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What’s new at HeyGen: September 2026

October 1, 2026

September was built for developers. HeyGen shipped an open-source real-time avatar stack powered by GPT-Live-1, launched the Code2Video Benchmark for evaluating AI-generated motion graphics, and brought Professional Voice Clone to the API.

Code2Video Benchmark Evaluates AI Motion Design

September 21, 2026

HeyGen and HyperFrames introduced Code2Video Bench with the Kaggle team. It tests how well AI agents turn creative briefs into code-rendered motion graphics, using 168 human-created reference videos and evaluations across engagement, prompt intent, composition, timing, and craft.

What’s new at HeyGen: August 2026

September 9, 2026

See everything HeyGen shipped in August 2026, from the launch of HeyGen for Real Estate to Edit Look, a new way to retouch and refine your avatar without recording again.

HeyGen for Real Estate and Edit Look

September 9, 2026

HeyGen launched a real-estate workflow that turns an agent’s expertise into market updates, listing videos, and neighborhood tours without anyone holding a camera. Edit Look retouches an existing avatar once so every future video made from it follows the new look.

What’s new at HeyGen: July 2026

August 17, 2026

See everything HeyGen shipped in July 2026, from Video Podcast and HyperFrames inside Video Agent to 30-minute talking avatar videos, website-to-video, Figma-to-video, and new agentic video creation tools.

Introducing HeyGen for Real Estate

August 11, 2026

HeyGen for Real Estate brings three video formats built for agents. Type what your market needs to hear, and get a polished video starring you. As a launch offer, US agents who sign up for the Creator plan get HeyGen White Glove free for 30 days.

Video Podcast Is Live

July 29, 2026

HeyGen's Video Podcast turns any doc, link, or idea into a two-host video show with studio scenes, multi-cam cuts, and B-roll, ready in minutes. Everyone else stops at audio — this is a show you can publish.

HyperFrames Becomes Video Agent

July 23, 2026

HeyGen brought HyperFrames, its HTML motion-graphics framework, inside HeyGen as a Video Agent. Prompt what you want and the agent builds the entire video, avatar, graphics, captions, and music, infinitely customizable, just ask.

AI Clipping in the HeyGen API

July 18, 2026

AI Clipping is now in the HeyGen API: one call turns a long video into scored, social-ready clips. Let the model pick the highlights, guide it with plain-language instructions, or pass exact timestamps. Up to 10 clips per job, each with a confidence score, optional auto captions, and 9:16, 1:1, or 16:9 output.

Batch APIs Are Live

July 17, 2026

HeyGen's Batch APIs are live: submit up to 100 videos, translations, lipsyncs, or uploads in one request and get a single webhook back when everything's done. One batch_id tracks the whole job, with per-item status and pagination for large batches.

HyperFrames Gets a Media Library

July 17, 2026

HeyGen gave HyperFrames a media library: 10k+ tracks, 75k+ images, SFX, and logos, free with a HeyGen login, plus access to HeyGen's generative models. Assets save to your machine, so the next project skips the search. Run it with /media-use.

Keyframes Open-Sourced in HyperFrames

July 2, 2026

HeyGen open-sourced Keyframes in HyperFrames — the system behind pro editing tools, rebuilt as code. Comfortable for beginners, deep enough for After Effects pros, and your agent can now see its own motion and fix issues with one command (npx hyperframes keyframes).

Next-Gen HyperFrames Skills

June 26, 2026

The next generation of HyperFrames skills is here — 9 workflows your agent actually understands (a launch video, a music video, captions and overlays on video). It knows which one you mean from context and routes there on its own.

HyperFrames Cloud Render

June 21, 2026

Don't let your machine be the bottleneck — HyperFrames can now render in the cloud on HeyGen. No local Chrome, ffmpeg, or AWS; renders land faster and your machine stays free so you (or your agent) can keep building while it renders. Run it with `npx hyperframes cloud render`.

HyperFrames Live on Grok

June 21, 2026

HyperFrames is now officially live on Grok — any answer becomes a polished video in minutes. Grok knows everything; HyperFrames shows it.

HeyGen May 2026 Release

June 6, 2026

HeyGen May 2026 release — new features and improvements across the platform.

AI Avatar on Twitch

June 6, 2026

HeyGen put an AI avatar on Twitch to roast 24/7 — people send GitHub repos in chat and it reviews code and roasts bad design decisions in real time.

Cinematic Avatar API

June 6, 2026

Cinematic Avatar API is live — keep your likeness, add cinematic range, and build your video pipeline via a coding agent.

frame.md

June 6, 2026

Introducing frame.md — a spec built for videos and motion that teaches AI agents how to make branded video, converting your design.md into video-native brand guidelines.

Lovable Integration

June 6, 2026

HeyGen is now integrated with Lovable via MCP + OAuth — prompt avatar video directly into your app and ship with a face and voice.

HyperFrames Templates on AWS Lambda

May 21, 2026

Turn your best HyperFrames composition into a template — swap text, colors, and clips, then render dozens of versions in parallel on AWS Lambda. Build once, scale forever.

HeyGen API Pricing Cut Across the Stack

May 20, 2026

AI video just got cheaper to scale. We've reduced pricing across the HeyGen API stack while continuing to outperform competitors on realism, lip sync, motion quality, and identity consistency. See the updated pricing breakdown.

Avatar V Lands on fal

May 20, 2026

Avatar V is live on fal! Realism + identity consistency, studio-quality videos from a 15-second recording, lifelike motion and expressions, stable across multiple camera angles, and built for long-form performance.

Avatar V API at $0.05/sec

May 20, 2026

Avatar V API is live at $0.05/sec — the highest-quality AI avatar model for developers. Benchmarked against Veo 3.1, Kling O3 Pro, OmniHuman 1.5, and Seedance 2.0 on cross-scene talking-head generation. Avatar V won every category.

Tutorial: Avatar V Custom Motion

May 20, 2026

In this video, HeyGen breaks down how you can prompt things like eye contact, pacing, pauses, posture, gestures, and subtle shifts in energy to shape the performance.

What kind of creator workflow should we break down next?

Avatar V Now Takes Direction — Custom Motion

May 17, 2026

Avatar V now takes direction. Custom Motion lets you cue specific motions, expressions, and gazes — a lean-in before a key point, a smile for emphasis, a thumbs up at the end. Whatever the moment calls for, just type it.

HeyGen Now Built Into Canva

May 15, 2026

190M+ people already create in Canva. Now they can generate videos there too. HeyGen is officially built into Canva, letting you add AI avatars into decks, training docs, social posts, and marketing assets without leaving the canvas.

HeyGen Is Now Built Into Codex

May 13, 2026

HeyGen is now built into Codex — one-click install. Your A-Roll, B-Roll, audio, captions, and motion graphics all live in one workflow. Call on your avatars, change looks, edit scenes, and generate videos without ever leaving Codex.

HeyGen on Android

May 12, 2026

Some of the best ideas happen when you're nowhere near your desk. HeyGen is now on Android — create and publish videos directly from your phone, wherever inspiration hits.

HyperFrames Inspector

May 12, 2026

Every edit used to be a round-trip through the model — font swap, color change, nudge 20 pixels, easing curve. Now they're a click in the Inspector panel. HyperFrames Inspector is live.

npx hyperframes preview

HyperFrames Catalog Update

May 8, 2026

HeyGen pushed a HyperFrames catalog update with new textures and shaders — each one addable with a single npx command.

One-Click Vercel Rendering for HyperFrames

May 8, 2026

HeyGen and Vercel teamed up on a HyperFrames-on-Vercel template — preview HTML video compositions in the browser, render MP4s server-side on Vercel Sandbox.

HTML-in-Canvas with HyperFrames

May 6, 2026

HeyGen showcased HyperFrames rendering HTML directly inside canvas-based video compositions — making interactive web layouts a first-class video element.

Hermes Agent + HyperFrames Skill

May 6, 2026

HeyGen added HyperFrames as a native Hermes Agent skill — a collab with Nous Research. Install with `hermes skills install hyperframes` and turn an X post, PDF, or repo into a video.

Hyperframes Community Hub

May 5, 2026

HeyGen launched hyperframes.dev — a community hub where you can browse projects, download any zip, hand it to your agent, or publish your own. Hyperframes is HeyGen's open-source HTML-to-video framework: write HTML, CSS, and JS, render deterministic MP4. Built for AI agents.

HeyGen × Granola

May 1, 2026

HeyGen now integrates with Granola — turn your meeting notes into shareable HeyGen videos automatically.

HDR Rendering for HyperFrames

April 29, 2026

HeyGen rolled out HDR rendering for HyperFrames — higher contrast, richer colors, and better highlights and shadows in your generated video.

HyperFrames in Codex + Claude Design

April 27, 2026

HyperFrames is now an official one-click plugin in Codex (turning Codex into an end-to-end video workspace — code it, edit it, render it, ship it) and natively in Claude Design (drop in the skill file, generate motion graphics, then `npx hyperframes render` to MP4). Design → animation → MP4 in one flow.

Instant Highlights V2

April 21, 2026

Your 90-min video has 15 clips hiding in it. Instant Highlights V2 finds them. Prompt-based search, face tracking, multi-speaker handling, captions. Translate into 175+ languages and upscale to 4K.

HeyGen Skills — Custom AI Avatars

April 18, 2026

Your agent already knew how to write. Now it knows how to show up. Describe your avatar or paste a photo — your agent builds it and saves it for every future video.

1080p with Seedance 2.0 on HeyGen

April 18, 2026

Full HD generation with Seedance 2.0 is now available on HeyGen. Same motion, same multi-character scenes — now with the clarity it deserves.

HyperFrames — Open Source HTML to MP4

April 17, 2026

HeyGen built their launch video in Claude Code using HyperFrames. Now it's open source and agent-native. HTML to MP4.

$ npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes

HeyGen CLI Is Live

April 15, 2026

Your AI agent can now generate and ship videos from the terminal. Run one command and your agent handles it all: script → avatar creation → video → delivery. All from the CLI — just your agent and one command.

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