# D-ID review (2026): is it worth it? > Avatar video generator and AI agent platform with an API Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. D-ID is a generative video platform that turns scripts into videos with talking avatars, and also offers AI avatar agents, video translation and an API. Its Studio pricing page describes plans billed by video minutes rounded up to 15-second steps, with a watermark on trial and Lite videos. - **Category:** AI Image & Video Generators - **Made by:** D-ID - **Website:** https://www.d-id.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need prices up front, since the plan table loads by script and was not readable. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing D-ID's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **AI video generator:** Creates avatar videos from a script in the Studio web app. - **AI avatar agents:** A separate AI Avatar Agent product and a Natural User Interface for live conversations. - **Video translate:** Video Translate is listed among the products. - **API:** A developer API shares the same minutes balance as the web app, with separate API pricing. - **Self-hosting:** The navigation lists a self-hosting option. ## Good for - Marketing and training teams producing avatar videos - Developers adding talking avatars through an API ## Worth knowing - Plan prices load by script on the pricing page and could not be read as page text, so none are recorded. - Minutes renew monthly and unused minutes are lost; video length rounds up to the next 15 seconds. - Trial and Lite plan videos carry a watermark, a full-screen one on the trial. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. D-ID makes avatar videos from a script in a web app, and also sells avatar agents, video translation and an API. Its plan prices load by script, so none could be read, and trial and Lite videos carry a watermark. - **Value for money: C.** No price could be read, because plan prices load by script on the pricing page, so there is nothing to set against the $10 middle for image tools. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free trial exists, with a full-screen watermark, and free accounts are kept for 6 months of inactivity. How long it lasts and whether a card is needed were not readable. - **Features: C.** Avatar videos from a script, avatar agents for live chat, video translation, an API and a self-hosting option. Video length rounds up to the next 15 seconds. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Video minutes round up to 15 seconds and do not carry over, so budgeting is part of learning it. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web studio plus a developer API that shares the same minutes balance, and a self-hosting option. No phone or desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from D-ID's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. The pricing page showed no plan figures as text, so prices come from the listing. ## Where it stands among AI image and video generators - D-ID's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 30 of the 89 other AI image and video generators we grade, and level with 18. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 39 of 89) and worst on features (C, above 2). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-images ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace D-ID you would be making a video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Video generation, AI features, Public API, Text to speech ## Alternatives - [Colossyan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/colossyan): AI avatar video and course maker for workplace training. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/colossyan-vs-d-id) - [Vidnoz](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidnoz): AI avatar video maker with templates, voices and video generators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/d-id-vs-vidnoz) - [Akool](https://toolgpa.com/tools/akool): AI face swap, avatars, video translation and video models in one suite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akool-vs-d-id) - [Hedra](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hedra): Character video studio and model inference platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/d-id-vs-hedra) - [invideo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/invideo): Agent-driven video editor with built-in AI video and image models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/d-id-vs-invideo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.d-id.com/pricing/studio/ - https://www.d-id.com/pricing/api/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/d-id Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).