bitHuman vs Hedra
Hedra: Generative image, video and audio models, including talking-character video. bitHuman: real-time avatars that render on the device, on your servers with no GPU, offline or in the cloud.
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 Products change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Side by side
Each row lists what Hedra and bitHuman state on their own pages.
What it makes
Hedra
bitHuman
- Essence 2 renders a photoreal person from one portrait, live. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Expression 2 renders any character from one portrait, live: people, animals, cartoons, creatures and robots. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- The talking-video API renders an MP4 of an agent speaking your audio, up to 120 seconds per job. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Developer tools
Hedra
bitHuman
- 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)
Avatars and languages
Pricing
Hedra
- Hedra's plans run from Basic at $20 a month (2,000 credits) to Ultra at $100 a month (18,000 credits), plus custom Enterprise pricing. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Hedra Avatar is priced per second through the API, from 2.5 cents a second at its lowest output setting. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Enterprise
Where Hedra is stronger
- Hedra Avatar turns an image and audio into talking or singing video up to 10 minutes long. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Hedra's API puts image, video and audio models behind one endpoint and one bill. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Hedra's developer API offers more than 110 generation models, with a Python SDK. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
- Hedra Enterprise lists private deployments, single sign-on and forward deployed engineers. (source, as of October 8, 2026)
Where bitHuman differs
- 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)
About this comparison
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