Tavus

Tavus is an AI video API platform for building AI humans that see, hear, and speak with users in real time. It is for developers and teams adding conversational video agents, digital twins, or AI companions to a product. Tavus handles perception, dialogue, and rendering through APIs.

Key Highlights

• Real-time conversational video agents with claimed sub-500 ms latency
• Custom replicas, stock replicas, and digital twins
• Raven, Sparrow, and Phoenix models for vision, turn-taking, and rendering
• Support for 30+ languages across developer and PAL plans
• Whitelabeled APIs, a no-code portal, transcripts, recordings, and WebRTC delivery
• Free developer plan with included conversation and generation minutes

What Makes It Different

Tavus is closer to a live video agent stack than a simple avatar generator. Its Conversational Video Interface combines speech, LLM orchestration, vision, turn-taking, and replica rendering so an AI can respond inside a video call.

It also supports both developer APIs and PALs, its consumer AI companion product. For builders, the useful part is the API layer for branded video agents, custom replicas, and production controls.

Features & Capabilities

Teams can start with stock replicas or train custom AI humans from a short recording or image. Tavus lists 1080p video, 24 kHz audio, alpha channel video, conversation transcripts, recordings, and pay-as-you-go usage for live conversations and generated video.

Advanced agent features include knowledge bases from files and websites, persistent memories, objectives, guardrails, function calling, and bring-your-own LLM setup. Enterprise adds custom concurrency, faster boot times, SLAs, security and compliance support, and dedicated technical support.

User Ratings and Testimonials

Tavus does not publish a third-party review score or named customer quotes on its site. Buyers should test latency, replica quality, consent flow, and overage costs before production use.

Pricing & Value

• Basic: Free, with 25 AI conversation minutes, 5 video generation minutes, 25 stock replicas, whitelabeled APIs, and 30+ languages
• Starter: $59/month, with 100 conversation minutes, 10 generation minutes, 3 custom replica trainings per month, 3 concurrent streams, and pay-as-you-go overages
• Growth: $397/month, with 1,250 conversation minutes, 100 generation minutes, 7 custom replica trainings, 100+ stock replicas, recordings, and higher concurrency
• Enterprise: Custom pricing, with white labeling, volume discounts, custom concurrency, SLAs, compliance support, and dedicated technical support

Starter and Growth publish live conversation overages at $0.37/minute and $0.32/minute. Basic is enough to test the API, while paid plans are for custom replicas and production traffic.