Checked, not guessed
What the free tier actually gives you
AI Tool Center reads every vendor's own pricing pages and policy docs, converts opaque credits into real seconds of video, and runs the same free-tier export test on every tool. Unverified values stay blank — never estimated.
AI video generators
3/5
vendors publish a usable free-allowance number — for the
other 2, the amount is "subject to platform announcement"
or simply absent
5 tools checked, vendor pages only
0 free tiers with clean export
Cheapest clean path
$8
/mo billed annually — Pika Standard, the lowest listed price that removes the watermark
Credits → seconds
seconds of base-resolution video per month on each tool's cheapest watermark-free plan, from the vendor's own credit rates — the arithmetic is printed in each reviewThe verdict scale
No watermark Watermarked No file
H Hailuo AI
Clean from $8.40/mo (annual)
Free/mo 0s recurring
Watermarked K Kling AI
Clean from $10/mo
Free/mo Not published
Watermarked L Luma Dream Machine
Clean from $23.99/mo (annual)
Free/mo Not published
Watermarked P Pika
Clean from $8/mo (annual)
Free/mo ~30s
Watermarked R Runway
Clean from $12/mo (annual)
Free/mo 0s recurring
Watermarked How the test works
01 Generate the same brief
02 Download the actual file
03 Inspect the corners
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