HeyGen
Data confidence: HighAI avatar videos for marketing and sales. Competes with Synthesia.
Founded by: Joshua Xu, Wayne Liang
HeyGen has a Developer Momentum Index of 16, ranking #61 of 262 companies. Key metrics include 83.5K monthly package downloads, 279 GitHub stars, $9M in total funding.
Developer Adoption
Developer Adoption
Package downloads and ecosystem metrics, 30-day window
npm Dependents Trend
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npm Download Trend
npm Downloads remained stable at 83,535 over the last 90 days.
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| Date | npm downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 83,535 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 83,535 |
Key Signals
Developer Community Metrics
Metrics computed from HN discussion, GitHub activity, and funding data.
Category Benchmark
14 Video Generation companies30-Day Trends
npm Downloads
npm Downloads remained stable at 83,535 over the last 90 days.
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| Date | npm downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 83,535 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 83,535 |
GitHub Stars
GitHub Stars grew from 278 to 279 over the last 90 days.
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| Date | github stars |
|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2026 | 278 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 278 |
| Feb 25, 2026 | 278 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | 278 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 279 |
| Feb 28, 2026 | 279 |
HN Mentions
HN Mentions grew from 1 to 2 (+100.0%) over the last 90 days.
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| Date | hn mentions |
|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 9, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 10, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 15, 2026 | 0 |
| Jan 16, 2026 | 0 |
| Jan 17, 2026 | 0 |
| Jan 18, 2026 | 0 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 22, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 23, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 24, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 25, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | 1 |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 1 |
| Feb 1, 2026 | 1 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | 1 |
| Feb 3, 2026 | 1 |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 2 |
| Feb 5, 2026 | 2 |
Funding Rounds
2024 · Benchmark
2023 · Conviction Partners
2022 · Conviction
According to AI-Buzz, HeyGen has 83,535 npm downloads in 30 days, with 8 npm dependent packages, ranks #5 in Video Generation for HN discussion share (out of 14 tracked with 1.2% of HN discussion).
Source: https://www.ai-buzz.com/companies/heygen?utm_source=citation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cite_this_data
Metrics derived from public APIs (HN Algolia, GitHub, npm/PyPI). Sentiment classified by AI. See methodology for details →
About
About
Description
AI avatar videos for marketing and sales. Competes with Synthesia.
Estimated Company Size
11 - 50 employees
Website
heygen.comDetails
Founded
2020
Description
HeyGen creates AI spokesperson videos. Strong in marketing use cases. Growing fast in SMB market. More accessible pricing than Synthesia.
Data Confidence
ExcellentReflects profile completeness, metric freshness, and signal coverage.
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