Pricing2026-10-21

HeyGen made its Voice Turbo model free to use until 30 November 2026. It ranks first on the Artificial Analysis text-to-speech leaderboard. The model works with public voices and instant voice clones. Professional voice clones still need the paid model. Requests may return errors when capacity is full. Users can switch to the paid model with one line of code. No credit card is required to start. The free tier is best-effort with no uptime guarantee.

What changed

HeyGen Voice Turbo cost money to use.

What it unlocks

Generating speech with HeyGen Voice Turbo at no cost.

  • $0 per million characters until 30 Nov 2026
  • 64% preferred over ElevenLabs in blind tests

What you need to act on it

  • an API key
  • free capacity available

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What does this mean for your job?

This is the story as everyone gets it. Once a week we send you the version written for your role — what changed, why it matters for the work you actually do, and one thing to try. Free while we tune it.