Colossyan vs Synthesia
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Compare the features side by side
Synthesia avatars
Synthesia's avatars are superior due to their larger and more diverse selection of stock avatars, as well as the option to create custom web avatars.
The addition of 6 micro-gestures further enhances the avatars’ realism, making them more dynamic and lifelike.
Lastly, the lip sync rating of 4.5/5 solidifies Synthesia as the leader in the AI video generation space.
Colossyan avatars
Colossyan's avatars incorporate an aging feature and offer a limited range of expressions, which somewhat enhances their lifelikeness. These avatars can depict five emotions, without corresponding changes in voice tone.
Synthesia or Colossyan – which one offers better voices?
Both Synthesia and Colossyan offer a large selection of languages for text-to-speech voiceovers - 130+ and 110+, respectively.
Additionally, both platforms offer the ability for users to upload audio files with custom voiceovers (for corporate/enterprise plans) and clone their voices.
Both tools provide auto-captioning, video translation, and AI script generation features, simplifying the process for users to create scripts and captions for videos, and to translate their video content.
Making videos with Synthesia and Colossyan
Both Synthesia and Colossyan platforms offer a substantial number of video editing features: a screen recorder, PPT uploads, animations, transitions, aspect ratios and video analytics. These features enable users to create videos from start to finish in one tool without prior video editing experience.
However, the difference in video rendering time is quite drastic, with Synthesia generating 40 seconds of video in roughly 5 minutes, and Colossyan taking more than 10 minutes.
Want to add multimedia?
Both Synthesia and Colossyan offer an extensive media library to allow better video customization. Synthesia comes up on top with a slightly larger selection of music, stock videos, as well as stickers and GIFs, which Colossyan does not currently support.
Do both platforms offer templates?
While both Synthesia and Colossyan offer custom brand templates for enterprise users, Colossyan falls short with pre-designed stock templates.
Synthesia, on the other hand, offers 65+ pre-designed and fully-customizable video templates for a range of use cases, from microlearning, to explainer videos, to corporate videos.
Synthesia's security & ethics
In contrast, Synthesia has a strict content moderation policy (automated & manual), SSO., and is GDPR compliant. The platform also recently became SOC 2 Type II certified to enable faster procurement and heightened security.
Colossyan's security & ethics
Colossyan does moderate the content produced on the platform, but during testing some profane phrases bypassed the moderation process.
With regards to the security of the platform itself, Colossyan does offer Single Sign-On (SSO), but does not seem to be SOC compliant. This can stand in the way of big enterprises using the software.
How does the customer service compare?
Looking at the most trusted software rating platform (G2), ratings for both Synthesia and Colossyan are excellent - 4.7/5 and 4.7/5 respectively. Synthesia does have more reviews, though - 1100+ compared to Colossyan's 300+.
With regards to customer support, Synthesia offers support for all users both by chat and email, whereas Colossyan's support is currently offered to Pro and Enterprise users only.
Both Synthesia and Colossyan have dedicated Customer Success Managers (CSMs) for Corporate plan users.
Other reasons to choose Synthesia
Synthesia is a comprehensive platform that offers a range of features, including a Knowledge Base for any questions about the platform, Synthesia Academy for simple tutorials and beginner courses made by in-house L&D SME's, and Integrations with 35+ tools.
Additionally, Synthesia recently launched an Examples page, that showcases real examples of videos made in Synthesia. The video can be cloned and adjusted to individual needs. Lastly, you can find a list of Service Providers to help with your video needs.
Other reasons to choose Colossyan
In comparison, Colossyan has fewer features. But it goes have a Help Center and a few integrations (for Enterprise plan users only).
AI research advantage
Being the oldest & biggest company in the space, we have a bigger AI dataset for training our models. Our focus in continually solving fundamental AI problems has a direct effect on Synthesia.
- $10M R&D investment in 2023
- Best lip sync & voice quality
- Largest team of AI researchers
Most trusted brand
As the leaders of the AI video generation space since 2017, we have strong ethics and content moderation policies. That is mirrored in our customer reviews.
- Human & machine moderation
- 4.8/5 1000+ G2 reviews
- Strong moderation policies
Enterprise grade security
Synthesia is the most enterprise-ready AI video platform, with a dedicated security team, regular penetration tests and official accreditation to back this up.
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- GDPR compliant
- SOC 2 Type II compliant
2x faster video generation
On average, a 40-second Synthesia video generates in about 5 minutes. It takes Colossyan 10+ minutes.
Helpful learning materials
Even if you are a novice in video creation, we have helpful tutorials, webinars, and examples to help you get started.
Bigger selection of media
140+ AI avatars, 60+ templates, 130+ languages, and more stock media included in the tool.
Synthesia plans
Free Demo
Try Synthesia by creating a free AI video.
Starter
120 minutes of video/year. Billed yearly.
Creator
360 minutes of video/year. Billed yearly.
Enterprise
Unlimited videos + premium features.
Free
$0
5 minutes of video/lifetime
Basic
$30/month
10 minutes of video/month
Pro
$100/month
40 minutes of video/month
Enterprise
Custom pricing
The difference in numbers
Here are a few quick facts about both companies in numbers.
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Why 50.000+ companies choose Synthesia
We might be biased, but our customers aren't. See what they have to say.
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See how Synthesia compares to other AI video generators
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