Avatar platform pricing
Elai Pricing and Elai.io Pricing, Plans and Cost per Video Minute
What Creator, Team and Enterprise cost on each billing cycle, what a rendered minute really costs once re-renders count, and which add-ons push the bill up.
Creator, yearly
$23/mo
Team, yearly
$100/mo
Extra minute
$2
Elai puts a presenter in front of your slides. Need the scene itself, with no presenter? Describe it in the panel and generate the clip.
The short answer
Elai costs $23 a month billed yearly for Creator (15 minutes a month, one user) and $100 a month billed yearly for Team (50 minutes a month, 3 editors). On monthly billing the same plans are $29 and $125. That is $1.53 to $2.50 per rendered minute, and extra minutes cost $2. Every re-render uses minutes again, so a video you revise twice costs three times its length.
$276
Creator for a year, 180 minutes
$1,200
Team for a year, 600 minutes
Prices, minutes and billing rules taken from elai.io/pricing with both the monthly and annual toggle and from the pricing FAQ on the same page, checked September 2026. Prices exclude tax.
Elai pricing plans side by side
Elai sells video minutes, not seats alone. Every plan is a prepaid monthly allowance of rendering time, and the tier decides how many people can work in the account and which avatars, voices and exports they get.
Free
$0
1 minute, 1 user
- 80+ stock avatars, 75+ languages
- Creator features to test with
- No minute top-ups
Creator
$23 /mo yearly
$29 monthly, 15 min a month
$1.53 to $1.93 a minute
- 1 user, Full HD 1080p
- Full avatar, voice and language library
- Public API, URL to video, auto captions
Team
$100 /mo yearly
$125 monthly, 50 min a month
$2.00 to $2.50 a minute
- 3 editors and 3 guests
- 4K export, premium voices, custom fonts
- Yearly plan includes 1 selfie avatar and 1 voice clone
Enterprise
Quote
Annual, unlimited minutes
- Unlimited users, SSO, workspaces
- SCORM export, Panopto, brand kit
- 3 selfie avatars, 3 voice clones, premium avatars
The Team column on elai.io lists 50, 100 and 150 minute sizes but prints a price only for the 50 minute version, so ask for the larger sizes at checkout or from sales. Cost per minute uses Elai's own figures: $1.53 and $1.93 for Creator, $2.00 and $2.50 for Team, annual and monthly.
Which Elai plan fits your team
One person, a few explainers a month. Creator on annual billing. 15 minutes covers about five 3 minute videos if you render each once, or two or three if your reviewers ask for changes. $276 a year is the cheapest way into Elai's full avatar and language library.
A training or HR team shipping modules. Team on annual billing, which works out to $400 per editor a year across three editors. The included selfie avatar and voice clone would cost $399 a year as add-ons on their own, so if you want your own trainer on screen, Team pays for itself on that line alone.
A company rolling out training through an LMS. Enterprise. SCORM export, SSO and workspaces are Enterprise only, and so are unlimited minutes. If your compliance course has to report completions back to the LMS, the smaller plans will not do it.
Real Elai cost per finished minute, with revisions
Elai charges minutes on every click of Render, including a re-render after a one word fix, and deleting a video does not refund them. Most teams render a training video two or three times before sign-off, which is the number that belongs in your budget.
| Plan and billing | Rendered once | Rendered twice | Rendered three times | Finished minutes a year, 2 renders |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator, yearly | $1.53 | $3.07 | $4.60 | 90 |
| Creator, monthly | $1.93 | $3.87 | $5.80 | 90 |
| Team, yearly | $2.00 | $4.00 | $6.00 | 300 |
| Team, monthly | $2.50 | $5.00 | $7.50 | 300 |
| Top-up minutes | $2.00 | $4.00 | $6.00 | as bought |
$72
Saved a year on Creator by paying yearly ($276 against $348), about 21 percent.
$300
Saved a year on Team by paying yearly ($1,200 against $1,500), 20 percent.
1 year
How long Elai keeps rendered videos after you cancel. You can watch and download them, not edit.
Elai add-on prices for custom avatars and voices
Stock avatars are included on every plan. A presenter who looks and sounds like someone at your company is billed yearly, on top of the plan.
$199 /yr
Selfie avatar
Built from a video recorded on a phone. One is included with Team on annual billing.
$500 /yr
Studio avatar
Built from studio footage for a cleaner, more lifelike presenter. You arrange the shoot.
$200 /yr
Voice cloning
Your own voice for the avatar. One is included with Team on annual billing, three with Enterprise.
A solo creator who wants their own face and voice on Creator pays $276 plus $199 plus $200, so $675 in the first year. Comparing avatar platforms on that basis? Our HeyGen pricing breakdown, Synthesia pricing guide and DeepBrain AI pricing page convert each rival's credits into cost per finished minute the same way.
Elai pricing next to a scene generator
A shot like this one, a warehouse at golden hour with nobody talking to camera, is exactly what an avatar platform does not make. Elai puts a presenter over slides. A generator renders the scene. Different purchase, different budget line.
| Elai | VideoMake | |
|---|---|---|
| What it makes | Presenter videos, an avatar reading your script over slides | Original scene clips from a prompt or a still image |
| Voice, languages, captions | Yes, 75+ languages, 300+ voices, auto captions | No |
| Scene footage with no person | No, stock media only | Yes, that is the product |
| Output | Videos up to your minute allowance, 1080p, 4K on Team | Clips of 4, 8 or 12 seconds, up to 1080p, 16:9 or 9:16 |
| How you pay | Minutes a month, $1.53 to $2.50 each | Credits a month, from $24 billed yearly |
| Best for | Training modules, onboarding, multilingual explainers | B-roll, product scenes, ad openers, cutaways |
For a talking presenter, Elai is far cheaper per minute than any generator and we would tell you to buy it. Where the two meet is the edit: a training module that needs a shot of the loading dock, a product explainer that needs the product in use. Those cutaways come from our AI b-roll generator and drop into Elai as an uploaded video.
Questions people ask about Elai pricing
How much does Elai cost?
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Elai Creator costs $29 a month on monthly billing or $23 a month billed yearly ($276 a year) for 15 video minutes a month and one user. Team costs $125 a month or $100 a month billed yearly ($1,200 a year) for 50 minutes a month, 3 editors and 3 guests. Enterprise is quoted by sales. Extra minutes are $2 each.
Is Elai free?
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Elai has a free plan with 1 video minute for one user, which is enough to render a single short test with an avatar. It is a trial allowance, not a working plan. To produce training or marketing videos every month you need Creator or Team, and top-up minutes are sold only on paid subscriptions.
Do you lose minutes when you re-render a video in Elai?
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Yes. Elai's pricing FAQ says minutes are deducted every time you click Render, even for the same video after a small edit, and deleting a video does not return them. A 3 minute video rendered three times uses 9 minutes, so plan your review cycle before you pick a tier.
Does Elai offer unlimited minutes?
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Only on Enterprise. Elai sells an annual corporate plan with unlimited video minutes, SSO, workspaces, SCORM export and premium avatars, priced through its sales team. Creator and Team have fixed monthly minutes, and there is no pay as you go option without a subscription.
How much does an extra minute cost on Elai?
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One extra minute costs $2 and can be bought only on a paid subscription, from My Profile. That is slightly more than a Creator minute bought through the annual plan ($1.53) and the same as a Team minute on annual billing ($2.00), so heavy users are usually better off moving up a tier.
Can I cancel Elai anytime?
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Yes, from My Profile with Manage subscription. Unused minutes stay available until the end of the paid term and you are not charged again. After cancellation Elai keeps your rendered videos for one year for watching, sharing and downloading, but you can no longer edit the projects.
Does Elai export SCORM?
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SCORM export is listed only on the Enterprise plan. Creator and Team render MP4 video you can upload to an LMS as a file, but not a SCORM package with tracking. If SCORM is a hard requirement for your training team, price Enterprise before you commit to a smaller plan.
Does Elai generate AI video footage?
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No. Elai builds presenter videos: an AI avatar reads your script over slides, stock media and templates, with voices in 75 plus languages. It does not render new scene footage from a text prompt, such as a product shot or an establishing shot of a location. That is a separate tool.
Still weighing avatar tools? The Synthesia alternative guide and the Colossyan pricing breakdown cover the two platforms Elai is most often shortlisted against for training video.
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