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What each generator documents about marking its output

D-ID's trial carries a full-screen watermark

D-ID's pricing page says a full-screen watermark appears for trial users, and gives a reason: transparency about the synthetic nature of the videos users generate. As of 2026-09-22.

Three visible-mark geometries, and what a crop doesThis register records one full-screen mark, two marks localised to a corner and a larger group of marks that are named without being described. The geometry decides whether the output is branded or unusable, and whether cropping the frame changes anything at all.How much of the frame does the documented mark coverThe whole pictureA demonstrationFull-screen on the trialhere. Cropping leavesnothing usable behind.One cornerBranded footageA corner stamp elsewherein the register, with thecorner named in one case.Never describedUnknownMost rows here name themark in a word or two anddescribe nothing about it.Geometry decides what the cell actually means
Fig. 1 Cells that both read watermark are not equivalent. The one described here leaves nothing outside itself to keep.
One cell of the register, and what it rests on. Read from the vendor's pricing page on 2026-09-22.
The readingWhat it holds
The recorded valueFull-screen watermark on the trial
The vendor's own wordsA full-screen watermark appears for trial users.
How the reading was takenRead from a sentence on the pricing page, printed alongside a stated reason for the mark.

Inclusion rule. One row for the value, one for the sentence or absence behind it, one for the method. Nothing here is drawn from output, support replies or coverage by anyone else. Order. Fixed order: the value, then its evidence, then the method.

Stated in a sentence: the generators whose free tier answer takes the same form. Recorded 2026-09-22.
GeneratorFree tier
D-IDFull-screen watermark on the trial
FlikiIncludes Fliki watermark
Kling AIBrand watermark on output
Luma AIWatermark, not lifted by a later upgrade

Inclusion rule. Generators whose own pages carry a sentence about free-plan output, rather than leaving the answer to be inferred from a line printed against the paid columns. Order. Alphabetical by generator name.

1Full-screen is a geometry, and no other row states one

Every other visible mark in this register is either unnamed or localised to a corner. Full-screen is a different object: it covers the picture rather than occupying part of it, which makes the output unusable as footage rather than merely branded. A crop does not help, because there is nothing outside the mark to keep.

That turns the trial into a demonstration rather than a source of material. The distinction matters when reading this column across the register, because on several other rows free output is marked and still perfectly usable, and a reader comparing cells that both say watermark would conclude those rows are equivalent.

2A reason, printed where reasons usually are not

Pricing pages exist to sell plans, and a justification for a limitation is not obviously sales copy. This one prints it anyway: the mark is there so that there is transparency about the synthetic nature of the videos users generate. Two vendors in this register publish a reason beside a marking decision, and only one of them does it on a commercial page.

A stated reason is worth a row because it predicts the shape of future changes. A mark justified by disclosure has an argument for surviving a repackaging; a mark justified by nothing at all moves whenever the grid does. The register cannot audit the reason and can record that one was offered.

3The reason stops where the paid plans begin

The same page says videos carry the mark on the Trial and Lite plans, so the first paid plan is still marked and the mark disappears one tier higher. Read next to the transparency argument, that is an interesting seam: the disclosure rationale applies to two plans and is not extended to the ones above them.

The register records the boundary and not the tension, because the tension is an editorial observation rather than a published statement. What the cells carry is that the trial is marked, that Lite is marked, and that the pages offer a reason covering both.

4Sources

  • Free tier
    A full-screen watermark appears for trial usersstated outrightD-ID, pricing / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Rationale
    The pricing page gives a reason for the mark: that there is transparency about the synthetic nature of the videos users generatepublished beside the markD-ID, pricing / recorded 2026-09-22

The value above is read from d-id.com, the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-22. The whole row for this generator is on its own page, and the rule for what this column may hold is on the free tier column page. Neighbouring readings: Pictory, no free plan, Kling AI, paid tier.