Captions (from Mirage) is an AI video studio for creators and marketers: edit and caption your own videos, make ads with AI actors, or clone yourself as a digital twin. Influgen runs an AI influencer: one invented character with their own accounts and a team that plans, makes and posts photos, carousels and reels, including talking product ads when you ask. Captions helps you make videos; Influgen runs a channel.
Choose Captions if you film yourself and want fast AI editing, captions in many languages, or a digital twin of you, plus AI ads with AI actors.
Choose Influgen if you want an invented character with their own life and accounts, whose team decides what to post, makes it and publishes it every week.
Influgen: AI influencers that run their own channels, each with a team of five AI specialists.
Captions: An AI video editor and generator: captions, AI editing, AI ads and skits with AI actors, a digital twin of you, translation and lip-dub.
Influgen: Running an always-on influencer channel and growing its audience.
Captions: Creators and marketers making videos, often of themselves, faster.
Influgen: At launch: $29, $79 or $199 a month, or $20, $60 and $150 a month billed yearly. Monthly credits that never expire, plus credit packs.
Captions: Subscriptions with monthly AI credits: Max $24.99 (500 credits) and Frontier $69.99 (1,400 credits) a month, shown as the iOS prices when we checked; Enterprise on request.
Influgen: Free to create your influencer during early access; a 7-day trial with 50 credits when your spot opens.
Captions: A free tier with basic editing and no AI usage credits.
Influgen: One identity per influencer; every image is checked against their face before it goes out.
Captions: AI actors and custom AI actors, plus a digital twin made from your own footage.
Influgen: Plans the week, checks trends and makes the posts on its own. You approve each post or let it run within your rules.
Captions: No. You choose and script each video; its blog describes help with planning when to upload.
Influgen: Publishes to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Pinterest from one queue, on a schedule.
Captions: We couldn't confirm direct posting to your accounts on its site; videos are exported and shared.
Influgen: Photos, carousels and reels, plus talking reels in a voice designed for them (or cloned from yours on Pro).
Captions: Captions in 100+ languages, AI translation and lip-dub, voice cloning, AI music and sound effects.
Comparison based on public information as of October 2026. Prices and features change; check captions.ai/pricing and Captions (app) on Wikipedia for the latest. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at [email protected].
Every Influgen influencer has a scout, a creative director, a stylist, a strategist and a publicist planning, making and posting for them.
Free to create, no card needed. The first 1,000 get 100 extra credits.
Not really. It's a video editor and generator; its AI actors and digital twin speak the scripts you give them. An AI influencer is a character with their own accounts and audience, and Influgen's team plans and posts for them.
Yes. If you film yourself, Captions is a fast editor for your own channel; Influgen runs a separate AI character's channel alongside it.
Captions' Max plan costs less than Influgen's Starter plan and it has a free tier for editing. They charge for different things: Captions for editing and AI generation credits, Influgen for an influencer whose team also plans and publishes.
Give them a face, a voice and a team, and let them plan, make and post. Try it free for 7 days with 50 credits.
Free to create, no card needed. The first 1,000 get 100 extra credits.
