InVideo AI Free Plan: Limits, Exports and Free vs Plus (2026)

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InVideo AI's free plan needs no credit card and gives you limited credits that reset every Monday at 12 a.m. UTC, usable across its features — the vendor's current examples are AI-model access, image generation and sharing videos to social media. Every free export carries an InVideo watermark, and the vendor no longer publishes how many exports you get: the last published figure was four a week, in the Nov 2025 version of its own help article, and the version live today (vendor-dated Jul 28, 2026; re-read Aug 1) no longer contains the word export at all. Exporting burns no credits — generation does. Free is enough to test prompts and measure credit burn; it is not a publishing plan. Once a client, ad or monetized channel needs a clean file, Plus — third-party-reported around $25/month; verify the live checkout — is the practical floor.

Last verified

Aug 1, 2026

How we know

Desk-verified against primary sources

Note

Includes third-party reporting — flagged in text

Sources

9 linked

Evidence used

• The no-card rule, the limited-credit allowance and the Monday 12 a.m. UTC reset were re-read on InVideo's live free-plan help article on Aug 1, 2026 (vendor-dated Jul 28, 2026). Neither “export” nor “watermark” appears anywhere in that version.
• The withdrawn numbers are quoted from the Nov 15, 2025 archived version of the same article: “2 Video mins per week”, “1 AI credit” and “4 exports/week (with the invideo logo)”.
• Credit mechanics were re-read on InVideo's plans-and-credits guide on Aug 1, 2026 (vendor-dated Jul 27, 2026): “Downloading or exporting content doesn't use credits”, plan credits reset monthly without carrying forward, and top-up credits “last 12 months from the purchase date and expire with your current subscription”.
• Plus at about $25/month is third-party-reported, not vendor-read: invideo.io/pricing renders its plan cards in the browser. Confirm the live checkout before paying.
• Trustpilot and G2 figures come from our Jul 12, 2026 review check: ai.invideo.io at 4.2/5 (~594 reviews) against the legacy invideo.io listing at 2.9/5 (~891).

How we checked this

• This is a source-based free-plan explainer, not a ToolProven hands-on InVideo benchmark. No credit-burn or generation-quality result here is presented as our own test.
• The primary sources are InVideo's own help-center articles, re-read on Aug 1, 2026, with Internet Archive captures used to quote the wording the vendor has since removed. Archived quotes are dated to their capture and never presented as current.
• Paid dollar figures are third-party-reported and labelled as such throughout: invideo.io/pricing renders its plan cards in the browser and serves a fetcher no plan names and no prices, and the one paid figure the vendor publishes in fetchable HTML (Max at $100/month, on an FAQ page) conflicts with third-party reports. The full treatment of that conflict lives in our pricing explainer's methodology.

What the InVideo AI free plan actually includes

The free plan needs no credit card and gives limited credits that reset every Monday at 12 a.m. UTC. The vendor's current list of what you can do: access AI models with limited credits, generate images in the Agents & Models flow, and use and share videos on social media. Exporting a finished video consumes no credits — generation does.

Strip away the review-site paraphrases and the vendor's own description of its free plan now fits in three sentences. “Yes, you can use invideo AI for free without entering your card details.” “The free plan gives you limited credits to explore the platform.” “This quota on the Free plan is reset weekly on Monday at 12 a.m. UTC.” All three were read on the live help article on Aug 1, 2026 — and they are close to everything the vendor still commits to in writing, which is exactly why this page exists.

The credits behave the same way on free as on paid: they are spent when you generate — media clips, videos, AI features — and the plans-and-credits guide is explicit that “downloading or exporting content doesn't use credits.” On a weekly-reset pool that cuts both ways. The download button is never what empties the allowance; a prompt that takes three regenerations to land is. How the paid tiers and their monthly credit pools work is the job of our InVideo AI pricing and credits breakdown — this page stays on the free tier.

What the free plan's output looks like is the part the vendor no longer documents on this article: every free export carries an InVideo watermark, a rule that now lives in the vendor's paid-plan watermark help and in the archived version of the free-plan article rather than the live one. On resolution, we publish a gap instead of a number: no export cap is documented either way, 720p is InVideo's preview default, and the one hands-on third-party report we found downloaded 1080p.

The free-plan numbers InVideo stopped publishing

InVideo has progressively removed every number from its free-plan documentation. The Nov 2025 version of its help article listed “2 Video mins per week”, “1 AI credit” and “4 exports/week (with the invideo logo)”. By Apr 2026 the numbers had become “limited access”; the Jun 15, 2026 version dropped the word watermark; and the Jul 28, 2026 version live today no longer contains the word export.

This is the fact most free-plan articles get wrong, because they quote each other instead of the vendor. The four-exports-a-week figure still printed across 2026 roundups is not InVideo's current rule — it is a withdrawn one, last published in the Nov 15, 2025 version of the vendor's own article. We can quote that version because the Internet Archive kept it; the table below walks the article version by version, verbatim.

Read in sequence, the direction is unmistakable: each revision commits to less. Numbers became “limited access”, the watermark paragraph disappeared, and the current version — vendor-dated Jul 28, 2026 — reframes the free plan around image generation in the Agents & Models flow and says only that videos can be “used and shared on social media”, without the word export appearing once. The rules that survived every revision are the durable ones: no card, limited credits, Monday reset.

The practical consequence: treat any published free-plan count — including the ones on this page — as a dated snapshot, and treat the allowance your own workspace shows as the only current number. What this timeline is actually useful for is calibration: a vendor that deletes its published limits is telling you the limits are subject to change without notice, so build no production schedule on the free tier.

What the free plan excludes

Free excludes clean exports (every free export is watermarked), guaranteed volume (no published export count), and a monthly credit pool (the free quota resets weekly; paid credits reset monthly on your renewal date). One gap is product-level, not plan-level: no InVideo tier adds AI avatars.

The exclusion that decides most upgrades is the clean file. Free exports carry the InVideo mark, and the rule set around removing it has more moving parts than the yes/no suggests — a separate invideo Studio product whose watermark a paid invideo AI plan does not clean, an opt-out branding overlay on paid exports, and a downgrade trap on re-edited projects. All of that lives on our answer page covering whether the free plan adds a watermark, and why paying for one InVideo product doesn't clean the other; here it is enough to say that no free export ships clean.

The second exclusion is cadence. Free credits reset weekly every Monday; paid plan credits “reset monthly on your renewal date and do not carry forward”, and purchased top-ups “last 12 months from the purchase date and expire with your current subscription” — both clauses read on the vendor's plans-and-credits guide, Aug 1, 2026. A weekly pool with no published size is a fine instrument for testing and a poor one for planning; that, more than any single feature, is what the upgrade actually buys.

One exclusion no upgrade fixes: InVideo AI has no AI avatars on any tier. If the job needs an on-screen synthetic presenter, the decision is not free vs Plus — it is InVideo vs a different product, which is the InVideo AI review's territory.

• Clean exports — every free export carries the InVideo mark; removal requires an active paid plan at export time
• A published export count — withdrawn since Nov 2025; the weekly allowance is whatever your workspace shows
• A monthly credit pool — the free quota resets every Monday; monthly allocations are a paid-plan feature
• A documented resolution ceiling — no export cap is documented either way; 720p is the preview default, and the one hands-on third-party report we found downloaded 1080p
• AI avatars — a product-level gap, not a plan gap: no InVideo tier adds a synthetic presenter

Free vs Plus: the decision in one table

Upgrade to Plus when a client, ad or monetized channel needs a clean file, or when the weekly free quota interrupts real production. Stay free while you are still testing prompts and measuring credit burn. Plus is third-party-reported around $25/month — verify the live checkout, because invideo.io/pricing renders in the browser.

The table deliberately compares rules, not feature checklists, because the rules are what InVideo documents and the feature grids are what changes without notice. Two of the paid-side rows do real work: an active Plus plan removes the watermark at export time and lets you re-export earlier free-plan projects clean — so nothing you drafted on free is wasted — and the monthly credit pool replaces a weekly quota of unpublished size with an allocation tied to your renewal date.

The price row carries a deliberate label. Plus at about $25/month — with a lower monthly equivalent on annual billing, around $20 — is what third parties consistently report, but InVideo's pricing page renders in the browser and the vendor publishes no Plus price in fetchable HTML, so the checkout shown to your own account is the only number that binds. The full ladder above Plus, and why we treat every paid figure this way, is in the InVideo AI pricing and credits breakdown.

Who should stay free — and who should upgrade

Stay free while you are validating prompts, measuring failure rate or posting where a watermark is acceptable. Upgrade when you need clean files, a monthly credit pool, or to re-export earlier projects without the mark. Treat free as the trial: InVideo's refund rules void the 7-day window the moment a video is generated or downloaded.

Before paying, know the complaint pattern. In our Jul 12, 2026 check of the AI product's Trustpilot listing, the most repeated criticism was credit burn on failed or frozen generations, with refunds declined because a video technically generated. That is precisely what the free plan lets you measure at zero risk: run your real brief, count how many generations a usable result takes, and note whether anything fails along the way. If the failure rate is high on your prompts, that fact is worth more than any plan comparison.

Check the right listing while you are there: InVideo has two Trustpilot pages, and they diverge sharply — ai.invideo.io, the AI product, at 4.2/5 across ~594 reviews against 2.9/5 across ~891 on invideo.io, the legacy Studio editor (both at our Jul 12, 2026 check). Review roundups routinely average the two into one misleading number.

The refund policy makes the free-first sequence close to mandatory. InVideo refunds only within 7 days and only unused subscriptions — and it counts a subscription as used the moment any video is generated or downloaded in the billing period, as our InVideo refund policy breakdown documents. In practice there is no paid trial: the free plan is the trial, and the upgrade should happen only after it has answered your questions.

• Stay free: you are still testing whether prompt-to-video fits your workflow at all
• Stay free: your output goes to channels where the InVideo mark is acceptable
• Stay free: you are measuring credit burn and failure rate on real briefs before committing money
• Upgrade to Plus: a client, paid ad or monetized channel needs a clean file
• Upgrade to Plus: the weekly quota keeps interrupting actual production
• Upgrade to Plus: you have free-plan drafts worth re-exporting without the watermark
• Look elsewhere: you need an on-screen AI presenter — no InVideo plan adds avatars

Related questions

• Does InVideo AI's free plan add a watermark?Yes — InVideo AI's free plan adds an invideo watermark plus stock-media watermarks to every export, with no documented 720p cap (720p is the vendor's preview default, not an export limit), per InVideo's Help Center, verified July 2026.

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