Arcads vs Creatify: AI actor ads or URL-to-video ads
Arcads builds ads from your script and 1,000+ AI actors on monthly plan credits. Creatify turns a product URL into a video ad; API plans start at $99.
Arcads and Creatify both make AI video ads, but they start from different inputs. Arcads starts from your script: you pick from 1,000+ AI actors (or your own AI avatar), and it bills monthly plan credits with no dollar prices on the pages we read. Creatify can start from a link: its URL-to-Video API scrapes a product page into a short video ad, and its API plans cost $99 a month for 500 credits or $299 for 2,000.
Every vendor fact below comes from Arcads' and Creatify's own pages, read on 2026-09-28 and listed under Sources. Neither is ranked here, and nothing here predicts how an ad will perform.
How do Arcads and Creatify compare?
| Topic | Arcads | Creatify |
|---|---|---|
| Starting input | A script you write, stored in a product and folder | A product URL (URL to Video), or text an AI avatar speaks (AI Avatar API) |
| Presenters | 1,000+ AI actors, or your own AI avatar | 1,500+ UGC avatars and the Aurora avatar model |
| API credentials | Client ID and Client Secret from Settings > Public API, sent as Basic auth; the secret is shown once | An API ID and API key, sent as X-API-ID and X-API-KEY |
| Plans | Starter 8,000 and Creator 16,000 monthly credits; Pro, Scale and Business above; no dollar prices on the pages read | API Starter $99 a month for 500 credits; API Pro $299 a month for 2,000; Enterprise custom |
| Credit use | No credits-per-video rate on the pages read | URL to Video and AI Avatar: 5 credits per 30 seconds, billed in 30-second increments |
| At the credit limit | Starter and Creator pause until renewal, no rollover; Pro bills extra credits and rolls unused credits over | Billed by credits consumed; past certain usage thresholds, Creatify offers an enterprise plan |
| Other access | A hosted MCP server at https://mcp.arcads.ai, which needs an active subscription with credits left | API access comes with a paid API plan; the app's Free plan has 10 monthly credits and watermarked exports |
How does each API make a video?
Arcads' API follows its app: you create a product, a folder and a script, then call POST /v1/scripts/:scriptId/generate (How the Arcads API works). Creatify's URL to Video starts from a link instead: POST /api/links/ scrapes the page's images and descriptions, and POST /api/link_to_videos/ renders an ad from them (Product URL to video AI).
How do Arcads and Creatify credits differ?
The difference is what you can price before signing up. Creatify publishes dollar prices for its API plans and a credit rate for each API: URL to Video and AI Avatar cost 5 credits per 30 seconds, and each scraped link costs 1 credit (Creatify pricing and API credits). Arcads publishes monthly credit allowances and what happens at the limit, shown in the table, but the pages read give no dollar price per plan and no credit cost per video.
Should I pick Arcads or Creatify?
- Pick Arcads if you write your own scripts, want to cast from a large library of AI actors, or want to drive it from an MCP client.
- Pick Creatify if you want a video ad drafted from a product page URL, or you need published dollar prices before you sign up.
- Both bill in plan credits, so price your real monthly volume on each before you commit.
- Sume's
POST /v1/avatar-1.0/talking-videoalso makes talking-avatar videos from a script, with an optionalproduct_imageandscene(Generate avatar video). UGC-style video ads for products at scale compares four tools.
Sources
- Arcads home page (read 2026-09-28)
- Arcads API documentation (read 2026-09-28)
- Arcads: how to buy more credits (read 2026-09-28)
- Arcads MCP (read 2026-09-28)
- Creatify API (read 2026-09-28)
- Creatify API billing (read 2026-09-28)
- Creatify: Create Video from URL (read 2026-09-28)
- Creatify pricing (read 2026-09-28)
- Creatify: AI Avatar overview (v2) (read 2026-09-28)
- Generate avatar video
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