Talking Avatar pricing
Pay per second for the minutes you use, from prepaid credits. No subscription, seats or minimums. Start with $1 of free credits, no card needed.
API for developers
Give your own voice agent a photorealistic face that speaks its audio in real time. You bring the AI model and the voice.
$0.02/ minute
Billed per second
A growing library of faces
$1 free, about 50 minutes · No card required
No code · everything included
A complete AI agent with a realistic face. Build it in the dashboard, then share a link or add it to your site with one line.
$0.06/ minute
All-in, billed per second
One price covers
$1 free, about 16 minutes · No card required
Over 50,000 minutes a month?
A custom price for your volume, with help getting into production.
Need a free 3D avatar instead?
Open Source is MIT licensed and runs in the browser, with no account or API key.
Prices in US dollars, excluding taxes, as of .
Calculator
Pick a product and drag to the minutes you expect each month. Over 50,000 minutes, we'll quote a custom price.
Estimated cost
$60a month
Billed per second from prepaid credits, with no subscription and no minimum. Your first $1 is free.
No card required
| Usage | Realistic Avatars ($0.02/min) | Voice Agents ($0.06/min) |
|---|---|---|
| A 90-second call | $0.03 | $0.09 |
| A 5-minute conversation | $0.10 | $0.30 |
| One hour | $1.20 | $3.60 |
| 100 interviews of 20 minutes | $40 | $120 |
| 10,000 minutes a month | $200 | $600 |
Billing is per second, so a 90-second call costs 90 seconds. $10 of credits buys 500 avatar minutes, or about 166 voice agent minutes.
Compare
Have your own voice agent? Use the API. Want a complete agent without code? Use Voice Agents.
| Feature | Realistic Avatars$0.02/min · API | Voice Agents$0.06/min · no code | Open SourceFree · 3D, in the browser |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.02 a minute | $0.06 a minute, all-in | Free (MIT) |
| Free to start | $1 credit, 50 minutes | $1 credit, about 16 minutes | Always free |
| Avatar | Photorealistic, from the library | Photorealistic, from the library | Your own 3D .glb model |
| Head motion and expressions | Yes | Yes | Mouth, blinks and brows |
| AI model, speech recognition, voice | Your own | Included | Your own |
| Code needed | SDK or WebSocket API | None | JavaScript or React |
| Where callers see it | Your page or LiveKit room | Share link, widget or iframe | Your page, on their device |
| Length | Up to 3 hours a session | Up to 60 minutes a call | No limit |
| Tools, transcripts, post-call webhook | Your own agent's | Yes | — |
| Custom avatar | $199 one time | $199 one time | Any .glb model |
| Watermark | Removable, $19/month | Removable, $19/month | None |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Get API key | Build an agent | Open-source SDK |
Add-ons
$199one time, per avatar
An avatar of you or your presenter, made from a short video and voice recording with their signed consent. It works with the API and with voice agents, and costs the same per minute as any other avatar.
Request a custom avatar$19a month
Removes the small “Powered by Talking Avatar” from avatar video, and the link on voice agent share pages and embeds. It renews monthly; if the subscription ends, the watermark returns.
Remove it from BillingNo surprises
All of these are on the dashboard's Billing page. We also email you when your balance runs low, at most once a day.
Time is never rounded up to the minute. Each session's cost appears on the Usage page, to four decimal places.
Add $5 to $1,000 at a time by card. Sessions and calls draw from your balance, and stop when it runs out.
A hard cap from $1 to $100,000 a month. When you reach it, sessions and calls stop, including ones in progress, until the 1st of next month (UTC).
It stays off unless you turn it on. You choose when it tops up and by how much, and can switch it off at any time.
Each agent has a maximum call length, from 1 to 60 minutes, and each caller can start only a limited number of calls an hour and a day.
No subscription, seats, tiers, minimums or setup fees. The price is the same at any volume, and commercial use is included.
How the price compares: checked on each vendor's own pricing page in October 2026, real-time avatar APIs where you bring the voice agent mostly cost $0.01 to $0.22 a minute, and managed agents that include speech recognition, an LLM and a voice cost $0.11 to $0.56. Some cost less than $0.02 at steady volume on a monthly plan; Realistic Avatars has no plan to buy.
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Talking Avatar Realistic Avatars cost $0.02 a minute and Talking Avatar Voice Agents cost $0.06 a minute, both billed per second from prepaid credits with no subscription. Talking Avatar Open Source is free (MIT). A custom avatar is $199 one time, and removing the watermark is $19 a month.
Yes. Talk to a realistic avatar live for two minutes on the demo page, with no signup. New accounts get $1 of free credits, with no card needed: 50 minutes of avatar time or about 16 minutes of voice agent calls.
Talking Avatar Realistic Avatars is the face only: your own voice agent or TTS supplies the conversation and the voice. Talking Avatar Voice Agents include the avatar, a realtime AI model, speech recognition and the voice, so there is nothing else to pay for.
An API session is billed from the moment the avatar is live until you close it or your server disconnects. A voice agent call is billed from the moment the avatar joins until the call ends; test calls from the dashboard are billed like any other.
Yes. Set an optional monthly spending limit on the Billing page; when you reach it, sessions and calls stop until the next month. Auto top-up is off unless you turn it on, and each voice agent has a maximum call length.
No. You pay only for the minutes you use. The one optional subscription is watermark removal, at $19 a month.
The self-serve price is the same at any volume, with no tiers, seats or concurrency plans, so a small test and a large rollout cost the same per minute. If you expect more than 50,000 minutes a month, contact us for a custom quote.
$199 per avatar, one time. Send a short video and voice recording with the signed consent of the person on camera. Sessions with it cost the same per minute as any other avatar.
By credit or debit card, through Dodo Payments. Taxes are added at checkout where required. Credits are non-refundable and non-transferable, except where the law requires otherwise.
No card needed. Get an API key or build your first voice agent in minutes, or talk to a realistic avatar live first.
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