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Lookalike vs HeyGen LiveAvatar
How Lookalike and HeyGen LiveAvatar (formerly Interactive Avatar) differ on price, setup, knowledge and channels.
Facts checked October 23, 2026 from HeyGen’s own pages.
The short answer
HeyGen’s real-time product, Interactive Avatar, is now called LiveAvatar and lives at liveavatar.com. It comes in three modes: a no-code embed, a full mode that handles speech, the language model and the voice for you, and a lite mode where you bring your own voice stack and LiveAvatar supplies only the face.
Lookalike is a complete digital human by default: one photo, a voice, your documents, and it is live with its own page, embed, inbox and booking tools. Lookalike Pro works out to about $0.15 a video minute; LiveAvatar’s Essential plan works out to about $0.18 in full mode, with sessions capped at 20 minutes.
Side by side
Lookalike and HeyGen, feature by feature.
| Feature | Lookalike | HeyGen |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Teams that want a lifelike digital human live today without engineering, and developers who want an API. | HeyGen customers, and developers who want a face for a voice stack they already run. |
| How a face is made | One photo, or a starter face. Ready to talk in about a minute. | A photo (image avatar), or two minutes of footage plus a consent recording (video avatar, a paid add-on). |
| Voice | Pick a voice or clone one. | Video avatars come with a voice clone. Image avatars do not. |
| Knowledge | PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images or a website. | A prompt, an opening line and reference links. Document upload is not in the documentation. |
| No-code builder | Yes. Build, share and embed without code. | Yes, Embed mode. |
| 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, a Web SDK, and LiveKit, Pipecat and Agora plugins. |
| Phone calls | Connect your business phone number. | Not listed in LiveAvatar’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 built in. Connect your own agent in lite mode. |
| Languages | 10 conversation languages. | Not published for LiveAvatar. |
| First paid plan | Pro: $19 a month with 125 video minutes and 125 voice minutes. | Essential: $99 a month for 1,100 credits (about 550 minutes in full mode), one 720p custom avatar, 20-minute sessions. |
| Price per minute | About $0.15 a minute on Pro, and $0.15 a minute after that, published on the pricing page. | About $0.18 on Essential and $0.16 on Business in full mode, $0.19 overage. Lite mode costs half. |
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 | HeyGen |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | $19 Pro | $99 Essential, 1,100 credits |
| 500 | $75.25 Pro plus 375 minutes at $0.15 | $99 Essential, 1,100 credits |
| 2,000 | $300.25 Pro plus 1,875 minutes at $0.15 | $374.50 Essential plus 2,900 overage credits at $0.095 |
LiveAvatar full mode uses 2 credits a minute. Each figure is the cheapest way to buy the credits on a published plan. Prices are before tax, billed monthly.
Why teams choose Lookalike
Built to be live today.
Answers from your own documents, not just a prompt and links.
A published price under $0.20 a minute for full conversations, not credits.
Booking, Shopify lookups, a phone line and an inbox, with nothing to build.
A cloned voice, even for a digital human made from one photo.
Judge it yourself.
Talk to Sophie, Lookalike’s own digital human, right now. No sign-up, no sales call.
Questions
Lookalike vs HeyGen, answered.
What happened to HeyGen Interactive Avatar?
HeyGen moved it to a new product called LiveAvatar, announced in November 2025. The old Interactive Avatar page now redirects to liveavatar.com.
Is Lookalike cheaper than HeyGen LiveAvatar?
Yes, for full conversations. Lookalike Pro is about $0.15 a video minute. LiveAvatar Essential is $99 a month, about $0.18 a minute in full mode.
Can a LiveAvatar answer from my documents?
LiveAvatar’s full mode uses a prompt, an opening line and reference links. Its documentation does not describe uploading files. Lookalike answers from PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images or a website you give it.
How long can a conversation last?
LiveAvatar caps sessions at 2 minutes on the free plan, 20 minutes on Essential and 60 minutes on Business.
Do I need to record video to make an avatar?
Not with Lookalike: one photo is enough, and you can still clone the voice. LiveAvatar’s photo avatars do not include a voice clone; its video avatars need two minutes of footage and a consent recording.
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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