HeyGen Avatar 4 image-to-video is 50 credits, photo-in

heygen-avatar4-image-to-video is audio-to-lipsync at 50 credits: you bring a still; it is not the v3 digital-twin roster row at 17 credits and not Veed Avatars at 30 credits / 4K.

Three talking-head rows sit next to each other in the catalog and they are not interchangeable. Avatar 4 wants a photo you supply. Avatar V3 wants a twin you pick from a library. VEED Avatars wants a premade performer at a 4K ceiling. Mixing those doors is how a 50-credit selfie pass becomes a 17-credit roster face you did not mean to ship, or a 4K stock presenter who is nobody’s founder.

Photo-in, audio-to-lipsync, 50 credits

HeyGen Image to Video is the Avatar 4 row. The slug is heygen-avatar4-image-to-video. Display name is HeyGen Image to Video. Content type is lipsync. Category is audio-to-lipsync. audio is true. requires_image is true. Catalog list 50 credits. Durations enum is empty. Max output resolution is unset on the record. Qualities listed: 1080p, 360p, 480p, 540p, 720p. There is no 4K token.

Catalog copy: turn your photo into a talking avatar video. Upload a selfie and choose a voice. Features: Photo-Avatar, Custom-Image, Multi-Voice, Expressions. The selfie is the plate. The voice is the track. The kitchen behind them is not this row’s job. No photo, no job. Light the still like a talking-head plate: face readable, shoulders in, a background you can live with. This pass will not restage them in a new office.

Aspects: 16:9, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 9:16, auto. Pick the ratio of the channel before you spend the 50. Fifty credits is the listed figure and the matrix floor for a duration-driven lipsync job. There is no 5s/10s dropdown. Length follows the voice. Cut the line first. Do not use this row to discover whether you like the person. Discover that on a cheap still. Then upload the still you signed.

Not HeyGen Avatar V3 at 17 credits

HeyGen Avatar V3 is a different slug and a different category. Category is premade-avatars. Content type is lipsync. audio is true. requires_image is false. Catalog list 17 credits. The plate is a twin from 700+ premade avatars, with customizable voices, expressions, and styles. You do not bring a still. You bring a choice.

That is why V3 cannot be “Avatar 4 without the photo.” A library twin is not your founder. If the brief is “our actual face in our actual office,” V3 is the wrong lipsync. If the brief is “a presentable talking person saying this script, no photo on file,” V3 is the 17-credit floor for that job.

Qualities on V3: 1080p down to 360p. Aspects: 16:9, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 9:16. No 4K token there either. Do not prompt V3 into Avatar 4. Change the row. Do not upload a selfie to V3 hoping the library will become that face. Seventeen credits is not a discount on fifty. It is a different plate: roster versus photo-in.

Not VEED Avatars at 30 credits / 4K

VEED Avatars is VEED’s premade-avatars row: lipsync content type, audio true, 4K ceiling, listed 30 credits. requires_image is false. Catalog description: professional talking avatar generation with natural expressions and lip synchronization. The plate is a premade performer, not a selfie you designed, and not a HeyGen twin.

4K is the reason this row exists next to the HeyGen pair. Avatar 4 tops out on the quality list at 1080p. V3 the same. If the delivery spec is 4K talking avatar and you do not have a photo, VEED Avatars is the published 4K premade answer at 30 credits. If the delivery spec is this face, VEED Avatars cannot ingest the still. You are on Avatar 4.

Do not spend 30 credits to discover you actually wanted your own actor’s plate. Do not spend 50 credits to discover you actually wanted 4K on a stock presenter. Do not spend 17 credits to discover you needed a signed selfie. Name the plate first: photo you bring, twin you pick, or VEED performer. Then pick the row.

The avatar generator is the door, not a scene generate

AI avatar generator is the capability door for this family: a stock avatar, or a face you supply, driven from text or audio. AI lipsync is the mouth-pass launcher. Run Avatar 4 from those doors, not from a text-to-video box. HeyGen has no provider hub on this site.

A custom location, a product hero that is not a talking person, a silent cinematic plate — none of those are Avatar 4, V3, or VEED Avatars. Scene first on a video row (or shoot it), mouth second on the row that matches the plate you actually have. If the face is a real person, you need a likeness grant before you spend the 50. If the face is a minor, stop. If you have no script and no voice, you do not have a track.

The test is one sentence: whose face, at which ceiling, for how many listed credits. Photo-in at 50 is Avatar 4. Roster twin at 17 is V3. Premade 4K at 30 is VEED Avatars. Everything else is a different generate.

FAQ

Can I run HeyGen Avatar 4 from text only?

No. requires_image is true. Category is audio-to-lipsync. Upload a selfie or a locked portrait. Text-only talking people are the premade rows: HeyGen Avatar V3 at 17 credits, or VEED Avatars at 30 credits / 4K.

Why 50 credits with no duration list?

50 is the listed figure and the matrix floor for this photo-in lipsync job. There is no 5s/10s menu on the slug. Length follows the voice. Cut the script first. A long read is how the floor stops being the bill.

Is Avatar 4 the same as Avatar V3 with a photo attached?

No. V3 is premade-avatars, image not required, 17 credits, 700+ twins. Avatar 4 is audio-to-lipsync, image required, 50 credits, your still. Attaching a photo to the wrong slug does not change the category.

Does Avatar 4 go to 4K?

Not on this record. Qualities stop at 1080p. The published 4K talking-avatar row in this comparison is VEED Avatars at 30 credits, premade, no photo required. If you need 4K and your face, that is not a catalog fact on Avatar 4 — do not invent one.