HeyGen's Avatar V model now available via API

By Steven Van · 2026-05-20

Priced at $0.05 per second; HeyGen says it beat Veo 3.1, Kling O3 Pro, OmniHuman 1.5 and Seedance 2.0 on talking-head benchmarks.

HeyGen's HeyGen Avatar V model is now available through the API at $0.05 per second. The company says it benchmarked the model against Veo 3.1, Kling O3 Pro, OmniHuman 1.5 and Seedance 2.0 on cross-scene talking-head generation, and Avatar V won every category. Developers building on avatar video can now access what HeyGen calls its highest-quality model directly, priced per second of output. See the announcement.

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