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Tavus
Offer 25 min/mo conversational video, white-labeled
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Updated Jun 2026
The offer
- Free developer plan: 25 minutes/month of AI conversational video + 5 minutes/month of AI video generation, with white-labeled APIs (no watermark) and 25 stock replicas
- The full Conversational Video Interface pipeline is included out of the box (vision, Sparrow turn-taking, TTS, STT, LLM, WebRTC), enough to build a working real-time video agent
- Starter $59/mo: 3 custom replica trainings, 100 min conversational video, 3 concurrent streams
- Growth $397/mo: 7 replica trainings, 1,250 min conversational video, 100+ stock replicas, 10 concurrent streams
- Latest model is Phoenix-4 (real-time human rendering)
Who qualifies
- Anyone can create a developer account and get the free 25 and 5 minutes/month, no credit card
- Custom replica (digital-twin) training requires a paid plan; the free tier is stock replicas only
- Free minutes reset monthly, fine for prototyping rather than production
- No standing startup program; volume is negotiated as Enterprise
Community Insights
Tavus is the reference name for real-time conversational video and digital twins, and its Sparrow turn-taking model drew genuine technical respect in 2026. Its engineers are active in threads and known for chasing latency hard. Sentiment is mixed-positive: heavy users (interview-screening, training products) report relying on it in production, while older lip-sync and audio-cloning critiques show rendering quality has been the sore point that Phoenix-4 is trying to close. The free tier stands out for giving white-labeled (no-watermark) minutes plus the whole pipeline.
Best Practices (from community tips)
- Build a working agent on the free 25 min/mo using stock replicas before paying for custom replica training.
- Use the bundled pipeline (Sparrow turn-taking and WebRTC) rather than gluing your own STT, LLM and TTS: that’s the main value.
- Validate lip-sync and latency on your real content early. Quality has historically been the weak spot; check whether Phoenix-4 resolves it for you.
- Watch concurrency limits (free and Starter cap concurrent streams) when load-testing.
- Keep replica source videos so you can retrain or migrate; custom replicas are paid and platform-specific.