Best invideo alternatives
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Top invideo alternatives, reviewed
What each one does well, who it suits and what it costs.

1. Pexo
FreemiumFrom $30/mo
Pexo is an AI video agent that turns ideas and reference materials into finished videos through a conversational workflow. Users can start with a prompt, URL, PDF, image, video, audio clip, or written script. Pexo develops the script, scenes, shots, and creative direction, then assembles the video with elements such…
- Conversational video production
- Multiple starting materials
- Targeted chat revisions
Best for Marketing teams, Product teams, Content creators
Full review: Pexo

2. ByThen
FreemiumFrom $18/mo
ByThen is an AI video production tool for faceless, narrator-led content, including explainers, documentaries, stories, and comedy sketches. It combines scriptwriting, visual generation, storyboarding, narration, music, and timeline editing in a desktop-browser workflow. Users can start with an idea, a text source…
- Idea-to-video workflow
- Reusable characters and settings
- Storyboard review
Best for Faceless video creators, Educational content creators, Storytelling creators
Full review: ByThen

3. Seedance 3.0
FreemiumFrom $14.90/mo
Seedance 3.0 is a web-based AI video tool for creating short scenes from text prompts, images, video clips, and audio references. It supports text-to-video and image-to-video workflows, along with modes for editing existing footage or extending a scene. Uses include advertising concepts, social videos, educational…
- Multimodal references
- Video and audio generation
- Video editing and extension
Best for Marketing teams, Social media creators, Filmmakers, Educators and trainers
Full review: Seedance 3.0

4. CapCut
FreemiumFrom $12.49/mo
CapCut combines video editing with AI tools for generating videos, images, and voiceovers. It is designed for social media creators, marketers, and people making personal videos. Users can edit online or use its desktop, mobile, and tablet apps, starting with their own footage, a template, or generated content. The…
- AI video and image generation
- Video editing and templates
- Automatic captions
Best for Social media creators, Marketing teams, Vloggers and personal creators
Full review: CapCut

5. VEED
Freemium
VEED combines AI video generation and editing in a web-based platform for social content. Users can turn ideas into videos, create talking-head content with AI avatars, or work from templates for ads, explainers, product demonstrations, and testimonials. Generation and editing tools sit within the same workflow, so…
- AI video generation
- AI-assisted editing
- Automatic subtitles
Best for Marketing teams, Solopreneurs, Content creators, Developers
Full review: VEED

6. Runway
FreemiumFrom $15/mo
Runway is a cloud-based AI platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio. Its Creative workspace brings multiple media models together for individual creators and teams, with tools for video generation, image creation, music, voices, and sound effects. Users spend credits on generations, with costs…
- AI media generation
- Creative agent and app building
- Video output tools
Best for Individual creators, Brands and agencies, Studios and creative teams, Developers
Full review: Runway

7. Pictory
Free trial
Pictory is an AI video creation platform that turns ideas and existing content into videos. Users can begin with a prompt, script, web link, PowerPoint presentation, images or audio recording. Its AI video agent prepares a script, organizes scenes and creates a preview, which users can refine through chat or a…
- AI video agent
- Multiple content inputs
- Scene editing and AI generation
Best for Content creators, Marketing teams, Training teams
Full review: Pictory

8. ChatCut
FreemiumFrom $25/mo
ChatCut is an AI video editor that runs in the browser and as a desktop app for macOS and Windows. You describe the edit you want in a prompt, such as removing verbal slips, tightening the pacing, adding retro titles and music, or moving the strongest moment to the opening. ChatCut returns a finished cut and an…
- Prompt-based editing
- Ready-made skills
- Multi-track timeline
Best for Creators, Marketing teams, Enterprise teams
Full review: ChatCut

9. Palmier Pro
FreemiumFrom $29/mo
Palmier Pro is a macOS video editor designed for both manual editing and operation by AI agents. Connect Claude, Codex, or Cursor through MCP to open projects, build timelines, edit footage, and export finished videos. For recurring formats such as clips and ads, you can save an editing process as a Skill and apply…
- Agent-controlled editing
- Reusable editing Skills
- Media generation on the timeline
Best for Video creators and editors, Marketing teams and agencies, Production teams
Full review: Palmier Pro

10. Pika
PaidFrom $10/mo
Pika is an AI creative platform for making and editing video, images, and audio. It brings multiple generation models into task-specific tools for ad creatives, editors, marketers, and filmmakers. Users can create clips from references, generate images, add voiceovers, and produce styled product shots within the same…
- Video generation and extension
- Image generation and editing
- Reusable characters
Best for Ad creatives and marketers, Editors, Filmmakers
Full review: Pika