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Tavus CVI vs Synthesia

Up to 4 models, normalised onto the same cost basis and scored through the lens you pick.

	Tavus CVI Tavus	Synthesia Synthesia
Cost of talking
Per minute	$1.00Estimate	Not conversational
Per hour	$60.00	—
30-min interview	$30.00	—
List price	$1/minEstimate	Plan-basedEstimate
Recruitment fit
Overall	90/100	55/100
Verdict	The most complete option for conversational screening — the perception layer is worth the premium when a real person is on the other end.	Excellent for onboarding and policy video; structurally unable to do live screening.
Best for	First-round conversational screeningEmployer-brand videos personalised per candidateProctored assessments where attention signals matter	Onboarding modulesCompliance trainingCareers-page brand film
Watch out for	At roughly $1/min it is 200× the cost of Homo 1 — model your per-interview cost before committing Recording a candidate’s webcam raises consent and data-retention obligations; several jurisdictions require explicit notice for automated video assessment A trained replica of a real employee needs that employee’s written consent	No real-time path at all Credit pricing makes per-candidate cost awkward to model
What it animates
Coverage
Face	Full	Full
Lip-sync	Full	Full
Upper torso	Partial	Full
Hands	None	Partial
Full body	None	Full
Capabilities
Modalities	avatar, video, speech	avatar, video
Context window	—	—
Variants	Phoenix-3 (render), Raven-0 (perception), Sparrow-0 (turn-taking), Hummingbird-0 (lip-sync)	Studio
On HumanLike	AI Personas, Interview	Not yet
HumanLike evals
Wired into HumanLike avatars	Yes — face_id providerOur eval	—
Published benchmarks
Lip-sync accuracy	90%Estimate	94%Estimate
Utterance-to-utterance latency	1000 msEstimate	minutesEstimate

Cost per hour assumes 150 wpm and a 40% AI speaking share. Hover a figure for its full derivation.