Hedra Pricing vs Pay Per Use: Avatars by the Month

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Visual Sandbox vs Hedra

One sells the character. One sells the second.

In short

  • Hedra plans run $15 to $75 a month for 1,500 to 14,400 credits.
  • A credit is $0.01 on Basic and about half a cent on Professional.
  • The pricing page does not say what a second of avatar costs in credits.
  • Kling Avatar 2.0 is $0.07 a second here. No plan.

Our take. Use Hedra for its own Character models at volume. Use Visual Sandbox for avatar seconds at a printed price, no plan.

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Hedra logoHedra

Hedra is character video: talking, singing, expressive avatars on its own Character models, plus a developer platform that resells other leading models.

Pricing
$15 to $75 a month, in credits
Free plan
Yes, no card. Allowance not shown
Also does
Character models, a developer platform

Side by side

The same 9 questions, asked of Hedra

Visual Sandbox compared with Hedra, question by question
What is comparedVisual SandboxHedra logoHedra
What you pay forEach generationA monthly credit plan
What the balance is inMoney. One credit is one centCredits. $0.01 each on Basic
Free tierNone. A $10 minimum top upA free plan with no card. Its allowance is not printed
Cheapest paid tierThere is no planBasic, $15 a month, slower generations
A month you make nothing$0The plan price
The price before you runA dollar figure on every model page, before you sign inCredit totals per plan. Costs per generation are in collapsed FAQs
Working as a teamNot offeredTeams at $75 a month; Enterprise with SSO
From the terminal or an agentA CLI, an MCP server and an API, on the same balanceA developer platform and API, with agent documentation
The catalogue37 modelsHedra's Character models, plus other leading models on the developer platform

Key takeaways

Is Visual Sandbox a good Hedra alternative?

Where we win

No subscription
Nothing to cancel. A quiet month costs $0.
Avatar seconds, priced
Kling Avatar 2.0 at $0.07 a second standard, $0.14 pro. Read it before you sign in.
The balance does not expire
No monthly reset.
Three doors an agent can use
The CLI, the MCP server and the API, on the same balance as the web app.
The rest of the media too
Veo 3.1 at $0.25 a second, Nano Banana 2 at $0.09, Eleven Music at $0.19.

Where Hedra wins

Character models of their own
Talking, singing and expressive avatars from a photo and a voice. Nobody resells them.
Speed by plan
Slower on Basic, faster on Creator, fastest on Professional.
A free plan
No card needed, per the page.
A developer platform
Unified inference over leading models, with agent documentation.
Enterprise depth
Slack support, forward deployed engineers, private deployments, SSO.

Worth checking

Nobody prices the second
1,500 credits a month, and the cost per generation sits in collapsed FAQ entries.
Full use is the condition
Spend half of Basic and a credit costs two cents. Spend none and Basic costs $15.
Monthly billing only
No yearly prices on the page.
Teams is priced like Professional
$75 for 14,400 credits either way.
We have no Hedra
No Character models here. If you want them, you want Hedra.

A character or a second

The price is on the page before the first run

This is the live price card off our Kling Avatar 2.0 page. Hedra sells avatars inside a credit plan and keeps the cost per second one click away.

  • No account needed to read it.
  • Hedra Basic is $15 for 1,500 credits, at a cent each.
  • A quiet month here costs $0.

Hedra sells the month. We sell the second.

Kling Avatar 2.0

What one run costs, before any account

Standard
$0.07/s
Pro
$0.14/s
See it on the model page

The money

What the plans cost

Hedra does not print a credit cost per generation in its page text, so this table stops at the plan, the credits and the price of one credit.

$0.07

Visual Sandbox

Kling Avatar 2.0, a second, standard. $0.14 pro.

$0.01

Hedra Basic, a credit

$15 for 1,500, at full use.

$0.0052

Hedra Professional, a credit

$75 for 14,400, at full use.

Hedra planA monthCredits a monthA credit costs
Basic$151,500$0.01
Creator$305,400$0.0056
Professional$7514,400$0.0052
Teams$7514,400$0.0052
  • Fifteen dollars here buys 214 seconds of Kling Avatar 2.0 at standard, in any month.
  • Hedra's Professional and Teams plans are the same price and credits; Teams adds business features.
  • The API has its own developer platform. Ours spends the same balance as the web app.

Which one fits

Which one fits you?

Four questions. The answer names Hedra when Hedra is the right call.

01 of 04

Do you want Hedra's Character models?

Or use both

Hedra covers its Character models. We cover the odd clip and the rest of the media.

  1. 01

    Keep Hedra for the avatars that need its models.

  2. 02

    Run Kling Avatar, Veo and the images here, per run.

  3. 03

    Point your agent at our MCP server, on the same balance as the web.

The call

Which one to pick

Pick Visual Sandbox when

  • You want avatar seconds at a printed price.
  • Your output is uneven and an allowance would go to waste.
  • You want an agent to generate through the CLI or the MCP server.
  • You want video, image, 3D, vector and audio in the same balance.
  • You do not want another subscription.

Hedra logoPick Hedra when

  • You want Hedra's Character models.
  • You make avatar videos most days.
  • You want a free plan with no card.
  • You want enterprise support with private deployments.
  • You build on Hedra's developer platform.

Read the price, then run it

37 models across image, video, audio, 3D and vector. Each one prints its dollar price before you sign in.

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Basic is $15 a month for 1,500 credits. Creator is $30 for 5,400. Professional and Teams are $75 for 14,400. Enterprise is custom. Only monthly billing is shown. A free plan needs no card.