Output cap: a free tier counted in finished videos
An output cap limits a plan by the number of finished videos rather than by a balance. It is the clearest kind of free-tier bound to read, because nobody has to convert anything to know what it permits. As of 2026-09-22.
| The term | Output cap |
|---|---|
| What it names | A limit expressed as a number of finished outputs |
| What it is not | A balance of credits, which varies by model and length |
| Where the register uses it | The prose of one free-tier reading |
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1A bound that needs no conversion
Three videos a month of up to a minute each is immediately legible: a reader knows what it permits without knowing what a credit is worth on that product. A balance requires a conversion the vendor may not publish, and the conversion often varies by model and by duration.
So an output cap is the most reader-friendly way to bound a free tier and the least flexible for a vendor, which is presumably why it is rare. Where it appears, the reading quotes it directly rather than translating it into anything.
2What it tells a reader about the marked material
It puts a hard ceiling on how much free output can exist per account. Three short clips a month is enough to judge whether an avatar is convincing and not enough to produce anything, which means the marked material this column describes on that entry is almost entirely evaluation work.
A credit balance gives no such ceiling, because a reader cannot tell how many outputs it buys. So the shape of the bound changes how much can be said about the population of files, which is the part of the free-tier column anybody inheriting footage cares about.
3Why it is recorded in the prose
The column records what output carries, not how much of it there is. Adding a capacity field would force a value onto entries whose pages bound their free tiers in incommensurable ways, and would invite comparisons between numbers that do not mean the same thing.
The reading is the right place for it, because there the bound can be quoted in the vendor's own words alongside the marking value. A reader who wants to know both gets both, in the terms each page uses.
Nothing on this page is a vendor statement; the values it helps read are on the support table, with the page and the date each one was read from. See also the paid tier column, reading a plan table. Nearby terms: recorded field, evidence class, reading date.