Tavus

Tavus is an AI video API platform for developers building AI humans that see, hear, and speak with users in real time. Its conversational video agents combine perception, dialogue, and rendering for digital twins and face-to-face product interactions.

Key Highlights

• Conversational video APIs and a no-code platform
• Stock Faces and custom Face slots
• Raven, Sparrow, and Phoenix models for vision, turn-taking, and rendering
• Support for 42+ languages on the API platform
• Free plan with 20 conversation minutes per month

What Makes It Different

The Conversational Video Interface combines speech, LLM orchestration, vision, turn-taking, and Face rendering in a live call. This differs from generating a prerecorded avatar video: users can interact with an agent during the session.

Tavus also offers PALs, a separate consumer AI companion product. Developer API plans have their own usage allowances and capacity limits.

Features & Capabilities

Teams can use stock Faces or create custom AI humans. The platform lists 1080p video, 24 kHz audio, transcripts, recordings, and asynchronous video generation. Availability and included usage depend on the plan.

Agent controls include knowledge bases, memories, objectives, guardrails, function calling, and bring-your-own LLM setup. Enterprise offers custom concurrency, service commitments, and dedicated implementation support.

User Ratings and Testimonials

Tavus publishes named customer examples, including an Orum quote. Test latency, Face quality, consent handling, and usage cost with representative interactions. A selected customer example does not establish the same performance for every deployment.

Pricing & Value

• Free: 20 conversation minutes/month, stock Face access, and no included asynchronous generation minutes.
• Starter: $22/month, 60 conversation minutes, 1 custom Face slot, 1 concurrent session, and 5 generation minutes/month. No pay-as-you-go overage.
• Builder: $59/month, 175 conversation minutes, 3 custom Face slots, 3 concurrent sessions, and 15 generation minutes/month, plus pay-as-you-go overage.
• Growth: $397/month, 1,300 conversation minutes, 7 custom Face slots, 10 concurrent sessions, and 50 generation minutes/month, plus overage.
• Business: $975/month, 4,000 conversation minutes, 15 custom Face slots, 15 concurrent sessions, and 250 generation minutes/month, plus overage.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing and capacity, volume discounts, and dedicated support.

Conversation and generation minutes are separate monthly allowances. Custom Face slots are capacity limits, not monthly training quotas. Choose a plan for expected usage and concurrency; PAL subscriptions are separate.