Synthesia vs Colossyan for employee training, from their own pricing pages

We make Reigniter, a third option covered at the end. This comparison uses only what each company says about its own product, on the pages listed below, read on 9 November 2026.

Both companies also publish comparison pages that favour themselves, and those pages make claims about each other. We have left those claims out, because we could only check each company's statements about itself. We did not build the same course in both.

At a glance

Where the difference matters for training

SCORM and your LMS. This is the biggest practical gap. If your LMS is where training gets recorded, Synthesia's page puts SCORM behind an Enterprise conversation. Colossyan's does not, although the 5-a-month limit on Professional is real if you are converting a library. Colossyan describes Enterprise SCORM as compatible with SCORM 1.2 or 2004 LMSs.

Courses or videos. Colossyan's pricing lists unlimited course creation on every plan, and its product page describes courses with modules, lessons and learning paths. Synthesia's pricing page is built around video, roleplays and surveys, and does not list a course builder. If you want one tool to hold a structured course, that matters. If you already have an LMS or course tool and only need the video layer, it matters less.

Interactivity. Synthesia's Pro plan includes clickable calls to action and branching. Interactive quizzes sit on Enterprise. So on Pro you can branch a video, but the page does not list scored quizzes at that level.

Branding. Colossyan lists brand kits from its free plan. Synthesia lists them on Enterprise. For a small team keeping training on brand, this is a real cost difference.

Avatars and languages. Synthesia's page lists 240+ stock avatars on Enterprise and translation into 140+ languages at that level. Colossyan lists a 300+ avatar library and 120+ languages. Each company's numbers are on its own terms, so test the avatars and languages you actually need rather than comparing totals.

Security. Both pricing pages state SOC 2 and GDPR. Colossyan states SOC 2 Type II, with EU or US data residency on Enterprise.

Choose Colossyan if

• You need SCORM export without an enterprise contract, at modest volume.
• You want structured courses as well as individual videos.
• You want brand kits on a small budget.

Watch the monthly limits: 15 interactive videos and 5 SCORM exports on Professional, and video analytics listed only on Enterprise.

Choose Synthesia if

• You are buying at Enterprise level, where SCORM, brand kits and quizzes are all included.
• You want the wider translation range at that level.
• You mainly need presenter videos and already have a separate course tool or LMS for structure.

Watch the plan boundaries: branching arrives on Pro, while quizzes and SCORM wait for Enterprise.

How to settle it in an afternoon

Both have free plans. Build the same three-minute module in each from one real document. Then check four things: how the presenter handles your terminology, how many edits it took, what happens when you hit the free limits, and, using each vendor's trial or sales team, what a SCORM package actually reports in your own LMS.

A third option, and who it does not suit

If you need learner records and neither company's plan fits, Reigniter takes a different approach. It is a training platform on one brand kit, with presenter-led modules made from a brief or an existing PDF, Word file or deck. It has questions that branch on the answer, a pass mark, and your own certificates, and it can run from a share link with sign-in, on your website, or as SCORM 1.2 with xAPI. These are on Interactive Training at $149 a month, and Agency at $199 a month. We have compared more tools in Synthesia alternatives for training and Colossyan alternatives.

Reigniter does not suit everyone. Be clear about these limits:

• Teams who want the training made for them. "Reigniter is the platform: your team builds, edits and publishes its own modules, and owns them."
• An LMS that requires SCORM 2004. "We do not offer a 2004 export."
• Cheap entry to interactive training. Pro at $29 does not include interactive training. It starts at $149, against Colossyan's free tier for interactive videos and $59 for SCORM.
• Very long single modules. A module can have up to 150 steps, and longer documents are split into parts.
• Teams who need us to host xAPI data. Statements go to your own learning record store.

Sources

Read on 9 November 2026.

Synthesia

• Pricing and plan comparison

Colossyan

• Pricing
• Product comparison page (own features only)
• PowerPoint to SCORM tool (feature list)

Start free and try it on one real document.