# Tavus review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Developer platform for real-time AI video conversations Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Tavus sells an API and no-code tools for building AI humans that hold live video conversations and generate video from trained replicas of real people. It also offers a consumer PALs app of AI companions. Developer plans bundle monthly minutes of conversational video and video generation, with overage billed per minute. - **Category:** Screen Recording & Video - **Made by:** Tavus - **Website:** https://www.tavus.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you do not write code, as it is a developer platform. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Tavus has a free plan, and paid plans start at $59 per month plus pay-as-you-go usage. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Developer Basic: 25 minutes of conversational video, 5 minutes of video generation and 25 stock replicas a month. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $0 | 25 conversational minutes, 5 generated-video minutes, 25 stock replicas, 1 concurrent stream. | | Starter | $59 per month, plus pay-as-you-go usage | 100 conversational minutes, 10 generation minutes, 3 custom replica trainings, 3 concurrent streams. | | Growth | $397 per month | 1,250 conversational minutes, 100 generation minutes, 7 custom replicas, 10 streams, recordings. | | Enterprise | Custom | Volume discounts, white-labeled experience, SLAs, SOC 2 and HIPAA reports. | Read from https://www.tavus.io/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Tavus before buying. ## Key features - **Conversational video interface:** Real-time AI conversations with video, turn-taking, vision and 30+ languages through an API or no-code builder. - **Custom replicas:** Trains a replica of a real person from about one minute of video, including a custom voice model. - **Video generation:** Generates video from a replica, with monthly minutes on each plan and overage per minute. - **Knowledge base and memory:** Upload documents or websites for answers, with memories that persist across conversations. - **Bring your own LLM:** Swap in your own language model and use function calling to reach external tools. - **Transcripts and recordings:** Saves text transcripts of every conversation; video recordings cost $0.03 per minute. ## Good for - Developers adding a talking AI human to a product - Teams building AI interviewers, sales or training agents - Businesses producing personalized video from a trained replica ## Worth knowing - Usage beyond included minutes is billed: conversational overage is $0.37 per minute on Starter and $0.32 on Growth. - Extra custom replica trainings cost $65 each on Starter and $40 on Growth. - The pricing page also holds a hidden four-tier set (Starter $22, Builder $59, Growth $397, Business $975) that was not the default view. - PALs, the consumer app, is a separate set of plans at $0, $20 and $50 a month. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Tavus is a developer platform for real-time AI video conversations and generated video. It needs developers to build with it, charges per minute on top of a $59 monthly fee, and its pricing page holds a second set of tiers. - **Value for money: D.** Starter is $59 a month plus usage, above the category's dearest tenth, with overage at $0.37 a minute. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The free Basic plan gives 25 minutes of conversation and 5 minutes of generation a month. - **Features: B.** Conversational video, custom replicas, generation, a knowledge base and your own LLM cover the job. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record, and it is built through an API by developers. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and an API, with Google Meet the one integration listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Tavus's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among screen recording and video tools - Tavus's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 14 of the 133 other screen recording and video tools we grade, and level with 27. - It stands best on features (B, above 78 of 133) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $59 a month, against a middle price of $12.25 for the category: 85 of the 88 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 36 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/video ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Tavus 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 92 of the 133 other screen recording and video tools grade higher. It costs $708 a year. - You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Meet among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Meet **Tags:** Video generation, AI agents, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [HeyGen](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heygen): AI video generator with realistic avatars and video translation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heygen-vs-tavus) - [Synthesia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/synthesia): AI video platform that turns scripts into avatar-presented videos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/synthesia-vs-tavus) - [Elai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elai): AI avatar video maker that turns text, URLs and slides into video. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elai-vs-tavus) - [DeepBrain AI Studios](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deepbrain-ai-studios): AI avatar video maker with dubbing and interactive avatars. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deepbrain-ai-studios-vs-tavus) - [Wondershare Virbo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wondershare-virbo): AI marketing video maker with AI sales influencers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tavus-vs-wondershare-virbo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.tavus.io/pricing - https://www.tavus.io/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/tavus Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).