Akool Review: Avatars, Face Swap and Every Video Model, Priced in Credits

Akool is an AI video suite built for marketing. It makes talking avatars, swaps faces and translates videos with lip sync. It also generates clips from text or images with its own models and a dozen third-party ones. Akool Inc. was founded in 2022, is based in Palo Alto, and topped the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies in 2025. It claims 10 million users and customers such as Coca-Cola, Canon, Qatar Airways and Logitech.

What does Akool do?

Avatars are the core. Avatar Video turns a script into a presenter reading it. The presenter can be a stock avatar, a photo, or a fine-tuned studio avatar of a real person. Streaming Avatar runs the same thing live. A customer-facing agent can answer in real time with a knowledge base behind it. Talking Photo animates a still portrait. Live Camera and Live Face Swap change a face during a video call.

Face Swap is the tool that made the company's name. It replaces a face in an image or video with realistic blending. It powered Qatar Airways' "AI Adventure" campaign and Coca-Cola's "Ultimate You" game. Video Translation dubs a video into another language with matched lip movement. A proofread step lets you fix the translation before rendering.

Generation covers the rest. Text to Video, Image to Video, Video to Video and Reference to Video run on Akool's own models. Kling, Seedance, PixVerse, Wan, Minimax, Sora and Google Veo are there too. Image tools include a generator, image to image, and background change, with Flux, Nano Banana, Recraft and Seedream available. There is text to speech, a voice changer and voice cloning. A Video Agent and an Agentic Canvas build multi-step videos from a brief. Developers get an API from the Pro Max plan up.

Which features stand out?

• Streaming Avatar — a live, talking avatar with a knowledge base, shown with Google Cloud at NVIDIA GTC and with AWS in India.
• Face Swap — image and video face replacement good enough for airline and soft-drink campaigns.
• Video Translation with proofreading — lip-synced dubbing where you can correct the script before it renders.
• Every major model in one place — Kling, Seedance, Sora, Veo, Wan and Minimax for video, Flux and Nano Banana for images.
• Unlimited Mode — Pro and up get unlimited generations on Akool's own and PixVerse models, outside the credit count.
• Enterprise production — Akool sells human-edited finished content alongside the software.

How much does Akool cost?

Plans are per seat and paid in monthly credits. Yearly billing takes 30 percent off Pro and above.