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HAKOOL vs Colossyan
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose AKOOL if…
- you want the lower entry price ($12/mo vs $59/mo)
- you're in its core audience: marketing teams, content creators
C
Choose Colossyan if…
- you're in its core audience: l&d teams, hr and onboarding teams
Side by side
Feature AKOOL Colossyan
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$12/mo$59/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Cost per minute of generated video—$1.97
Trains AI on your content—No
Data retention—Kept as long as needed for purposes, then deleted or anonymized
Security and compliance—SOC 2 Type II, GDPR
Custom video avatar—
Voice cloning—
Lip-synced translation—
Doc/PPT to video—
Interactive elements—
SCORM export—
Real-time avatar agents—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyAKOOLColossyan Inc. · United States · since 2020
Full feature lists
A AKOOL
- Talking avatar and streaming avatar videos
- Face, head, hair and clothing swap
- Video translation
- PPT/PDF to video conversion
- Text to speech, voice clone and voice changer
- Model Hub with Seedance, Kling, Veo, Sora and more
- Live face swap and live camera
- OpenAPI for developers
C Colossyan
- Convert PDF, PowerPoint, Word and URLs into videos
- 300+ AI presenters plus custom avatars from one photo
- Voiceovers in 100+ languages with voice cloning
- Translation of script, voice and on-screen text with lip-sync
- Quizzes, buttons and branching scenarios
- SCORM export with scores sent to the LMS
- Screen recorder, brand kits and collaboration
- AI course outline and assessment generators
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
AKOOL · akool.com
Colossyan · colossyan.comWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
What the free plans include
AKOOL
Free plan limits aren't published.
Colossyan
- 20 min/mo with NEO
- 15 custom avatars + 3 voices
- 10 interactive videos/mo
- 15 auto translations/mo
All plans and prices
AKOOL
Free$0
Starter$12/seat/mo billed yearly ($144)
Pro$21/seat/mo billed yearly; $30 shown otherwise
Pro Max$41.30/seat/mo billed yearly; $59 shown otherwise
Business$174.30/seat/mo billed yearly; $249 shown otherwise
EnterpriseCustom
Colossyan
StarterFree
Professional$59/mo billed yearly
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
AKOOL
- Free tier available
- Access to many third-party video and image models in one place
- Paid plans have no watermark
- API and real-time avatar options
- API access starts at the Pro Max plan
- Starter plan limited to 1080P and 200 credits a month
- Free tier has slow processing and only 5 TTS uses in total
Colossyan
- Free Starter plan with no credit card required
- Voiceovers in 100+ languages with lip-synced translation
- SCORM export for LMS delivery
- Enterprise plan offers SOC 2 Type II and EU or US data residency
- Free plan does not include SCORM export
- Professional plan limits SCORM exports to 5 per month
- Studio custom avatars cost an extra $1,000/yr outside Enterprise
- Extra NEO2 minutes cost $1,500/yr for 600 minutes
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Oct 26, 2026. Editorial policy