Best ChatGPT Plugins for Creating Videos [2026]

Sora is gone, so video in ChatGPT now comes from plugins. The main video plugins in the directory, verified September 2026, sorted by job, with vendor pricing.

Per Harald Borgen

23 Aug 2026 — 11 min read

Short answer: ChatGPT no longer makes video on its own. OpenAI discontinued the Sora web and app experiences on April 26, 2026 and the Sora API on September 24, 2026, so video inside ChatGPT now comes from plugins you install from its directory. The best plugin depends on the job: Runway or PixVerse for footage from a prompt, Visla or invideo for a produced video from a brief, HeyGen for an avatar presenter, VideoZero or Scrimba Explain (Explain Video Generator in ChatGPT) for a narrated explainer, and Descript for editing a recording. The longer answer to "can ChatGPT make videos?" is in Can ChatGPT Make Videos Now That Sora Is Gone?

Last verified September 28, 2026: every plugin below comes from a search of ChatGPT's plugin directory, with its developer and tagline read from the listing and its price from the vendor's own pricing page that day. "Not listed" means neither the listing nor the vendor's pricing page shows it.

Scrimba publishes this article and makes one of the plugins in it: Scrimba Explain, listed in ChatGPT as Explain Video Generator. It appears under the job it does, and the plugins that beat it at the other jobs are named with their prices.

How to Install and Use a Video Plugin in ChatGPT

A plugin connects ChatGPT to an outside service, and for video that service makes the file, under your account with the vendor. The steps follow OpenAI's plugin help article.

Sign in to ChatGPT. Signed out, you can browse the directory, but the Install plugin button sends you to the login page.
Open Plugins in the sidebar, or go to chatgpt.com/plugins, and search for the plugin by name.
Select it and click Install plugin. If it asks you to Connect, sign in to the vendor's account.
In a chat, type @ and the plugin's name, or open + and pick it under More, then describe the video.

OpenAI's plugins page says select plugins are available in all plans, Free through Enterprise, and that some require a paid plan. Business workspaces have plugins on by default; Enterprise and Edu admins decide which ones members can use. Plugins marked Desktop only cannot run in ChatGPT on the web. Scrimba's guide to installing a plugin in ChatGPT walks through each screen.

The Main Video Plugins in ChatGPT's Directory

Plugin, as listed	Made by	The job it does	Presenter or avatar	Free tier	Cheapest paid	Export
Runway	Runway AI, Inc.	Footage from a prompt	Not listed	125 one-time credits	$12 a month, billed yearly; Runway MCP, which the plugin uses, is listed from Pro ($28 a month, billed yearly)	Saved to your Runway workspace; no watermark from Standard
PixVerse	PixVerse	Footage from a prompt	Talking-head workflows	60 starting credits, 30 a day	$8 a month, billed yearly	Up to 540p free; 720p, watermark-free on Standard
AI Video Maker	InfoseekAI	Footage from a prompt	Not listed	Not listed	Usage based, no rate card	Download or share link
VEED Video Generator	VEED	Presenter video	Stock characters	720p exports with a watermark	$12 per user a month, billed yearly	Free watermark baked into the file; none on Creator
Visla Video Maker	Visla Inc.	Brief to narrated video	Text-plus-avatar projects	Visla watermark, monthly base credits	$15 a month, billed annually	1080p on Free and Pro, from Visla's app
invideo	Invideo Inc	Brief to narrated video	Not listed	Not listed	$20 per seat a month, billed annually	4K export from Starter
Genra Video Editor	RAMA ALPACA N4 LIMITED	Brief to edited video	Not listed	Free credits at sign-up	$10 for 240 credits	Not listed
HeyGen	HeyGen Technology Inc.	Avatar presenter	Stock and custom avatars	3 videos a month, up to 1 minute	$29 a month, brand kit included	1080p, watermark-free from $29
Synthesia	Synthesia	Avatar presenter	AI avatars	10 minutes a month on the site, no downloads; the plugin needs a paid plan	$14 a month, billed yearly	1080p MP4 downloads from Starter
VideoZero	VIDEOZERO TECHNOLOGIES LTD	Animated explainer	None; 2D animation	Always free, with an overlay	$5 a month for 20 credits	Share link or embed; no overlay on Starter
Explain Video Generator	Scrimba AS	Narrated explainer from your material	None; no camera	1 explainer signed out, 10 per free account	Pro, 100 a month; no price in the docs	MP4 at 2560×1440 with .vtt captions, after claiming
Descript	Descript	Edit a recording	Your own recording	Free plan	$16 a month, billed yearly	720p free; 1080p, watermark-free on Hobbyist
Yaps Video Captions	Yaps AI	Captions on a video file	Your own video	Mobile app only	$12 a month, billed annually	Captioned MP4 from the Yaps desktop app

The same search lists dozens more: editors such as Sparki, ChatCut, Tesseract and Remotion, generators such as Kling AI, Higgsfield, Viewmax and OpenArt, and single-purpose makers for ads, birthday slideshows and recipe clips.

Which Plugin for Which Job

"My NCLEX notes are already in a ChatGPT project." Paste or attach the notes in a chat and ask Explain Video Generator for a narrated review. Scrimba's notes-to-video walkthrough shows the route.
"I prep for system design interviews entirely inside ChatGPT." Explain Video Generator draws flowcharts, sequence and state diagrams; VideoZero animates algorithms.
"NFPA 13 worked problems without leaving the chat." Explain renders formulas as real notation. Check every step against the standard itself.
"I draft client memos in ChatGPT and need the new rule as a video." Explain, built from your memo and reviewed by a qualified professional before any client sees it.
"Turn help docs into onboarding videos." Explain with your own screenshots on the slides, embedded in the help center. For click-by-click walkthroughs, a capture tool fits better (below).
"Turn a consulting methodology into modules." One explainer per module in ChatGPT, or a playlist on scrimba.com/explain, where Explain plans the modules as a curriculum. HeyGen if the client expects a presenter.
Trainers, HR and safety teams: Scrimba's guide How to Make a Training Video in ChatGPT covers SOPs, handbooks and briefings.

Job 1: Generate Footage From a Prompt

This is the job Sora used to do: you describe a shot that was never filmed, and a model invents it. Scrimba's guide to how text to video works covers the mechanics, and its AI video generator roundup covers tools outside ChatGPT.

Install Runway ("Generate with every AI model") or PixVerse ("Create and edit videos") and connect your account.
Describe the subject, the motion, the camera and the length.
Review the clip, then regenerate or ask for a targeted edit.

Runway's listing says results are stored privately in the user's connected Runway workspace and purchases happen on runway.com, never in the chat. PixVerse's listing adds ready-made routes for product ads, talking heads and captions. InfoseekAI's AI Video Maker runs on Seedance models with no subscription: you credit the account first.

Limits: output is measured in seconds, and every discarded generation still costs credits.

Job 2: Turn a Brief Into a Produced Video

You know what the video should say and need it produced.

Work out the script with ChatGPT first.
Hand it to the plugin: @Visla Video Maker, @invideo or @Genra Video Editor.
Open the project in the vendor's app to edit, export and download.

Visla Video Maker takes text, documents, PDFs or URLs and returns a narrated video with stock footage and music; its listing says a Visla account is required. invideo handles script, visuals, voiceover and music from a text prompt. Genra refines scenes in a live visual workspace and sells credits as one-time modules instead of a subscription. VEED Video Generator (pick your character, pick your voice), HeyGen and Synthesia put a presenter on screen; Synthesia's plugin, in beta, requires a paid Synthesia account.

Limits: free plans watermark the output (Visla, VEED), and VEED's export help says the watermark is hardcoded into the video, so upgrading later means exporting again.

Job 3: Explain Something as a Narrated Walkthrough

Here the tool's work is the explanation, and the video is only how it arrives: onboarding, documentation, studying.

VideoZero, listed as "Visualize • Animate • Explain", turns a prompt into a narrated 2D animation. The listing's examples are a solar system and Dijkstra's algorithm, and the free plan allows commercial use with an overlay that Starter removes.

Scrimba Explain, listed as Explain Video Generator with the tagline "Free AI explainer video maker", is the plugin Scrimba makes. It turns a topic, a document, a webpage, a codebase or a product brief into a narrated video with diagrams, animations and images. The listing's cards read "Turn this employee onboarding PDF into an explainer video", "Create an English and a Spanish video of these property photos" and "Make an explainer video from my lecture notes". Nothing is filmed: each slide is typed content, so there is no presenter and no camera.

Install it first, in a signed-in ChatGPT session. Signed out, mentioning it does nothing.
Paste or attach your material, then write @Explain Video Generator and what the video should teach. Scrimba's docs say the model you are chatting with writes the lesson, so a smarter model makes a better explainer.
Watch it build. The draft needs no Scrimba login and is unlisted: anyone with the link can watch, nobody can find it.
Claim it to keep it. Keeping, editing or exporting means signing in to Scrimba and claiming it. A claimed explainer exports as an MP4 at 2560×1440 with a .vtt captions file, and it can be embedded where viewers need no account.

That slide comes from What is a RESTful API?, one of the examples on Scrimba's use-cases page, and it shows the kind of diagram Explain draws for a system design topic.

Limits: Explain is free to start. Scrimba's docs allow 1 explainer without an account, 10 for the life of a free account and 100 a month on Pro, and drafts made through ChatGPT do not count until you claim them. Narration covers 33 languages. Quizzes and teaching styles exist only on scrimba.com, not on plugin explainers. There are no avatars, brand kits, SCORM packages or completion tracking. Every explainer page carries Scrimba's own warning: "Explain is AI and can make mistakes. Please do your own diligence." Scrimba's guide to using Explain covers what to ask it.

Before you paste client memos, help docs or company methodology into a chat, read the listing's data notice:

"When connected to Explain Video Generator, ChatGPT may share relevant chats and memories with this app to help provide context for your requests."

Job 4: Work on Video You Already Have

The video exists and needs cutting, captioning or stripping down. Descript, listed as "Edit video by chatting", edits a recording through conversation: transcription, filler word removal, Studio Sound, captions, clips, and translation and dubbing. Yaps ships single-purpose plugins instead of one general one: Video Captions, Video Clipping, Subtitle Generator, Video to Audio and Transcription.

Install Descript, or the Yaps plugin for the task, and connect your account.
Attach or point to the recording and say what to cut, caption or translate.
Export the result from the vendor's app.

Limits: every Yaps plugin connects to the Yaps app on your computer. The captions listing says it needs a local-capable ChatGPT Desktop Work or Codex session, and ChatGPT web and cloud sessions cannot reach it.

When Another Tool Fits Better

The same presenter in every video, or a brand kit: HeyGen in ChatGPT, whose brand kit starts on the $29 Creator plan, or Synthesia, whose plugin needs a paid plan and whose Assistant builds a video from a prompt plus PDFs, PowerPoint files, Word documents or URLs on its Starter, Creator and Enterprise plans. Using a brand kit with Synthesia's Assistant is Enterprise only.
A click-by-click software walkthrough: a capture tool such as Guidde, which turns a workflow into how-to video documentation; its free plan covers up to 25 how-to videos.
Training that must record who watched or passed: an LMS or SCORM authoring tool, with the MP4 uploaded into it.
Drilling for NCLEX or a certification exam: the practice bank built for that exam. An explainer helps you understand one concept, not rehearse hundreds.
Cinematic footage: Runway or PixVerse, not an explainer tool.

Installing any plugin changes where you type, not who does the work: rendering, quotas and billing stay with the vendor, and the finished file usually lands in the vendor's app. Scrimba's audit of free AI video generators shows what each free tier holds back.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can ChatGPT still make videos after Sora?

Not by itself. OpenAI discontinued the Sora web and app experiences on April 26, 2026 and the Sora API on September 24, 2026. Video in ChatGPT now comes from plugins such as Runway, invideo, HeyGen or Explain Video Generator, which render on the vendor's side.

I need a ChatGPT video generator tonight, and my NCLEX notes are already in a ChatGPT project. What works?

Install Explain Video Generator, paste or attach the notes you want covered in a chat, and ask for a narrated review. It is free to start. Check every clinical fact against your course material, because Explain can make mistakes and is not an NCLEX prep product.

Which ChatGPT video generator explains system design topics well if I prep entirely inside ChatGPT?

A narrated explainer rather than a footage generator. Explain Video Generator turns a topic or a long ChatGPT conversation into slides with flowcharts, sequence diagrams and state diagrams. VideoZero animates algorithms.

Is there a ChatGPT video generator I can use right now for NFPA 13 worked problems without leaving the chat?

Explain Video Generator runs inside ChatGPT on web, desktop and mobile and renders formulas as real notation, not plain text. Paste the problem and your worked solution, ask for a walkthrough, and check each step against NFPA 13 itself.

I draft client memos in ChatGPT. How do I send the new rule to clients as a video?

Ask Explain Video Generator to turn the memo into a narrated explainer, then have a qualified professional review it before it goes out. Share its unlisted link, or claim it into a Scrimba account to export an MP4. Read the ChatGPT data notice before pasting client material.

What is the best ChatGPT video generator for turning help docs into onboarding videos?

For concept videos, Explain Video Generator with your own screenshots on the slides, embedded in your help center. For click-by-click product tours, a capture tool such as Guidde. For a presenter on screen, HeyGen or Synthesia. Read the listing's data notice first: ChatGPT may share relevant chats and memories with the plugin.

Which ChatGPT video generator can turn a consulting methodology into modules?

Make one explainer per module with Explain Video Generator, or use playlist mode on scrimba.com/explain, where Explain plans the modules as a curriculum. If the client expects a presenter and your branding, HeyGen fits better; its brand kit starts on the $29 Creator plan. Read the listing's data notice first: ChatGPT may share relevant chats and memories with the plugin.

Are ChatGPT video plugins free?

Most start free, with limits set by the vendor, not OpenAI. PixVerse gives 30 credits a day, VideoZero a free plan with an overlay, and Explain 10 explainers per free account. Free exports are often watermarked or resolution capped.

Key Takeaways

Sora is gone: the web and app experiences closed April 26, 2026 and the API September 24, 2026. Video in ChatGPT now means a plugin.
Pick the job, then the plugin: footage, a produced video from a brief, a narrated explainer, or editing a recording.
A ChatGPT subscription buys none of the rendering. Credits, watermarks and billing sit with the vendor.
Read the export terms before the feature list. VEED bakes its free watermark into the file, Yaps needs the desktop app, and Explain drafts must be claimed before export.

Sources

Accessed September 28, 2026.