- API model ID
Not collected- Access
- POST https://api.d-id.com/scenes; use the returned job ID to poll status or receive a webhook, then retrieve the result URL. API credentials and eligible account access required.
- Regions
- No single public-cloud processing region or regional inference guarantee established for this route.
- Data retention
- Provider privacy policy describes commercially reasonable deletion of non-persisted API applicative data within 24 hours, Agents within 72 hours, and Insights within 14 days. Persisted assets, knowledge documents and Studio uploads have different lifetimes. Support/operational access is allowed; this is not default zero retention.Source for Data retention (opens in a new tab)
- persistentData
- persist=true assets, knowledge documents and Studio uploads persist until erased. While awaiting processing/deletion, applicative data is not accessed for model training; authorized support/operational access remains possible.Source for persistentData (opens in a new tab)
- ownStorage
- Provider policy permits signed S3 input/output URLs; when the result is directed to customer S3, the result is not stored in D-ID’s system. This is not a blanket promise of no processing or no metadata retention.Source for ownStorage (opens in a new tab)
- textAndSpeech
- Text or uploaded audio scripts. SSML and subtitles are supported by the schema. Speech providers are Microsoft, ElevenLabs, Amazon, Google and Azure OpenAI; default Microsoft. Exact voices, speech models and restrictions depend on the selected provider.Source for textAndSpeech (opens in a new tab)
- Audio file size
- Uploaded audio URL is limited to 15 MB. Generic schema duration wording names clips and talks only; do not apply those limits to scenes or expressives without evidence.Source for Audio file size (opens in a new tab)
- plansMonthly
- API monthly plans: Build $18 / 64 credits; Launch $50 / 180, $99 / 360, $149 / 540; Scale $198 / 800, $248 / 1,000, $297 / 1,200. Credits are a shared account allowance, not separate balances for each model.Source for plansMonthly (opens in a new tab)
- plansAnnual
- Annual API totals: Build 64 credits/month $172.80/year; Launch 180/360/540 credits per month $420/$831.60/$1,251.60 per year; Scale 800/1,000/1,200 credits per month $1,663.20/$2,083.20/$2,494.80 per year. Annual commitment required.Source for plansAnnual (opens in a new tab)
- creditAccounting
- One credit covers each started 15-second block of offline video: a 40-second video consumes three credits. Unused monthly credits expire; API and Studio consume the same credit balance.Source for creditAccounting (opens in a new tab)
- Included plan allowances
- Published API bundles: 64 credits allow up to 16 offline or 32 streaming minutes; 180/360/540 allow 45/90/135 offline or 90/180/270 streaming minutes; 800/1,000/1,200 allow 200/250/300 offline or 400/500/600 streaming minutes. These are alternative uses of a shared balance, not additive free allowances.Source for Included plan allowances (opens in a new tab)
- Language coverage
- D-ID advertises 120+ languages and accents at platform level. Actual speech coverage depends on the connected TTS provider and selected voice; no separate native D-ID speech-language inventory is asserted.Source for Language coverage (opens in a new tab)
- licenseAndWatermark
- Build: personal license, D-ID watermark, photo and two video avatars. Launch: commercial license and AI watermark. Scale: commercial license and custom logo. Specific stock/custom-avatar entitlement depends on the plan. Enterprise is quoted separately.Source for licenseAndWatermark (opens in a new tab)
- trial
- 14-day API trial: up to 3 minutes offline or up to 10 minutes streaming within the trial credit capacity, personal license and full-screen watermark. Not unlimited free inference.Source for trial (opens in a new tab)
- customEnrollment
- Create a consent challenge, complete verification, then POST /scenes/avatars with at least one minute of natural speaking footage. Consent challenge expires in 30 minutes. Provider-estimated enrollment is 5–10 minutes.Source for customEnrollment (opens in a new tab)
- background
- Custom background applies only to avatars enrolled with a green-screen background; the normal flow preserves source background and motion.Source for background (opens in a new tab)
- resultURL
- Quickstart says generated video URLs are valid for 24 hours; fetch the job again for a fresh link. Link expiry and stored-data deletion are different controls.Source for resultURL (opens in a new tab)
The route selects an avatar or presenter ID, not a public immutable weight/checkpoint selector.
The 1,200-credit Scale card rounds its monthly display to $208; the annual total is $2,494.80.
Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.
| Category | Usage | Rate | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video credit consumption | Offline video1 | 1 credit | started 15 seconds of output |
Rate conditions
- Published general D-ID video-credit rule; eligible stock/custom avatar access and a funded account are required. Round up each generated video to 15-second blocks. Credit purchase cost depends on subscription and commitment. Not a USD per-minute or LLM token tariff; enterprise terms may differ.
Data & enterprise terms
Provider privacy policy describes commercially reasonable deletion of non-persisted API applicative data within 24 hours, Agents within 72 hours, and Insights within 14 days. Persisted assets, knowledge documents and Studio uploads have different lifetimes. Support/operational access is allowed; this is not default zero retention.
Read the service policy (opens in a new tab)