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Captions vs. D-ID

At a glance

At a glance

Captions

Best for

Best for creators and social teams producing short-form video with AI avatars and captions.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

D-ID

Best for

Best for developers who want a simple, affordable talking-head or photo-to-video API.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized

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Full Comparison

Criterion Captions D-ID
Starting price Free plan; paid from $24.99 / month Higher Scale tiers and custom Enterprise pricing above. Avatar and dubbing features run on a monthly credit system. Lite from ~$5.90 / month Studio plans, each sold with a choice of credit packages; the API is billed separately, where a credit costs half the Studio rate.
Free trial Free plan Free trial
Commercial use Not stated Yes on paid plans
Output Digital avatars and AI twins, with captions and translation in 100+ languages Talking-head and photo-to-video, including a personal avatar from a photo
API Yes, the Mirage API Yes, its main strength
Avatar library Yes, a library of digital avatars plus AI-generated avatars Yes, photo-to-video talking avatars
Custom and cloned avatars Yes, an AI Twin of yourself, plus AI voice cloning Yes, a personal avatar from a single photo
Languages and translation Captions and translation in 100+ languages Yes, 120+ languages
Editor Yes, an AI video editor that cuts scenes, overlays B-roll, removes noise, trims filler words and corrects eye contact Yes, Creative Reality Studio, script and document to video
Learning features No. The help centre lists no quizzes, no branching and no SCORM export; the product is aimed at social and marketing video rather than course authoring No authoring of its own, no quizzes, branching or SCORM export; instead add-ins that drop avatar video into Articulate Rise and Storyline 360, iSpring, Moodle and TalentLMS
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support Email helpdesk Email helpdesk
Onboarding more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials Documentation and knowledge base
Company size more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
Integrations Not stated PowerPoint, Canva, Articulate Rise, Articulate Storyline 360, iSpring, Moodle, TalentLMS, ElevenLabs, Midjourney, DALL-E, Shutterstock, Tolstoy, YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price Captions Free plan; paid from $24.99 / month D-ID Lite from ~$5.90 / month
  • Free trial Captions Free plan D-ID Free trial
  • Company size Captions Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise D-ID Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
  • Output Captions Digital avatars and AI twins, with captions and translation in 100+ languages D-ID Talking-head and photo-to-video, including a personal avatar from a photo
  • API Captions Yes, the Mirage API D-ID Yes, its main strength

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Captions

Strengths

  • Free plan to start
  • AI Twin and voice cloning on paid plans
  • Captions and translation in 100+ languages

Limitations

  • Avatar and dubbing features consume monthly credits
  • No learning or SCORM features stated

D-ID

Strengths

  • Cheapest entry
  • Simplest talking-head API for developers
  • Fast photo-to-video

Limitations

  • Fewer advanced features than full platforms
  • Less polished for long-form corporate
  • Quality depends on the source image

Plans

Pricing

Captions

  • Free $0 Limited feature set with basic editing tools.
  • Max $24.99 Per month. 500 credits per month, the library of AI edit styles, digital twins and custom AI actors.
  • Scale 1x $69.99 Per month. 1,400 credits per month, everything in Max.
  • Scale 2x $139.99 Per month. 2,800 credits per month.
  • Scale 4x $279.99 Per month. 5,600 credits per month.
  • Enterprise Custom Bulk credit discounts, custom seats, dedicated account management, training-data exclusion, priority support.
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D-ID

  • Lite From ~$5.90 Per month. Credits are renewed monthly and unused ones expire; each credit is worth up to 15 seconds of video.
  • Pro Not stated Several credit packages per plan, plus one cloned voice.
  • Advanced Not stated Several credit packages per plan, plus three cloned voices.
  • Enterprise Not stated Through sales. Customisable number of cloned voices and a customisable watermark, which cannot be removed entirely.
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What users say

Review Scores · opens after launch

Captions

Ease of use
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D-ID

Ease of use
Not rated yet
User interface
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Onboarding
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Support and service
Not rated yet
Value for money
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Features
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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

Captions https://captions.ai · no check date recorded yet

D-ID https://www.d-id.com · no check date recorded yet

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.