A2E
A2E is an all-in-one web platform for AI video and image creation: image-to-video, avatars, face swap, lip-sync and voice cloning, pooled from many third-party models. Creators and developers start on a permanent free plan, no card required.
What is A2E?
A2E stands for Avatars to Everyone, and the company describes its mission as democratising AI avatars. The product is a web platform used at video.a2e.ai, while the a2e.ai site carries the model catalogue, the pricing pages and the documentation. Two things sit side by side under the same account. The first is a no-code studio for people who want to make video and images without cameras, microphones or actors: image-to-video, text-to-video, text-to-image, face swap, head swap, cloth swap, virtual try-on, lip-sync, voice cloning, upscaling and video-to-audio. The second is an API that exposes the same catalogue and draws on the same credit balance, so the web interface doubles as a sandbox for judging output before any code is written. Much of what A2E offers is aggregation. Video models include Seedance 2.5, 2.0 and 1.5 Pro from ByteDance, Kling 3.0, 2.6 and O1, Alibaba's Wan 3.0, 2.7 and 2.6, Veo 3.1, Sora 2 Pro, Grok Imagine, Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax H3 and HappyHorse 1.0. Image models include GPT Image 2 and 1.5, Nano Banana Pro and 2, Seedream 5.0 and 4.5, Qwen Image 2.0, Flux 2 Pro and Z-Image. Voice runs on A2E's own engine alongside MiniMax, Cartesia and ElevenLabs. The one component presented as proprietary is the lip-sync technology, built on 10 TB of dedicated data and four years of tuning across ethnicities, facial morphologies and languages. Everything is priced in credits, at a rate that varies by function, model and resolution: one credit per second of lip-sync video, thirty credits for five seconds of image-to-video. The free plan grants 100 credits at sign-up and 30 more per daily check-in, with a watermark and 720p output; paid plans remove the watermark and raise resolution to 2K or 4K. Beyond the consumer tiers, A2E sells enterprise options: a dedicated server, on-premise deployment through Docker images, ODM white-label sites, and API pricing from 0.20 USD per minute of avatar video. The interface is available in seven languages, support is based in San Francisco and Korea, and a Discord community handles the rest. Uptime is advertised at 99.99% on the home page, although the API FAQ quotes roughly 99.6%.
What it does
- Turn a still image into video, up to 4K, through Wan, Kling, Seedance, Veo or Sora
- Generate video or images from a text prompt across a catalogue of third-party models
- Create a custom AI avatar from a video of yourself or from a single image
- Lip-sync a photo or a video to any audio track, including multi-speaker scenes
- Clone a voice and generate speech in up to 29 languages
- Swap a face, a whole head or an outfit on images and video, including virtual try-on
- Call every one of these functions through a single API from your own application
When to use A2E / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if A2E is the right fit.
When to use A2E
- Social media creators producing short-form video for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and YouTube without a camera, a microphone or actors
- E-commerce teams that need product avatars, virtual try-on and cloth swap visuals for catalogues and product pages
- Marketing and advertising teams turning a single image into UGC-style ads, product demos and dialogue spots
- Corporate training and online education teams building talking-head lessons from a written script
- Developers who want one API and one credit balance across many video, image and voice models, with on-premise and ODM options for volume
When not to use A2E
- Anyone under 18: the terms of use set the minimum age at 18 and moderation is automated
- Organisations that require audited compliance evidence: no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification is claimed anywhere on the site
- EU data controllers who need a signed data processing agreement: none is published, nor announced as available on request
- Teams looking for a media library or an archive: uploaded and generated files are deleted automatically seven days after creation
- Mobile-first users and buyers who need phone support: there is no native app, no browser extension, and support runs through email and Discord only
How to use A2E
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create an account at video.a2e.ai with an email address or a Google login; no credit card is requested
- Collect the 100 credits granted at sign-up, then check in daily for 30 more on the free plan
- Pick a tool from the catalogue: image-to-video, face swap, talking photo, voice clone and so on
- Upload an image (PNG, JPG, JPEG or WEBP, 10 MB maximum) or a video
- Write a prompt describing the motion or the result you want
- Choose the model and the resolution; the cost in credits changes with both
- For an avatar, use "Create from images" to design one, or "Create from videos" to clone yourself
- Generate, then download the result; the free plan adds a watermark, Pro and Ultra do not
- For API work, take the token from your account ID and follow the documentation at video.a2e.ai/dev
- Cancel a subscription from Profile, then Billing & Subscription, then Manage
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A permanent free plan with renewable daily credits and no credit card at any point
- Low paid entry: 14.90 USD for a month of Pro, roughly 0.0099 USD per credit
- A catalogue of leading third-party models gathered under a single credit balance
- The same functional scope in the web interface and through the API, with top-up credits that never expire
- Commercial use allowed on paid plans, with ownership of the results left to the user
- An explicit commitment not to train generic models on customer data, alongside documented CSAM moderation
- Real enterprise options: on-premise Docker deployment, dedicated server and white-label ODM
Cons
- Very thin corporate identity: no full legal entity name and no street address, only "Las Vegas, NV 89104"
- No security certification claimed and no data processing agreement available, published or on request
- Contradictory prices on the pricing page itself: the plan cards quote 14.90 and 59.90 USD, the comparison table on the same page quotes 19.90 and 79.90 USD
- Contradictory minimum ages across documents: 18 in the terms of use, 20 for EEA and UK users in their introduction, 13 in the privacy policy
- Two different uptime figures: 99.99% on the home page, around 99.6% in the FAQ, and one FAQ answer describes a different product, naming Creatify
- Subscription credits reset at every cycle and cannot be carried over, and part of the free allowance requires a manual daily check-in
- No refund for dissatisfaction, no mobile app or browser extension, and primary hosting in the United States despite the promise of regional data residency
Pricing & Plans
A2E operates a freemium, credit-based model. A free plan is available permanently at no cost, granting 30 bonus credits per day with watermarked 720p output. The lowest paid entry point is Pro at 14.90 USD for one month, purchased as a one-off payment, which provides 1,500 credits plus 60 bonus credits per day, approximately 3,300 credits per month, or about 0.0099 USD per credit. Ultra costs 59.90 USD for one month and provides 9,000 credits plus 90 bonus credits per day. Longer commitments lower the rate: 29.90 USD for three months and 89.90 USD for one year on Pro, 119.00 USD and 365.00 USD on Ultra. Credit top-ups are sold separately at 19.90 USD for 1,800 credits and 80.00 USD for 16,000 credits, and those credits never expire, whereas subscription credits are reset at each cycle. Enterprise API access starts at 0.20 USD per minute of avatar video, with volume discounts, and around 9.90 USD of credits is enough to prototype. Payment is accepted by card or cryptocurrency through NowPayments.io, with Stripe and PayPal cited in the terms of use. Prospective buyers should note that the comparison table on the pricing page quotes 19.90 USD and 79.90 USD where the plan cards quote 14.90 USD and 59.90 USD.
- 30 bonus credits per day
- watermark
- 720p
- low processing priority
- 10 custom avatars
- 1 voice cloning slot
- 100+ community avatars
- no API access
- 1
- 500 credits plus 60 bonus per day
- no watermark
- up to 2K
- normal priority
- 50 custom avatars
- unlimited voice clones
- TTS download
- 9
- 000 credits plus 90 bonus per day
- up to 4K
- highest priority
- early access to new models
- 200 custom avatars
- no speed throttling
- 19.90 USD for 1
- 800 credits or 80.00 USD for 16
- 000 credits
- usable on every function and never expiring
- API & Business — pay as you go from 0.20 USD per minute of avatar video
- with a dedicated server or on-premise deployment
- API access is included from the Pro plan upwards
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how A2E handles your data.
GDPR overview
A2E claims GDPR compliance explicitly on its AI Safety page, and the privacy policy supports part of that claim. It sets out the rights of access, rectification, restriction, erasure, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent and complaint to a supervisory authority, and states a legal basis for each purpose: consent, performance of the contract, legal obligation or legitimate interest. Transfers outside the EEA rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (Article 46(2)(c)), with a UK Addendum or IDTA for the United Kingdom. A data protection officer answers at contact@a2e.ai, and the minimum age for EEA and UK users is 18. Two gaps stand out: section 15 is titled "How to contact us, EEA/UK representative, and data protection officer" yet names no Article 27 representative, and no data processing agreement is published or offered. No external certification, SOC 2 or ISO 27001, is claimed.
Who owns the data?
A2E's FAQ states that users retain full ownership of the videos they generate, and the terms of use let them commercially reuse or resell the image, video and audio results, commercial use being reserved for paid plans. In exchange, the user grants A2E a limited "Company License" over uploaded material, to the extent needed to operate the service. One clause deserves attention: choosing to share an avatar with the A2E community grants the company permanent and irrevocable rights over that avatar. Users must hold the likeness rights to, or full ownership of, whatever they share, and they indemnify A2E against third-party claims.
Reuse rights
Results can be reused without asking further permission: publishing or reselling them requires no additional authorisation, subject to being on a paid plan. On A2E's side, the platform collects the account email or Google ID, uploaded photos, videos and audio, face data and image data, IP addresses, device identifiers, the IDFA or Android Advertising ID where consent is given, and in-app purchase details. These serve service delivery, support, automated price personalisation based on device type and language, analytics, marketing, security and fraud prevention. Named processors include Palta Software Ltd in Cyprus, Amazon Web Services in the United States, Google Cloud Platform and email delivery providers; analytics run through Google Firebase, Facebook Analytics, AppsFlyer and Amplitude. Targeted advertising through ad networks is possible, but image data is expressly excluded from advertising. Customer data is not used to train generic models: the only training described is a copy of the model retrained for the user's own avatar. Users in the EEA, the United Kingdom and the United States can opt out of cookies and SDKs by writing to contact@a2e.ai.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
A2E's privacy policy states that the platform runs on AWS servers located in the United States, and that analytics are processed both on AWS in the United States and by Google LLC in the Republic of Ireland. Avatars and uploaded material are stored on the same AWS infrastructure in the United States. Transfers out of the EEA are covered by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, with a UK Addendum for British users. One gap is worth flagging. The AI Safety page advertises data centres across North America, East Asia, the Middle East and Europe, with regional data residency. The privacy policy, which is the binding document, names only the United States and Ireland and describes no mechanism for choosing a region. Anyone whose requirement is that data stays inside a given jurisdiction should treat the residency promise as unverified and ask for it in writing. No hosting certification is claimed: neither SOC 2 nor ISO 27001 appears on the site. Named subprocessors include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Palta Software Ltd in Cyprus, though there is no dedicated, versioned subprocessor page.
Where A2E works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting A2E.
- Two different price sets appear on the same pricing page: the cards quote 14.90 and 59.90 USD, the comparison table quotes 19.90 and 79.90 USD. Confirm what you are actually charged before paying.
- The minimum age is stated as 18 in the terms of use, 20 for EEA and UK users in their introduction, and 13 in the privacy policy. A parent, a teacher or an employer cannot safely rely on any of the three.
- Sharing an avatar with the community grants A2E permanent and irrevocable rights over that avatar. Once shared, a face is no longer yours alone to control, and you carry the liability if you did not hold the rights to it.
- Uploaded and generated content is erased automatically seven days after creation with no recovery, and anything the automated system reads as depicting a minor is deleted without refund. Download whatever you want to keep.
- The daily credit allowance only accrues if you log in and check in manually. That is a habit loop: missing a day costs credits, which is an incentive to open the app whether or not you have work to do.
- Face swap, head swap and voice cloning make convincing likenesses of real people trivially easy to produce. Consent, publication and consequences remain entirely your responsibility, not the platform's.
- The documentation is inconsistent enough to warrant caution: uptime is quoted at both 99.99% and around 99.6%, one FAQ answer describes another product called Creatify, no Article 27 GDPR representative is named despite the section heading, and no full legal entity name or street address is published anywhere.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low for end users. Nothing is installed: A2E is a web platform, and an account is created with an email address or a Google login, with no credit card. Upload an image, write a prompt, generate. For developers, the API token comes from the account ID, the documentation is public, and 9.90 USD of credits is enough to prototype; because the web interface runs on the same API, it doubles as a sandbox for judging output before writing code. Only the credit economy takes learning, since cost varies by model and resolution. On-premise Docker deployment is an enterprise option.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind A2E
Social
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement A2E.
Frequently asked questions
What is A2E?
Is A2E free to use?
How much does the first paid plan cost?
Can I use the videos commercially?
Is there an API?
How long are my files kept?
Is my data used to train A2E's models?
Where is my data hosted?
Do unused credits roll over?
Can I get a refund?
Should you pick A2E?
A2E packs an unusually wide range of functions into one credit balance. Image-to-video, text-to-video, avatars, face and head swap, lip-sync, voice cloning, cloth swap and upscaling all draw on the same wallet, and behind them sits a catalogue of premium third-party models, from Seedance and Kling to Wan, Veo, Sora, Nano Banana and Flux, that would normally be bought separately. The free plan is genuinely usable rather than a token gesture: 100 credits at sign-up, 30 more each day, no credit card. Paid entry is low, at 14.90 USD for a month of Pro. The counterweight is transparency. A2E publishes no full legal entity name, no street address beyond "Las Vegas, NV 89104", no data processing agreement and no security certification. Its own documentation contradicts itself in several places: the pricing page carries two different sets of prices, the minimum age appears as 13, 18 and 20 across three documents, uptime is stated at 99.99% on the home page and around 99.6% in the FAQ, and one FAQ answer describes a different product entirely, naming Creatify. The AI Safety page promises regional data residency across four world regions, while the privacy policy names only the United States and Ireland. None of that makes the tool unusable, but it does sort its audience. Creators, social media teams and marketing departments who want output quickly, cheaply and from many models at once will find the offer hard to match. Organisations with formal compliance requirements, meaning a signed DPA, an audited certification, a named Article 27 representative or guaranteed data residency, will not find what they need here and should treat the marketing claims as claims rather than commitments. Anyone storing work on the platform should also remember that files disappear automatically seven days after creation.
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