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Arcads is an AI platform that helps marketing teams create high-performing video ads in minutes. Choose from 1,000+ realistic AI actors or create your own avatar, generate UGC-style videos, product demos, and unboxings, then edit, translate, and localize them into 30+ languages. Used by thousands of companies — from app studios and D2C brands to marketing agencies and solo founders.

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What is Arcads?

Arcads is an AI platform for generating high-performing marketing videos. It replaces the traditional video production pipeline — scripting, casting, filming, editing, and translation — with AI tools accessible in a single web app.

The core of the product is the AI Actor system: a library of 1,000+ realistic AI actors plus the ability to create custom avatars. Users write prompts to generate images, animate actors, and make them hold products, show mobile apps, or wear clothes. Talking Actor videos pair an actor with a script, a voice from the library (or a cloned voice), and full emotion control — you just write how you want the actor to feel. Custom actors can even be cloned from yourself.

Beyond generation, Arcads bundles a wide range of AI tools: captions, background remover, swap/replace actor, extend videos, upscale, extract frame, transcribe, multiple camera angles, UGC Studio images, unboxing videos, fashion try-on, and a hook repurposer. It supports multiple AI models — Seedance 2.0, Sora 2 Pro, Kling, Veo, Grok, Nano Banana, GPT Image, and Seedream — so users pick the model that fits the creative goal, from cinematic video to realistic product visuals. Video translation with matched lip movements is available in more than 30 languages (35+ per company materials).

For performance marketers, ready-made ad presets and proven formats speed up production. A newer Create Workflow feature provides an infinite canvas where teams combine tools and ad workflows to create, test, and scale ads collaboratively. For developers, Arcads offers an AI Video Generator API, a Lip Sync API, and an Arcads MCP server, enabling programmatic generation and integration into marketing agents and pipelines.

Usage is credit-based: each model and feature consumes credits (talking actor videos cost 800 credits per minute per actor; video models range from roughly 24 to 1,620 credits per generation). Nano Banana Pro and Seedream offer up to 100 free image generations per day. The company reports 6,000+ clients, 100,000 assets generated per month, and a $16M seed round led by Eurazeo.

Arcads AI UGC Video Generator product interface screenshot

Arcads Core Features

1,000+ realistic AI actor library covering UGC-style creators and avatars

Create custom AI avatars that hold your product, show your app, and wear your clothes

Talking actor videos with voice library, cloned voices, scripts, and emotion control

Accurate video translation with lip-sync in more than 30 languages

AI editing suite

captions, background remover, extend, upscale, remix, and replace actors

Multiple AI models

Seedance, Sora 2 Pro, Kling, Veo, Grok, Nano Banana, and GPT Image

Performance-marketing ad presets plus a team workflow canvas for scaling creative

Video generation and lip-sync APIs with MCP support for automated pipelines

Who is Arcads for?

Arcads is built for anyone who needs a steady pipeline of social-ready video ads without a filming crew, studio, or big production budget. Performance marketers and growth teams use it to scale creative testing — generating dozens of UGC-style variants, testing hooks, and iterating with new formats and actors each cycle. Fast-growing D2C brands and e-commerce stores turn product photos into unboxing videos, product demos, and lifestyle ads for Meta, TikTok, and other channels, then localize them for international markets. Mobile app studios show their app on screen with AI actors holding the phone — a format the site highlights for acquisition campaigns. Marketing agencies produce client ad creative faster and in more languages; the Create Workflow infinite canvas lets teams bring tools and workflows together to create, test, and scale ads collaboratively. SaaS teams launch feature announcements, explainer videos, and social ads without engineering a video pipeline. The platform also explicitly targets solo founders and creators 'without a camera or internal resources,' replacing the cost and logistics of hiring UGC creators or renting studios. Affiliate and performance marketers get dedicated AI-for-affiliate tools and a free AI Hook Generator. Specialist industries including insurance, real estate agencies, law firms, and lead generation have dedicated pages and ad formats. Common scenarios: launching in new countries via 30+ language localization, refreshing tired ad creative weekly, testing hooks cheaply, producing video for landing pages and YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok, and automating video at scale through the API or Arcads MCP.

Arcads Use Cases

Create UGC-style video ads with AI actors for Facebook, TikTok, and Meta campaigns

Produce product demo, unboxing, and fashion try-on videos without filming

Localize ad campaigns into 30+ languages for global user acquisition

Scale creative testing by generating many ad variants quickly and cheaply

Launch social-ready marketing videos for e-commerce, SaaS, and mobile apps

Automate ad creation pipelines via the AI video and lip-sync APIs

Affiliate marketers create converting content with AI-for-affiliate tools and hook generator

Arcads Pros and Cons

Pros

  • No cameras, studios, or UGC creators needed — realistic AI actors handle the performance
  • All-in-one workflow: generate, edit, translate, and launch ads in a single platform
  • Free daily AI image generation (100 images) plus credit rollover on higher plans
  • Developer-friendly with video API, lip-sync API, and MCP integration
  • Backed by strong traction: 6,000+ clients, 100,000 monthly assets, and $16M seed funding

Cons

  • No public pricing page — plan costs are only revealed in-app after signing up
  • Starter and Creator credits reset monthly without rollover, and accounts pause at the limit
  • Some advertised features (AI video editing with B-rolls, music, transitions) are still 'Soon!'

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Arcads Pricing

FreemiumFrom USD 0.00

Arcads has no public pricing page — subscriptions are credit-based and displayed in-app after signup, with a free tier offering 100 AI images per day and paid Starter, Creator, and custom Pro/Scale/Business plans.

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Free

$0/month

Up to 100 free AI-generated images per day with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream; explore actors, prompts, and workflows before subscribing.

Starter

In-app only/month

Credit-based entry subscription; account pauses at the monthly credit limit, and credits reset each cycle with no rollover.

Creator

In-app only/month

Higher-volume credit subscription; credits reset each cycle, and you can upgrade to Pro directly from the paywall.

Pro / Scale / Business

Custom/month

High-volume plans with unused credit rollover, overage billing, and lower cost per credit; contact the team for custom pricing.

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