Synthesia's $0 plan, and why its limit is not the licence
A Basic plan is listed at $0 a month, and removal of the Synthesia logo is listed from the $29 Starter plan. Neither line is the licence: what a video may be used for is decided on the licensing page, against the type of avatar in it. As of 2026-09-22.
| What the record holds | As published |
|---|---|
| The published wording | A Basic plan at $0 a month, with logo removal listed from the $29 Starter plan |
| Where it appears | The plan page, which has to be read against the video licensing page |
| How the reading was established | A free plan exists; the boundary that matters is drawn elsewhere |
| What the cell leaves open | Commercial use, which the plan cards do not decide in either direction |
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.
1The visible limit on the free plan is a logo
What the $0 plan withholds, in the plan page's own terms, is a clean file. Logo removal arrives with the first paid tier, and a reader who stops there will conclude that paying removes the last obstacle between a draft and a campaign.
That conclusion is wrong on this row, and it is wrong in a direction that costs money. The restriction with teeth is not on the plan page at all, and no amount of reading the plan cards more carefully will surface it.
2Why the plan cards cannot answer the licence question
The restriction here travels with the avatar rather than with the subscription. A stock or synthetic presenter carries limits on where the video may run, and those limits are lifted by changing the presenter, not by changing the plan.
A column called free tier can only record what the free plan says. On this row the honest entry notes the plan exists, notes what it withholds, and points at the document where the boundary actually lives.
3What a reader should take from this cell
Two documents, two boundaries, and only one of them visible from the page where price is decided. A buyer comparing entry prices across this register will be comparing the wrong thing if they use this row's plan figures as a proxy for permission.
The crossing point cell for this vendor is where the real condition is recorded, and it does not contain a price at all.
- Free tierA Basic plan is listed at $0 a month, and removal of the Synthesia logo is listed from the $29 Starter planplan cards as read
4What the output is for
Alongside the terms behind “Synthesia, 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)
The final cut ends on an end card: your main image plus four lines — Brand, Product name, Tagline, Call to action. The first two are read from your photo and your brief; the tagline and call to action are written with the script.
SceneMixer, The End Card (read 2026-10-13)
5Where this reading came from
The cell above was taken from the video licensing page published at synthesia.io, as that page stood on 2026-09-22. The remaining three cells of the same vendor row sit on Synthesia; the column itself is described on free tier. This is a filing decision and not legal advice. Cells nearby: HeyGen, free tier, Hailuo AI, free tier.