Is D-ID still around? (2026)

What sets it apart Real-time streaming conversational avatars (Visual AI Agents) that respond live through the API rather than only producing pre-rendered clips; the company traces back to the de-identification / anti-facial-recognition technology that gave it its name

Best for Marketing, L&D/training, and customer-service teams making talking-head videos from images and scripts at scale, plus developers who want to embed pre-rendered or real-time conversational avatars via an API · Pricing model Monthly or annual subscription tiers metered by video minutes. The entry Lite plan runs about $5.90/mo billed monthly (roughly $4.70/mo billed annually, ~20% annual discount), scaling up to Advanced tiers reported around $108/mo and higher. A free trial exists but applies full-screen watermarks; unused monthly minutes do not roll over. API access is included across plans, with per-call/usage caps on lower tiers that upper tiers lift.

Founded in 2017 as a privacy startup whose software altered photos to defeat facial-recognition systems, D-ID now sells generative video: its Creative Reality Studio turns a still image plus a script or audio track into a talking-avatar clip, in more than 100 languages. The platform's Visual AI Agents extend that to real-time streaming, so an avatar can hold a live conversation over the API instead of only rendering a fixed video. It suits marketing, training, and customer-service teams producing presenter-style clips at volume, plus developers embedding digital humans in their own products.

Sources D-ID homepage (vendor) · D-ID Visual AI Agents (vendor) · D-ID Studio pricing (vendor) · NoCamels: Israeli Startup D-ID Offers Counter To Facial Recognition Tech