Sessions — Synthesia's platform for live, scored AI-avatar conversations that launched with Roleplay in July 2026 — now has a free tier and $29 learner seats, and has grown to include conversational Survey Sessions. Job interviews and candidate screening are still on the roadmap.
2026-10-01 · by Moe Ameen
Synthesia — the company best known for turning a text script into a talking-head avatar video — has been building out Sessions, its platform for interactive, two-way AI-avatar conversations. The platform arrived with its first format, Roleplay Sessions, on July 22, 2026: instead of watching an avatar narrate a lesson, an employee holds a live conversation with an Interactive Avatar that plays a customer, manager, or colleague, pushes back in real time, and then gets scored against a role rubric by an AI coach. At launch it was enterprise-only, sold through "Talk to sales," with no public pricing.
That gate is now open. Sessions carries published, self-serve pricing: a free tier that needs no credit card and lets you build your first roleplay and run a small monthly allowance of sessions, paid "learner seats" at roughly $29 per month (about $25 billed annually) with unlimited plays per seated learner and self-serve purchasing up to around 100 seats, and a custom Enterprise tier that adds SSO/SCIM and a dedicated success team. The self-serve rollout Synthesia promised "in the coming months" at launch — reaching smaller businesses, prosumers, and educational institutions — has largely landed, so a solo coach or a small team can now sign up without a sales call.
The platform has also grown past roleplay. Alongside the practice conversations, Synthesia now offers Survey Sessions — conversational, avatar-led surveys you can deploy at scale, where respondents talk through answers rather than tick boxes. Both formats share the same four-step shape Synthesia markets: create the scenario, let people practice or respond, have the AI coach give feedback, and measure results on a dashboard. Roleplay content has expanded from four languages at launch to around seven (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Chinese), with more planned, and the platform keeps its enterprise governance — SOC 2 Type II, ISO certifications, GDPR with EU data residency, SCORM/LMS integration, and Synthesia Studio.
Roleplay and surveys are the two live formats; Synthesia has said it plans to extend Sessions into other interactive uses such as job interviews and candidate screening, which it has flagged as more sensitive and not yet shipped. Treat the exact tiers, session allowances, and language count as a snapshot and confirm current details on Synthesia's pricing page, since the platform is moving quickly. The one constant worth noting: whatever the format, the output is a coached session, a score, or a set of survey responses — not a video, post, or asset you can publish.
Read the trend for what it is: interactive avatars are becoming a two-way, measured medium, and Synthesia opening Sessions to self-serve means far more businesses will start drilling their people on conversations. That validates demand for practice-and-proof — but it points inward, at the team in the building, not outward at the audience that has never heard of you. Sessions makes a rep better at a pitch and proves it on a dashboard; it does not put a single asset in front of a prospect. For a coach, consultant, agency, or brand, the growth problem it leaves untouched is the whole problem: how does anyone find out you are good at this in the first place?
That outward job is what Kompozy is built for, and it is self-serve too. Kompozy is a content generation and publishing engine: feed it your methodology — the frameworks, the objection-handling playbook, the scenarios you would coach someone through — and it produces a recurring on-brand presence. Persona Shorts and Persona HeyGen avatar video give you an on-camera identity without filming; brand-exact Carousel Posts turn a framework into a swipeable lead magnet; Blog Articles rank for the problem you solve; Quote Graphics and Photo Posts fill the feed; and an Email Newsletter nurtures the list. Then Autopilot and a per-post review pipeline schedule and publish the whole set across eight social platforms plus your blog and Mailchimp, on a cadence. Where Synthesia helps a company measure a rep internally, Kompozy markets the practice that earns the client — and funds the training budget — in the first place.
Sessions is Synthesia's platform for interactive, two-way AI-avatar conversations, as opposed to its core one-way avatar videos. Its two live formats are Roleplay Sessions, where an employee practices a high-stakes conversation with a responsive avatar and gets scored against a rubric, and Survey Sessions, avatar-led conversational surveys. Synthesia has said it plans to add formats like job interviews and candidate screening.
No. It launched enterprise-only in July 2026, but it now has self-serve pricing: a free tier that needs no credit card, paid learner seats at roughly $29 per month (about $25 billed annually) with self-serve purchasing up to around 100 seats, and a custom Enterprise tier with SSO/SCIM. Confirm current tiers and allowances on Synthesia's pricing page, since they are evolving.
No. Whatever the format, Sessions produces a coached practice session, a skills score, or a set of survey responses — nothing you can publish. It is an internal training-and-feedback platform, not a content engine. To turn expertise into posts an audience discovers, you use a generation-and-publishing engine like Kompozy, which makes on-brand video, carousels, blogs, and newsletters and publishes them across eight social platforms plus blog and email.
Yes, as buyers — the self-serve free and learner-seat tiers make it accessible to a solo coach or small team for the first time. But it still trains and measures people privately; it does not market a business or reach an audience. For that outward job, a content engine like Kompozy is the complementary tool.