Don’t you have any animation skills? No problem; Hedra AI can bring your ideas to life and generate talking avatar videos in minutes. This blog will break down how Hedra makes video creation so simple and fun.
What Is Hedra AI?
Hedra was launched in June 2024 by Michael Lingelbach. It is an advanced AI tool that turns your text, images, and audio into realistic animation with expressive characters, realistic voices, and stunning motion. With Hedra AI, you can create high-quality, engaging images, audio, and videos without requiring any technical expertise.
Hedra AI: From the Beginning Till Now
Lingelbach created Hedra as he saw that AI video tools like Synthesia and Runway didn’t fully meet users’ needs which caused a gap in the market. The first foundation model of Hedra AI was Character-1, launched as a research preview. At that time, it focused completely on creating lip-syncing videos and character-driven storytelling. Creating realistic animations with natural voices, fluid motion, and real expressions was quite difficult.
In October 2024, Hedra upgraded its foundation models to Hedra AI Character-2. With this upgrade, the animations become more expressive without losing class-leading speed and generate 4-minute-long videos.
In March 2025, Hedra Studio introduced Hedra AI Character-3, called an omnimodal foundation model. It is the current version that can create next-gen storytelling videos and allow content creators, marketers, and businesses to tell stories at scale on their own. The Hedra AI Character 3 also lets you employ other AI models to ease the video, audio, and image generation process.
Hedra AI Features
Generate AI Images, Voices, and Videos
Hedra AI quickly makes your text or photos talk with an animated character using AI. It can also use your text, audio, and images together to create new content that tells your story.
Supports Other AI Models
Hedra AI works with other AI models to enhance your videos, voices, and images making them more creative and bringing your story to life.
For generating videos in Hedra, you can use these AI tools:
- Kling
- VEO 2
- Minimax
You can use these image-generating tools in Hedra AI.
- Flux Dev
- Flux Pro
- Recraft v3
- Sana
- Imagen4
- Ideogram v2
For voiceovers, voice cloning, and lip-syncing, you can use these AI tools:
- ElevenLabs
- Cartesia
Customize Expression and Emotions
Once you make a character on Hedra AI, you can fine-tune your character’s facial expressions, emotional nuances, and body movements and make it feel real.
Combine Content
With Hedra AI, you can add AI-generated backgrounds, audio, visuals, and other characters to make your content more engaging.
How Much is Hedra AI?
The Hedra pricing plans include free, basic, creator, professional, and enterprise. In the free version, there are limited features while other plans have advanced features like more credits, enhanced video quality, no watermarks, premium video and voice features, and more.
- The Hedra free plan offers 300 credits per month with basic features and slower generation speeds, no commercial use rights, and no credit rollover.
- The basic plan includes 1,000 credits with advanced features like premium voices, voice cloning, commercial use rights, no watermarks, and a credit rollover of $10 monthly or $8/month when billed yearly.
- The creator plan offers 4,000 credits with advanced features like premium voices, voice cloning, commercial use rights, no watermarks, and credit rollover for $30 monthly and $24/month annually.
- The professional plan offers 12,000 credits with advanced features like premium voices, voice cloning, commercial use rights, no watermarks, and credit rollover of $30 monthly and $24/month annually.
- Enterprise plan offers you personalized pricing, advanced generation capabilities, and dedicated support.
However, Hedra uses a credit-based system for pricing that depends on the AI model that you use.
For Example:
If you create a 720p video with a Character-3 model, it costs you 3 credits per second. But if you use advanced AI software like Veo or Kling, AI takes more credit. Check out the official Hedra AI pricing plans page for more details on pricing and credits.
How to Use Hedra AI?
You can use Hedra on your desktop and mobile application. It is pretty easy to create lifelike, talking, and singing character videos on the go with Hedra; here is the step-by-step guide to using it on a desktop.
- Head to the Hedra official website and log in to your account or create it if you haven’t.
- On the dashboard, you will see options for creating video, image, or audio.
Generate Images with Hedra AI
- You can create images with the Flux Kontext Pro model in the free plan. Other AI models are premium and available in premium plans.
- Type and enter the character details that you want to make, add a reference image from your gallery, or hit the Inspire Me button to get an idea of your character.
Create AI Voice With Hedra
- You can create audio with the Eleven Labs Multilingual v2 model in the free plan. Other AI models are premium and available in premium plans.
- Type the words that you want to generate or speak up, select the language, speed, voice stability, and tone, and generate it.
Generate Video with Hedra AI
- You can create a video with Character-3 in the free plan. Other AI models are premium and available in premium plans.
- Type and enter the character details that you want to make or hit on the Inspire Me button to get an idea of your character. You can add the image from your gallery or capture it with the camera. Also, you can add the audio script by recording, uploading from the gallery, or generating audio from Hedra.
- Set the aspect ratio, resolution, and duration of your video and generate it.
FAQs
Q: What are Hedra AI alternatives?
Here are some alternatives to Hedra for generating AI videos.
- Pika
- Runway
- Dream Machine
- Kaiber
- Sora
- Hyper AI
- Luma AI
Q: What are the drawbacks of Hedra?
- Not suited for full-scene animation or characters moving around and interacting with props.
- The free plan has restricted features like a max 1-minute video length, 300 words per video, and a watermark included.
- Hedra isn’t quite polished or flexible enough for high-end, professional client projects yet.
Q: Who Can Benefit from Hedra?
Hedra AI is great for marketers, educators, and content creators. It helps them to make eye-catching animated promo videos, a training lesson, or just something fun for social media without having traditional animation software.
