The Best AI Dubbing Tools in 2026
HeyGen is the lip-sync pick when a person is on camera; ElevenLabs Starter is $6, and Rask Creator is a 25-minute monthly plan.
HeyGen is the best AI dubbing tool in 2026 when a person is on camera: Creator is $29 a month, with lip-sync and 175 languages. ElevenLabs Starter at $6 is the voice pick, but it includes only 2 minutes of Dubbing v2. Rask Creator buys 25 minutes, and lip-sync waits for Creator Pro at $99. Synthesia fits avatar lessons, Dubverse fits a short clip, and Kapwing, Vozo, and Maestra fit an edit, on-screen text, or captions.
Key facts8 tools compared: HeyGen, ElevenLabs, Rask AI, Synthesia, Vozo, Kapwing, Dubverse, Maestra
- 8 tools compared: HeyGen, ElevenLabs, Rask AI, Synthesia, Vozo, Kapwing, Dubverse, Maestra
- ElevenLabs (best for: Audio-first dubs where the cloned voice matters more than a moving mouth): From $6/mo (Starter, 30,000 credits); free plan yes
- Rask AI (best for: Teams that need a minute count they can multiply before they upload): From $39/mo (Creator, 25 minutes); 3-minute trial
- Synthesia (best for: Learning teams dubbing avatar lessons they already produce in Synthesia): From $14/mo billed yearly (Starter); free Basic plan
Buy HeyGen when the founder, the trainer, or the customer is on camera and the mouth has to follow the new language. A cheap voice on the original picture still reads as a voiceover, which is why lip-sync decides the vendor.
Creator removes the watermark and opens 175 languages, but script editing sits on a higher plan, so a line a customer will quote still needs a human pass.
An AI dubbing tool transcribes speech, translates it, and speaks it back over the video.
Subtitles leave the audio alone, and a voice generator does not translate, so this list is for new audio, and sometimes a new mouth, on footage that already exists.
Toolradar data: as of September 2026 the directory header lists 10,677 tools across 401 categories.
The AI voice shelf holds 120 tools and translation holds 106. Dubbing sits in the overlap of those two jobs, not a third catalog, so a voice-shelf price can hide a second bill once a face is in the frame.
How the directory is counted, from an August 2026 snapshot, is on our AI tools statistics page.
How we ranked: eight products still selling dubbing, checked on each vendor's own pricing and product pages on 23 September 2026.
Order is whether lip-sync is on a plan you can buy without a call, and whether the included minutes are a number finance can multiply, with no paid placement.
Toolradar's dubbing guide and Dupple's practitioner guide cover the same job for different readers.
Top Picks
Based on features, real-world fit, and value for money.
| Tool | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| HeyGen | From $29/mo (Creator, $24 billed annually); free plan yes | Talking-head video that needs lip-sync you can buy without a sales call |
| ElevenLabs | From $6/mo (Starter, 30,000 credits); free plan yes | Audio-first dubs where the cloned voice matters more than a moving mouth |
| Rask AI | From $39/mo (Creator, 25 minutes); 3-minute trial | Teams that need a minute count they can multiply before they upload |
| Synthesia | From $14/mo billed yearly (Starter); free Basic plan | Learning teams dubbing avatar lessons they already produce in Synthesia |
| Vozo | Creator annual $264 (1,800 points); Studio $99/mo; free plan yes | Screen recordings where the words on screen must change with the language |
| Kapwing | From $16/member/month billed annually ($192/year); free plan yes | Browser edits where the dub is one step in a social or course cut |
| Dubverse | From $18/mo (Pro, 50 credits); 2-day trial | Short dubs on the lowest published monthly seat if you can skip lip-sync |
| Maestra | From $39/mo billed yearly (Voiceover Basic, 120 min) | Teams that already caption in Maestra and want a translated voice next |
Pricing read from each vendor's own published pricing page, checked Sep 2026. Every vendor here publishes a price.
Best for: Talking-head video that needs lip-sync you can buy without a sales call
PricingFrom $29/mo (Creator, $24 billed annually); free plan yes
Best for: Audio-first dubs where the cloned voice matters more than a moving mouth
PricingFrom $6/mo (Starter, 30,000 credits); free plan yes
Best for: Teams that need a minute count they can multiply before they upload
PricingFrom $39/mo (Creator, 25 minutes); 3-minute trial
Best for: Learning teams dubbing avatar lessons they already produce in Synthesia
PricingFrom $14/mo billed yearly (Starter); free Basic plan
Best for: Screen recordings where the words on screen must change with the language
PricingCreator annual $264 (1,800 points); Studio $99/mo; free plan yes
Best for: Browser edits where the dub is one step in a social or course cut
PricingFrom $16/member/month billed annually ($192/year); free plan yes
Best for: Short dubs on the lowest published monthly seat if you can skip lip-sync
PricingFrom $18/mo (Pro, 50 credits); 2-day trial
Best for: Teams that already caption in Maestra and want a translated voice next
PricingFrom $39/mo billed yearly (Voiceover Basic, 120 min)
What it is
An AI dubbing tool takes a finished video, translates the spoken words, and replaces the audio with a synthetic voice, often cloned from the speaker.
When the plan includes lip-sync, it redraws the mouth so the new language does not fight the picture, which is what separates a dub from a voiceover stuck on the original face.
That is a different buy from the AI translation tools list, which prices seats and characters, and from the AI voice generators list, which prices a voice with no picture.
Avatar products on the avatar generators list can dub too, but they start from a script and a generated face, so use the avatar list when you will reshoot and this list when the footage already exists.
The invoice is almost never the sticker: HeyGen sells credits the page will not turn into minutes, and ElevenLabs adds a Dubbing v2 minute table on top of credits.
Rask, Synthesia, Dubverse, Kapwing, Vozo, and Maestra sell minutes or a credit-to-minute rate, and a second language spends that allowance again, so two languages are two jobs.
Why it matters
Twenty-five minutes on Rask Creator covers one 10-minute video in two languages, with 5 minutes left, because one minute of video in two languages counts as two minutes. Dubverse Pro's 50 credits, at 4 credits per dubbed minute, are 12.5 minutes, and ElevenLabs Starter includes 2 minutes of Dubbing v2.
A weekly product video empties all three in the first month, so treat the entry seat as a pilot.
Lip-sync is what changes the vendor, and it is not safe to assume the plan includes it.
HeyGen's free plan offers a limited trial of lip-sync translation, Rask names lip-sync on Creator Pro rather than the Creator card, and Dubverse holds it for Enterprise. Kapwing lists lip-sync on Business, while Pro is the plan with the dubbing minutes, and Synthesia spends 2x credits when lip-sync is on.
Maestra prices lip-sync as a per-minute add-on only on Voiceover Business, so a face-match costs allowance or a higher tier.
Review time is the other bill, because machine translation still misses product names, jokes, and legal lines.
Every tool here lets you edit a transcript on some tier, and several hide that editor on a higher plan, so budget a native speaker for anything a customer will quote.
The AIpresso daily flags plan changes like that, and the wider stack starts with AI tools for business and the HeyGen review.
Key features to look for
Pricing
The three leaders bill different units, so they are different buys. HeyGen Creator sells a credit pack, with a lower rate if you pay annually, and the page never converts a credit into a translated minute. ElevenLabs Starter includes 2 minutes of Dubbing v2, with further v2 minutes at $2.70, so that plan is a test.
Rask Creator sells a fixed minute pack you can multiply before you upload.
Annual billing is where a card and an FAQ on the same site can disagree. Synthesia's yearly cards and the FAQ name different annual totals, so confirm checkout before anyone signs.
Kapwing's FAQ lists Pro at $192 a year and Business at $600 a year, next to the yearly monthly rates, so the seat quote and the year quote are one plan.
Rask Creator annual is $329 for 300 minutes, and Creator Pro annual is $799 with 1,200 minutes, both marked as limited-time offers.
Business annual is $1,999 with 3,000 minutes, against $249 a month for 250 minutes if you stay monthly, and annual minutes are not lost at month end, so weigh yearly against monthly before you commit.
Dubverse Pro's 50 credits are 12.5 dubbed minutes at the published 4 credits a minute, or $1.44 a dubbed minute on monthly Pro if every credit goes to dubbing.
Supreme adds cloning and does not increase those 50 credits.
ElevenLabs annual equivalents on the pricing FAQ are $5, $18.33, $82.50, $249.17, and $825 if you pay yearly for the voice.
Overage is a second bill: Rask charges $3 for an extra minute on annual Creator Pro and Business, and Kapwing sells 500 extra Business credits for $50 that do not roll over.
Maestra lip-sync is a per-minute add-on on Voiceover Business, and Synthesia lip-sync doubles credits. HeyGen Pro scales from $49 at 1,000 credits to $4,300 at 100,000 credits. A Studio Express avatar at Synthesia is a $1,000 a year add-on on annual plans, verified on each vendor's pricing page on 23 September 2026.
| Plan | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| HeyGen Free | Free | 3 videos/month, 1 minute max, 30+ languages |
| HeyGen Creator | $29/month | 600 credits, 175+ languages, or $24/month annually |
| HeyGen Pro | $49/month | 1,000 credits. Tiers run to 100,000 credits at $4,300 |
| HeyGen Business | $149/month | 1,500 credits, extra seats $20/month |
| ElevenLabs Free | Free | 10,000 credits, 0.4 min of Dubbing v2 |
| ElevenLabs Starter | $6/month | 30,000 credits, 2 min Dubbing v2, extra min $2.70 |
| ElevenLabs Creator | $22/month | 121,000 credits, 9 min v2, first month $11 |
| ElevenLabs Pro | $99/month | 600,000 credits, 44 min Dubbing v2, extra min $2.23 |
| ElevenLabs Scale | $299/month | 1,800,000 credits, 3 seats, annual equivalent $249.17 |
| ElevenLabs Business | $990/month | 6,000,000 credits, 10 seats, annual equivalent $825 |
| Rask trial | Free trial | 3 minutes, voice clone in 32 languages, no card |
| Rask Creator | $39/month | 25 minutes. Annual is $329 for 300 minutes |
| Rask Creator Pro | $99/month | 100 minutes, lip-sync on the card. Annual $799, 1,200 min |
| Rask Business | $249/month | 250 minutes. Annual line is $1,999 for 3,000 minutes |
| Rask extra minute | $3 | Extra minutes on annual Creator Pro and Business plans |
| Synthesia Basic | Free | 10 dubbing minutes/month, or 120/year on the yearly table |
| Synthesia Starter monthly | $19/month | 48 dubbing minutes/month |
| Synthesia Starter yearly | $14/month | 580 dubbing minutes/year. the FAQ quotes an older annual total |
| Synthesia Creator monthly | $89/month | 140 dubbing minutes/month |
| Synthesia Creator yearly | $59/month | 1,760 dubbing minutes/year. the FAQ quotes an older annual total |
| Synthesia Studio avatar | $1,000/year | Studio Express add-on, annual plans only |
| Vozo Creator annual | $264/year | 1,800 points. Monthly card is 150 points |
| Vozo Studio | $99/month | 600 points, equated to 200 dubbing minutes |
| Vozo Business annual | $900/year | 7,200 points on the yearly Business plan |
| Kapwing Free | Free | 10 credits, watermark, 4-minute exports |
| Kapwing Pro annual | $16/member/month | $192/year, 1,000 credits, up to 50 dubbing minutes |
| Kapwing Pro monthly | $24/month | Same Pro credits, billed monthly |
| Kapwing Business annual | $50/member/month | $600/year, 4,000 credits, up to 200 dubbing minutes |
| Kapwing Business monthly | $64/month | Voice clones and lip-sync videos |
| Kapwing credit pack | $50 | 500 credits on Business, no rollover |
| Dubverse Pro | $18/month | 50 credits, 4 per dubbed minute. Annual $9/month ($108) |
| Dubverse Supreme | $30/month | 50 credits plus cloning. Annual $15/month ($180) |
| Maestra Voiceover Basic | $39/month | Yearly price shown, 120 translated voiceover minutes |
| Maestra Voiceover Premium | $79/month | 300 minutes, or 100 on pro voices and cloning |
| Maestra Voiceover Business | $159/month | 600 minutes, DeepL, lip-sync at $2/minute |
| Maestra Voiceover Business Plus | $359/month | 1,500 minutes, or 500 on pro voices and cloning |
| Maestra transcription Lite | $23/month | Yearly transcription price, 180 caption minutes, not a dub |
The bottom line
HeyGen is the default when the picture is a person and you will accept a credit balance you cannot fully forecast.
Move to ElevenLabs when the voice has to carry the performance and you will edit the picture elsewhere, because the Starter Dubbing v2 allowance will not cover a production month.
Move to Rask when finance wants minutes it can multiply, and buy Creator Pro if the mouth has to match.
Synthesia wins for avatar lessons you would have made there.
Vozo wins when the UI text in the frame is part of the lesson, and Kapwing wins when the dub is one step in the edit.
Dubverse wins on the lowest monthly seat if a short allowance is enough and lip-sync can wait.
Maestra wins when captions already live there and lip-sync can be a later add-on.
For generated footage that was never a dub, use the AI video generators list, and for agents that might call one of these APIs, use AI agents and AI automation tools.
Prompt patterns for the script you will still rewrite sit in how to write AI prompts.
Cite this: AIpresso, "Best AI Dubbing Tools in 2026", September 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
Prices and plan details come from each vendor's own pricing page, re-checked by the Toolradar pricing tracker.
- HeyGen pricing, checked Sep 2026
- ElevenLabs pricing, checked Sep 2026
- Synthesia pricing, checked Sep 2026
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