D-ID Pricing 2026: Studio and API Plans, Minutes and Cost per Minute

D-ID Studio costs $4.7 to $108 a month on yearly billing in 2026: Lite covers 10 minutes of video, Pro is $16 for 15 minutes and Advanced covers 100 minutes. Monthly billing costs more: $5.9, $29 and $196. That works out to about $1.06 to $1.08 per minute on the commercial plans billed yearly. Prices were read on D-ID's Studio pricing page and API pricing page on 26 October 2026.

The plan that matters for most buyers is Pro, because Lite carries a personal-use license and a D-ID watermark. Anyone publishing avatar videos for a business, a course or a client starts at Pro. Lite is a cheap way to test the avatars, not a way to ship work.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, evaluated 156 tools for its AI video generation ranking, updated October 26, 2026. HeyGen ranks first and Synthesia second, while D-ID sits in the 11 to 30 group. D-ID's case is price per minute and its API, which is where this page focuses.

D-ID Studio plans at a glance

Each paid plan has a slider for more minutes. Lite goes to 13 and 16 minutes, Pro to 25 and 60 minutes, and Advanced to 150 and 175 minutes, with the price rising at each step. The yearly discount D-ID shows is 20% on Lite and 45% on Pro and Advanced. Some visitors see a different Lite price while D-ID runs a pricing test.

How much does D-ID cost per video minute?

Per-minute cost is the fairest way to compare avatar tools, because the plan names hide very different allowances. The table divides each plan's price by its included minutes. These are our arithmetic on D-ID's list prices; yearly figures use the yearly total D-ID shows.

Two things stand out. On the commercial plans the per-minute price barely moves, so Advanced buys more minutes, more personal avatars and voice clones rather than a better rate. And monthly billing nearly doubles the rate on every commercial plan, so a creator who will use D-ID all year should pay yearly.

Lite looks cheapest per minute, but the watermark and personal-use license make it a different product. Comparing it with Pro is like comparing a demo with a license.

What do Lite, Pro and Advanced include?

Every Studio plan shares the same video duration ceiling of up to 30 minutes per video, background removal and video translation into 30+ languages. The differences sit in the license, the avatars and the branding.

• Lite: photo avatars, 2 video avatars and 1 personal avatar, standard voices, 3 agentic videos and API access. Personal-use license and a D-ID watermark on every video.
• Pro: 3 personal avatars, premium voices, 1 voice clone, the option to upload third-party voices, subtitles and 5 agentic videos. Commercial license, with an AI watermark in place of the D-ID logo.
• Advanced: 5 personal avatars, 3 voice clones, 600 AI prompted avatar generations, 10 agentic videos and premium support. Commercial license, and you can use your own logo.

The step from Pro to Advanced is mostly about volume and branding. A team producing a weekly training video with one presenter can stay on Pro's larger minute steps; a team that needs several presenters, cloned voices and its own logo on the output needs Advanced.

How much does the D-ID API cost?

D-ID sells developer plans on a separate API pricing page. Each plan lists minutes of rendered video and a larger allowance of streaming video for real-time avatars.

Launch has steps at 90 and 135 video minutes ($69.3 and $104.3 a month billed yearly), and Scale has steps at 250 and 300 minutes. On yearly billing, Launch's entry step works out to about $0.78 per video minute and Scale's to about $0.69, by our arithmetic. That makes the API the cheapest commercial route to D-ID video, if you can call it from your own code.

One detail links the two price lists. D-ID's FAQ says minutes used via the API are deducted from the same balance as the web app, so a Studio subscriber who also calls the API is spending one pool, not two.

D-ID vs HeyGen vs Synthesia on price

The rivals price differently, which is why a per-minute view helps. Prices below were read on HeyGen's pricing page and Synthesia's pricing page in October 2026.

HeyGen bills in credits, and its pricing page says the credits a video uses vary with the AI model, the duration and the complexity of the generation. That makes a HeyGen minute impossible to price from the plan card alone; our HeyGen pricing breakdown goes through the credit math. Synthesia's monthly plans also carry a first-month offer ($9 for Starter, $49 for Pro) before the list price applies, so budget on the list price.

The read: D-ID and Synthesia land close on per-minute cost for commercial work, and Synthesia Pro edges ahead at volume. D-ID's edge is the low entry price on Pro and the API, while HeyGen and Synthesia lead on avatar quality rankings and team features. Our Synthesia pricing page and the HeyGen vs Synthesia comparison cover those two in more depth.

Costs the plan cards do not show

• Rounding on every video. D-ID rounds each video's length up to the nearest 15 seconds, so a 1-minute 10-second clip uses 1 minute 15 seconds. Many short clips burn minutes faster than the total runtime suggests.
• Unused minutes expire. Minutes renew monthly and unused ones become void, even on yearly billing, so a quiet month is lost money.
• Watermarks by plan. The Trial carries a full-screen watermark, Lite a D-ID watermark and Pro an AI watermark; your own logo arrives with Advanced in Studio and Scale on the API.
• Plan changes mid-cycle. Moving from monthly to yearly applies right away, while a move from yearly back to monthly takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle.

Which D-ID plan should you buy?

Buy Pro on yearly billing if you publish avatar videos for any business use and need under an hour a month: it is the cheapest commercial license D-ID sells in Studio. Move to Advanced when you need several personal avatars, voice clones or your own logo on the output, since its per-minute rate is the same.

Developers building avatars into an app should start on the API's Launch plan, which carries a commercial license at a lower per-minute rate than any Studio plan. Lite is worth it only for personal projects or for testing D-ID's avatars before a paid commitment. For the wider field, see the best AI avatar generators, the best free AI avatar generators and the AI avatar generators for training videos. The HeyGen review and Synthesia review cover the two rivals, and HeyGen alternatives and Synthesia alternatives list other options.

How we priced this

D-ID prices, minutes and plan features were read on 26 October 2026 on D-ID's Studio pricing page and API pricing page, including their FAQ on minutes, rounding and watermarks. HeyGen and Synthesia prices come from HeyGen's pricing page and Synthesia's pricing page, read the same week. Per-minute costs and yearly totals not shown by the vendor are our arithmetic on list prices. We compared published plans and made no videos with any of the tools. Toolradar figures come from its AI video generation ranking, October 2026.

Cite this: Aipresso, "D-ID Pricing 2026: Studio and API Plans, Minutes and Cost per Minute", October 2026.

FAQ

How much does D-ID cost per month?

D-ID Studio costs $4.7 a month for Lite, $16 for Pro and $108 for Advanced on yearly billing, or $5.9, $29 and $196 on monthly billing. The API starts at $14.4 a month billed yearly for the Build plan. Enterprise plans are quoted.

How much does D-ID cost per video minute?

On yearly billing, D-ID's commercial Studio plans cost about $1.06 to $1.08 per minute, and about $1.93 to $1.96 on monthly billing, by our arithmetic. The API is cheaper per minute: Scale works out to about $0.69 and Launch to about $0.78 on yearly billing.

Can I use D-ID videos commercially?

Only on paid plans from Pro up in Studio, or Launch and Scale on the API. The Trial and Lite plans, and the API's Build plan, carry a personal-use license and a watermark.

Does D-ID have a free plan?

D-ID offers a 14-day trial with 3 minutes of video, a full-screen watermark and a personal-use license. After the trial, the cheapest paid plan is Lite.

Is D-ID cheaper than HeyGen and Synthesia?

D-ID Pro billed yearly is cheaper to start than HeyGen Creator and costs about the same per minute as Synthesia's yearly plans. Synthesia Pro is slightly cheaper per minute at volume, and HeyGen's credit pricing varies by model, so the answer depends on how much video you make.

Do unused D-ID minutes roll over?

No. D-ID's FAQ says minutes renew every month and unused minutes become void, so size the plan to your real monthly output.

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