How to remove HeyGen watermark?
You can only remove the HeyGen watermark on a paid plan (Creator $29/month and up). On a paid plan, click Generate, find the watermark toggle at the bottom-left of the Submit Video menu, and switch it off. The setting then sticks for all future videos. Free-plan videos always keep the watermark.
Why — the first-principles explanation
The watermark is a business gate, not a technical limit. HeyGen gives away rendering on the Free plan to let people try it, but every free video carries a HeyGen logo so the output doubles as free advertising and stays unusable for professional publishing. Removing it is the single clearest reason most people upgrade, so HeyGen ties watermark removal to paying, starting at the Creator tier.
Once you are on a paid plan, removal is a simple toggle rather than an edit. Because the watermark is composited on at render time, HeyGen can just skip that layer when generating your clip, which is why the option lives in the Submit Video menu right before you press generate. The toggle is sticky: turn it off once and it stays off for every future render until you re-enable it.
A practical consequence: there is no legitimate way to strip the watermark from a video already made on the Free plan, since it is baked into the pixels. The correct path is to upgrade first, then re-generate the video with the watermark toggle off. Third-party 'watermark remover' tools blur or crop the logo and degrade quality, so they are not a real substitute for a paid plan.
An example that makes it click
The watermark works like the 'DEMO' stamp printed across a free sample photo print. You can't erase the stamp from a print you already took, because the ink is part of the paper. To get a clean print, you pay for the service, and then the machine simply stops stamping. In HeyGen, upgrading is that payment, and the watermark toggle is the machine deciding not to print the stamp on your next video.
How to do it
- Upgrade to any paid plan (Creator at $29/month or higher).
- Start or open a video and click Generate to open the Submit Video menu.
- Look at the bottom-left of that menu for the watermark toggle.
- Switch the watermark toggle off.
- Generate the video; the setting stays off for all future renders until you change it.
- If a paid video still shows a watermark, contact HeyGen support to troubleshoot.
Key facts
- All HeyGen videos include a watermark by default; only paid users can remove it.
- Watermark removal starts at the Creator plan ($29/month, or $24/month billed annually).
- The toggle is at the bottom-left of the Submit Video menu, shown after clicking Generate.
- Once turned off, the setting persists for all future videos until re-enabled.
- Free-plan videos cannot have the watermark removed; the logo is baked into the render.
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How do you remove the HeyGen watermark? First, the honest part: you can't remove it on the Free plan. That watermark is baked into every free video on purpose, both as advertising and as a nudge to upgrade. So step one is moving to a paid plan, which starts at twenty-nine dollars a month with the Creator tier. Once you're paid, it's a one-click toggle. Open your video, click Generate to bring up the Submit Video menu, and look at the bottom-left corner. There's a watermark toggle. Switch it off, and generate. The best part is that the setting is sticky, so it stays off for every future video until you turn it back on. Just remember you can't clean an old free video after the fact, the logo is part of the pixels, so upgrade first and then re-generate. And if you're paying but still see a watermark, reach out to HeyGen support.
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People also ask
Can I remove the watermark for free?
No. Watermark removal requires a paid plan; every Free-plan video keeps the HeyGen watermark.
Where is the watermark toggle?
It's at the bottom-left of the Submit Video menu, which appears after you click Generate.
Do I have to turn it off for every video?
No. Once you toggle it off, the setting stays off for all future videos until you re-enable it.
Can I strip the watermark from a video I already made on Free?
Not cleanly. The logo is rendered into the pixels; upgrade and re-generate the video instead.