Estimate your costs

Estimate a month of credits, or what an avatar costs inside an app.

Every rate comes from Pricing.

Estimate a month

Choose where the avatar renders, then how long sessions run. The estimate counts active session time, talking or idle, at the rates.

60 minutes a day, 30 days, one session at a time

Mode	Rate	Credits a month	At the top-up rate	Smallest plan that covers it
On the device or your servers	2 credits per minute	3,600	$36.00	Pro
bitHuman cloud avatar	4 credits per minute	7,200	$72.00	Pro
Managed voice chat, all-inclusive	10 credits per minute	18,000	$180.00	Business

Budget an app

What an Essence 2 or Expression 2 avatar costs inside an iPhone, Android, Mac or web app, per minute of active session time. Creating your own avatar is a one-time cost (Creation); the companion app recipe shows how to close the avatar when the app leaves the screen.

Mode	On the device or your servers	bitHuman cloud avatar	Managed voice chat, all-inclusive
Credits per minute of active session time	2	4	10
At the top-up rate ($1 = 100 credits)	about $0.02 a minute	about $0.04 a minute	about $0.10 a minute
At the Business plan's credit price	about $0.012 a minute	about $0.024 a minute	about $0.060 a minute
Minutes in a Creator month (2,000 credits)	1,000	500	200
Speech, language model and voice	your own services	your own services	included
Sessions at once	limited by credits	per plan	per plan

Idle is billed. A session bills for as long as it runs, talking or idle. End it when the user leaves, and show a still frame when nobody is talking.
Worked example. One user whose sessions add up to 20 minutes a day on the device uses about 1,200 credits a month ($12.00 at the top-up rate).