Akool Face Swap Alternatives: 6 Tools, Prices Checked

Akool groups its swap tools into what it calls the AI Swap Studio. According to its face swap page, there are six modes, each priced from a minimum number of credits: Face Swap (4+ credits), Character Swap (4+), Motion Swap (2+), Head Swap (5+), Hair Swap (6+) and Clothing Swap (4+). You can upload up to 50 files at once, in video (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM) or image (JPG, PNG, WebP) formats, or paste video links.

Beyond the basic swap, the same page describes a ReAge mode that makes the swapped face look younger or older, group swaps for photos with several people, batch processing, generative face swap from prompts, and live face swap for livestreams, meetings and events. It also says exports go up to 4K depending on the asset. For a marketing team that wants swaps, presenters and dubbing under a single login, that range is the selling point.

• Six modes in one studio, from a plain face swap to swapping outfits or copying motion.
• Batch upload of up to 50 files per run.
• Live face swap, with minutes that depend on the plan.
• An Open API (akool.com/openapi), with API access on the Pro Max plan and above.

The plan you pick decides how big a clip you can swap. In the full comparison on Akool's pricing page, the Face Swap rows read as follows when we checked (28 Oct 2026): the Free plan accepts uploads at 720P, up to 150 MB and 30 seconds; Starter goes up to 1080P with 300 MB and 5 minutes; Pro lists 16K uploads, still 300 MB and 5 minutes; Pro Max allows 500 MB and 10 minutes; Business allows 1 GB and 15 minutes; Enterprise is custom.

The General rows on the same table show a full-screen watermark on the Free plan and watermark removal on every paid plan. Live face swap starts at 5 free minutes, then up to 5 minutes on Starter, 60 on Pro, 90 on Pro Max and 120 on Business. A pop-up on the page promises a 20-credit welcome bonus for new accounts.

• Starter: $12 per seat per month on annual billing ($144), personal licence, 2 videos and 4 images in parallel.
• Pro: $21 per seat per month on annual billing ($252), shown against a struck-through $30.
• Pro Max: $41.30 per seat per month on annual billing, API access and workspace collaboration.
• Business: $174.30 per seat per month on annual billing, business licence.

Nobody needs to leave a tool that fits, but four patterns come up when people compare Akool alternatives, and each one is a plan detail rather than a quality judgement:

1. 1

   The free tier is a test, not a workflow

   Free uploads stop at 30 seconds and come back with a full-screen watermark, so posting the result means paying.

2. 2

   Seats add up

   Prices are per seat, which matters for a two-person team that only swaps occasionally.

3. 3

   API and bigger clips sit higher up

   API access starts on Pro Max, and clips longer than 10 minutes need Business.

4. 4

   Format and hosting needs

   Akool's upload list names video and image formats but not GIF, and some teams want a self-hosted model so footage never leaves their machine.

If one of those is your reason, the alternatives below are sorted by the job they do best, not by size.

The table compares what each product says it does on its own pages. We did not run a side-by-side quality test, so treat it as a feature map and try two or three on the same clip before you commit.

LazyKiwi's AI video face swap is built for the most common creator job: one clip, one or several people in it, and a new face for some of them. When you upload the video, LazyKiwi scans it and shows each detected face as a numbered card. Select the cards you want changed and attach a reference picture to each, so a two-person podcast clip can swap just the guest. Nothing else in the footage is re-rendered: the camera, the edit and the soundtrack are left alone, and lip movement is taken from the source frames, so speech still lines up.

The same flow takes GIFs. The GIF face swap keeps the frame rate and the loop point, so a reaction GIF comes back as a GIF you can drop into a chat. Everything runs in the browser on a phone or a laptop, with no install. The face swap overview explains the difference between swapping a face, swapping a whole head with head swap, and replacing the entire person with character swap.

You can start on our Free plan without entering a card; its allowance tops itself up every month. Starter costs $14 billed monthly or $12 a month on a yearly bill, and every paid tier exports without a watermark and allows commercial use, as our pricing page showed when we checked (28 Oct 2026). What we do not offer: live face swap for streams, a public face swap API, or a photo face swap tool in the workbench. If those are the reason you use Akool face swap, keep reading.

Magic Hour's face swap page splits the job into four modes: one face, many faces, a whole head or a whole body, with stills, clips and GIFs for the first two. The still-image version can be used without an account or a watermark, with a small daily quota (the page counted down from five on 28 October).

For developers, the same page advertises a Face Swap Photo API from $0.009 per image. Paid plans on its pricing page run from Creator at $12 a month on annual billing ($19 monthly) to Business at $66 a month paid annually, with watermark-free exports, commercial use and API access listed on every paid tier. If an API brought you to Akool, this is the nearest equivalent on our list.

Face swapping is only one corner of A2E, which also sells talking avatars, voice cloning and image-to-video. Its face swap page takes stills or clips and asks which faces should change. The pricing page charges one credit for every second of swapped video and one credit per swapped image.

On A2E's $0 tier you can claim 30 bonus credits per day by checking in; output is capped at 720P and watermarked. Its Pro card reads $14.90 for a single month, paid once rather than as a subscription (three months cost $29.90, a year $89.90), and removes the watermark; note that the plan table further down quotes Pro at $19.90, so confirm the figure at checkout.

Remaker's face swap tool has the most granular menu here: separate menus for still images and for clips and GIFs, each with single, multiple and batch modes, plus a choice of two model versions. The page notes that history keeps up to 80 results and deletes files after one day, so download promptly.

There is no subscription. The pricing page sells one-time credit packs from $5.99 for 200 credits up to $299 for 20,000, and its FAQ says purchased credits do not expire. The same FAQ lists crypto and Telegram as the payment methods, which is worth knowing before you plan a company purchase.

Vidnoz runs its swapper in the browser for stills, clips and group shots and advertises daily free usage, 1080P support and clips up to 50 minutes. Face swap is not a separate line on its pricing page, which is built around the avatar video product, so treat the face swap page's daily free usage as the offer to test. We look at what that free tier covers in a separate guide.

FaceFusion is the open-source route: a face manipulation platform on GitHub with about 30,400 stars when we checked. You install it yourself and run jobs from the command line or its interface, including a batch-run mode. The README warns that installation needs technical skills and points beginners to its Windows and macOS installers.

Self-hosting means your footage stays local and there is no per-clip fee, but you supply the GPU, the updates and the troubleshooting.

• A face swap video with several people in frame, a few times a week: LazyKiwi, because you choose exactly which faces change and the audio stays untouched.
• Looping reactions for group chats: LazyKiwi's GIF tool, or the GIF option at Magic Hour.
• An API for an app or a pipeline: Magic Hour's Face Swap API, or stay on Akool Pro Max.
• Livestreams and meetings: Akool is the one on this list that sells live face swap.
• Hundreds of stills at once: Remaker's batch mode or Akool's 50-file upload.
• Footage that cannot leave your machine: FaceFusion.

If what you really want is a new video rather than a swapped one, the AI video generator turns a photo or a prompt into a clip with models such as Seedance 2.5.

Every tool on this list asks you to use faces you have permission to use, and platforms increasingly require AI-altered video to be labelled. Get written consent from anyone whose face you add, avoid swaps that put words in a real person's mouth, and mark the clip as edited when you post it.