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Realtime avatar cost calculator

What a realtime talking avatar costs per month at your volume, on each vendor’s cheapest published tier, against rendering on the device.

Cost comparison

What it costs against the alternatives.

Monthly render bill at 10,000 minutes
Rates and sources

Vendor-published list rates for their realtime product, entry paid tier, own currency, checked 26 July 2026. Most are overage rates after a bundled allowance, and at volume most vendors quote below list. Simli’s pricing page 404s and D-ID’s won’t render, so we publish no number for either. Hedra is excluded — offline generation, not a realtime stream.

Where a plan’s included minutes are published (Tavus), we subtract them. The bars use our $0.03 avatar rate; our row also shows the $0.08 rate with Yoob voice. We have not verified which vendor rates include a voice, so we don’t pair either of our rates with any vendor’s. A Yoob SDK subscription is prepaid usage credit, so it doesn’t change the per-minute cost.

Tavus $0.37 / $0.32 Beyond Presence €0.35 / €0.175 Runway $0.20 +$0.02/session HeyGen LiveAvatar $0.10 Anam $0.16 / $0.11 bitHuman $0.01 self-hosted Spatius $0.009 / $0.007 Spot an error?

How the numbers work

Cloud avatars render every frame on a GPU in a datacenter and stream it as video, so they bill per minute of streaming. Yoob draws the face on the user’s phone or browser, so it bills only for the conversation minute and never for frames. Rates are each vendor’s own published list price; sources are under the chart. See Yoob pricing.