HeyGen Review: 'Unlimited' Is Doing a Lot of Heavy Lifting"

HeyGen hit $95M ARR. G2 crowned it their fastest-growing product. Avatar IV — the flagship avatar engine — is putting out avatars that most people can't distinguish from a real person on camera. Multilingual lip-sync across 175+ languages, ahead of Synthesia and D-ID. The tech is real. The pricing behind it is a different story. The dual-currency problem "Unlimited video creation" is on every paid plan. What you find out after subscribing: HeyGen runs two resource systems. Standard Avatar III videos are unlimited. But Avatar IV, lip-synced translation, 4K upscaling — the features worth paying for — burn Premium Credits. Capped monthly. Don't roll over. Creator plan at $29/month gives you 200 Premium Credits. Avatar IV costs 20 credits per minute. That's roughly 10 minutes of premium video per month. One Trustpilot reviewer reported a 90-second video burning 95 credits — almost half the monthly allocation in one render. What the review platforms say 100 Trustpilot reviews analyzed: 80%