Updated November 2026 · Last checked 8 Nov 2026 (the 34-row Google plan table) and 2–7 Nov 2026 (the 18-row dataset)

Which AI generators add a visible watermark?

It depends on the generator, the plan and the country. This free dataset records what Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Runway, Pika, Luma, Higgsfield and Adobe say on their own pages, in 18 rows, each linked to its source. Which Gemini plan turns it off in your country? Filter Google’s rules by plan and country. No watermark switch in your Settings? Here is why. In India? See what the plan that turns it off costs. Already have a Gemini or Veo video with the mark? See your four options. Want Google’s own words? Read what its pages say now, and when they last changed.

Which Gemini plans remove the visible watermark from Veo videos?

In India, South Korea and Vietnam, Google ties the off switch to AI Ultra. In Flow, where Veo videos are made, only the Google One AI Ultra 20x plan avoids the automatic mark. In the Gemini app, only Google AI Ultra subscribers see the Media Watermark setting. In Gemini Notebook, no plan can turn it off there. (Google Flow Help, Gemini Apps Help and Gemini Notebook Help, checked 8 Nov 2026.)

Outside those three countries, Google’s Gemini Apps and Flow pages name no plan condition: they describe the setting without saying which plans see it, so check your own account. Gemini Notebook is the exception, because its plan table gives watermark removal to AI Pro and AI Ultra only, and Standard and AI Plus keep the mark.

Every plan and country, with Google’s sentence

34 rows from Google’s three help pages, Gemini Apps Help, Google Flow Help and Gemini Notebook Help. Checked 8 Nov 2026: a script re-reads the pages every night and every sentence quoted here matched. Google prints no date on these pages. The Gemini API and Vertex AI are not covered. Your own account may differ, so look for the setting too.

Turning the mark off applies to what you generate afterwards, and in Gemini Apps Google says it doesn’t affect SynthID or Content Credentials. For a video you already have, see your options.

Gemini’s watermark switch is missing: does the mark still appear?

Yes: if Settings in the Gemini app has no Media Watermark option, every image and video you make there gets the visible watermark, because that option is the only way to turn it off. In India, South Korea and Vietnam, Google shows it only to Google AI Ultra subscribers, so on a free, AI Plus or AI Pro plan there it is missing on purpose. (Manage watermark settings in Gemini Apps, checked 8 Nov 2026.)

“If you are in India, South Korea, or Vietnam, you'll only see this setting if you have an AI Ultra subscription. Otherwise you'll automatically see visible watermarks applied to all visual media you create with Gemini Apps.”

• Outside those three countries: Google’s page names no plan condition. Press coverage of the rollout says work and school accounts don’t get the setting, and Search Engine Journal reports it won’t appear in countries whose law requires a visible watermark; Google’s page lists neither.
• In Flow, the switch is somewhere else. Veo videos made in Flow use Flow’s own Visible watermarking toggle, under your profile picture, and in the same three countries only the Google One AI Ultra 20x plan avoids the mark (every plan and country above).
• In those three countries, only AI Ultra adds the switch. What the Ultra plans cost in India.
• Already have the file? The switch only changes what you generate next, so a saved image or video keeps its mark whatever plan you move to. Your options for those. For an image, the Nano Banana watermark remover takes the star off your copy.

What a plan that turns the watermark off costs in India

In India, the only plan that turns the visible mark off on Veo video in Flow is Google AI Ultra 20x, at ₹19,500 a month. Google AI Ultra at ₹6,500 a month turns it off in the Gemini app but not in Flow, and Google AI Plus (₹399) and AI Pro (₹1,950) can’t turn it off at all. No plan turns it off in Gemini Notebook in India.

Prices as shown on Google’s subscriptions page for India, checked 5 Nov 2026; that page shows no date of its own. Who can turn the mark off is from Gemini Apps Help, Google Flow Help and Gemini Notebook Help, checked 8 Nov 2026. Your account may be shown a different price or an offer, so check Google’s page before you pay.

At the monthly price, a year of AI Ultra 20x comes to ₹2,34,000. The setting also changes only what you generate after you turn it off: a video you have already downloaded keeps its mark, whatever plan you move to (your options for those).

The free alternative, on any plan: the Gemini watermark remover takes the visible mark off a Gemini, Flow or Veo video you already have, on your own device, with no account and nothing uploaded. It is not the same as Google’s setting: the rebuilt corner is an estimate, so it can look soft on fine texture, the video is re-encoded, and Google’s invisible SynthID stays in the file. Use it only on videos you own or have the rights to edit.

What Google’s own pages say now, and when they last changed

Google’s Gemini help page says you can turn the visible watermark off in Gemini Apps, but in India, South Korea and Vietnam only Google AI Ultra subscribers see that setting; everyone else there gets the mark on every image, video and music track automatically. Turning it off changes the visible mark only: Google says it doesn’t affect SynthID or Content Credentials. (Manage watermark settings in Gemini Apps. Last change seen by our nightly check: none since 8 Nov 2026, when the check started.)

Google prints no updated date on these pages, so we keep our own. Every night a script re-reads the six pages below, and the date beside each one is the last day its text changed. A day the text stays the same doesn’t count as a change.

What the watermark settings page says

• You can manage whether visible watermarks appear on AI-generated content in Gemini Apps. This setting controls visible watermarks across all visual media you create with Gemini, including images, videos, and music.
• If you are in India, South Korea, or Vietnam, you'll only see this setting if you have an AI Ultra subscription. Otherwise you'll automatically see visible watermarks applied to all visual media you create with Gemini Apps. Learn how to manage your Google AI plan from Gemini Apps.
• At the bottom left, click Settings Media Watermark.
• This setting only controls the visible watermark. It doesn't affect SynthID watermarks or Content Credentials for media you create with Gemini Apps. Learn how to verify AI-generated images, videos, and audio.
• Images: Visible watermarks will appear on any newly generated images.
• Video: Visible watermarks appear as a persistent overlay on generated video content.
• Music: The watermark will appear on the video or visual player that is created with your music track.
• SynthID: All AI-generated media created or edited with Gemini Apps includes an invisible SynthID watermark.
• Content Credentials (C2PA) provenance signals: Gemini Apps include Content Credentials (C2PA) metadata to provide information about the content's origin.

Quoted from Manage watermark settings in Gemini Apps. Last change seen by our nightly check: none since 8 Nov 2026, when the check started.

What the SynthID page says about checking a file

• SynthID: Uses invisible watermarks to determine if images, videos, and audio were generated or edited specifically by Google's AI models.
• While other companies have started to adopt SynthID watermarks, Gemini can currently only recognize content created by Google AI tools.
• If a SynthID watermark is detected, it means all or part of the image or video was created or edited by Google's AI models.
• If a SynthID watermark isn't detected, it means the image or video wasn't created or edited by Google AI, but it could have been created by other AI systems.
• For video files, Gemini will state which parts of the video a SynthID watermark was detected. This doesn't mean it was detected in all parts of that portion of the video.

Quoted from Verify Google AI-generated images, videos and audio with SynthID. Last change seen by our nightly check: none since 8 Nov 2026, when the check started.

What changed last

None yet. The check started on 8 Nov 2026, and Google hasn’t edited any of the six pages since. When it does, the lines it added and removed appear here, with the day the check saw the change.

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What the rows say

• Gemini Apps: in India, South Korea and Vietnam, Google says only AI Ultra subscribers see the setting that turns the visible mark off. Everyone else there gets the mark automatically; the page names no plan but AI Ultra, so where we list AI Plus and AI Pro that is our reading. Elsewhere the setting exists, but Google’s page does not say which plans see it. The page covers the Gemini web and mobile apps only, not AI Studio, the API or work and school accounts, so an image made those ways may have no visible mark.
• Flow: in the same three countries, only the Google AI Ultra 20x plan can turn it off. Elsewhere Flow has the toggle, and Google’s page does not say whether every plan can use it.
• Gemini Notebook: the Standard and AI Plus plans always carry the mark. AI Pro and AI Ultra can turn it off, unless you live in one of those three countries.
• Sora: OpenAI’s launch wording puts a visible moving watermark on downloads. Read the note on that row first.
• Microsoft Designer: the FAQ does not mention a visible watermark. It does describe Content Credentials metadata on files.
• Pika: the pricing page says no watermark on any plan, Free included. Many third-party guides say the opposite, and the Free plan has no commercial license.
• Luma: the terms reserve the right to embed watermarks and content credentials, and bar customers from removing them. Neither the terms nor the pricing page say which plans get a visible mark.
• Higgsfield: the terms say it may embed machine-readable watermarks and C2PA data. They do not say whether any plan gets a visible mark.
• Adobe Firefly: Adobe attaches Content Credentials automatically. The plans FAQ does not mention a visible watermark.
• Runway: the pricing page lists “No watermarks” on the Standard plan. The Free, Pro and Max cards don’t mention watermarks, so the row covers Standard only.

If your Gemini or Veo video already has the watermark

You have four options: generate the video again with Google’s setting off, if your account has it; remove the visible mark from your copy on your own device; crop the corner out; or keep the mark. Turning the setting off won’t change this file, because the mark is already part of its picture.

• Generate it again with the setting off. The new file never has the mark, so there is nothing to remove afterwards, but it needs an account that shows the setting. You get a new clip that may differ from the old one. It runs on Google’s servers, like any generation, and uses your plan’s generation allowance.
• Remove the visible mark from your copy. This keeps your clip and works whichever plan you are on, without Google’s setting. It is free with no account and runs on your device, with nothing uploaded. The rebuilt area is an estimate, so it can look soft on fine texture, and the video is re-encoded.
• Crop the corner out in any video editor. You need no special tool, but you lose the edge of the frame and the shape of the video can change.
• Keep the mark. This is the right choice if your audience should see that the clip is AI-made, or if you don’t have the rights to edit it.

Google’s setting can’t do this for you, because the mark is drawn into the frames when the video is made and the setting only decides what happens to your next generation. Google’s Gemini help page says the mark appears on “any newly generated images”, describes it on video as a persistent overlay, and says nothing about files you already have. Search Engine Journal’s report on the rollout says the choice applies to future content. Who can turn the mark off, by plan and country, is in the tables on this page.

Google’s rules: Manage watermark settings in Gemini Apps and Google Flow Help, checked 8 Nov 2026.

How to remove the visible mark on your device

1. Find the original download. Use the file you saved from Gemini or Flow rather than a cropped copy, a screen recording, or a version sent through a chat app.
2. Drop it on the Gemini watermark remover. It works on the visible mark on Gemini, Google Flow and Veo video, as MP4, MOV or WebM. The file is read from your device and never uploaded.
3. Check the preview, then press Remove watermark. The preview runs the same removal on a frame of your own clip, so you can see the result before the whole video is processed.
4. Download the new video and keep your original. The new file has the same resolution and audio. Any Content Credentials stay in your original, not in the new file.

If you have already edited the file

Google’s help page doesn’t cover edited files. Clipwipe looks for the mark in the place Google puts it, near the bottom-right corner, so the result depends on what the edit did to that spot. If it can’t pick out the mark, it leaves the frames as they are.

• Trimmed: this should still work, because the frame and the mark haven’t moved.
• Cropped, reframed, letterboxed or screen-recorded: the mark is probably no longer where Clipwipe looks, so go back to the original download.
• Sent through a chat app or social site: compression softens the mark and makes it harder to pick out. Use the original if you still have it.
• Joined with other clips: this should still work, because Clipwipe reads the mark on every frame and leaves clips without it alone. Removing the mark from each original first, or using Merge videos, saves one round of re-encoding.
• Captions or logos over the corner: Clipwipe doesn’t remove these, and they can spoil the rebuilt area.

How to check what your file has

A video can carry three different things, and no one check covers them all. Check the original download, because a cropped or re-shared copy may have lost what the original had.

• The visible mark: look for it. Play the file and watch the area near the bottom-right corner for Google’s small four-pointed star.
• The visible mark: try Clipwipe’s preview. Drop the clip on the remover and drag the slider. Clipwipe samples a few frames, looks for a small bright shape where Google puts the mark, and runs the removal on one frame. If it finds nothing, the frame stays as it was and both sides look the same. On video the preview still says Clean, so the matching sides are your sign; if you render anyway and no frame needed changing, the finished file says No Gemini / Veo watermark found. If both sides match and you can’t see a mark, stop there, because pressing Remove watermark would only give you a re-encoded copy. The preview isn’t a test of the file, though. A mark over a bright background can go unfound, and something else bright in that spot can be taken for the mark.
• SynthID: ask Gemini. Upload the video at gemini.google.com or in the Android app, and ask something like “Is this AI-generated?” Gemini reports which parts contain SynthID. Google’s help page sets the limits: signed in, one file at a time, 100 MB or less, under 90 seconds, and a daily limit. This check uploads your file to Google. A result with no SynthID doesn’t rule out AI, because Gemini only recognises content from Google’s tools, and heavy editing can stop it finding the mark.
• Content Credentials: use a verifier. C2PA’s deployment guidance names verify.contentauthenticity.org, a free public tool that takes an uploaded file and says whether credentials are present and whether they are valid or trusted. Gemini can also show them on a computer or Android. If none are found, the file either wasn’t made with a conformant tool or lost them along the way.

Google’s and C2PA’s pages checked 4 November 2026.

What stays in the file, and what doesn’t

Turning off Google’s setting changes the visible mark only. For Gemini Apps, Google says it doesn’t affect SynthID or Content Credentials. Removing the mark with Clipwipe is different, because it writes a new file.

So a video you have run through Clipwipe can still be identified as AI-generated through SynthID, but don’t expect a Content Credentials check to work on it. This site doesn’t offer any way to take out invisible watermarks. Whether you have to tell people a video is AI-made doesn’t change either: see which platforms require an AI label.

Two more questions people ask

Will downloading the video again give me a copy without the mark? Google’s help pages don’t say, and we haven’t tested it. If your account has the setting, turn it off and download the video again from your history. If the mark is still there, your options are to generate it again or remove the mark from your copy.

If I upgrade to AI Ultra, will my old videos lose the mark? Nothing on Google’s help pages says so. In India, South Korea and Vietnam, AI Ultra gives you the setting in Gemini Apps, and Flow’s toggle needs the Google One AI Ultra 20x plan. Plan on either one only changing what you generate after you turn the mark off.

Only use Clipwipe on content you own or have the rights to. The rules also differ by country: Vietnam bans erasing mandatory labels without saying whether a generator’s logo is one, and China bans maliciously removing required labels. Read what the law says in each country before you publish there.

The data, product by product

Every row as published in the download files, with the maker’s page linked on each one. Each row shows the date of its own check. Google’s three help pages are also read for the plan table at the top of this page, which has its own date: 8 Nov 2026.

Google Gemini Apps (Nano Banana images, Omni video, Lyria music)

In India, South Korea and Vietnam, only Google AI Ultra subscribers can turn off the visible Gemini watermark and everyone else gets it automatically; elsewhere a setting turns it off, but Google’s page doesn’t say which plans see it. (Gemini Apps Help, checked 2 Nov 2026.)

Makes: image, video, music. Invisible mark, per the maker: SynthID (invisible) on all media made or edited with Gemini Apps. Provenance data: C2PA Content Credentials in Gemini Apps output.

Google Flow (Veo, Omni, Nano Banana)

In India, South Korea and Vietnam, only the Google AI Ultra 20x plan can turn off Flow’s visible watermark and every other plan gets it automatically; elsewhere Flow has a toggle, though Google’s page doesn’t say whether every plan can use it. (Google Flow Help, checked 2 Nov 2026.)

Makes: image, video. Invisible mark, per the maker: SynthID (invisible) on all Flow outputs.

Google Gemini Notebook (Veo video, images)

Gemini Notebook’s Standard and AI Plus plans always carry the visible watermark, while AI Pro and AI Ultra can turn it off everywhere except India, South Korea and Vietnam. (Gemini Notebook Help, checked 2 Nov 2026.)

Makes: image, video. Invisible mark, per the maker: SynthID (invisible) on Veo, Omni and Nano Banana outputs.

OpenAI Sora (sora.com and the Sora app)

At launch, OpenAI said every video downloaded from sora.com or the Sora app carries a visible moving watermark. (OpenAI’s Sora 2 provenance notes, checked 2 Nov 2026.)

Makes: video. Invisible mark, per the maker: Internal detection tools (OpenAI's wording; no invisible mark named). Provenance data: C2PA metadata on all assets.

Microsoft Designer (AI image features)

Microsoft’s Designer FAQ doesn’t mention a visible watermark on AI images, but says the files carry Content Credentials metadata. (Microsoft Designer FAQ, checked 2 Nov 2026.)

Makes: image. Provenance data: C2PA Content Credentials; 'metadata attached to the files to identify the source'.

Pika (video)

Pika’s pricing page says no plan adds a watermark, Free included, though the Free plan has no commercial license. (Pika pricing, checked 4 Nov 2026.)

Makes: video.

Luma (Dream Machine, Ray video)

Luma’s terms let it embed watermarks and content credentials and bar you from removing them, but don’t say which plans get a visible mark. (Luma’s terms, checked 4 Nov 2026.)

Makes: image, video. Provenance data: Content credentials and provenance metadata may be embedded (terms).

Higgsfield (video, image)

Higgsfield’s terms say it may embed machine-readable watermarks and C2PA data, and don’t say whether any plan gets a visible mark. (Higgsfield’s terms, checked 4 Nov 2026.)

Makes: image, video. Invisible mark, per the maker: Machine-readable watermarks may be embedded (terms). Provenance data: C2PA / Content Credentials may be embedded (terms).

Adobe Firefly (images, video)

Adobe attaches Content Credentials to Firefly output automatically, and its plans FAQ doesn’t mention a visible watermark. (Adobe Firefly plans FAQ, checked 4 Nov 2026.)

Makes: image, video. Provenance data: Content Credentials attached automatically.

Runway (video)

Runway’s pricing page lists ‘No watermarks’ on the Standard plan, and doesn’t mention watermarks on its Free, Pro or Max plans. (Runway pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.)

Makes: video.

What each column means

How it was checked, and what it leaves out

Each row was compared with the maker’s page on the date shown beside it: 2 Nov 2026 (12 rows), 4 Nov 2026 (5 rows) and 7 Nov 2026 (1 row). A script re-read the page and matched the key phrases, and source_check records that. A row says what the page said that day. Your own account may differ, so check the setting too.

We keep our table of ranking sites by registration date the same way: each row is read from a primary record, here the domain’s registry entry, and linked to it.

This is not every generator. Midjourney and Runway’s Free plan are left out for now: the help pages that cover them refuse automated reading, so they stay off until a person re-reads them. For Runway, only the Standard plan is covered, because only its card on the pricing page mentions watermarks. For Microsoft, only Designer is covered.

The India prices are re-read from Google’s page every night and are not in the download files. So are the six Google pages in What Google’s own pages say now, whose dates move only when Google edits their text. The plan-by-country table is re-read nightly too and is not in the download files. The Updated date at the top of this page moves when a row, a price, one of those Google pages, a rule in that table or this page’s guidance changes; a night when the table’s sentences still match only moves its checked date. The download files change only when a row does. Spotted a row that is wrong or out of date? Email nocodetalks@gmail.com.

Using this data

You can reuse the data, including commercially, under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as “Clipwipe, AI generator watermarks” with a link to this page. The licence covers our compilation and wording; anything quoted from a maker’s page stays theirs.

Related: what AI labelling laws say about visible watermarks, and Clipwipe’s on-device tools for the visible mark on Veo, Gemini and Nano Banana files you own or have the rights to use.

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