HeyGen vs Synthesia: You’re Probably Buying the Wrong One
HeyGen is built for marketing volume. Synthesia is built for enterprise training. Pick wrong and you’ll switch within a quarter.
HeyGen is built for marketing volume. Synthesia is built for enterprise training. Pick wrong and you’ll switch within a quarter.
InVideo AI is fast but every edit burns credits — even the AI’s own mistakes. Know the credit math before you buy.
HeyGen’s Avatar IV is the best in the market. The credit system that gates it is not.
Gen-4.5 is the best consumer video model available. The credit math to actually use it is another story.
700 million weekly users don’t make it the best. They make it the most distributed.
Anthropic and OpenAI converged on identical $20, $100, and $200 tiers in April 2026. The pricing pages mirrored. The math did not. ChatGPT Pro $100 burned through in 24 hours. Claude Max 5x held at 91% on parallel work. This review unpacks the Capacity Asymmetry between the two $100 tiers. Four months Claude, six months ChatGPT. The wrong question is “Claude vs ChatGPT.” The right question is which envelope fits your work.
We tested all three so you don’t have to.