Tavus

⚡ Real-time AI humans

Use Tavus when a prospect, learner, or customer needs to have a live, face-to-face conversation with your AI—not watch a pre-rendered avatar video.

Why this fits

Make the video respond, not just play.

Tavus provides a Conversational Video Interface for embedding real-time AI humans into products and services. It unifies conversation, voice, rendering, memory, knowledge integration, guardrails, and tool calls behind an API. That makes it useful for productized sales practice, onboarding, customer support, recruiters, and coaching where the next response must react to the individual—not a content-marketing video that everyone watches the same way.

The trade-off

A live agent is a product experience, not a content shortcut.

What you gain
  • Build real-time video conversations with stock or custom replicas, APIs, memories, guardrails, and tools.
  • Use the free developer plan to test 25 conversational minutes and five static-video minutes.
  • Tavus publishes customer stories with Orum, Rep AI, ACTO Health, Berlitz, Studeo, Mercor, Aurio, and Final Round AI.
What you sacrifice
  • Starter begins at $59/month plus usage, and production conversations can exceed included minutes.
  • A convincing persona cannot fix weak knowledge, unsafe actions, or a poorly designed conversation.
Pricing & upgrade decision

Pay only when the workflow changes.

The free plan is for personal use. Compare the operational trigger—not only the keyword limit.

PlanBest fitWhat changesAIMKT decision
BasicFree

Developer testing one interaction

25 conversational minutes · 5 video-generation minutes · 25 stock replicas

Test one bounded buyer or learner conversation.

Starter$59/mo + usage

Startup or product pilot

100 conversational minutes · custom-replica training · 3 concurrent streams

Choose once a pilot has an owner and clear outcome.

Growth$397/mo + usage

Production team

1,250 conversational minutes · 100 video-generation minutes · 10 streams

Use when the conversation is an active product surface.

Questions

The practical questions before you buy.

  1. 01

    How does Tavus charge?

    Tavus has a Free developer plan, Starter at $59/month plus usage, Growth at $397/month plus usage, and Enterprise custom. The plans include a number of real-time conversational minutes, with overage billed separately.

  2. 02

    Which brands publicly use it?

    Tavus publishes stories with Orum, Rep AI, ACTO Health, Berlitz, Studeo, Mercor, Aurio, and Final Round AI. These are vendor-published examples.

  3. 03

    Is it cheap compared with similar tools?

    Tavus is not a cheap avatar-video subscription because it powers live conversations. Compare it with HeyGen or Synthesia only when interactivity is not required; otherwise compare the cost of the conversation against a real sales, support, or training interaction.

Evidence & freshness
Tavus pricing ↗Tavus customer stories ↗Checked 2026-09-10
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