Elai is the browser avatar tool in this batch for turning an article or a PowerPoint into a video. The batch positioning also records it as Panopto-acquired, and the meter on the copied pricing is minutes, not credits. This environment could not read the official pricing HTML. On 2026-10-17, elai.io/pricing returned HTTP 403. The dollar figures below are not a live render from this directory. They come from third-party copies of that official page: Siftino dated 2026-10-14, and Wolmma dated 2026-09-23. The synthesis of those copies is the source. Where that synthesis uses a tilde, this page keeps the approximation. Checkout on the official site is the price you pay. A number those copies did not record is not observed.

Who it's for

Elai fits a person who already has a post or a deck and wants a presenter in the browser, on a minute allowance. The copies describe Free as about one minute with 80 or more avatars. Creator is the single-user paid row: 15 minutes a month, one user, Full HD. Team is the shared row: 50 minutes a month at the priced step, three editors and three guests, and 4K. Enterprise is custom, described as unlimited corporate, without a breakdown of what "unlimited" covers.

A creator comparing a checked credit card, a translation table, and an official MCP URL is in HeyGen territory on AI avatar. A product URL that must become an ad is Creatify on UGC ads. A voice with no picture is ElevenLabs. Captions and the vertical cut, after any of these exports, are CapCut. A long recording that is not an article is OpusClip or Submagic.

The acquisition note is positioning, not a contract extract. The date of the Panopto deal, the product changes after it, and which login a Panopto customer should open were not observed in the pricing copies. Do not treat this page as a migration guide.

What it does

The job the batch records is article or PPT to avatar video, in the browser. The copies price that job in minutes. Free is $0 and about one minute, with 80 or more avatars. The copies say the sources call it one minute. This page keeps both the approximation mark and that wording. It does not invent a second free grant. Watermark rules on Free were not observed.

Creator is $29 a month, or $276 a year, described as about $23 a month. The allowance is 15 minutes a month, one user, and Full HD. The copies also give about $1.93 a minute. Dividing the $29 sticker by 15 minutes is about $1.93. That division matches the gloss. It is arithmetic on the third-party figures, and it is a description of the included minutes, not a second product. The paid top-up is a different number: $2 per extra minute. $2 is higher than about $1.93. A month that stays inside 15 minutes is priced by the subscription. A month that goes past the allowance is priced, in these copies, at $2 a minute on paid plans. Whether the yearly Creator plan uses the same $2 top-up was included in "on paid" and was not given a separate yearly rate. A distinct yearly top-up price is not observed.

Team is $125 a month, or $1,200 a year, described as about $100 a month. The minute table has steps at 50, 100, and 150. The price copied with the plan is for 50 minutes a month. The dollar prices of the 100-minute and 150-minute steps were not observed. This page will not scale $125 in proportion to those steps. Three editors and three guests, and 4K, are the Team extras the copies name. A per-minute vendor gloss for Team, parallel to the Creator figure of about $1.93, was not observed. This page does not divide the $125 sticker by 50 minutes to invent one. That division would not be the $2 top-up either. The $2 figure is the only extra-minute price the copies printed, and it is stated for paid plans.

Enterprise is custom and is described as unlimited corporate. Minutes, seats, avatars, and resolution inside that phrase were not observed as separate numbers. Paid avatar counts above the free "80+" were not observed. Voice-clone caps, language counts, and a maximum length per render were not observed.

Pricing tiers

Official page: elai.io/pricing, HTTP 403 in this environment on 2026-10-17. Table source: third-party copies of that page, Siftino 2026-10-14 and Wolmma 2026-09-23, as recorded in the batch synthesis. The two copies are the verification path for one set of figures. The synthesis does not record a conflict between them. If your checkout disagrees, checkout wins.

Plan	Third-party copies	Allowance and extras
Free	$0	About 1 minute. Sources say 1 min. 80+ avatars.
Creator	$29/mo, or $276/yr, described as about $23/mo	15 min/mo. 1 user. Full HD. About $1.93/min on the included allowance.
Team	$125/mo, or $1,200/yr, described as about $100/mo	50 min/mo at the priced step. Table steps also list 100 and 150. Those step prices are not observed. 3 editors + 3 guests. 4K.
Enterprise	Custom	Described as unlimited corporate. The breakdown is not observed.
Paid top-up	$2 per extra minute	Stated for paid plans. A separate Enterprise top-up was not observed.

$276 divided by 12 is $23. The copies describe the yearly Creator bill as about $23 a month. The division lands on $23 exactly, so the tilde is the copies' wording around a clean split. $29 times 12 is $348. The yearly bill of $276 is a different amount from twelve months of the $29 sticker. $1,200 divided by 12 is $100. The copies describe Team yearly as about $100 a month. $125 times 12 is $1,500, so twelve months of the monthly Team sticker is a different amount from the $1,200 yearly bill. This page does not invent a percent-off label the copies did not use. It shows the two ways each paid plan was written.

Creator's about $1.93 a minute, times 15, is about $28.95, which sits next to the $29 monthly sticker. The $2 top-up does not replace that subscription. It prices minutes beyond the grant. A Free user does not get the $2 top-up in the wording used here. The copies say the top-up is on paid plans.

Pros

The copies name a free entry, a single-user Creator plan, a Team plan, and custom Enterprise, so the ladder has a shape even though this environment could not open the HTML.
Creator's $276 yearly bill divides by 12 to $23, which matches the "about $23 a month" description.
Team's $1,200 yearly bill divides by 12 to $100, which matches the "about $100 a month" description.
The minute allowances are explicit at the priced steps: about 1, 15, and 50. A buyer can see the unit.
Full HD on Creator and 4K on Team are resolution words the copies actually used, which is more than a bare dollar sticker.

Cons

The official pricing HTML was blocked here on 2026-10-17. None of these stickers were re-read from Elai's own page in this environment.
The figures depend on third-party copies dated 2026-09-23 and 2026-10-14. A change after those dates is not observed here.
Team's 100-minute and 150-minute steps have no prices in the notes. Choosing them from this page would invent a sticker.
The about $1.93 figure and the $2 top-up are easy to mix. One describes included Creator minutes. The other prices extra paid minutes.
API and MCP were not observed. An agent cannot be pointed at an Elai endpoint from this pass.
What "unlimited corporate" includes was not observed as a number.

Usage flow

Treat checkout as the price. This environment received HTTP 403 from elai.io/pricing on 2026-10-17. Use the copies as a planning quote dated 2026-09-23 and 2026-10-14, not as a receipt.
Read Free as $0 and about one minute, with 80 or more avatars. Read Creator as $29 a month or $276 a year for 15 minutes, one user, and Full HD, with extra paid minutes at $2. Read Team as $125 a month or $1,200 a year for the 50-minute step, three editors, three guests, and 4K. Leave the 100 and 150 minute steps unpriced until the product shows their stickers.
Render from the article or the deck, then finish captions and the frame in CapCut. If the avatar voice is not the one you will publish, replace the read in ElevenLabs only after Elai accepts that file. External audio was not observed in the copies.

Workflow usage

On AI avatar, Elai is the article and deck path with a minute meter. HeyGen stays the default presenter when you need a plan this directory re-read from the vendor's own HTML, including a translation table and a remote MCP URL. Elai's copies did not include a language count. A multilingual course cannot be budgeted from this page. Stay inside the minute step you priced: about 1 on Free, 15 on Creator, 50 on the priced Team step. The $2 top-up is the observed way a paid plan buys more minutes. It is not a reason to skip the subscription, because the copies attach it to paid plans.

Shorts and TikTok are possible homes for a cut of the render. A 9:16 preset, a safe zone, and an auto-post list were not observed. CapCut is the editor. OpusClip and Submagic apply when a longer render must be clipped. A 15-minute Creator month is a small stack of shorts only if each render is short. The copies do not say how many renders sit inside the 15 minutes.

On UGC ads, Elai is a weak default. The observed input is an article or a PPT, and the observed output is avatar video. Creatify starts from a product URL. Commercial terms for running an Elai render as a paid ad were not observed in the copies. Full HD and 4K describe resolution, not a media license.

Underlying models

No video model and no speech model was named in the Siftino or Wolmma copies summarized for this pass. "Avatar," "Full HD," and "4K" are product and resolution words. They are not a model card. Panopto is the acquirer in the batch positioning, not an engine name. This page does not list Elai as a host for a third-party generator. Whether the browser renderer calls one was not observed. When a cutaway must cite a model, generate that shot elsewhere. When the voice must be a named speaker, use ElevenLabs. The 80 or more avatars on the free description are an avatar count. They are not a voice catalog. A voice count was not observed.

API and MCP

has_api is false. A public API base URL, an auth scheme, and a docs page were not observed on this pass. The blocked pricing URL is not a developer document. mcp.official is false. No official MCP server URL was observed, so there is no mcp.url and no api_url. A 403 is not an endpoint.

Agents that must render from code should call a tool that printed an endpoint on its own check. HeyGen and Creatify did. ElevenLabs did for voice. CapCut had no public creator API on its check. OpusClip markets a video API and Video MCP without a server URL in its pricing extract. Submagic names Business + API and did not confirm a public docs URL. None of those products become an Elai API.

Similar tools

HeyGen is the creator and team avatar studio this directory checked on the vendor's own pricing page, with credits, translation, and an official MCP URL. Elai is the minute-metered browser path from an article or a deck, with the pricing page blocked here.
Creatify is the URL-to-ad studio. Elai's copied input is an article or slides.
ElevenLabs is the voice. CapCut is the timeline after export.
OpusClip and Submagic turn a long video into captioned shorts. They start from a recording, not from the Elai minute grant.

FAQ

Why isn't this price from Elai's own page?

Because elai.io/pricing returned HTTP 403 in this environment on 2026-10-17. The stickers are from third-party copies of that official page: Siftino on 2026-10-14 and Wolmma on 2026-09-23. The batch synthesis does not record a conflict between those two copies. Checkout on the official site is still the charge. This directory will not pretend the 403 was a successful read.

Is Creator $23 a month or $29?

Both descriptions are in the copies, and they are not the same offer. The monthly sticker is $29, with 15 minutes. The yearly bill is $276, which the copies describe as about $23 a month. $276 divided by 12 is $23. $29 times 12 is $348, which is not $276. Pay the checkout total that matches the term you select.

What does the $2 a minute charge buy?

The copies call it a top-up of $2 per extra minute on paid plans. The about $1.93 a minute figure is the gloss on Creator's included 15 minutes, because $29 divided by 15 is about $1.93. The top-up prices minutes past the allowance. It is not the price of the subscription, and it is not stated for the free plan.

What do the 100-minute and 150-minute Team steps cost?

Not observed. The copies list table steps at 50, 100, and 150 minutes and attach $125 a month, or $1,200 a year, to the plan at 50 minutes a month. This page does not multiply $125 to price the larger steps. Three editors, three guests, and 4K are the Team extras that were named.

Does Elai have an API or an official MCP server?

Not on this pass. has_api is false and mcp.official is false. The official pricing HTML was blocked, and the third-party pricing copies did not yield an API base URL or an MCP server URL. Enterprise "unlimited corporate" does not name an endpoint.