

from Not published

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm API

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
–API

Adobe Firefly

Adobe users wanting video, speech and avatar generation

5.0

from Not published

Compared with D-ID

Confirms Text to video

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
✓AI avatars
✓AI voiceover
✓API

Vidu

Cheap entry to text and image to video

4.5

from Not published

Compared with D-ID

Free plan (D-ID: not published)
Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm AI avatars and AI voiceover

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
–AI avatars
–AI voiceover
✓API

Higgsfield

Short-form video with Seedance and Kling-class models

3.0

from Not published

Compared with D-ID

Confirms Text to video
Doesn't confirm AI avatars and AI voiceover

✓Text to video
✓Image to video
–AI avatars
–AI voiceover
✓API

D-ID and all 25 alternatives side by side

#	Product	Score	Free plan	Trial	Paid from	Text to video	Image to video	AI avatars	AI voiceover	API
1	Creatify	9.9	✓Yes	Not published	$10/mo · yearly	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
2	HeyGen	8.9	✓Yes	Not published	$24/mo · yearly	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
3	InVideo	8.9	✓Yes	Not published	$10/mo · yearly	✓	✓	✓	✓	–
4	Steve AI	8.9	✓Yes	Not published	$120/yr	✓	–	✓	✓	✓
5	Runway	8.8	✓Yes	Not published	$12/mo · yearly	✓	✓	–	✓	✓
6	Synthesia	8.4	✓Yes	Not published	$18/mo · yearly	✓	–	✓	✓	✓
7	Elai.io	8.0	✓Yes	Not published	$23/mo · yearly	✓	–	✓	✓	✓
8	Pictory	7.9	–Not published	14 days	$25/mo · yearly	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
9	LTX Studio	7.8	✓Yes	Not published	$12/mo · yearly	✓	✓	–	–	✓
10	Colossyan	7.5	✓Yes	14 days	$59/mo · yearly	✓	–	✓	✓	✓
11	Descript	7.5	✓Yes	Not published	$16/mo · yearly	✓	–	✓	✓	–
12	Kapwing	7.5	✓Yes	No	$16/mo	✓	✓	–	✓	–
13	CapCut	7.1	✓Yes	Not published	$19.99/mo	✓	–	✓	✓	–
14	Krea	7.0	✓Yes	Not published	$5/mo · yearly	✓	–	–	–	✓
15	Pika	6.9	✓Yes	Not published	$10/mo	✓	–	–	–	✓
16	VEED	6.5	✓Yes	Not published	Not published	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
17	Lumen5	6.3	✓Yes	Not published	$19/mo · yearly	✓	–	–	✓	–
18	Luma Dream Machine	6.1	–Not published	Not published	$300/yr	✓	✓	–	✓	✓
19	Hailuo AI	6.1	–Not published	Not published	$14.99/mo	✓	✓	–	–	✓
20	Captions	5.8	✓Yes	Not published	$24.99/mo	–	–	✓	✓	–
21	Fliki	5.5	✓Yes	Not published	Not published	✓	–	✓	✓	✓
22	Vidnoz	5.5	✓Yes	Not published	Not published	✓	✓	✓	✓	–
23	Adobe Firefly	5.0	–Not published	Not published	Not published	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
24	Vidu	4.5	✓Yes	Not published	Not published	✓	✓	–	–	✓
25	D-ID	4.0	–Not published	Not published	Not published	–	✓	✓	✓	✓
26	Higgsfield	3.0	–Not published	Not published	Not published	✓	✓	–	–	✓