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HeyGen Video 1

HeyGen’s first general-purpose video model (not its avatar engine): text, image or reference to video with native dialogue and effects, 480p-2K. Async API: POST /v3/models/videos with an x-api-key header, then GET /v3/models/videos/{video_id} until completed.

Model idheygen-video-1

Price$0.01 t2v i2v per second 480p

Checked25 October 2026

Where it stands

3newer video generation models since its release

All video generation models

Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

3 ways to use HeyGen Video 1, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for HeyGen Video 1
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
HeyGen API heygen-video-1 https://api.heygen.com/v3/models/videos developers.heygen.com
OpenRouter heygen/heygen-video-1
Web app app.heygen.com

Pricing

Prices for HeyGen Video 1
T2v i2v per second 480p$0.01
T2v i2v per second 768p$0.018
T2v i2v per second 1080p 2k$0.05
Ref2v per second 480p$0.035
Ref2v per second 768p$0.05
Ref2v per second 1080p 2k$0.09

As published: “USD per second of output video, API launch promotion (50% off; HeyGen says list price is double these rates)”.

Source: help.heygen.com, checked 25 October 2026.

Specs

Input
Text, images, video and audio
Output
Video and audio
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
30 September 2026
Status
Current
Type
Video generation

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Whole scene with sound in one pass

    General-purpose (non-avatar) model: picture, dialogue, ambience and sound effects generated together; AAC 32 kHz stereo in MP4.

    Source: heygen.com

  • Text, image and reference modes

    text_to_video, image_to_video and reference_to_video (default), with up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio references (12 total).

    Source: developers.heygen.com

  • Up to 30 s and 2K (added after launch)

    Found after launch

    October 2026 updates added auto duration (8-30 s from quoted dialogue), 5-30 s for t2v/i2v with turbo or quality enhancement, and 1080p and 2K outputs (billed at 3x 768p).

    Source: developers.heygen.com

Notes

Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard (read 2026-10-25): #3, Elo 1160; AA price 2.40 USD per minute of 1080p (AA lists release Oct 2026). Released 2026-09-30 per OpenRouter’s model listing (created date) and HeyGen’s changelog (‘September 2026’); no dated HeyGen post seen. Free playground: 2 five-second clips per day with a HeyGen account. No timeline entry.

Artificial Analysis text-to-video (with audio) leaderboard, read 2026-10-25: rank 3, Elo 1160 (https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video).

Sources: https://www.heygen.com/blog/introducing-heygen-video · https://developers.heygen.com/docs/models/heygen-video · https://developers.heygen.com/changelog?page=4 · https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/10060327-heygen-api-pricing-explained · https://openrouter.ai/heygen/heygen-video-1

Not yet checked against an official source: HeyGen’s blog quotes the API launch price as 0.01 USD/s through October and other HeyGen blog posts give 0.03/s list at 768p, conflicting with the help-center table (list = 2x shown); post-promo prices from November 2026 not verified. Also on Civitai’s generator from 2026-10-13 (reported by aipicks.jp, not verified).