Argil

Argil is an AI video platform built around personalized avatar clones. Feed it one photo and roughly a minute of your voice, and it produces a talking-head avatar you can drive with a typed script or a recorded audio track. On top of the avatar engine sits a lightweight editor with auto-captions, B-roll insertion, background presets, and transitions, plus an article-to-video pipeline for repurposing written content into short-form clips.

The product is aimed at creators, educators, e-commerce operators, and agencies who want studio-looking talking-head videos without a camera or crew. Pricing starts at $39/mo (Classic, 1,600 credits, 10 avatar styles) and climbs to $149 Pro and $499 Scale, with a 5-day free trial and no permanent free tier. API access is included from the Classic tier upward, which is useful for teams wiring avatar rendering into a content pipeline.

Argil is Y Combinator-backed and cites customers like Alan, M6, and BFMTV. It also exposes a playground called AI Fictions that stitches in third-party generative video models such as VEO3 and Hailuo for non-avatar shots. It is closed-source and hosted-only; there is no self-host option and no free tier once the trial expires.