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What each generator documents about marking its output

Tiers that carry two prices at once

Four entries print two figures for the plan at which the mark stops: a monthly price and a lower one for committing to a year. The widest gap is about a third of the monthly figure. As of 2026-09-22.

Two figures for one boundary, and what each buysThe mark comes off on a plan rather than on a billing cycle, so a monthly and an annual figure for the same tier buy identical file states. What differs is the commitment, and on one entry in this register the cost of committing below the crossing point is a year of permanently marked material.Billed monthlyBilled for a yearThe figureThe higher of the two, usuallyLower, by up to about a thirdThe file stateIdenticalIdenticalWhat changesNothing about the markNothing about the markThe riskReversible next monthA year on the plan you choseFour entries print both; the cell holds the headline figure
Fig. 1 Crossing points are not quoted on a common basis anywhere here, so a comparison has to name which arrangement it uses.
The rows this finding rests on, with the value each one's own pages support. Recorded 2026-09-22.
GeneratorPaid tierDocument read
LTX StudioNo watermarking from Lite ($15/mo)pricing page
PictoryNo watermark from Starter ($25/mo yearly)pricing page
PikaWatermark-free from $28 Propricing page
SynthesiaRemove Synthesia logo from Starter ($29/mo)pricing page

Inclusion rule. Entries whose pages print both a monthly and an annual figure for the plan at which the visible mark stops, so the crossing point has two readable prices. Order. Alphabetical by generator name.

1One boundary, two numbers, and a choice about which to record

Twenty-eight or thirty-five. Fifteen or twelve. Twenty-nine or eighteen. Twenty-five or twenty-nine. Each pair describes the same crossing point under two billing arrangements, and quoting either one alone gives a reader a figure the vendor does print and an impression the vendor's own page does not support.

The register keeps the figure a page prints as the plan's headline price in the cell and the alternative in the prose of the reading. Averaging them would produce a number no vendor publishes, and normalising everything to one basis would put this register's arithmetic into cells that are supposed to hold vendor statements.

2The gap is not the same size everywhere

On one entry the annual figure is about a third below the monthly one, which is large enough that a reader comparing it with a neighbour at the same monthly price is comparing two different boundaries. On another the annual figure is the higher-looking number because the monthly one is quoted as the discount.

That inconsistency in presentation is the practical finding. Crossing points across this register are not quoted on a common basis anywhere, so any comparison between two of them has to say which arrangement it is using or it is comparing nothing.

3What an annual commitment does to a marking boundary

Nothing, and that is worth stating. The mark comes off on the plan, not on the billing cycle, so the cheaper annual figure buys the same file state as the dearer monthly one. What it changes is the cost of being wrong about which plan to be on.

On one entry in this register that cost is unusually high, because a watermark applied before an upgrade is stated to survive it. Committing annually to the plan below the crossing point on that product means a year of material that a later payment cannot clean up.

4Sources

  • Paid tier
    Remove Synthesia logo is listed from the Starter plan at $29 a month, or $18 billed yearlyfrom Starter upwardSynthesia, pricing / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Paid tier
    No watermark is listed among the Starter plan features, at $25 a month billed annually or $29 billed monthlyfrom Starter upwardPictory, pricing / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Paid tier
    Watermark-free download is included from the $28 Pro plan upwardfrom Pro and FancyPika, pricing / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Paid tier
    No watermarking is listed from the Lite plan at $15 a month upwardfrom LiteLTX Studio, pricing / recorded 2026-09-12

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: licences and marks, products with two doors.