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PhotoHero vs Higgsfield

Higgsfield is not really a face-swap competitor — it is a very large aggregator of video, image and audio models (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Sora, Nano Banana and dozens more) wrapped in cinema-grade controls, marketing tools and an agent layer. Face Swap and Video Face Swap exist, but as two of roughly 40 one-click "Apps" in a catalog, not the product.

PhotoHero is the opposite shape: one job — face and head swap on your own photos and video — done directly, with the price shown before you run it. If you want dozens of video models and a production suite, Higgsfield is the bigger tool. If you want to swap a face without hunting through a model picker, this page explains why that is where PhotoHero is ahead.

Higgsfield details verified from their own site on . Pricing changes often — check before you buy.

Entry price
PhotoHero
Credit packs from $4.99 (200 credits)
Higgsfield
Starter plan $19/month (270 credits/month, fixed, no rollover)
Free tier
PhotoHero
100 credits on signup (~100 photo swaps, or ~50s of video)
Higgsfield
0 monthly credits on the free "Limited use" plan
Watermark
PhotoHero
No watermark on any result made with an account, including the free 100 signup credits. The no-account preview carries one
Higgsfield
Free-tier output is watermarked; Starter and above are watermark-free, per Higgsfield's own blog/help pages; the pricing page does not mention watermarksReported by: Higgsfield's own blog + help center, compiled September 2026
Try without an account
PhotoHero
Upload, face detection, face picking and a few image swaps a day all work with no account; signup removes the preview watermark and unlocks video
Higgsfield
No — Higgsfield requires a full account (Google/Apple/Microsoft/email) before any generation, including the free tier, per Higgsfield's own blog/help pagesReported by: Higgsfield's own blog + help center, compiled September 2026
Video face swap
PhotoHero
Yes — 2 credits per second, MP4/MOV up to 500 MB
Higgsfield
Image Face Swap is about 2 credits per image; a separate Video Face Swap app exists with no per-swap credit cost listedReported by: higgsfield.ai/pricing and higgsfield.ai/apps, checked September 27, 2026
Multiple faces
PhotoHero
Yes — every face detected, assign each individually; 1 credit per face swapped
Higgsfield
Not stated on their site
Credits expire
PhotoHero
One-time credit packs never expire; optional subscription credits are valid for 1 year and don’t roll over past renewal
Higgsfield
Subscription credits reset each cycle with no rollover; one-time top-up credit packs additionally expire 90 days after purchase, per Higgsfield's help-center pagesReported by: Higgsfield's own pricing page and help center, compiled September 2026
Billing model
PhotoHero
Pay-as-you-go credit packs, or an optional subscription
Higgsfield
Monthly subscription — Starter $19/mo, Plus $59/mo ($47/mo billed annually), Ultra $129/mo ($99/mo billed annually); credit packs can also be purchased as a top-up alongside an active subscription

“Not stated on their site” means we could not verify it from a reliable source, so we have not guessed. Sources: higgsfield.ai/pricing, checked September 27, 2026, higgsfield.ai blog — Nano Banana 2 unlimited plans, higgsfield.ai Apps catalog (Face Swap / Video Face Swap listing), higgsfield.ai changelog

Choose PhotoHero if…

  • →Face and head swap is the entire product, not one app buried in a catalog of ~40 — every control on the page exists to make your swap better.
  • →Instant identities: pick a face and swap, with no training step. Higgsfield's comparable feature (Soul ID) requires uploading 20–80 photos and a wait while it trains.
  • →You can upload, detect faces and choose which one to swap with no account at all; Higgsfield requires a full account before its very first generation, free tier included, per Higgsfield's own blog/help pages.
  • →One-time credit packs are bought once and never expire — no 90-day clock, no reset-each-cycle allowance. (PhotoHero also offers optional subscriptions; those credits are valid for 1 year and don’t roll over past renewal, the same shape as most subscription plans.)
  • →No watermark on any result made with an account. Higgsfield's free tier watermarks every output, per Higgsfield's own blog/help pages.
  • →Video face swap has a published rate you can work out before you run a job: 2 credits per second (Head Swap Video is 5 credits per second). Higgsfield publishes a cost for its image Face Swap app (about 2 credits per image), but its pricing page and Apps catalog list no per-swap cost for its Video Face Swap app.

Choose Higgsfield if…

  • →Enormous model breadth — 50+ video, image and audio models (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Sora, Nano Banana and more) behind one credit wallet, versus PhotoHero's smaller in-house tool set.
  • →Much higher-end video: up to 4K and 30-second clips with native audio, cinema-grade camera/lens/lighting controls. PhotoHero's AI video generator renders a single validated resolution — up to 1344×768 landscape or 768×1344 portrait — well short of Higgsfield's 4K ceiling.
  • →A genuinely large library of presets, templates and production tooling (Marketing Studio, Cinema Studio, 3D Jutsu, an agent layer) for people building content at scale, not just swapping a face.

Different products wearing similar language

Both companies use words like "face swap" and "credits," but Higgsfield's Face Swap and Video Face Swap are two entries in an "Apps" catalog of roughly 40 one-click tools sitting underneath a much larger video/image model aggregator — the company's own changelog lists about 140 feature updates between June and September 2026 alone, almost none of them about face swapping.

PhotoHero has no model picker to get lost in: face and head swap on your own footage is the product, and every credit-cost and limit on this page is published up front.

How the Higgsfield price was verified

Starter is $19/month (270 credits/month), Plus is $59/month billed monthly or $47/month billed annually (1,200 credits/month), and Ultra is $129/month billed monthly or $99/month billed annually (3,000 credits/month) — matching the figures in the table above, per higgsfield.ai/pricing checked September 27, 2026.

The same page confirms, in Higgsfield's own words, that subscription credits "do not roll over and expire at the end of each credit cycle," and that Higgsfield sells standalone credit packs as a top-up alongside an active subscription. A few details are not shown on the pricing page itself — notably the free-tier watermark policy and the exact account-signup requirement — so those remain attributed to Higgsfield's blog and help-center pages rather than presented as confirmed on the pricing page. List prices can move — check higgsfield.ai/pricing directly for the figure in effect today.

What you can do before signing up

Higgsfield requires a full account, verified through Google, Apple, Microsoft or email, before it will run any generation at all, per Higgsfield's own blog and help pages — its free tier is 0 monthly credits and every output it does produce carries a visible watermark, per those same blog/help pages (the account-gating detail and the watermark policy are not shown on the pricing page itself).

PhotoHero lets you go further before creating an account: Upload, face detection, face picking and a few image swaps a day all work with no account; signup removes the preview watermark and unlocks video

Frequently asked questions

Does Higgsfield do face swap?+

Yes, but as one of roughly 40 one-click "Apps" inside a much larger video/image/audio model aggregator, not as its core product. PhotoHero is built around face and head swap specifically.

Is PhotoHero cheaper than Higgsfield?+

For occasional face swapping, almost certainly — PhotoHero's credit packs start at $4.99 and never expire, versus Higgsfield subscriptions starting at $19/month. Higgsfield sells credit packs as a top-up alongside an active subscription, not as a standalone pay-as-you-go option.

Can I try either without an account?+

PhotoHero goes further: Upload, face detection, face picking and a few image swaps a day all work with no account; signup removes the preview watermark and unlocks video Higgsfield requires a full account before any generation, including its free tier.

Which has more AI models?+

Higgsfield, by a wide margin — 50+ third-party and in-house video, image and audio models behind one credit wallet. PhotoHero is a smaller, focused tool set built around identity: face swap, head swap, talking photo and image generation.

Do Higgsfield credits expire?+

Subscription credits reset every billing cycle with no rollover — Higgsfield's own pricing page states credits "do not roll over and expire at the end of each credit cycle." One-time top-up credit packs are additionally said to expire 90 days after purchase, per Higgsfield's help-center pages (not stated on the pricing page itself). PhotoHero's one-time credit packs never expire; its optional subscription credits are valid for 1 year and don’t roll over past renewal.

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