# Hedra

> Hedra is a San Francisco AI research and software company whose own character models animate still images from speech and whose studio and developer platform bring multiple image and video models into one workflow. It serves creators, agencies, brands and developers through subscriptions, credits, usage-based APIs and enterprise contracts.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Lingelbach (Founder and CEO), Alexander Bergman (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Character-1 research preview, Character-3, Hedra Studio and Agent, Teams and Multiplayer, Hedra Avatar
- **Notable:** Research preview launched in June 2024., Hedra reported over 10 million videos created by May 2025., Announced a $32 million Series A in May 2025.

## Products & services

- **Character-1 research preview** — Early image-and-audio character video model that helped launch Hedra.
- **Character-3** — Hedra model for audio-driven character performance and lip sync from an image and audio.
- **Hedra Studio and Agent** — Creative workspace for planning and generating images, audio and video across Hedra and third-party models.
- **Teams and Multiplayer** — Shared billing and real-time project collaboration for creative teams.
- **Hedra Avatar** — Long-form talking avatar model, with API pricing by generated second.
- **Developer platform** — Unified model APIs, SDKs, CLI and MCP access for developers and agents.

## Achievements

- Research preview launched in June 2024.
- Hedra reported over 10 million videos created by May 2025.
- Announced a $32 million Series A in May 2025.
- Its 2026 enterprise page claims more than 20 million users and 45 million content generations.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published a comparison of AI video API costs, including Hedra models.
- **2026-08** — Launched CLI and MCP access and highlighted customer work by Unomundi and the Texas Rangers.
- **2026-07** — Introduced Hedra Multiplayer, a shared real-time visual workspace.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hedra.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hedra-labs
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/hedra_labs
- GitHub: https://github.com/hedra-labs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs5YXPCj6x1220h7PzU-cMw
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hedra.labs

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Last updated: 2026-09-29