Synthesia is free on its Basic plan: 10 minutes of video per month, plus 500 credits. But the videos carry a watermark and can only be shared by link. Downloads start with Starter, at $29 per month billed monthly (price checked October 7, 2026). SCORM export of videos is only available on the Enterprise plan, which is quote-based.
Is Synthesia free for a training video?
Since October 1, 2026, every plan from Basic to Pro includes 10 minutes of video and 500 credits per month, according to Synthesia's Help Center. The 10 minutes are used first, then the credits, at about 100 credits per minute of finished video. So the free plan gives you about 15 minutes of video per month, if you spend all your credits on video.
For training, Synthesia's free plan has three limits, according to the synthesia.io pricing page: a watermark, sharing by link only, and no downloads or SCORM export. Basic is for testing a script, a voice and one of its 9 avatars. It isn't for putting a video in your LMS.
How much do Synthesia's paid plans cost?
Each paid plan includes everything in the plan below it and adds credits. Creator has been called Pro since October 1, 2026, at the same price.
Starter.
- Price: $29 per month billed monthly, which comes to $348 per year.
- Volume: 1,750 credits per month on top of the 10 included minutes, or about 27 minutes of video.
- Distribution: video downloads and no Synthesia logo, but no SCORM export of videos.
Pro.
- Price: $89 per month billed monthly, which comes to $1,068 per year.
- Volume: 6,500 credits per month on top of the 10 included minutes, or about 75 minutes. Beyond that, the Pro 2x to 8x plans give 12,500 to 48,500 credits per month. The public pricing page lists them at $176 to $676 a month (checked October 16, 2026).
- Distribution: same as Starter, with no SCORM export of videos.
Enterprise.
- Price: custom quote.
- Volume: unlimited video minutes, custom credits.
- Distribution: downloads and SCORM export of videos, available on this plan only.
The pricing page shows about 12 minutes for Starter and 60 for Pro. These figures only count their extra credits, 1,250 and 6,000. The 10 minutes and 500 credits included come on top, according to Synthesia's help article on credits.
Prices and features checked on October 7, 2026, on Synthesia's pricing page and in its Help Center. Amounts are shown with the $ symbol, and the page states neither the currency nor taxes. Check the current pricing before you decide.
How many minutes does your course need, and which plan?
Count in minutes of finished video, starting from your course outline. If you don't have one yet, follow our step-by-step tutorial with a concrete example.
- Add up your videos: number of modules, times the number of videos per module, times their length.
- Break it down by month: divide by the number of months of production. On monthly billing, Synthesia doesn't roll unused credits over to the next month. On annual billing, the whole year's credits arrive up front.
- Leave a margin: at Synthesia, a new version of an edited video can use extra credits, depending on the changes.
- Choose how you'll deliver it: link only with Basic, downloaded file with Starter or Pro, SCORM package with Enterprise.
Take a fictional training provider planning 8 modules of 4 videos, each 3 minutes long. That's 96 minutes over the year, or 8 per month. The volume would fit in the 10 free minutes: here, delivery is what you pay for. To download the videos without the Synthesia logo, Starter costs $348 per year on monthly billing.
If the 96 minutes are produced in 3 months, that's 32 per month, and Starter on monthly billing is no longer enough. You then need Starter on annual billing, whose credits for the year arrive all at once, or Pro.
Your LMS requires a SCORM package: what should you plan for?
According to Synthesia's help article of July 24, 2026, SCORM export of videos is limited to Enterprise plans. Synthesia's Roleplay Sessions, sold per learner, are a separate case: its pricing page lists SCORM delivery for them on self-serve plans. You choose the version (SCORM 1.2 or 2004, for example) and a completion threshold as a percentage, then download a .zip file. When you replace the video with a new version, the package updates without a new export or import.
Enterprise pricing is quote-based, so you'll only know the yearly cost of a course delivered in SCORM from Synthesia once you have that quote. With Starter or Pro, you download the video and add it to your LMS yourself, if your LMS accepts it. To compare with other tools, see our page on Synthesia alternatives for training.
Before you subscribe: three checks
- Test Synthesia AI's free plan with a real script: the voice, the avatar, how it pronounces your industry terms.
- Ask your LMS administrator whether it accepts a video file or requires a SCORM package.
- Check the price at checkout: the amount shown for your region, currency and taxes, and monthly or annual billing.
Complement takes a different approach, built on dialogue. Its conversational AI avatar presents the course and answers questions within the limits of your sources. It also quizzes the learner and comments on their answers out loud. You don't get a video file, and the module can't be exported to SCORM or any other format. It's shared through a link or, priced on request, in an LMS that supports LTI 1.3. The avatars speak French or English.
To see what a conversational session looks like with your own documents: 7-day free trial, no credit card required, with up to 5 learners.