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What each generator documents about marking its output

Paid plans whose output is still marked

Two entries have a paid plan on the marked side of their own boundary. On both, a billing record establishes that somebody subscribed and nothing about what their files carry. As of 2026-09-22.

Where a billing record stops being sufficientWhere every paid plan is on the unmarked side, an invoice settles the state of a file for years afterwards. Where a paid plan sits with the free plan, the invoice proves only that somebody subscribed, and the plan name has to have been recorded at the time.Every paid plan is cleanA paid plan is markedWhat to ask a contributorDo you subscribeWhich plan are you onWhat an invoice provesThe state of the fileOnly that a payment happenedRecoverable laterYes, from billing recordsOnly from a note made at the timeEntries like it hereMost of the registerTwoWhy the column records a boundary rather than a yes or no
Fig. 1 A producer who noted that a contributor was paying has noted the wrong fact on these two entries.
The rows this finding rests on, with the value each one's own pages support. Recorded 2026-09-22.
GeneratorPaid tierDocument read
D-IDStill marked on Lite; clean above itpricing page
PikaWatermark-free from $28 Propricing page

Inclusion rule. Entries whose own pages place at least one paid plan on the marked side of the boundary, whether stated in a sentence or carried by the layout of a grid. Order. Alphabetical by generator name.

1The shorthand most readers bring to this column

Free is marked, paid is not. It holds on most of the register and it fails on two entries, in different ways. One prints an eight-dollar plan whose icon beside the download line is the crossed form, the same as the free plan. The other states in a sentence that videos carry the mark on the trial and on the first paid plan.

Those are the same finding with different evidence. One has to be read off a glyph, which means a text-only reader gets it backwards; the other is written out, which makes it the clearest counter-example in the register and the reason the column records a boundary rather than a yes or no.

2What follows when footage comes from several people

On the rows where any paid plan is clean, establishing that a contributor subscribed is enough, and the answer survives in a billing record for years. On these two the plan name has to be known, and nothing in the file distinguishes the two paid states unless the mark itself is visible in it.

That is a question to settle before material is gathered rather than during an edit. It is also the kind of detail that does not survive a handover: a producer who recorded that a contributor was paying has recorded the wrong fact, and there is usually nobody left to ask.

3Why the two boundaries sit where they do

On one entry the marking line arrives at the third plan and carries the commercial licence with it, so the eight-dollar tier buys capacity and neither of the two things a publisher needs. On the other the marked plans are the two covered by a published disclosure argument, and the mark disappears above them.

Neither vendor is doing anything unusual commercially; both are drawing a line between a trial and a customer and putting more than one thing on the same line. What makes these rows worth counting is that the line is not where the shorthand assumes, and on one of them the vendor says so plainly.

4Sources

  • Free tier
    Watermark-free download is not included on the free Basic plan or on the $8 Standard planread from the plan feature iconsPika, pricing / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Paid tier
    Videos carry a D-ID watermark on the Trial and Lite plans, so the first paid plan is still markedmarked one plan above freeD-ID, pricing / recorded 2026-09-22

Every row above is read from the vendor page named beside it, on 2026-09-22. The same values in register form are on the support table, the rule for this column is on the paid tier column page, and what may fill a cell at all is on the what earns a row page. Other findings: files already generated, three kinds of empty cell.