Real-time face swapping into a virtual camera
As of 24 September 2026, LiveFaceSwap AI has a free plan and paid plans start at $12/month. Swaps faces in a live camera feed at under 500ms latency and outputs to a virtual camera, so it works inside OBS, Zoom and anything else that reads a webcam. Softwr lists it under Video Production. LiveFaceSwap AI is available on Web, Windows, macOS.
Overview
LiveFaceSwap AI changes the face in a live camera feed and hands the result to the rest of your machine as a virtual camera. That last part is the reason it exists: plenty of tools will swap a face in a video file afterwards, and very few will do it to a feed that OBS, a streaming setup or a meeting client can read as an ordinary webcam. It runs three modes on the same pipeline. Face Swap replaces your face with a preset reference or a portrait you upload. Try-On previews an outfit. Restyle applies an artistic or character treatment. All three respond to movement, framing and lighting as they happen, with the vendor quoting under 500 milliseconds of latency, and the processing runs in the cloud rather than locally, so there is no GPU requirement and no model to download. There is a browser preview that needs no installation and a desktop app for Windows 11 and macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon. The virtual camera output is the desktop app's job. Pricing is credits, metered per second of use, and the rate depends on which model is running: XMAX 2.0 burns 0.6 credits a second and the Lucy models 1.8 to 3.6. Subscriptions are $12 a month for 650 credits, $23 for 2,500 and $55 for 7,500, with 20 percent off on quarterly billing, and one-off packs are $59 for 4,000 credits or $119 for 10,000, which never expire. New accounts get up to 90 seconds free.
The honest half
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about LiveFaceSwap AI.
Cross-shopped
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
OBS Studio: The free software this is designed to feed. OBS handles the scene, the recording and the stream, and has no face swapping of its own, so the two are complementary rather than competing.
D-ID: Generates talking avatars and face-driven video from stills, aimed at produced content rather than a live feed into a virtual camera.
Hedra: Character video generation from an image and a voice, stronger for making a clip and not built for real time.
HeyGen: Avatar video at production quality with translation and cloning, a different job to altering your own live camera.
Pricing
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
Basic
$12 /mo
Pro
$23 /mo
Max
$55 /mo
Credit pack, 4,000
$59 /one-time
Credit pack, 10,000
$119 /one-time
Capabilities
Virtual camera output
Presents the processed feed as a webcam, so OBS, streaming software and meeting clients pick it up with no integration work. Desktop app only.
Real-time face swap
Replaces the face in a live feed from a preset reference or an uploaded portrait, at a quoted latency under 500 milliseconds.
Try-On mode
Previews an outfit on the live feed rather than on a still photograph.
Restyle mode
Applies an artistic or character treatment to the feed, using the same pipeline as the swap.
Cloud processing
Runs the model remotely, so there is no local GPU requirement and nothing to download before the browser preview works.
Browser preview
Try it without installing anything, which is how the free 90 seconds is spent.
Answered, with sources
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Yes, through the desktop app, which exposes the processed feed as a virtual camera. Anything that reads a webcam, including OBS, streaming software and meeting clients, picks it up without integration work. The browser preview does not provide virtual camera output.
SourceSubscriptions are $12 a month for 650 credits, $23 for 2,500 and $55 for 7,500, with 20 percent off quarterly. One-off packs are $59 for 4,000 credits and $119 for 10,000, and those never expire. New accounts get up to 90 seconds free.
SourceBy the second, and it depends on the model: XMAX 2.0 costs 0.6 credits a second while the Lucy models cost 1.8 to 3.6. The minute figures quoted on each plan assume XMAX 2.0, so running Lucy shortens them by three to six times.
SourceNo. Processing happens in the cloud, so there is no local GPU requirement and no model download. The consequence is that your camera feed is sent to their servers.
SourceThe desktop app needs Windows 11, or macOS 13 and later on Apple Silicon. The browser preview runs anywhere but cannot output a virtual camera.
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