Elai.io
Tool · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Elai.io makes video with AI avatars from text. The composition comes from the plan comparison table on the pricing page, not the marketing blocks: 80+ avatars, script into video, URL-to-Video (a clip from a page link), PPTX-to-Video (a clip from a deck), one-click translation, auto-subtitles, screen recording. Higher plans add voice cloning and selfie avatars. Also branching, buttons, hotspots, quizzes, view analytics, SCORM export, a public API. It does not cut long video into short clips.
Languages are where the source argues with itself, so both values get named. The plan cards say "75+ Languages"; the caption to the matching table row, same page, says "Create videos in over 100 languages". We do not choose for the source. No list by name is given, so Russian, Arabic, Hindi and Chinese are not confirmed there. Voices: 300+ standard on all plans, 100+ premium only from Team up.
Which platforms it works with
Direct publishing to YouTube, TikTok and other social networks is not declared — marked absent, with no line about connecting social accounts in the comparison table. The tool is built for corporate training, not feeds; the finished video is posted by hand.
Exports that do exist: SCORM Export for distance-learning systems; "Share Video", unique links to public videos; the public API, off on Free; a Panopto integration, Enterprise only.
Pricing
From the pricing page, currency US dollars. Annual payment saves 20%.
Creator — 29 USD a month, or 23 USD monthly on the annual plan (276 USD a year): 15 minutes of video a month, one user, Full HD.
Team — 125 USD a month, or 100 USD on annual (1200 USD a year): 50 minutes a month (the limits table shows steps of 50/100/150), 3 editors and 3 guests, 4K Ultra HD, premium voices, 1 selfie avatar, 1 voice clone.
Enterprise — "Let's Talk": unlimited users, 3 voice clones, 3 selfie avatars, brand kit, workspaces, SSO.
The page also gives the per-minute price: Creator 1.93 and 1.53 USD, Team 2.50 and 2.00 USD — a Team minute costs more, and what is paid for there is 4K, premium voices and seats. Entry minimum: 23 USD a month on annual Creator (276 USD at once), or 29 USD monthly.
What is free
Free — 0 USD, marked "No commitment": one user, one minute of video, 80+ avatars, 75+ languages and, word for word, "All Creator Features".
Read that against the Free column of the same table, which gives another picture: no 1080p Full HD, no 4K, no premium voices, no AI image generation, no public API, no custom music, no custom fonts. The one free minute comes out without Full HD — 1080p begins at Creator.
About a watermark on Free the page, the terms and the ethical policy all say nothing. That does not mean there is none, only that the tool does not write about one.
Restrictions
The deduction rule, word for word: "Video minutes are deducted upon rendering videos" — at render, not at download. Rework the script, rebuild, and they come off again.
Monthly minutes: Free 1, Creator 15, Team 50/100/150 by step, Enterprise by contract. Resolution: 1080p from Creator, 4K from Team. Frame formats 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 — vertical exists on every step. Seats: 1, 1, 3, unlimited. The public API is off on Free; premium voices off on Free and Creator.
Limits on the length of an uploaded source file are not set.
Rights to the output
Marked conflicting: the tool says different things about itself. Both values follow; we do not choose for the source.
By the letter of the terms. Clause 2a of the terms of service: "Elai grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to access and use the Website and Services for you own personal, non-commercial use". Then a direct ban: "You shall not license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Website or Services, whether in whole or in part, or any content displayed on the Website or Services".
By the build of the product. Elai.io is sold on plans for companies and teams — Team with editors and guests, Enterprise with SSO, brand kit and workspaces, SCORM export for corporate training. Yet the pricing page never mentions commercial rights.
Clause 2c keeps rights to the service with Elai, with the reservation "Excluding any User Content... that you may provide".
The terms hold no clause of their own on the generated video. Who owns the finished clip is not defined, and no differences by plan are set: the personal, non-commercial licence of 2a is written generally, with no exception for paid steps.
Provenance marking none of the three documents touches — no watermark, no metadata, no C2PA.
Do they train on your data
Marked absent: the documents were read and the answer is not in them.
Clause 3b grants the service a broad licence over your user content: "irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use and exploit your User Content".
But it carries a purpose limit: "for the sole purpose of including your User Content on the Website or Services". Training models on uploaded video is not named as that purpose, and training is not mentioned in the terms at all.
No opt-out from training is provided. The only opt-out described is from the arbitration clause — a letter to Elai, Inc. in Pittsburgh within 30 days of first use. It has nothing to do with model training.
How you earn with it
On commercial use the answer splits, and the tool splits it. By the letter of the terms the licence is "for you own personal, non-commercial use", and clause 2a bans commercial exploitation. By the build of the product, Elai.io is sold to companies and corporate training departments, and the pricing page is silent on commercial rights. Both values stand; the question is not closed.
What it will not do
Cut long video into short clips it cannot, and publish for you it cannot: posting to social networks is not declared, the named exports being SCORM, a video link and the API.
A deepfake of a well-known person it will not make. The ethical policy, word for word: "We specifically prohibit the dissemination of political propaganda or offensive material through our technology. Deepfakes or material that impersonates well-known people, such as satirical videos of politicians or celebrities will never be tolerated". Satire is named in the ban in plain words. The terms also require user content not to breach the "Elai Acceptable Use Policy" and describe a DMCA procedure; rules about someone else's music, beyond DMCA, do not appear.
Return minutes after a failed render it will not: deduction is at render.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
Generating video with AI avatars from text: 80+ avatars, a script into video, URL-to-Video (a video from a link to a page), PPTX-to-Video, one-click video translation, automatic subtitles, built-in screen recording, voice cloning and selfie avatars on the higher plans, interactivity (branching, buttons, hotspots, quizzes), view analytics, SCORM export and a public API. The service has no feature for cutting long video into short clips
The composition is taken from the line-by-line plan comparison table on the pricing page, not from the marketing blocks
source, checked 2026-08-07
Sources diverge: The figures on a single page disagree: the plan cards say «75+ Languages», while the caption to the corresponding row of the comparison table on the same page reads «Create videos in over 100 languages» (verbatim). The pricing page gives no list of languages by name, so support for Russian, Arabic, Hindi and Chinese is not confirmed by it. Voices: 300+ standard on all plans, 100+ premium only from the Team plan
A contradiction within a single official page: 75+ in the card against 100+ in the caption to the same table row
source, checked 2026-08-07
Pricing
Free — 0 USD, «No commitment»: 1 user, 1 minute of video, 80+ avatars, 75+ languages, «All Creator Features» (verbatim). By the comparison table the free plan has no 1080p Full HD, no 4K, no premium voices, no AI image generation, no public API, no custom music and no custom fonts. About a watermark on the free plan the pricing page says nothing at all
The composition of the free plan was checked against the card and the Free column of the comparison table on the same page; the silence about a watermark is recorded in a separate ai_labelling line
source, checked 2026-08-07
Creator — 29 USD/month, or 23 USD/month paid yearly (276 USD a year), 15 minutes a month, 1 user, Full HD. Team — 125 USD/month, or 100 USD/month paid yearly (1200 USD a year), 50 minutes a month (the limits table shows tiers of 50/100/150), 3 editors and 3 guests, 4K Ultra HD, premium voices, 1 selfie avatar and 1 voice clone. Enterprise — «Let's Talk», unlimited users, 3 voice clones, 3 selfie avatars, a brand kit, workspaces, SSO. Yearly billing saves 20%
The amounts, minutes and composition are taken from the plan cards and the limits table of the official pricing page; the same page gives the unit price of a minute — 1.93 and 1.53 USD on Creator, 2.50 and 2.00 USD on Team
source, checked 2026-08-07
23 USD a month paid yearly (the Creator plan, 276 USD a year); paid monthly — 29 USD a month
Both amounts are printed in the Creator plan card
source, checked 2026-08-07
Limits and restrictions
Minutes are deducted at the moment of rendering: «Video minutes are deducted upon rendering videos» (verbatim). Quotas: Free — 1 minute a month, Creator — 15, Team — 50/100/150, Enterprise — by agreement. Resolution: 1080p Full HD from the Creator plan, 4K Ultra HD from the Team plan. Frame formats 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1. Seats in the workspace: 1 on Free and Creator, 3 on Team, unlimited on Enterprise. The public API is unavailable on Free, premium voices on Free and Creator. The page sets no limit on the length of the uploaded source
All values come from the limits table and the feature comparison table on the pricing page
source, checked 2026-08-07
Restrictions
Ethics policy: «We specifically prohibit the dissemination of political propaganda or offensive material through our technology. Deepfakes or material that impersonates well-known people, such as satirical videos of politicians or celebrities will never be tolerated» (verbatim) — political propaganda, offensive material and deepfakes of well-known people are forbidden, including satirical clips about politicians and celebrities. The terms of service require user content not to violate the «Elai Acceptable Use Policy» and describe a DMCA procedure for copyright. Apart from that procedure there are no separate rules about someone else's music in an uploaded video
The ban on deepfakes of well-known people is stated in the ethics policy outright; a reference to a separate Acceptable Use Policy is in clause 3a of the terms
source, checked 2026-08-07
Legal
Sources diverge: Here there is a contradiction between the product and the terms, and it has to be stated plainly. Terms of service, clause 2a: «Elai grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to access and use the Website and Services for you own personal, non-commercial use» and further «You shall not license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Website or Services, whether in whole or in part, or any content displayed on the Website or Services» (verbatim) — by the letter of the terms the licence is personal and non-commercial. Yet the service is sold on plans for companies and teams, and the pricing page does not mention commercial rights at all. Clause 2c reserves rights in the service itself to Elai, but with the caveat «Excluding any User Content ... that you may provide». Who owns the generated video the terms do not define, and they set no difference between plans
The clause on personal non-commercial use is boilerplate, but it directly contradicts the purpose of the product and the existence of corporate plans; the terms contain no clause of their own about rights in the generated result
source, checked 2026-08-07
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