# HeyGen

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/heygen/  
**Website:** https://www.heygen.com  
**APIs profiled:** 13

HeyGen is an AI video generation platform that creates studio-quality avatar videos, voice clones, and translated video content from simple text prompts. The product line includes Avatar V (digital twins), Photo Avatar, Avatar IV, the Starfish text-to-speech engine, the Video Agent API, Video Translation, and Lipsync. HeyGen serves sales, marketing, e-learning, and localization teams with both self-serve pay-as-you-go API access (starting at a $5 minimum) and enterprise contracts. The company is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant and has powered 50M+ generated videos.

## Kin Score — 43.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 56.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 68.4 |
| Access Clarity | 68.4 |

## Agent readiness — 37.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **HeyGen API** — The HeyGen REST API exposes video generation, avatar management, text-to-speech (Starfish), video translation, and lipsync capabilities. It supports avatar videos generated from...
- **HeyGen Account API** — Quota and account information endpoints.
- **HeyGen Assets API** — Asset upload endpoints.
- **HeyGen Avatars API** — Avatar and avatar group discovery endpoints.
- **HeyGen Digital Twins API** — Digital Twin creation, status, and deletion endpoints.
- **HeyGen Folders API** — Folder management endpoints.
- **HeyGen Photo Avatars API** — Photo avatar generation, training, and enhancement endpoints.
- **HeyGen Streaming API** — Streaming avatar session lifecycle and task endpoints.
- **HeyGen Templates API** — Template listing, retrieval, and template-based video generation.
- **HeyGen Video Translation API** — Video translation and supported-language endpoints.
- **HeyGen Videos API** — Video generation, retrieval, and management endpoints.
- **HeyGen Voices API** — Voice listing and voice-management endpoints.
- **HeyGen Webhooks API** — Webhook event and endpoint management.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Heygen Agentic Access** — 53 operations · 30 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Heygen Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Heygen Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Heygen Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Heygen Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Plans (1)

- **Heygen Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Video, Avatars, Voice Cloning, Text-to-Speech, Lip Sync, Translation, Streaming, MCP

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/heygen/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.