Synthesia Dubbing
the only vendor that promises in writing not to train on your content and to delete it when you go.
verdictthe most expensive minute here and the only rights posture that reads like it was written for the customer rather than around them.
- best for
- companies dubbing content featuring real employees or customers, where the rights paperwork has to survive scrutiny.
- price
- $1.80/min
- pricing note
- starter annual at $216/yr for 120 minutes; lip sync consumes 2x credits, so roughly $3.60/min with sync enabled; free basic plan gives 10 minutes a month
- free tier
- yes
- cost/min
- $1.80, $3.60 with sync
- lip sync
- 2x credits, starter and up
- owns output
- customer
- trains on your content
- no — explicitly barred
- deletion on exit
- shall delete
three commitments set it apart, all in the customer terms rather than a marketing page. the customer owns all customer data, defined to include the dubbed output. usage information will not be used for 'the improvement or fine-tuning of any artificial intelligence components' outside the services that customer is using — an explicit no-cross-training promise. and on termination synthesia 'shall, unless legally prohibited, delete all customer data and custom avatars' — shall, not may.
against camb.ai training on your content irreversibly and heygen holding an irrevocable transferable licence to do the same, that is a materially different deal, and it is why this ranks first despite costing five to fifteen times more per minute than the cheap options.
two honest qualifications. the price is genuinely high — $1.80 a minute annually, doubling to about $3.60 with lip sync, against heygen's $0.24. and synthesia's celebrated verified-consent mechanism, the live recorded passphrase, belongs to its custom avatar product; plain dubbing relies on the same self-attestation everyone else uses, with synthesia's own docs arguing dubbing doesn't alter appearance so specific consent isn't required.
- +explicit no-cross-training commitment in the terms
- +mandatory deletion of customer data on termination
- +customer owns the dubbed output outright
- +free tier with 10 dubbing minutes a month
- −most expensive per minute of the mainstream options
- −lip sync doubles credit consumption
- −verified-consent mechanism applies to avatars, not dubbing
- −no lip sync or voice cloning on the free tier