HeyGen credits calculator
Convert any HeyGen credit amount — or a whole plan — into minutes of avatar video and translation. HeyGen calls credits its “single currency,” but the per-model exchange rates are what decide your real cost per minute.
Quick answer: HeyGen charges 20 credits per minute on Avatar IV/V, 3 on Avatar III and 5 for video translation. Creator’s 600 monthly credits buy ≈ 30 minutes of Avatar V footage (about $0.97 per finished minute at $29/mo), or ≈ 200 minutes on Avatar III.
Plan pools and per-minute rates verified on heygen.com/pricing, Jul 3, 2026 (Avatar III 3 cr/min · Avatar IV/V 20 · translation 5 · Video Agent 20). Every re-render bills its minutes again. HeyGen sets burn rates per generation and can change them — treat results as planning figures.
How HeyGen credits convert
The 6.7× spread between Avatar III (3 credits/minute) and Avatar IV/V (20) is the whole cost strategy: draft and iterate on the old model, render the final take on the flagship. Translation with cloned-voice lip-sync at 5 credits per minute is the quiet bargain — a quarter of flagship avatar cost. Rollover softens the math too: monthly plans carry unused credits one cycle, annual plans accumulate until renewal.
The free plan isn’t a credit pool — it’s 3 one-minute watermarked videos a month. For the full plan verification, the credit-burn complaint pattern and where HeyGen loses to Synthesia, see our HeyGen review and the Synthesia vs HeyGen comparison; the credit-rollover field guide covers how HeyGen’s carry-over compares to Runway and Synthesia.