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By the toolist.ai editors. Researched from Vyond's own pages and hands-on tests published by others, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 16, 2026.

Vyond review: pricing, features and what testers found

Vyond makes animated business and training videos: Vyond Go turns a prompt, script, document or web page into an editable animated draft with characters, scenes and voiceover, and Vyond Studio is the timeline editor for finishing it, with AI avatars on every paid plan and translation into 95 languages from Professional. Starter costs $99 a month ($699 a year) for one user and 10,000 AI credits.

Our take

Vyond suits companies that make training, HR and sales explainers in-house and want animated characters rather than a filmed or avatar presenter: Vyond Go turns a prompt, script, document or web page into an editable animated draft, and Vyond Studio is a full timeline editor for finishing it, with HeyGen and Tavus avatars as an extra. It is priced for company budgets: Starter is $99 a month, or $699 a year, for one user with 10,000 AI credits (about 12 Vyond Go drafts at 800 credits each) and 100 downloads a month, and Shutterstock media, translation and team seats start with Professional at $199 a month. Zapier's Miguel Rebelo, in a roundup last updated by an app tester in February 2026, found Go's first draft close to finished but the cartoon's overall look not customizable; the only other hands-on test found, by the Media & Learning Association in 2023, covered Go's beta and got quick, acceptable videos that still needed checking. Fees are non-refundable, credits reset monthly without rolling over, the free trial makes at most three watermarked videos it cannot download, and each video made for a client costs a $99 rights transfer unless you buy Agency.

Based on Vyond's published plans and the hands-on tests linked below, not on a test of our own.

Good for

  • L&D, HR, compliance and sales-enablement teams turning policies, slide decks and documents into animated explainers
  • Companies that want animated characters rather than a talking-head presenter, with brand kits, approvals and SSO on Enterprise
  • Teams localizing the same training video into many languages

Watch out for

  • Fees are non-refundable, including the $10 seven-day plan trials offered in some regions, which become a paid subscription unless cancelled; cancelling only turns off renewal at the end of the term.
  • The main AI features (voices, avatars, Vyond Go, images, clips and translation) spend credits, which reset on the 1st of each month and do not roll over: a Vyond Go video costs 800 credits by the plans page (one help article says 400), HeyGen stock-avatar speech 40 credits per 10 characters (Tavus 50), so Starter's 10,000 credits cover about 2,500 characters of avatar speech, and a 4-second Veo clip up to 4,000. When they run out, AI features may become unavailable until the reset; only annual Professional and Agency users can borrow next month's credits.
  • Downloads are capped each month (100 on Starter, 200 on Professional, counting videos, GIFs, scene images and SCORM files), videos are capped at 25 minutes on Starter and 40 on Professional, and Starter cannot download videos that use Shutterstock assets, which some Vyond Go templates include.
  • The free trial gives 2,000 credits for at most 3 videos, watermarked, without AI avatars or downloads; Vyond's FAQ instead says trial exports carry a watermark.
  • A video made for a client needs a $99-per-video commercial rights transfer, after which you may no longer use it commercially; Agency includes unlimited transfers by Vyond's FAQ.
  • Vyond Go ignores any length, format or number of characters asked for in the prompt, its scripts may be inaccurate, its language options start with Professional, and avatar-template videos can take 30 minutes to an hour to generate.
  • Starter is a single-user plan; seats and collaboration start with Professional, and Enterprise and Agency are sold only yearly.
  • Trustpilot's score is low (2 out of 5 from 29 reviews), with complaints about prices and the credit system introduced with the May 2025 price rise.

What Vyond does

Price

Free plan: None; a free trial with no credit card: 2,000 credits and up to 3 watermarked videos, with no downloads and no AI avatars. Some regions get a 7-day Starter or Professional plan trial for $10, non-refundable, that turns into a paid subscription unless cancelled.

PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per monthIncludesPrice per 1,000 credits
Starter $99 $58.25 1 user, 10,000 credits a month (about 12 Vyond Go videos), 100 downloads a month, videos up to 25 minutes, 1080p, AI avatars, 650+ voices, screen and webcam recording, prompt, script, document and URL to video; no Shutterstock or translation; $699 billed yearly (shown as $58 a month) $9.90
Professional $199 $99.92 Per user, with extra seats: 20,000 credits a month, 200 downloads, videos up to 40 minutes, team collaboration, 4M+ Shutterstock assets, instant translation into 95 languages, avatars from a text prompt, video to action and Vyond Go in 95 languages; $1,199 billed yearly (shown as $100 a month) $9.95
Enterprise not listed $137.42 Per user, yearly only: $1,649 a year (shown as $137 a month), multi-seat pricing by quote; virtually unlimited credits and downloads, videos up to 90 minutes, ultra-high-quality voices, voice cloning, generated video clips, brand management suite, SSO, SCIM and the Secure Suite, SCORM and PowerPoint export –
Agency not listed $166.58 Per user, yearly only: $1,999 a year (shown as $167 a month), for videos made for clients: 400,000 credits a month, virtually unlimited downloads, videos up to 90 minutes, unlimited rights transfers by Vyond's FAQ, brand management suite and advanced collaboration; no Secure Suite or SSO –
Vyond for Government not listed not listed FedRAMP Certified plan for US federal agencies and contractors, yearly only; $2,450 a year by Vyond's FAQ, not priced on the plans page; the credit system does not apply –

Price per 1,000 credits is our calculation: the monthly-billing price divided by what the plan includes, assuming you use all of it. It is not a measured cost.

Prices last checked: 2026-10-16 on Vyond's pricing page. Full breakdown: Vyond pricing.

Price history

No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 16, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.

What hands-on testers found

We have not tested Vyond ourselves. These are the published tests we found that used it hands-on, newest first; follow the links for the full reviews.

Zapier · Miguel Rebelo · updated October 9, 2026

What they tested: Vyond Go's text to video from a prompt, then editing the draft in Vyond Studio, as one of 16 apps in a tested roundup of AI video generators; picked for animated character videos. The plan used is not named. The article's note says an app tester last updated it in February 2026 and it was reviewed for accuracy in October 2026.

  • From one prompt, Vyond Go wrote the script and built the scene objects, character movements and voiceover, and the first draft came close to a finished video.
  • Studio's timeline let him change the music, add and remove scenes and mix in stock media, and filming yourself acting out a movement can drive a character's motion.
  • The main drawback: the overall cartoon style cannot be customized.
  • He calls the animated-character use a bit niche, but finds Vyond a well-rounded editor that also handles real footage and AI avatars.

Media & Learning Association · Mathy · August 1, 2023

What they tested: Vyond Go in its 2023 beta, then limited to 3 videos every 24 hours, with a few complex texts of about 3,000 characters each. This predates the May 2025 plans and credit system. The association is a not-for-profit for media in education and sells no video tool. The page shows no byline or date; the author's name (Mathy) and the date are from its metadata.

  • Each animated video of 1 to 2 minutes took a little over a minute to generate, and the results were acceptable.
  • The text may need careful editing, which the edit mode makes easy.
  • On the third attempt the character made needlessly emotional faces and gestures, so the reviewer says every result needs checking.
  • The choice of backgrounds was somewhat limited.

What users say

Test result

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