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Somebody vs Tavus

Tavus streams a photorealistic video agent from its cloud. Somebody renders a live agent in the visitor’s browser. Both hold real-time conversations; they differ in what you pay for, and in what the agent can do on the page.

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Comparison	Tavus	Somebody
How the face is delivered	Photorealistic video streamed from Tavus’s cloud over WebRTC.	Rendered live in the visitor’s browser. No video stream.
Before the visitor speaks	A conversation is billed for its whole runtime once created, whether or not anyone is speaking.	Live on the page with no session and no minutes used.
Price	Starter $22/month for 60 minutes. Builder $59 for 175, then $0.35 a minute. Growth $397 for 1,300, then $0.31.	Pro $29/month: 150 minutes with Included AI or 1,000 with your own AI keys. Extra minutes $0.12 or $0.03.
Free plan	20 minutes, calls up to 5 minutes.	30 minutes a month with Included AI, 3-minute conversations, website embed included.
Which AI	Built-in models, or your own model by base URL and API key.	Included AI, or your own OpenAI, Google Gemini or Azure OpenAI keys.
Acting on your web page	Tool-call events that your own code handles.	Built in: navigates, highlights, searches and fills forms on your page.
Scored roleplay and LMS export	Not listed on the pages we read.	Rubric scoring with written feedback, and SCORM 1.2, cmi5 and xAPI export.
Video meetings	Joins Google Meet, Zoom or Teams.	Joins Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
Shopify	Not listed on the pages we read.	Shopify concierge that builds a cart and starts checkout (Team plan).
Embedding	Web components, a React library, or the underlying video SDK.	Script tag, web component, JavaScript API or iframe.

Tavus details were read from its public pages on 6 November 2026 and may have changed since. Sources: tavus.io, pricing, docs FAQ. Tavus is a trademark of its owner; Somebody is not affiliated with it. Tell us if something here is out of date and we’ll fix it.

Which one fits

An honest way to choose.

Choose Tavus when

You need a photorealistic human on video

A video likeness of a real person matters more than cost per minute
You are building your own product on a video-agent API
You want to plug in any model that speaks the OpenAI API format

Choose Somebody when

You need an agent that stays and does things

The agent should be present on the page for every visitor, not only after a click
It needs to act: navigate, fill forms, build a cart
You train people and need scores and an LMS export
You want to run on your own OpenAI, Gemini or Azure agreement

What it costs

On Tavus’s public plans the included minutes work out at roughly $0.24 to $0.37 each, and its documentation says billing follows session runtime, not speaking time.

Somebody counts minutes only while a conversation is active. Pro is $29 a month with 150 avatar minutes on Included AI, or 1,000 on your own AI keys, where your provider bills you separately for the model. Extra minutes are $0.12 with Included AI and $0.03 with your own keys.

See what a waiting agent costs for how we measured the idle figure, and the pricing calculator to run your own numbers.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Still curious? Ask our agent — it knows the product inside out.

Is Somebody a Tavus alternative?

For conversations on a website, in training or in a meeting, yes. If you need a photorealistic video replica of a specific person, Tavus is built for that and Somebody is not.

Why is the per-minute price so different?

Tavus renders video on cloud GPUs for every live viewer. Somebody draws the face on the visitor’s device, so the per-minute cost is the conversation’s AI, not a video stream.

Can I move a Tavus agent to Somebody?

Bring the prompt, the knowledge and the scenario. Choose an avatar and a voice in the app and you can usually test an equivalent agent the same day.