Open-source alternative  ·  AI Video Generation

Replace Synthesia with Open-Sora + SadTalker.

Synthesia: AI Avatars

Open-Sora for video generation combined with SadTalker for talking-head avatar animation from a single photo. Self-hosted. No per-video credits, unlimited avatar videos.

You'd keep~R48 840 to ~R444 000/year

Current licence  ·  AI Video Generation

Synthesia

~R48 840 – ~R444 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Open-Sora + SadTalker

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R444 000/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Synthesia (AI Avatars)'s prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Starter

R48 840/yr

R407/user/month

With Open-Sora + SadTalker

Keep R48 840/yr

Creator

R177 600/yr

R1 480/user/month

With Open-Sora + SadTalker

Keep R177 600/yr

Enterprise

R444 000/yr

R3 700/user/month

With Open-Sora + SadTalker

Keep R444 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Synthesia grows around 10% per year on average. Open-Sora + SadTalker hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR197kR393kR590kR787kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R715kR44k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R3.16M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Synthesia (AI Avatars)Open-Sora + SadTalker, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Federate, parallel-run, port over the history. Cutover happens in a maintenance window with rollback armed.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.