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What each generator documents about marking its output

What the pages say about files already generated

Two entries say what happens to files already generated when a plan or setting changes. On one, the watermark stays on files made before an upgrade; on the other, switching the badge off applies only to renders made afterwards. From 3 source pages, read 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-13; no maker pays to be listed.

What an upgrade reaches, and what it does notA plan grid describes what a subscription produces from now on. One entry's licensing terms additionally state that files generated earlier keep their watermark, which turns the choice of plan into a decision that has to be taken before the work rather than before the delivery.Earlier filesGenerated undera free or entryplan, andmarked.An upgradeThe purchaseChanges whatthe productproduces fromthat point on.Forward onlyNew outputClean, on everyplan-gatedentry in theregister.One entry adds aruleThe earlierfiles againStated to keeptheir state ontwo entries;unaddressed onthe rest.Where the documented answer stopsRegenerating an approved shot returns a different file, so the clean version has to beapproved a second time.
Fig. 1 Everywhere else the register records nothing in either direction, because nothing is published.
The rows this finding rests on, with the value each one's own pages support. Recorded 2026-09-22.
GeneratorFree tierDocument read
Luma AIWatermark, not lifted by a later upgradelicensing guide
SceneMixerCorner badge at delivery, on by defaultterms of service

Inclusion rule. Entries whose pages say something about the standing of files generated before a change of plan or setting, rather than only about what a plan produces next. Order. Alphabetical by generator name.

1A question a pricing grid has no grammar for

A plan grid describes what a column buys going forward. Nothing in that structure can speak about material that already exists, so a reader wanting to know whether an upgrade cleans up last week's output is reading the wrong genre of page. Licensing terms can answer it, because their subject is the standing of things.

Two entries do. Content generated on one entry's free or entry plan carries a watermark which, the guide says, cannot be removed even if the subscription is upgraded later. The same paragraph runs the rule backwards: files made while a subscription was active are not described as changing when it lapses.

2Why silence is not the same as permission

On the other entries the register records nothing in either direction, because nothing is published. A reader planning to trial on a free plan and upgrade before delivery is relying on an absence, which is weaker than relying on a sentence and easier to mistake for good news.

The second entry answers from the setting side: switching its badge off applies to renders made afterwards, not to files already delivered, so a file keeps the state it was made in. Its compliance guide adds a caveat about handling, that re-encoding can strip metadata. Elsewhere, what happens to a file after it exists is undocumented.

3What it costs when the answer is no

Regenerating is not re-exporting. A generative model asked the same question twice returns two different files, so the clean version of an approved shot is a new shot that has to be approved again, at whatever the plan now costs and with whatever variation the model introduces.

So on the entry whose free files keep their mark, the decision about which plan to use is a decision about the material rather than about the invoice, and it has to be taken before the work. That is a scheduling constraint no column in this register was designed to hold, which is why it is recorded as a separate fact.

4Sources

  • Control
    After a cancellation or downgrade, new generations fall under the Free plan terms and may include a watermark, while earlier Free and Lite output keeps its watermarktied to the state of the subscriptionLuma, Dream Machine licensing guide / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Paid tier
    Content generated under the Plus, Unlimited and Enterprise plans carries commercial usage rights with no watermarkfrom Plus upwardLuma, Dream Machine licensing guide / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Files already made
    Switching the badge off applies to renders made afterwards, not to ones already deliveredwhen the badge setting changesSceneMixer, AI drama for TikTok and Reels page / recorded 2026-10-13
  • Metadata
    The guide tells publishers to keep whatever content credentials or generation metadata the tool writes, and warns that re-encoding can strip themdescribed but not enumeratedSceneMixer, compliance guide / 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 free tier column page, and what may fill a cell at all is on the what earns a row page. Other findings: three kinds of empty cell, which columns a row fills.