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Lookalike vs D-ID
How Lookalike and D-ID Agents differ on price, setup, knowledge and channels.
Facts checked October 23, 2026 from D-ID’s own pages.
The short answer
D-ID is best known for turning photos and scripts into talking videos, and D-ID Agents adds live, real-time conversation on top. Custom agents start from recorded footage and a consent video, and the streaming plans are sold in credits.
Lookalike is built for live conversation from the start: one photo, a voice and your documents, and it is ready to talk in about a minute, with its own page, embed, inbox and booking tools. Lookalike Pro works out to about $0.15 a video minute; D-ID’s streaming plans work out to about $0.50 to $0.56.
Side by side
Lookalike and D-ID, feature by feature.
| Feature | Lookalike | D-ID |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Teams that want a lifelike digital human live today without engineering, and developers who want an API. | Marketing teams already making videos in D-ID Studio. |
| How a face is made | One photo, or a starter face. Ready to talk in about a minute. | At least a minute of footage plus a consent video read with a passcode. Training takes 5 to 10 minutes. |
| Knowledge | PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images or a website. | Up to 5 documents of up to 500,000 characters each. |
| No-code builder | Yes. Build, share and embed without code. | Yes, D-ID Studio. |
| 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. | Website embed, an SDK, and LiveKit for its newest agents. |
| Phone calls | Connect your business phone number. | Not listed in D-ID’s documentation. |
| Built-in actions | Books, moves and cancels appointments (Google Calendar, Cal.com, Calendly) and looks up products, stock and orders in Shopify. | Not listed in D-ID’s documentation. |
| First paid plan | Pro: $19 a month with 125 video minutes and 125 voice minutes. | Build: $18 a month for 32 streaming minutes. |
| Price per minute | About $0.15 a minute on Pro, and $0.15 a minute after that, published on the pricing page. | About $0.56 on Build and Launch, and $0.50 on Scale. No self-serve plan includes more than 400 minutes. |
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 | D-ID |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | $19 Pro | $198 Scale, 400 minutes |
| 500 | $75.25 Pro plus 375 minutes at $0.15 | Not published No self-serve plan covers it |
| 2,000 | $300.25 Pro plus 1,875 minutes at $0.15 | Not published No self-serve plan covers it |
D-ID sells streaming in credits at 2 credits a minute. Each figure is the cheapest D-ID plan whose included minutes cover the volume; its largest self-serve plan includes 400 minutes. Prices are before tax, billed monthly.
Why teams choose Lookalike
Built to be live today.
One photo is enough: no footage, no consent recording, no training wait.
Up to 200 knowledge files on Pro, not five documents.
Less than a third of D-ID’s price per minute.
Booking, Shopify lookups, a phone line and an inbox, with nothing to build.
Judge it yourself.
Talk to Sophie, Lookalike’s own digital human, right now. No sign-up, no sales call.
Questions
Lookalike vs D-ID, answered.
Is Lookalike cheaper than D-ID Agents?
Yes. Lookalike Pro is $19 a month for 125 video minutes, about $0.15 a minute. D-ID’s streaming plans work out to about $0.50 to $0.56 a minute, and its largest self-serve plan includes 400 minutes.
What is D-ID Agents?
It is D-ID’s real-time product: an avatar that holds a live conversation, built in D-ID Studio or through its API, alongside D-ID’s video generation tools.
Do I need to record video to make a digital human?
Not with Lookalike: one photo is enough, and it is ready in about a minute. D-ID’s custom agents need at least a minute of footage and a consent video, then 5 to 10 minutes of training.
How much can it learn about my business?
Lookalike answers from PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images or a website, with up to 200 knowledge files on Pro. D-ID’s knowledge base holds up to 5 documents.
How do I move from D-ID to Lookalike?
Create a Lookalike from a photo of the same face, choose or clone the voice, paste in the persona and upload your knowledge files. Then replace the D-ID embed on your site with 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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