The most realistic AI actor — or the agent that gets the ad seen.
Captions' Mirage model generates original AI actors with body language ahead of anything avatar-based — genuinely impressive footage. But footage isn't users. Here's the honest breakdown for founders choosing between the best-looking clip and the closed loop.
Side by side
| Captions / Mirage | Adluma | |
|---|---|---|
| Actor realism | ✓ category-leading (foundation model) | strong (photoreal, consistent faces) |
| URL → finished ad | prompt-driven; Ad Studio on Business tier | ✓ paste URL, get the ad |
| Posts to your channels | — exports the clip | ✓ X, TikTok, Reels, Shorts |
| Knows which ad got the signup | — | ✓ per-ad tracked links → signups |
| Finds your winner & remakes it | — | ✓ auto-variants the winner |
| Reddit & organic outreach | — | ✓ intent radar + replies |
| Your real product on screen | generated scenes | ✓ real screens + your screen recording |
| Pricing model | credits (~10/sec of Mirage video) | flat · failed renders refunded |
| Entry price | $9.99/mo (≈2–3 min Mirage/mo) | $39/mo · 15 ads · first ad free |
Figures from Captions/Mirage public pricing and docs, July 2026: standard plan 1,400 credits/month, Mirage video ~10 credits/second, Ad Studio bundled with Business & Enterprise (12,000 credits/month). Mirage's realism lead is real — reviewers consistently rank its body language ahead of avatar-first competitors.
The honest call
Pick Captions if…
- Maximum per-clip realism is the thing you're optimizing for
- You're a creator or team producing lots of general short-form video
- You have your own distribution and just need footage
- You're comfortable budgeting seconds of video in credits
Pick Adluma if…
- You need users, and nobody's watching your channel yet
- You want your real product in the ad — screens, scroll, your own screen recording
- You want posting + signup attribution + winner-doubling handled by one agent
- You want a flat price you can budget: 15 ads, no expiring credits
Realism sells the actor. Proof sells the product.
Mirage's bet is that better-looking synthetic humans make better ads — and its footage is genuinely the most human-looking in the category. Adluma's bet is different: for a software product, the most convincing thing on screen is the product itself — your real interface scrolling, your real screen recording cut like b-roll, a consistent creator talking about a real pain. Then the part no clip generator does: the ad goes to your channels, every view carries a tracked link, and the ad that earns signups gets remade in fresh variants automatically. If you're choosing where a solo founder's $39 goes furthest, the loop beats the clip.
See it on your own product
Paste your URL. Adluma writes the script, casts a real-feeling creator, and shows you your first ad — free, no credit card, before you ever sign in.
Make your first ad free →