LongCat Video Avatar 1.5 alternatives for the EU.
LongCat Video Avatar 1.5 by Meituan is available in the EU. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.
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At a glance
| Tool | EU status | Pricing | Open source | Released | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LongCat Video Avatar 1.5 (this) | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | 21 May 2026 | 1 |
| HeyGen | Available in EU | Freemium | No | n/a | 1 |
| FastH3 | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | n/a | 1 |
| FastH3 Omni | Available in EU | Open source | Unknown | 20 Oct 2026 | 1 |
| ElevenLabs Chimera | Available in EU | Freemium | No | n/a | 1 |
| MAGI-2 | Available in EU | Open source | No | 3 Aug 2026 | 1 |
| Pika H3 Flex | Available in EU | Freemium | No | 29 Oct 2026 | 2 |
| HeyGen Video Podcasts | Available in EU | Freemium | No | n/a | 1 |
| Viggle Animate | Available in EU | Open source | No | 31 Aug 2026 | 1 |
The alternatives, closest match first
AI video platform for creating avatar-led videos from text, with voice cloning and lip-synced translation in 175+ languages.
By HeyGen. 1 mention in creator videos.
Open-weight 4-step sparse-distilled version of MiniMax H3 for fast text-to-video-and-audio generation on Blackwell GPUs.
By Hao AI Lab. 1 mention in creator videos.
Distilled MiniMax H3 reference-to-video-and-audio model from Hao AI Lab, generating in 8 steps instead of 50.
By Hao AI Lab. 1 mention in creator videos.
ElevenLabs tool that lip-syncs a still image to an audio file, using Seedance 2.5 and Eleven v4.
By ElevenLabs. 1 mention in creator videos.
Open-weights 114B MoE model from Sand AI that generates synchronized video and audio from text or image prompts.
By Sand AI. 1 mention in creator videos.
Pika's open-weight video model post-trained on MiniMax H3, generating synchronized video and audio up to 4K.
By Pika Labs. 2 mentions in creator videos.
HeyGen feature that turns documents or links into a two-host video podcast with AI avatars.
By HeyGen. 1 mention in creator videos.
Open-weights video model that replaces a character in a clip using one repainted frame, fine-tuned from MiniMax-H3.
By Viggle. 1 mention in creator videos.
Frequently asked
- Is LongCat Video Avatar 1.5 available in the EU?
- LongCat Video Avatar 1.5 is available in the EU. Weights are downloadable from Hugging Face under the MIT license, which contains no geographic restrictions, so they can be self-hosted in the EU. No hosted service or EU-specific terms were found.
- What is the best alternative to LongCat Video Avatar 1.5 in the EU?
- HeyGen by HeyGen is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). AI video platform for creating avatar-led videos from text, with voice cloning and lip-synced translation in 175+ languages.
- How are these alternatives chosen?
- We compare tools by meaning (embeddings of their descriptions), keep those in the same category, and show only tools whose EU status is available or limited. Closest match first.
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