Is InVideo AI Free? Free Plan Limits, Watermark and Starter Cost

Yes, partly. InVideo AI has a $0 Free plan, and signing up needs no credit card. The free part is real but narrow: the invideo Editor, its multitrack timeline and every export cost nothing on any plan, while everything the AI generates draws on a weekly limit whose size invideo does not publish ^[1]. The editing is free; the generation is rationed. If you mostly cut your own footage, Free may be all you need. If you want Agent Two to script, generate and voice videos every week, budget for Starter at $20 a seat a month billed monthly, the cheapest paid plan as read in November 2026.

What the $0 plan really includes

The Free plan is easy to miss. The pricing page does not show it as a card. It lives in the Terms of Service, which describe a Free Plan with limited features, in the help center, and as the plan every canceled account falls back to. What it includes is not a trimmed demo. invideo says the editor is the same on every plan, with its timeline, color, audio and 3D tools, multiplayer editing between workspace members, exports, invideo MCP and the invideo CLI ^[2]. That is the full September 2026 Editor, not a lite version.

The free side of the ledger is long. Every timeline edit costs nothing, and so does every export: a 1080p MP4, an audio file, a still frame, or an editable project for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Uploads, stock search, model and price lookups and Google Drive imports are free too. Outside agents can join in. Ordinary editing that ChatGPT or Claude does through invideo MCP spends no invideo credits, though the chat app's own plan and limits still apply, and a ChatGPT subscription does not include an invideo account. You can also audition voices on Free before upgrading. Generating the voice track is different.

The weekly limit is the real gate

Anything that runs a model counts against the AI allowance. That means video, image, voice and music generation, transcripts, paid stock placed on the timeline, and Agent Two's own planning work. On paid plans the allowance is a monthly credit count per seat. On Free it is a weekly limit on credit-based AI actions that resets each week. invideo does not publish its size. Nobody outside invideo can tell you how many clips a free week buys, because each action's cost depends on the model, the clip length and the resolution, and Agent Two shows a price before generating only if you switch its approval setting.

When the weekly limit runs out, AI actions wait for the reset or an upgrade. Extra credits will not bridge the gap. They work only on a paid plan, from a $5 minimum purchase. Premium stock assets also need a paid plan. Model access follows the plan as well, and invideo's rule is blunt: a model missing from your model list is one your plan does not include. Expect a free week to cover experiments. It will not carry a publishing schedule.

Does InVideo AI put a watermark on free videos?

For Editor exports, no. invideo says exports from the invideo Editor are free and carry no watermark on every plan, Free included. That statement covers Editor exports only. invideo's current help pages do not say whether videos made with Agent Two or in the older invideo AI flow on Free carry a watermark; that flow sits behind an Older versions button on the prompt page, as our InVideo AI text-to-video guide explains. Stock is its own case. Paid stock shows a stock mark while it sits on the timeline and exports clean, but premium stock requires a paid plan in the first place.

Two more rules matter before you publish. invideo's Acceptable Use Policy forbids removing or working around watermarks or provenance signals embedded in outputs, so a marking a third-party model adds is not yours to strip. Ownership is broad, though. Subject to the Terms, the law and third-party rights, users own their outputs and hold a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use, modify, distribute and sell them, and that license survives cancellation. Stock media keeps its own license, two users can receive similar outputs, and you must disclose AI-generated content where law or industry standards require it.

No paid trial, so test it the free way

We found no paid-plan trial on invideo's pricing or help pages. The Free plan is the trial. It rewards a deliberate test rather than a casual one, because the AI allowance resets weekly and invideo does not publish its size. invideo's own documentation of its productions shows about three generations per usable shot, so a single attempt tells you little about cost. One free week goes furthest in this order:

• Sign up without a card and open the invideo Editor first.
• Cut, grade, mix and export one real project from your own footage, which costs nothing.
• In Agent Two's settings, switch generation to ask first; the default allows generation without asking.
• Spend the week's allowance on one job you would actually pay for, such as a short ad or a voiced explainer.
• Note the credit price the approval popup shows before each generation and how many retries a usable shot took.

That last note is your sizing data. Multiply what one usable shot cost by the shots you need each month, then compare it with the paid allowances below. Near Starter's 400 credits, Starter fits. Far above, look at Plus before you buy. A plan that runs dry mid-month blocks AI work until the reset, an upgrade or a purchase of extra credits.

Starter, the first paid step, by the numbers

Billing term is the first decision after the plan. Starter costs $20 a seat a month billed monthly ^[3]. The annual card showed Starter at $10 a seat a month billed annually, as an offer shown in November 2026, charged in full upfront. By our arithmetic, that offer comes to $120 a seat a year against $240 a seat a year on monthly billing, which equals six monthly payments. So the annual offer saves money only if you would keep paying for more than six months. Below that, monthly wins. Credits arrive monthly on annual plans too, and unused ones never roll over.

The jump from Free to Starter buys a predictable monthly allowance rather than a bigger free week. invideo estimates Starter's 400 credits cover about 160 Nano Banana Pro images or about 15 Seedance 2.0 Fast videos a month. It stops short in two places that matter: Agent Two runs only in its Lite tier, and Seedance 2.5 and full Seedance 2.0 are locked. Plus, at $60 a seat a month billed monthly, opens both. Prices differ by region, and app-store purchases can show different prices with local taxes and store fees.

Canceling sends you back to Free, not to zero

A paid plan can be canceled at any time under Subscriptions. It stays active to the end of the paid period, then the account falls back to Free. Your workspace and projects stay, remain editable, and export free. Finished work is never held hostage. What disappears is unused credit: plan credits and purchased extra credits both expire, and extra credits bought before a later new subscription are cleared when it starts. Subscriptions cannot be paused; the documented route is to drop to Free and upgrade again later. A failed renewal ends the same way after a few retries.

Money is harder to get back than projects. InVideo AI's fees are non-refundable: the Terms allow a refund request only within 24 hours of a first purchase or renewal, and only if no credits or premium features were used, with no pro-rata or partial refunds and no refunds of credits at all, extra credits included ^[4]. Data use is the last point for free users. On Free, as on Starter, Plus and Max, the Terms let invideo train its models on your data, while the Team and Scale cards promise no training on your data (get it in writing; the Terms carve it out only under a separate written agreement). Our InVideo AI pricing guide covers those plans and the full credit rules.

The bottom line

InVideo AI is free in the way that matters to editors and limited in the way that matters to generators. The $0 plan gives you the same invideo Editor paid users get, free Editor exports with no watermark per invideo, and a weekly AI allowance fit for testing, not for planning. Use the free week to measure what one usable shot costs you. If that points to steady generation, Starter at $20 a seat a month billed monthly is the first step, and the annual offer pays only past six months. For the editor itself, see our invideo Editor guide.