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Hedra
AI studio that generates video, image, and audio content - including talking-avatar video - from prompts using multiple models.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
Interesting for creators who want AI-generated talking characters and avatar video, an area where Hedra has pushed quality forward. As with all generative video, results vary by input and can still look synthetic, so test it against your specific use before relying on it. Watch credit and usage limits, which generative video burns through quickly.
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Should you use Hedra?
Use it if creators making character or avatar video. Avoid it if studios needing predictable per project cost, because credit burn depends on retry count and cannot be forecast from the plan allowance alone.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹1,489/mo$15/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Not listed
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Hedra is a marketing & content / video & visual creation for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹1,489/mo for a GST-registered business ($15/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for creators making character or avatar video, and a poor fit if studios needing predictable per project cost, because credit burn depends on retry count and cannot be forecast from the plan allowance alone.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Basic starts at $15 a month for 1,500 credits with commercial use rights included rather than gated behind the top tier
- Credit packs bought separately do not expire between billing cycles, so a heavy month does not need a permanent plan upgrade
- Character-3 video is published at 6 credits per second, so you can estimate cost per finished clip before you subscribe
The catch
- Monthly plan credits do not roll over, so a quiet month is money burned and there is no banking of unused capacity
- Credits are deducted per generation and a usable clip usually takes several retries for lip sync or identity drift, multiplying real cost per video
- Upscaling to 1080p costs extra credits on top of the original generation, so the headline allowance covers fewer finished deliverables than it looks
- Trustpilot reviewers report credits consumed by poor or failed outputs, with the company declining to refund those credits
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹1,489
Hedra advertises $15/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹1,489 a month (₹17,862/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹1,756 a month.
- Sticker price
- $15/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹1,489
- Registered per year
- ₹17,862
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹1,756
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Free (watermarked). Paid plans from $15/mo, scaling to higher tiers; Teams and Enterprise (custom) for organizations. USD-billed, so add forex and GST for India. Confirm on vendor site.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Hedra fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Hedra compares
Against the 6 other ai video generation toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other ai video generation tools
Recorded for Hedra and for at most a third of the 6 others we list.
- Developer API
- Text to image
- Text to speech
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 6 others, and for Hedra.
- Text to video
- Image to video
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Hedra?
Hedra is an AI video generation platform focused on expressive character and avatar video - turning images, audio, and text into talking, animated characters. It targets creators and marketers who want character-driven or presenter-style video without filming or animation skills.
Best for
- Creators making character or avatar video
- Marketers wanting presenter-style clips
- Teams experimenting with generative video
Who should avoid it
- Studios needing predictable per project cost, because credit burn depends on retry count and cannot be forecast from the plan allowance alone
- Occasional creators who make one video a quarter, since unused monthly credits expire and the subscription keeps charging between projects
What Hedra does
What we verified about Hedra
Read from Hedra’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed10
- Text to video
- Studio generates video from prompts across multiple video models
- Text to speech
- Audio credit table prices ElevenLabs and Cartesia voice generation per 1,000 characters
- Text to image
- Credit table prices Flux Dev, Flux Pro, Imagen4, Nano Banana and Ideogram image models
- Image to video
- Character-3 turns still images plus audio into animated speaking characters
- Developer API
- Site has a dedicated API section with an API Reference in resources
- Lip sync generation
- Character-3 output is judged on lip sync quality per our recorded research
- Multi model studio
- Studio exposes Veo, Sora, Kling, MiniMax Hailuo and Hedra Character-3 side by side
- Per second video billing
- Credits are deducted by generated video length, not rounded to a full minute
- Talking avatar video
- Core product generates expressive talking character video from an image plus audio
- Video upscaling
- Upscaling to 1080p is a paid extra step on top of generation
What people use it for1
- Create videos
- Creators hire it for character-driven video without animation skills
Works with10
- Nano banana
- Nano Banana is listed as a priced image model at 8 credits per image
- Kling AI
- Kling 2.5 Turbo and Kling 2.1 Master are priced video models
- Ideogram
- Ideogram v2 is a priced image model at 14 credits per image
- Google veo
- Veo 3, Veo 3 Fast and Veo 3.1 are priced video models in the studio
- Elevenlabs
- ElevenLabs is a priced audio model inside Hedra Studio
- Cartesia
- Cartesia is a priced text-to-speech model inside Hedra Studio
- Black forest labs flux
- Flux Dev, Flux Pro and Flux Pro v1.1-ultra are priced image models
- Google imagen
- Imagen4 is a priced image model at 8 credits per image
- Minimax hailuo
- MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 and Hailuo-02 variants are priced video models
- Openai sora
- Sora 2 Pro is offered at 70 credits per second in the studio
Terms, compliance and how you buy30
- Sso enterprise only
- Single Sign-On is listed only under the Enterprise tier
- Self serve signup
- Plans are chosen and paid online with a Sign Up flow, no sales call
- No card required
- Pricing page headline states no credit card required
- Free plan
- Page title says Free Plan, No Credit Card and invites starting free
- Email only support
- Pricing FAQ directs all help to support@hedra.com on non-enterprise tiers
- Credit based pricing
- Credits are the unit of work across video, image and audio generation
- Acceptable use policy
- Legal footer publishes a separate acceptable use policy for generated content
- Biometric data policy
- Legal footer carries a dedicated biometric data policy for face-based generation
- Clip length cap on free
- Free plan caps clips at roughly 30 seconds
- Commercial use on all paid plans
- Commercial use rights are included from the $15 Basic tier
- Consumer scale user base
- Pricing page claims over 20 million users
- Credit packs do not expire
- FAQ says credits from credit pack purchases will not expire and roll over
- Daily generation cap on free
- Free tier is limited to roughly five video generations a day
- Dedicated slack support enterprise
- Enterprise includes dedicated technical support on Slack and an account manager
- Discord community
- Footer links a Discord community alongside LinkedIn and Instagram
- Lose access on cancellation
- FAQ says cancelling loses most functionality apart from limited watermarked generations
- Monthly credits expire
- Every tier states monthly credits do not roll over between billing cycles
- No refund for failed generations
- Trustpilot reviewers report credits consumed by poor outputs with refunds declined
- Private deployments enterprise only
- Enterprise tier offers private deployments and forward deployed engineers
- Public status page
- Resources footer links a Status page and Changelog
- Published pricing
- Four consumer tiers and a full per-model credit table are printed on the pricing page
- Quote only enterprise tier
- Enterprise tier shows Custom and routes to Contact sales
- Resubscribe to use remaining credits
- FAQ says you must resubscribe to use non-expiring credits left on your account
- Retry cost unpredictable
- Usable clips usually take several retries for lip sync or identity drift, multiplying real cost
- Speed tiered by plan
- Basic is slower generations, Creator faster, Professional fastest
- Teams plan at professional price
- Teams and Professional are both $75 a month with identical credit allowances
- Top up credit packs
- You can purchase extra credit packs when monthly credits run out
- Transparent per model rates
- Pricing page publishes credits per second or per image for every model
- Usd billed
- All plans are priced in US dollars from $15 a month
- Watermarked free output
- Our recorded free plan limits include watermarked output and roughly 300 credits monthly
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Pricing caveat and source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
Free (watermarked). Paid plans from $15/mo, scaling to higher tiers; Teams and Enterprise (custom) for organizations. USD-billed, so add forex and GST for India. Confirm on vendor site.
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Does Hedra give a GST invoice in India?
Hedra does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Hedra good for Indian small businesses?
Hedra can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Hedra have a free plan?
Hedra lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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