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Tavus CVI vs HeyGen Interactive Avatar
| Cost of talking | ||
| Per minute | $1.00Estimate | $0.500Estimate |
| Per hour | $60.00 | $30.00 |
| 30 min interview | $30.00 | $15.00 |
| List price | $1/minEstimate | $0.5/minEstimate |
| Recruitment fit | ||
| Overall | 90/100 | 72/100 |
| Verdict | The most complete option for conversational screening, the perception layer is worth the premium when a real person is on the other end. | Good for employer-brand content, weaker as a live interviewer than Tavus. |
| Best for | First-round conversational screeningEmployer-brand videos personalised per candidateProctored assessments | Employer-brand videoMultilingual job adsOnboarding content |
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| What it animates | ||
| Coverage | ||
| Face | Full | Full |
| Lip-sync | Full | Full |
| Upper torso | Partial | Full |
| Hands | None | Partial |
| Full body | None | Partial |
| Prompt artifacts | None | None |
| Capabilities | ||
| Modalities | avatar, video, speech | avatar, video |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Variants | Phoenix-4.5, Phoenix-4, Phoenix-3 (legacy) | Interactive, Studio (rendered) |
| On Humanlike | Not yet | Not yet |
| Published benchmarks | ||
| Lip-sync accuracy | 90%Estimate | 92%Estimate |
| Utterance-to-utterance latency | 1000 msEstimate | 1200 msEstimate |
Cost per hour assumes 150 words a minute and a 40% AI speaking share. Hover a figure for how it was derived.