Yes. A new account starts with $2 of credit and needs no card. After that you add credit from $5 and pay for each run, with no plan.

Can I make a training video on Leap?

Not a long one in a single run. A talking photo runs 5 or 10 seconds and a faceless video 30 or 60, and Kling AI Avatar 2 Pro and OmniHuman 1.5 animate a photo to a recording you upload. For courses with SCORM export, Synthesia is built for that.

Can Leap translate a video?

Yes. ElevenLabs Dubbing dubs the speech in your video into another language you name by its code, and sync-3 Lipsync can fit the lips of a clip to new audio.

Can I make a digital twin of myself?

No. Leap's avatar models start from a photo you upload and speak your script or a recording you upload. Leap's Acceptable Use Policy forbids showing a real person who hasn't agreed, or making people believe someone said something they didn't.

Does credit expire on Leap?

Credit you pay for doesn't expire while Leap is offered. On Synthesia, the monthly minutes and plan credits reset each billing period, and credits bought on their own last 12 months.

Leap vs SynthesiaA Synthesia alternative, compared

Leap makes short presenter videos: a photo that speaks your script, a creator ad with your product, a narrated explainer, and the same clip dubbed into another language, with Kling AI Avatar, OmniHuman, sync-3 and ElevenLabs Dubbing in one studio beside Veo, Kling and Seedance. You pay per second in dollars, with no plan, and credit you pay for doesn't expire.

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How Leap and Synthesia compare

What you pay, what happens to credit you don't use, and what you get for it, from each one's own pages.

Topic	Leap	Synthesia
How you pay	Leap: Per run, from a balance in dollars. No plan to pick.	Synthesia: A plan: Starter $19 or Pro $89 a month, or $14 and $59 a month billed yearly, with Enterprise priced on request. There is no way to pay per video.
What a plan buys	Leap: Runs, each priced in dollars before it starts.	Synthesia: 10 minutes of video a month on every plan, plus 1,250 credits on Starter, about 12 more minutes, or 6,000 on Pro, about 60. A typical minute takes about 100 credits.
Unused credit	Leap: Credit you pay for doesn't expire.	Synthesia: The monthly minutes and plan credits reset each billing period. Credits bought on their own last 12 months.
Running out	Leap: Add any amount from $5 to $10,000 whenever you like, or turn on auto top-up.	Synthesia: Video creation pauses until the plan renews, unless you buy extra credits or move up a plan.
Video length	Leap: Short clips: a talking photo runs 5 or 10 seconds, a creator video ad 16 to 32 and a faceless video 30 or 60, and Kling AI Avatar and OmniHuman follow the length of your recording.	Synthesia: As long as your minutes allow, with unlimited minutes on Enterprise.
Avatars and voices	Leap: Your own photo, made to speak your script or your recording, or a creator Leap casts to hold your product in an ad. No digital twin and no voice cloning.	Synthesia: 125+ stock avatars on Starter, 180+ on Pro and 240+ on Enterprise, personal avatars of you from Starter, and voice cloning.
Translation	Leap: ElevenLabs Dubbing dubs a video's speech into another language, and sync-3 Lipsync fits the lips to new audio.	Synthesia: Dubbing into 70+ languages, with lip sync at twice the credits, and one-click translation of whole videos into 140+ languages on Enterprise.
Downloads	Leap: Every run downloads, from the free credit on, and Leap adds no watermark.	Synthesia: 1080p MP4 downloads from Starter. Free-plan videos are shared by link and carry a watermark.
API and agents	Leap: An API and an MCP server that spend the same balance, at the same prices as the studio.	Synthesia: The Synthesia API on Pro and Enterprise, with up to 360 minutes of video a year taken from the plan.
Starting free	Leap: $2 of credit, no card needed.	Synthesia: A free plan with 10 minutes of video a month and 9 avatars, watermarked.

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Where they differ

On Leap, not on Synthesia

Pay as you go, with no plan: top up from $5 whenever you want more.
Credit you pay for doesn't expire, and nothing resets each month.
Downloads and commercial use from your first run, the free $2 included.
The API and the MCP server spend the studio's balance, with no plan needed.

On Synthesia, not on Leap

Long presenter videos for training and explainers, for far less a minute than Leap's per-second avatar models.
Stock avatars, personal avatars of you and voice cloning. Leap works from your own photo, with a preset voice or your recording.
One-click translation into 140+ languages and SCORM export, on Enterprise.
Templates, PowerPoint import, a screen recorder, interactive videos with quizzes, and roleplay sessions with avatars.

Made on Leap

Real runs, as they came back, each with the model or recipe that made it. Where a price shows, it is about what the runs behind the piece were charged, first frame included.

Calm presenter under the whaleTalking photo
A line cook who needs all of the limesOmniHuman 1.5
Mineral sunscreen, in the parkCreator video ad
Van life, to cameraKling AI Avatar 2 Pro
Karaoke: every word lights up as she says itCaptions
Cold brew, deadpan in a parked carCreator video ad
Night cream, to cameraKling AI Avatar 2 Pro
Perfume launch revealProduct ad with voice-over

Switching

Moving from Synthesia

Where the same job lives on Leap, from a one-photo recipe to the same model.

AI Avatars: Talking photoYour photo says your words, with its lips in sync and a voice that fits: a hello, a shout-out or a short pitch.
AI Video Generator: Faceless videoA narrated video for your channel, with no one on camera.
Product Videos: Creator video adA creator holds your product and says your line to camera, ready to run as an ad.
AI Video Dubbing: ElevenLabs DubbingDubs the speech in your video into another language. Name the language by its two-letter code, such as es or ja; without one it dubs into English. Billed per started minute.
Lip-Sync: sync-3 LipsyncLip-syncs a video of a person to new speech, keeping the face and the shot as filmed. Billed by the length of the video.
Auto-Generated Closed Captions: CaptionsWord-timed captions burned into your video in a look made for short-form video, plus the transcript with SRT and VTT files. Up to 10 minutes.

What it costs

What a run costs on Leap

A new account comes with $2 of credit and no card. The table shows each model's cheapest run and about how many the credit covers. After that you add credit and pay per run, and a run that fails costs nothing.

Model	From	What $2 makes
Veo 3.1 Fast	$0.44for 4 s	About 4 clips
Veo 3.1	$0.88for 4 s	About 2 clips
Veo 3.1 Lite	$0.13for 4 s	About 15 clips
Seedance 1.5 Pro	$0.067for 5 s	About 30 clips
Seedance 2.5	$0.60for 5 s with sound	About 3 clips
Kling 3.0	$0.92for 5 s	About 2 clips

Each price is one run at the model's lowest-priced settings, from the live catalog. Larger sizes, longer clips and sound cost more, and the studio shows the exact price before every run. How pricing works.

Questions

Questions people ask

Is Leap free to try?: Yes. A new account starts with $2 of credit and needs no card. After that you add credit from $5 and pay for each run, with no plan.
Can I make a training video on Leap?: Not a long one in a single run. A talking photo runs 5 or 10 seconds and a faceless video 30 or 60, and Kling AI Avatar 2 Pro and OmniHuman 1.5 animate a photo to a recording you upload. For courses with SCORM export, Synthesia is built for that.
Can Leap translate a video?: Yes. ElevenLabs Dubbing dubs the speech in your video into another language you name by its code, and sync-3 Lipsync can fit the lips of a clip to new audio.
Can I make a digital twin of myself?: No. Leap's avatar models start from a photo you upload and speak your script or a recording you upload. Leap's Acceptable Use Policy forbids showing a real person who hasn't agreed, or making people believe someone said something they didn't.
Does credit expire on Leap?: Credit you pay for doesn't expire while Leap is offered. On Synthesia, the monthly minutes and plan credits reset each billing period, and credits bought on their own last 12 months.

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