Free Video Face Swap
A video face swap that runs online, with a free test first — upload a clip, pick a face, and the AI tracks it through every frame. Test the engine free on a still with the 15 credits that land when the tool loads; a clip costs 20 credits from a $5.99 pack, and the 15 daily credits of a free account cover most of it.
- A clear, front-facing photo of one person
- Logos, landscapes and text screenshots will not work
Videos up to 300s (90s with enhancement on)
A free video face swap is a promise most tools break quietly: the free tier turns out to cover photos only, the output carries a watermark the size of the frame, or the render is capped at a resolution nobody would publish. This page says it up front. Every new visitor gets 15 credits the moment the tool loads, with no signup, and a free account adds 15 credits every day, enough to test the engine free on a still frame from your clip. A video face swap job costs 20 credits, so the clip itself runs on purchased credits, which combine with the daily 15, and it runs on the same models, the same 1024-pixel boost and the same enhancers as every paid job. The test is free; the video costs as little as 5 purchased credits on top of the daily 15.
The production pipeline underneath offers multiple swap models, high-resolution processing and enhancement controls without using your laptop for the render. To swap faces in video free of any setup, you upload a clip of up to 100 MB and a single source photo; the AI detects the face in every frame, rebuilds it carrying the source identity, and tracks it through motion so the swap does not flicker when the head turns. The whole thing happens online, in the browser tab you started in.
That matters because changing a face in video is much harder than in a photo. A ten-second clip at thirty frames per second is three hundred individual swaps that all have to agree with each other. Desktop tools that do this well want a gaming GPU and an afternoon of setup; most online video faceswap tools that skip the setup also skip the quality. A free test only means something if it shows the render you would actually get — which is exactly what your free credits buy here, on a still from your clip.
What the Free Video Face Swap Includes
The full engine, not a free-tier cut
Your video face swap runs the complete production pipeline: multiple swap models behind one button, pixel boost to 1024×1024, and the same processing path as every paid job. There is no reduced 'trial quality': the free credits cover a still test on the default swap model rather than a clip, and the clip you then pay for runs on the full engine, since any purchase unlocks every swap model.
Per-frame tracking that holds through motion
A video face swap AI lives or dies on temporal consistency. The engine detects and aligns the face on every frame, then tracks identity between frames so the swap stays locked when the subject turns, blinks or walks. The failure mode of cheap tools — a face that flickers back to the original for two frames — is exactly what this pipeline is built to prevent.
Clips up to 100 MB, photos too
Upload video up to 100 MB or a still up to 10 MB — both go through the same pipeline, so you can test a frame as a photo before spending a video job on the whole clip. Each video render gets fifteen minutes of processing time, enough for most short-form footage at full frame rate.
Enhancers included in the free render
CodeFormer restores facial detail after the swap and a 4× upscaler sharpens the whole frame, and both run on the free render; any purchase adds GFPGAN, GPEN and Real-ESRGAN at 2×, 4× or 8×, so a paid clip can use all of them. They are toggles inside the same job, so the clip that comes back is publishable rather than a soft preview built to upsell you.
Detection and occlusion control for real footage
RetinaFace, SCRFD, YOLO-Face and YuNet detectors handle rotated and low-light footage; XSeg occlusion masks keep hands, microphones and hair in front of the swapped face. When a clip holds several people, selector order and gender filters pick who gets changed — the rest of the frame stays untouched.
How to Face Swap a Video, Free Test First
Upload your video
Drop in the clip you want to change — up to 100 MB, in the usual web formats. The AI scans it and finds every face before you commit a single credit.
Add the new face
Upload one clear photo of the face you want swapped in. A front-lit, straight-on reference gives the engine the most geometry to work from, and one photo covers the whole clip.
Render and download
Start the job — a clip costs 20 credits, which the 15 daily credits of a free account plus 5 purchased cover. The swap runs on our GPUs and the finished video comes back to your browser, usually within minutes for short clips.
Three steps is the whole flow. Model choice, pixel boost, enhancers and occlusion masks all live in the advanced panel and are optional — the defaults are tuned so a first video face swap looks right without touching them.
What People Make With a Video Face Swap
A free test changes who tries this, not what it is for. These are the jobs that come through most often, and every one stays inside the consent rules further down this page.
Meme and reaction clips
The classic use case: drop a friend's face into a trending clip while the joke is still alive. A video face swap turns that from an evening in an editor into a job that finishes before the group chat moves on.
Short-form content tests
Creators cutting for vertical feeds test a visual gag free on a still frame before committing a paid video render to the polished version — the free still is the storyboard.
Birthday and event videos
Putting the guest of honour into a movie scene or a music video is the kind of one-off that never justified paid software. One free still to test the face, one small pack for the clip, one very good gift.
Previs and casting mockups
Directors and film students run a rough deepfake video online for the price of a $5.99 pack rather than a budget approval, to show a room what a role looks like with a particular face in it before a camera is booked.
Learning how synthetic video breaks
Students, journalists and trust-and-safety teams render their own clip to study the artefacts — hairline seams, blink timing, edge flicker. Making one video face swap teaches detection faster than a week of reading about it.
How the Video Face Swap Works, Step by Step
What actually happens to your clip
The pipeline starts with detection: RetinaFace or YOLO-Face scans each frame and boxes every face it finds, with rotation handling for sideways phone footage. Landmarking follows, placing dozens of points on eyes, nose, mouth and jaw, and those points let the aligner warp each face into a canonical square. This is why footage quality matters more than file size — landmarks the detector cannot see are landmarks it has to invent, and an invented jawline is where video face swaps go visibly wrong.
The swap itself happens inside that aligned square: the model takes the identity from your source photo and rebuilds the target face carrying it, at up to 1024×1024 with pixel boost. The result is warped back into the frame, feathered against an occlusion mask, and handed to the enhancers. Video adds one more stage on top — tracking, which ties the three hundred–odd per-frame swaps of a ten-second clip into one continuous face. That stage is the difference between a video face swap and a slideshow of photo swaps.
How far the free credits actually go
The arithmetic is deliberately simple: a video job costs 20 credits, an image job costs 15, and every new visitor receives 15 credits once, the moment the tool loads and with no signup, and a free account adds 15 credits every day. That is one free image job a day at full resolution, which is exactly the test a clip needs before you pay for it. A video job needs purchased credits: a $5.99 pack of 100 covers five clips, and the daily 15 plus 5 purchased covers one.
The smart way to spend it: pull a representative frame from your clip and run it as a free image job first if you are unsure about the footage, then commit purchased credits to the video render once the framing looks right. Keep the source photo sharp and front-lit, keep the clip short, and your video job comes back as the video you actually wanted rather than a test you wish you could redo.
Free online versus free desktop software
The other route to a video face swap at zero cost is open-source desktop software. That path is genuinely free and genuinely powerful, and it costs you a modern NVIDIA GPU, a Python environment, several gigabytes of models and an evening of setup before the first frame renders. For engineers with the hardware it is a fine choice; for everyone else the install is the paywall.
This site provides the same class of production workflow online, with the setup already done. The trade is transparent: you spend credits instead of setup time, and the test on a still is free, with clips from a $5.99 pack. A clip that would take a mid-range laptop an hour of fan noise comes back from the queue in minutes, at up to 1024-pixel swap resolution, from any browser — a phone included, which no desktop install can offer.
Getting a Cleaner Render
Since a video job costs 20 credits, it pays to get that job right the first time. Most disappointing output traces back to input rather than the engine: a swap cannot recover detail the camera never captured, so start from the largest original file you hold — not a screen recording of it, and not a clip already compressed by a messaging app. Faces that sit large in frame give the detector real geometry to work with; a distant subject gives it almost nothing.
The second lever is the match between your source photo and the clip. Head angle, lighting direction and expression all carry across, and a neutral source dropped onto a laughing subject forces the model to stretch geometry it does not have. Keep the two within about thirty degrees of pose and in the same expressive family, and the video face swap comes back needing no cleanup at all.
- Upload the original clip, never a screen recording or a re-compressed copy
- Use a sharp, front-lit source photo taken straight-on
- Keep faces large in frame — distant subjects starve the detector
- Enable the occlusion mask when hands, hair or a mic cross the face
- Test a still frame as a photo job if you are unsure about tricky footage
- Check hairline, eyes, teeth and neck seam before you publish
Consent and Responsible Use
Free does not mean unmoderated. Every render on this site is bound by one hard rule: no sexual or pornographic content, ever. It is filtered at the model level, enforced on the account, and no plan, credit balance or advanced option changes it — accounts that try lose access permanently. Your uploads are used to produce your render and nothing else: never added to training data, never resold, never published to a gallery.
The second rule is about presentation. A face-swapped video shared as an obvious edit is satire, commentary or fan work, and all three are legitimate. The same file passed off as authentic footage is deception, and in a growing number of jurisdictions a crime: many countries and a majority of US states now prosecute non-consensual synthetic media. Label your work, get a likeness release before any commercial use, and never publish a video of a real person doing something they never did.
Free Video Face Swap FAQ
Is the video face swap really free?
The test is; the video is not. Every new visitor gets 15 credits once, the moment the tool loads and without signing up, and a free account adds 15 credits every day. That covers an image face swap, so you can test the engine free on a still from your clip. A video face swap costs 20 credits, so the clip needs purchased credits: packs start at $5.99 for 100, and they combine with the daily 15. Any purchase also lets you switch off the aideepfake.io mark, and clip length limits are the same on every tier.
Do I need to install anything to swap faces in a video?
No. The entire pipeline runs online: you upload the clip and the source photo from your browser, the swap renders on our GPUs, and the finished video downloads back to the same tab. It works from a phone as well as a desktop — there is no app, no Python environment and no GPU requirement on your side.
How long a video can I face swap?
Uploads are capped at 100 MB and each video job gets fifteen minutes of processing time, which comfortably covers most short-form clips at full frame rate. Render time scales with frame count rather than file size, so a short clip with steady framing finishes fastest.
Will the video face swap have a watermark?
Free renders carry a small aideepfake.io mark, and any purchase lets you switch it off. A video job runs on purchased credits, so the watermark switch is already unlocked for the clip, and it comes back with the same swap models, same up-to-1024×1024 pixel boost, same enhancers and same resolution as the clip you uploaded.
What quality does the free swap run at?
The same pipeline and resolution as paid, on the default models: the hyperswap_1a_256 swapper with pixel boost up to 1024×1024, CodeFormer face enhancement and a 4× frame upscaler. Any purchase, a one-time credit pack included, adds the other twelve swap models, GFPGAN, GPEN and Real-ESRGAN at 2×, 4× or 8×. The free tier limits how many jobs you run and which models they use, not the resolution each one comes back at.
What happens to the videos I upload?
They are used to produce your render and nothing else — not added to training data, not resold, not published anywhere. Whatever you upload for a free video face swap stays yours.
Can I make explicit content with the free video face swap?
No. Sexual and pornographic content is banned outright, filtered at the model level, and grounds for permanent loss of access. No plan, setting or credit balance unlocks it, and reports are acted on.
Is it legal to face swap someone into a video?
It depends on what you do with the output. Parody, commentary, research and clearly labelled fan edits are broadly protected in most jurisdictions. Passing a swapped video off as real footage, using a real person's likeness commercially without a release, or producing sexual material is not — a growing number of countries and US states prosecute it.
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