Checked against invideo's official pages on 1 October 2026. Prices and features change; follow the source links for the latest.
The short answer
- Choose Poiema if you are making a story: a short film, an animated series or an ad with recurring characters, planned from your script and kept consistent across every shot.
- Choose invideo if you want an agentic editor that cuts your own footage, draws on 16 million stock assets, offers avatars and lip sync, and gives you a full multi-track timeline with team editing.
At a glance
| Poiema | invideo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Your film project: script, cast, world and shots | An agentic video editor, Agent Two (source) |
| Starts from | A script, a story or a one-line idea | Your footage, a described edit or a script (source) |
| Script to shots | Pip plans the cast, locations, episodes and shot list | Expert agents such as Creative Director, DOP and Storyboard Artist (source) |
| Character consistency | Lorebook references and named looks used in every shot | Character, location and voice sheets in project memory, checked by the agent (source) |
| Video models | Veo 3.1, Kling 3, Seedance 2, Runway Gen-4.5 and more | 200+ models, including Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5, Runway Gen-4.5 and Luma (source) |
| Stock and avatars | Not included | 16M stock clips, images and music; avatars and lip sync (source) |
| Editing | Creative Studio edit, extend and motion control; CapCut export | Full timeline with colour, audio and multiplayer editing; 4K export (source) |
| Free option | $1 trial with 100 credits | Free plan with limited credits that reset weekly (source) |
| Paid plans from | $29/month (1,500 credits) | $20/month for 400 credits (source) |
Workflow: a film plan vs an agentic editor
invideo describes itself as "the agentic video editor for serious creatives". You upload footage or describe an edit, and Agent Two's expert agents, playbooks and workflows produce a cut you review on a timeline (source).
Poiema starts from the story. Pip, the Copilot, reads your script and builds the cast, locations and props, splits it into episodes and shots, and plans each shot's camera, lighting and action. Everything lives in one project, so every episode shares the same world. Read more on the AI film studio.
Character consistency
invideo locks characters, locations and voices as sheets in a project's memory, and its agent checks each generation for the wrong face, wardrobe or room before regenerating. invideo notes limits with heavy occlusion and with several characters in one shot (source). Poiema keeps characters, outfits, locations and props in the project's lorebook and passes them into every shot they appear in. See consistent AI characters.
Models
invideo routes across more than 200 models, including Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5, Runway Gen-4.5, Luma Ray, Wan and Hailuo, plus avatar and lip-sync models (source). Poiema includes leading models such as Veo 3.1, Kling 3, Seedance 2 and Runway Gen-4.5, chosen shot by shot.
Pricing
invideo (monthly billing, from its pricing page on 1 October 2026):
| Plan | Price | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Limited, reset weekly |
| Starter | $20/month | 400/month per seat |
| Plus | $60/month | 2,000/month per seat |
| Max | $150/month | 5,000/month per seat |
On Starter, invideo limits Agent Two and some models. Annual billing is cheaper on Plus and Max (source).
Poiema starts with a $1 trial including 100 credits, then plans from $29 a month for 1,500 credits. The Studio plan ($199 a month) shares 14,000 credits between 5 creators. Every Generate button shows its credit price before anything runs. See pricing.
Where invideo is stronger
- Editing your own footage with an agent and a full timeline
- 16 million stock assets, avatars and lip sync
- A very wide model catalogue in one credit pool
- Multiplayer editing and guest seats
- Enterprise compliance options
Where Poiema is stronger
- A story-first workflow from script to cast, episodes and shot list
- Series as projects: every episode reuses one cast, world and look
- 200+ film styles that direct camera, acting and pacing
- Built for original stories, not stock or avatars
Bottom line
If you edit your own footage, rely on stock or want avatars, invideo is a strong choice. If you are telling an original story with recurring characters across a film or series, Poiema is built for that.