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HAKOOL vs Swapface
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose AKOOL if…
- you need an API to build on
- you work on Web
- you're in its core audience: marketing teams, content creators
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Choose Swapface if…
- you work on Windows, macOS
- you're in its core audience: live streamers, content creators
Side by side
Feature AKOOL Swapface
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$12/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, APIWindows, macOS
CategoryAvatar & Talking-Head VideoFace Swap
CompanyAKOOL—
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
S Swapface
- Real-time live face swap for streaming
- Single-person image face swap
- Multi-person face swap in one image
- Full head swap, hairstyle included
- Face swap for videos and GIFs
- Runs entirely on the local device
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
AKOOL · akool.com
Swapface · swapface.orgWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
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
Swapface
Freemium. Plan details aren't published.
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
Swapface
- Processing runs locally, so data stays on the user's machine
- Handles live video, images, videos and GIFs
- Free to start, with a way to get free credits
- Supports Windows and Apple silicon Macs
- Needs a dedicated GPU (on Windows, an NVIDIA RTX 2060 or 3060 with 6 GB+ VRAM) and 16 GB of RAM at minimum
- No web or mobile version
- Macs with Intel processors are not supported
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