Which clause decides whether a tool is usable here?

The upload clause. It sets out what you are permitted to put in, and it is the only place a vendor states whether the service accepts material depicting real people. A vendor that permits it has written itself a different risk profile, and the person uploading carries most of it.

Is a licence to the vendor normal?

A narrow one is unavoidable — a service cannot process an image it has no permission to process. What varies is the width: operating the service, versus promoting it, versus training on it in perpetuity. All three appear in this category and they are three different bargains.

Why does retention matter more here than elsewhere?

Because the input is a file you made rather than a sentence you typed, and files persist in more places. A policy that states a retention period for uploads, separately from one for prompts, is doing more than most.

What may you upload to these services?

This is the one category where the buyer puts a file in, and that single fact moves the important paperwork from the pricing page to the terms and the privacy policy.

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The question

Everywhere else in this category the user supplies a sentence. Here they supply an image, and three questions follow that nobody asks at checkout: what am I allowed to upload, what does the service acquire by my uploading it, and how long does the file sit there afterwards.

What we checked

Terms of service

Who holds rights in what the tool produces?

Satisfied by

An explicit grant of output rights to the user, and a narrow, stated licence back to the vendor for operating the service.

Usually found

Silence about the user's rights and a broad perpetual licence to the vendor covering promotion and model training.

At stake

Publishing anything made with the tool depends entirely on this paragraph, and it is never on the pricing page.
Privacy policy

How long are prompts and generations kept, and can they be deleted?

Satisfied by

A retention period in days or months, a deletion route that removes rather than flags, and a plain statement about training use.

Usually found

No period at all, deletion described as account closure, and training use addressed in a sentence that could mean either thing.

At stake

Prompts in this category are the most sensitive record a consumer service can hold. Indefinite retention turns one breach into a permanent problem.
Content policy

What is prohibited, and is likeness transfer named?

Satisfied by

A published list of prohibited categories, with material involving real people's likenesses explicitly among them.

Usually found

A policy that bans the obvious and stays quiet about likeness, which is the one that decides whether the operator survives the year.

At stake

An operator vague about likeness is an operator one enforcement action away from taking your purchased credits down with it.
Pricing page

Are the limits stated in units a buyer can count?

Satisfied by

Clip length in seconds, resolution in pixels, generations per day as a number, queue priority described in words that mean something.

Usually found

A credit balance with no stated conversion, and the word unlimited somewhere above a fair-use clause that contradicts it.

At stake

This is the difference between a subscription that finishes work and one that runs out on a Tuesday.

The upload clause, specifically

Every serious operator in this category has one, and the differences between them are legible even to a non-lawyer. Three shapes recur:

Clause shapes seen across the category. This desk covers only tools whose answer is the first one.
Shape of the clause	What it signals
Upload restricted to material you created or hold rights in, with likeness of real people named as prohibited	An operator that has had this conversation with its payment processor and expects to keep it
Upload restricted in general terms, likeness unmentioned	Unfinished paperwork. The prohibition is probably intended and is unenforceable as written
Upload framed as permitted with consent of the depicted person	A service that accepts real people and has moved the entire risk onto the person uploading

Our own position on the third shape is set out separately, on photo-based tools: those products are not checked here and will not be.

Verdict

Read the terms before the price

For image-to-video the pricing page is the least informative document in the set. What determines whether a subscription is usable is the upload clause, the width of the licence it takes in return, and whether uploads get a retention period separate from prompts. A vendor that prints all three is unusual enough that it should weigh heavily.

Paid placement

SpicyAI — Discover AI characters with unique personalities. Chat, share stories, or create a companion of your own — with text, voice, images, and video.

Contradicted elsewhere Pricing page. The only vendor read here that publishes its limits and its prices without a sign-in: $6.99 a week, $9.90 a month, $59.88 for twelve months, with 100 images and 10 videos a month on Premium. The same page then states the free allowance twice, as five chat turns on the plan card and ten turns per character in the table, and the Premium allowance twice, as unlimited on the card and 1,000 turns in total in the table.

Published Terms of service. Effective 2 December 2025, with the operator named and a contact address in the document. The user owns what they generate, and the licence running back is perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable and transferable — and extends beyond operating the service to promotion and advertising.

Published Privacy policy. No retention period: the policy gives the factors it weighs instead, which is the same answer six of the eight catalogued vendors give. Chats and user content are used to train the models and are monitored for compliance, and the policy says so plainly rather than burying it.

Contradicted elsewhere Content policy. The community guidelines are the strongest of any vendor read here: eighteen and over, no character presented as younger than that and no aged-up rewrite of one, no sexualised depictions of real people without consent, human and automated review. The public tag list then carries jk, a Japanese abbreviation that denotes exactly the age bracket those guidelines rule out.

Published Checkout and cancellation. Card only, with other methods described as coming. Cancellation any time, with access running to the end of the billing cycle and no further charge — stated on the page where the subscription is sold rather than in a separate document.

Contradicted elsewhere Support channel. A support address is published, which several vendors here do not manage. Two of them, in fact: the terms give one address and the community guidelines give the same mailbox at a different domain.

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Questions

Which clause decides whether a tool is usable here?: The upload clause. It sets out what you are permitted to put in, and it is the only place a vendor states whether the service accepts material depicting real people. A vendor that permits it has written itself a different risk profile, and the person uploading carries most of it.
Is a licence to the vendor normal?: A narrow one is unavoidable — a service cannot process an image it has no permission to process. What varies is the width: operating the service, versus promoting it, versus training on it in perpetuity. All three appear in this category and they are three different bargains.
Why does retention matter more here than elsewhere?: Because the input is a file you made rather than a sentence you typed, and files persist in more places. A policy that states a retention period for uploads, separately from one for prompts, is doing more than most.