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Lookalike vs Anam
How Lookalike and Anam differ on price, setup, knowledge and channels.
Facts checked October 23, 2026 from Anam’s own pages.
The short answer
Anam is an avatar API for developers: personas are built through its SDKs and plugins, and usage is billed per second, with session lengths capped on the lower plans.
Lookalike is a finished digital human you can use without code: one photo, a voice and your documents, live in about a minute with its own page, embed, inbox and booking tools. Lookalike Pro is $19 a month for 125 video minutes, with no watermark.
Side by side
Lookalike and Anam, feature by feature.
| Feature | Lookalike | Anam |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Teams that want a lifelike digital human live today without engineering, and developers who want an API. | Developers who want an avatar API with many SDKs. |
| How a face is made | One photo, or a starter face. Ready to talk in about a minute. | One photo or a text prompt, in under two minutes. |
| Knowledge | PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images or a website. | A knowledge base and a custom language model, set up through the API. |
| Where people talk to it | Its own page with video call, voice call and text chat, a share link and QR code, a one-line website embed, and an API. | A website widget, JavaScript and Python SDKs, and LiveKit, Pipecat and Agora plugins. |
| Phone calls | Connect your business phone number. | Not listed in Anam’s documentation. |
| First paid plan | Pro: $19 a month with 125 video minutes and 125 voice minutes. | Starter: $12 a month for 50 minutes, one conversation at a time, 5-minute sessions, watermarked. |
| Price per minute | About $0.15 a minute on Pro, and $0.15 a minute after that, published on the pricing page. | About $0.24 on Starter, then $0.16. Explorer: $49 for 250 minutes, then $0.14, with 10-minute sessions. |
What you would pay
A month of video, priced out.
Complete conversations with a face, at three monthly volumes, on each company’s published plans.
| Minutes a month | Lookalike | Anam |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | $19 Pro | $20 Starter plus 50 minutes at $0.16 |
| 500 | $75.25 Pro plus 375 minutes at $0.15 | $84 Explorer plus 250 minutes at $0.14 |
Each figure is the cheapest way to buy the minutes on Anam’s published plans. Starter caps each conversation at 5 minutes and Explorer at 10. Prices are before tax, billed monthly.
Why teams choose Lookalike
Built to be live today.
Live in about a minute with no code, not an API project.
No watermark on the $19 Pro plan.
Booking, Shopify lookups, a phone line and an inbox, with nothing to build.
A page to share and a QR code for every digital human.
Judge it yourself.
Talk to Sophie, Lookalike’s own digital human, right now. No sign-up, no sales call.
Questions
Lookalike vs Anam, answered.
Is Lookalike cheaper than Anam?
At everyday volumes, yes. 100 video minutes a month cost $19 on Lookalike Pro and $20 on Anam Starter; 500 minutes cost $75.25 on Lookalike and $84 on Anam Explorer.
Does Anam limit how long a conversation lasts?
Yes. Anam caps each session at 3 minutes on its free plan, 5 minutes on Starter and 10 minutes on Explorer.
Do I need a developer to use Anam?
Anam is built around its SDKs and API, with a website widget for simple setups. Lookalike is built, shared and embedded without code, and has an API when you want one.
Does Lookalike put a watermark on embeds?
Not on paid plans. Lookalike Pro at $19 a month removes the “Powered by Lookalike” mark. Anam removes its watermark from the $49 Explorer plan.
How do I move from Anam to Lookalike?
Create a Lookalike from the same photo, choose or clone the voice, paste in the persona and upload your knowledge files. Then swap the Anam widget for Lookalike’s one-line embed.
How we compared
From their own pages.
We make Lookalike. Every fact about other products comes from their own pricing pages and documentation, checked on October 23, 2026. Per-minute prices are our arithmetic from the plans they publish. Prices and features change, so check the links below before you decide, and tell us if something here is out of date.
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