HeyGen positions it for presenter shots, product and training content and social video
Video model · HeyGen
HeyGen Video 1.0
15s max2KAudioOfficial price
Not listed on the AA or LMArena boards as checked.
Specs
| Version | heygen-video-1 |
| Released | 2026-09-30 help.heygen.com ↗ checked 2026-10-17 |
| Max length | 15 s |
| Max resolution | 2K |
| Audio | Yes |
| X | @HeyGen |
Features
- text / image / reference-to-video (up to 12 refs)
- dialogue, ambience and SFX in one pass, no lip-sync step
- built on MiniMax H3, post-trained by HeyGen
Pricing Official list
| 480p | $0.02/s |
| 768p | $0.03/s |
| 1080p | $0.09/s |
| 2K | $0.09/s |
| Promo | 50% off through 2026-10-31 (from $0.01/s) |
Where to use it
- HeyGen API (web app 'coming soon') help.heygen.com ↗ checked 2026-10-17
- Runware runware.ai ↗ checked 2026-10-17
Benchmarks
| Board | Rank | Score | Board date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DesignArena Image-to-Video | #1 | 1331 | 2026-10-16 | x.com ↗ checked 2026-10-17 vendor-posted chart image; author says it later dropped to #4 (https://x.com/oneeyekeh/status/2111345541498208457) |
Use cases
What people say
Replies to the launch post are mixed: one says talking-head realism fell short; another says speech came out garbled x.com ↗ replies by @ManoBTC and @vizarer1 under the seed post