How Rosto compares.
Most avatar services rent you a face by the minute, because a computer somewhere has to draw every frame you watch. Rosto ships the face to the browser instead, so after you make it, showing it costs nothing. Here is what that changes.
Three ways to put a face on screen.
| Rosto | Generated videoElevenLabs Avatars, Synthesia, HeyGen, D-ID | Streamed live avatarsHeyGen LiveAvatar, Tavus, Anam, Simli | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | A face that lives in your page | A video file | A video stream |
| Where it runs | Your visitor's browser | Their servers | Their servers |
| Cost to show it | Nothing, ever | Per minute you generate | Per minute anyone watches |
| Waiting time | None. It is already there | Seconds to minutes to render | A visible delay, and it stutters on weak connections |
| Can it listen and think, not just talk? | Yes, free | No | Yes, and the meter runs |
| Works with a bad signal or no signal | Yes | Only once downloaded | No |
| Photorealistic | No. Stylized, on purpose | Yes | Yes |
| Yours to keep | Download it and host it yourself, forever | You keep the files | Stop paying and the face stops |
Products are named as examples of each approach. The rows describe how each approach works, not one company's current price list.
What it would cost you.
Move the sliders. The per-minute rate starts at 15 ¢, around the middle of what live-avatar services publish; change it to whatever you have been quoted.
Metered elsewhere
$150
every month, and it grows as you grow
Rosto
$10
once, then free to show, forever
Rosto figures use our published prices: $10 an avatar, $8 in a five-pack, hosting free with a small badge, or $6 a month for up to ten avatars badge-free. Serving a lot more than that? Tell us what you are building.
We work with the voice you already pay for.
Rosto animates the face; it does not lock you into a voice. Point it at ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google, or your own. The mouth follows whatever audio you give it.
Exact, not approximate
When your voice provider returns per-character timings, the mouth uses them directly, so the lips land on the syllable instead of guessing at it.
Say it once, play it forever
Speech is a file. Record your script once and serve it to everyone from your own CDN. The same "make it once" idea, applied to the voice.
Already have an agent?
If something in your product already talks, Rosto is the face for it. You keep your voice, your model and your logic. Adding voice →
When Rosto is the wrong choice.
We would rather you find this out here than after you have paid us.
You need it to look real
Rosto is deliberately stylized. If your project needs a face nobody can tell from video, use a rendered-video service: that is what they are good at.
You are making films
Scenes, camera moves, full-body gestures, B-roll: that is video production. Rosto makes one face that reacts, not a finished film.
You need every language today
Our mouth shapes are tuned for European languages first. The voice can speak dozens; the lips are still catching up.