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What each vendor's terms say about commercial use

A clean file is not the same as a licensed one

Two rights are usually bought on the same plan and are not the same thing: permission to use the output commercially, and a file without a visible mark. On at least one vendor here they sit one plan apart. As of 2026-09-12.

Two rights that usually arrive together and can sit one plan apartPermission to use output commercially and an export without a visible mark are normally bought on the same plan, which is why they get conflated. On at least one vendor in this register they sit one plan apart, so a file can be licensed and still carry a mark.Commercial permissionA file without a markWhat it isYou may run the outputNothing visible is burned into the frameWhere it is statedA licence line on the planA marking line on the planUsual caseArrive on the same paid tierArrive on the same paid tierThe case to checkPresent on the lower tierOnly on the tier above itCheck both lines, not one
Fig. 1 Conflating the two is easy because they usually coincide. The case that costs money is the one where they do not.
Where the visible mark stops against where the commercial permission begins, vendor by vendor. Recorded 2026-09-12.
VendorWhat is publishedDetail
LTX StudioMarks stop at LiteCommercial licence starts at Standard
HeyGenMark removed at $29 CreatorThe grant names no plan, so it comes first
HiggsfieldMark removed on paid plansRights follow the terms for all users
Hailuo AIMark removed from $14.99 StandardThe ownership line arrives on the same plan
PikaBoth at Pro, $28The two rights coincide

Inclusion rule. Both figures read from the same vendor's priced page. A vendor that publishes only one of the two is not listed. Order. Vendors where the two differ first.

1One plan apart is the case that costs money

A customer on the tier that removes the mark and not the tier that grants the licence holds a clean file they are not permitted to run. Nothing about the file signals that, and the receipt looks like permission.

This is the specific arrangement this register was built to surface, and it exists on at least one vendor today. Merging the two into one column would hide exactly this case.

2Conflating them is easy because they usually coincide

On most vendors the same upgrade buys both, so the habit of treating them as one right is reinforced constantly and breaks silently on the vendor where it does not hold.

Keeping them in separate registers on separate sites is deliberate. A single merged column would be easier to read and wrong in the one case that matters.

3What to check before a campaign ships

Which tier produced each clip, and whether that tier carried the commercial line at the time. Both are answerable from the vendor's own pages plus an invoice, and neither is answerable from looking at the file.

That is the whole practical takeaway from this register, and it takes a production file rather than a tool to act on.

  • Entry point
    Commercial use is included from the $28 Pro plan upwardPro and FancyPika, pricing / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Entry point
    A commercial use licence is listed from the Standard planStandard and aboveLTX Studio, pricing / recorded 2026-09-12
  • What personal use rules out
    The personal use licence is described as excluding promotional activity for a business, service or productin the vendor's wordsLTX Studio, pricing / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Free tier
    The pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 a month and puts watermark removal on Creator at $29 and abovewatermark rather than licenceHeyGen, pricing / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Commercial use
    Once a video is created it may be used and distributed across any platform, including for commercial purposes, as long as the inputs align with standard guidelinesstated without naming a planHeyGen, download or export a video / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Free tier
    Paid plans include watermark-free downloads, and publishing watermarked output in a commercial context is described as possibly not appropriatea mark rather than a licenceHiggsfield, who owns my generations / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Commercial use
    There is no separate commercial licence to purchase, and commercial use rights follow from the terms of use for all usersstated for every plan including the free oneHiggsfield, who owns my generations / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Free tier
    Video downloads include a watermark for unpaid users, and Standard subscribers and higher-tier users can download without onewatermark lineHailuo AI, subscription service terms / recorded 2026-09-22

4A generator's account of it

Alongside the terms behind “Clean vs licensed”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:

You can recomposite with different end-card text, and in step-by-step mode you can reshoot individual segments. The finished file can also be downloaded and shared with a link.

SceneMixer, How to Make an Ad from One Photo — “Can I change the ad after it is finished?” (read 2026-10-13)

A dish photo is cleaned into a product shot and the ad is built around it.

SceneMixer, An AI Ad for a Restaurant, a Café or a Dish — “Will the dish look like my dish?” (read 2026-10-13)

5Sources

Each row quotes a plan card or a terms page, gathered on commercial use and read 2026-09-12. The test a sentence has to pass before it counts as a licence statement is set out on the reading page. Nothing here is legal advice. Nearby: Silence higher up, No free plan, Where the answer sits.