What Pika's free plan withholds, and what the $8 plan does too
Pika's free plan carries no commercial-use marking, and neither does the $8 Standard plan above it. The reading is established by omission: the marking appears from the $28 Pro card upward, so its absence lower down is legible from the same row. As of 2026-09-12.
| What the record holds | As published |
|---|---|
| The published wording | Commercial use is not included on the free plan, and not on the $8 Standard plan |
| Where it appears | The row of subscription cards, where the plan features are set out side by side |
| How the reading was established | Absent from a card that carries it two plans further up |
| What the cell leaves open | Whether work already exported on the free plan may be used after an upgrade |
Inclusion rule. One vendor, one column. A cell earns a page when the vendor publishes something specific there, or when its silence is unusual beside the vendors read with it. Order. Fixed order: the wording, then its address, then the method, then the gap.
1Two cards read identically on this point
Read across the row, the free card and the $8 card give a reader the same answer, which is no answer at all. Both are silent where the two cards above them are not, and the silence covers the same ground in both places.
That makes the free tier here less interesting than the paid plan sitting just above it. A customer who has paid something is usually confident the permission arrived with the invoice, and on this row it did not.
2A feature grid is a weak place to keep a rule
The whole reading rests on a visual convention: a marking present on two cards and absent on two others. That is a design decision about a comparison table, not a sentence anybody drafted about permissions, and it can change when the table is redesigned.
The register records it as a reading established by absence rather than as a published rule, because the difference matters to whoever has to defend the decision later. An absent marking tells you what was not offered; it does not tell you what is forbidden.
3What a free-tier user still cannot settle here
The cards say nothing about work already made. If a clip was exported while the account was free and the account later moves up two plans, no wording on this page decides whether that clip travels with the upgrade or stays behind.
Nothing on ownership appears either, and nothing on what may be supplied as an input. Both are recorded as blanks in this row rather than filled in from documents the register does not read for this column.
- Free tierCommercial use is not included on the free plan or on the $8 Standard planread from the plan feature icons
4A generator's account of it
Alongside the terms behind “Pika, free tier”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
Under the terms, what you generate is yours to the extent the law allows, royalty-free, commercial use included.
SceneMixer, What You Get to Keep (read 2026-10-13)
On a segment’s storyboard card, next to Edit, press AI edit.
SceneMixer, AI Edit: Rewrite a Storyboard Segment by Saying What to Change (read 2026-10-13)
5Where this reading came from
The cell above was taken from the pricing page published at pika.art, as that page stood on 2026-09-12. The remaining three cells of the same vendor row sit on Pika; the column itself is described on free tier. This is a filing decision and not legal advice. Cells nearby: LTX Studio, free tier, Kling AI, free tier.