D-ID alternatives
Last checked October 8, 2026. Each fact links its public source as of the date beside it. Products change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
What D-ID offers
- D-ID Studio is a browser-based platform that turns a script or document into an avatar-led MP4 video. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID Video Translate translates a video while keeping the speaker's voice through voice cloning, covering up to 29 languages. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID Agents hold live, knowledge-grounded conversations with users, backed by a REST API and a streaming API. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID offers self-hosting of its real-time avatars in your own Azure, AWS or Google Cloud account, using GPU capacity you run. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID's Agents SDK streams its V4 Expressive avatars over LiveKit. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID offers a LiveKit plug-in for real-time AI agents built on LiveKit. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID creates avatars from a single photo up to a multi-minute recording. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID states it supports video creation and real-time interactions in more than 120 languages. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID offers a free trial and paid tiers from Lite to Enterprise; Trial and Lite videos carry a D-ID watermark. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID's monthly minutes renew each month, and unused minutes do not carry over. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID offers enterprise customers dedicated account managers, and its compliance page lists third-party security certifications. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
bitHuman as an alternative
- Expression 2 renders any character from one portrait, live: people, animals, cartoons, creatures and robots. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Renders on the device: iPhone, iPad and Mac, Android phones, or a browser tab with WebGPU. There is no render server to run. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Essence 2 and Expression 2 render live on the processor of an ordinary Linux PC, with no graphics card. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Fully offline with an offline license, for Business and Enterprise plans, on Linux and on Macs with Apple silicon. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- SDKs and tools for Swift, Android, Flutter, Python, a web embed, a CLI and a REST API. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- A LiveKit plugin (livekit-plugins-bithuman) gives a LiveKit voice agent an avatar, rendered in the bitHuman cloud or inside your worker. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- A Pipecat integration (pipecat-bithuman) renders the avatar inside your bot's own process, on your own machine. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Billed by the exact second in credits, 100 credits = $1: Essence 2 and Expression 2 cost 4 credits a minute in the cloud and 2 on your own hardware or device. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Where D-ID is stronger
- D-ID Studio is a browser-based platform that turns a script or document into an avatar-led MP4 video. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID Video Translate translates a video while keeping the speaker's voice through voice cloning, covering up to 29 languages. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID states it supports video creation and real-time interactions in more than 120 languages. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- D-ID offers enterprise customers dedicated account managers, and its compliance page lists third-party security certifications. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Other alternatives
Each line is a fact from that company's own public pages.
HeyGen
HeyGen makes AI avatar videos and lists more than 500 stock video avatars on its plans. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Tavus
Tavus offers APIs for real-time, face-to-face AI conversations, its Conversational Video Interface. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Synthesia
Synthesia turns a prompt, link or file into a video with an AI avatar. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Simli
Simli's speech-to-video API lets developers create lip-synced AI avatar interactions. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Anam
Anam offers real-time interactive AI avatars through an API and a no-code platform. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Hedra
Hedra builds models that generate, perceive and predict the visual world. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Akool
Akool's suite covers face swap, talking photo, video translation and interactive streaming avatars. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
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