Synthesia review: pricing, features and agent access
Synthesia produces AI presenter videos from text scripts using stock or personal avatars, with a free tier and API access starting at the Creator plan.
Facts verified August 2026 Compiled from Synthesia's own public documentation and pricing pages, not from a hands on test. The vendor site is synthesia.io, which we do not link to.
What is Synthesia
Plain description first, so you can rule it in or out before reading the rest.
Synthesia produces AI presenter videos from text scripts using stock or personal avatars, with a free tier and API access starting at the Creator plan.
What you are buying is a cast of synthetic presenters you can put on camera from a script, without booking a person. On this site it is filed with the other avatar UGC tools, which is the set a buyer normally holds it against, and the tools listed at the bottom of this page come from that set.
There is a free tier, so you can see the output before any card details change hands.
Quick verdict
What the record supports, said in as few sentences as it takes.
Synthesia is an avatar UGC tool, which on this site means a cast of synthetic presenters you can put on camera from a script, without booking a person.
On price, free tier, then $29 per month, taken from the vendor's own published plans.
Synthesia has no MCP server, but it does publish an API, so an agent can reach it through a wrapper you write and maintain yourself.
The clearest reason to pick it: Free tier with 10 minutes of video per month, no credit card. The clearest reason not to: Free and Starter plans lack API access.
Pricing
The published plans as they stood when we checked.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | What the plan says it includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (Free) | Free | Free | 1,200 credits/month, 10 min video/month, no credit card required |
| Starter | $29 per month | $216 per year | 14,500 credits/year, 120 min video/year; $18/mo billed annually |
| Creator | $89 per month | $768 per year | 44,000 credits/year, 360 min video/year, 5 personal avatars, API access; $64/mo billed annually |
| Enterprise | Custom, on request | Not published | custom pricing, unlimited video minutes and personal avatars |
Checked on the vendor's own public pricing page in August 2026. Plans change, so treat this as the state of the page on that date rather than a quote.
Features on ten dimensions
The same ten questions are asked of every tool on this site, so the answers can be lined up side by side.
| Dimension | Synthesia |
|---|---|
| Avatar library | Yes |
| Actor licensing | Commercial use stated |
| Batch generation | No |
| Public API | Yes |
| Watermark on free plan | Yes |
| Languages | 160+ |
| Aspect ratios | 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 |
| Hook variations | No |
| Editing suite | Yes |
| Direct publishing | No |
Not confirmed means the answer was not stated in the public documentation we read, not that the answer is no. Facts verified August 2026.
Agent and MCP access
The dimension most review pages skip, and the one that decides whether this tool can be part of an automated pipeline.
Synthesia has no MCP server, but it does publish an API, so an agent can reach it through a wrapper you write and maintain yourself.
Synthesia's pricing page shows API access enabled on the Creator plan and above; no first-party or documented community MCP server was found in search results.
- MCP: No MCP server
- API: Public API
- Batch generation: Not supported on the public record, so variants are produced one at a time.
Why this matters: a tool an agent cannot call is a tool a person has to sit in front of. If the plan is to brief once and get twenty variants back, the MCP and API rows above are the rows that decide whether that plan works.
Pros and cons
Both lists come from the same research pass. Neither is padded to match the other.
What works
- Free tier with 10 minutes of video per month, no credit card
- 160+ languages across all plans
- API access from the Creator plan
- 1-click translation into 80+ languages on Enterprise
What does not
- Free and Starter plans lack API access
- Free tier videos carry a watermark
- No public MCP server found
- Plans are billed in annual credit allotments, making monthly cost comparisons less direct
Synthesia questions people ask
Does Synthesia have a free plan?
Yes, the Basic plan is free, giving 1,200 credits and 10 minutes of video per month with no credit card required, but videos are watermarked.
Which Synthesia plan includes API access?
API access is available starting on the Creator plan ($89/mo, or $64/mo billed annually) and above.
Does Synthesia have an MCP server for AI agents?
No public first-party or community MCP server was found for Synthesia as of this verification.
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Before you commit to Synthesia
Check the two rows that are hardest to change later: whether your agent can call it, and what the second month costs. Everything else on a page like this is easier to live with than those two.
Facts verified August 2026. If a fact here is out of date, that is a mistake on our side, not a position.