Marigold Pet vs Synthesia

One price, one purchase: USD 6.99 one-time for a single 15-second Halloween pet costume video, portrait 9:16 or landscape 16:9, four preset looks, AI-generated synchronised audio included. No tiers, no credit packs, no free tier, no trial, no subscription and no auto-renewal. Applicable tax shown at checkout by Waffo Pancake, the named merchant of record. Verified on three surfaces that agree: the homepage ('$6.99 - one-time purchase', 'Pay $6.99 and make my video'), /pricing (USD 6.99, 'one-time purchase', 'Billing cycle: one-time ... No recurring charge and no auto-renewal') and the site's own public config endpoint /api/config, which returns price '6.99', currency 'USD', billing 'one-time', provider 'waffo', store 'Binglin Studio', mode 'prod', ready true. No price appears anywhere else on the site, and no subscription price exists to verify.

submitted via form by vendor; editorial entry written independently. Received through FormSubmit on 2026-10-23 15:05 UTC, not through /submit-tool.html but through the site's homepage endpoint, with the submitted URL carrying utm_source=aitoolsessentials&utm_medium=directory&utm_campaign=backlinks - i.e. the vendor is running a directory-backlink campaign and the payload is a link request, not a customer report. Product verified by fetching the live site: /, /pricing, /privacy, /terms and /acceptable-use all 200; sitemap lists 9 URLs including the Spanish mirror /video-halloween-mascotas. Checkout liveness read from the site's own public config endpoint rather than from copy: /api/config returns mode 'prod' and ready true, so this is a live sale, and the client's 'Test checkout is active' string is a dead branch that only renders when mode is not prod - it does not render here and was not treated as a contradiction. Analytics claim verified from the shipped script, not the policy text: consent defaults are denied for analytics_storage, ad_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization; GA4 G-V8SX7EYXX3 is appended only on an accepted choice; approved UTM parameters are whitelisted into page_location and order ids stripped; _ga cookies are cleared on reject; a 'Privacy choices' control reopens the banner. Domain RDAP: registered 2026-10-21T13:10:41Z via Cloudflare Registrar, NS adi/theo.ns.cloudflare.com, no MX records. Legal pages are dated 'Effective date: October 20, 2026 - Version 1.0', one day before that registration. Identity: the seller is the brand 'Binglin Studio' only, with no company, individual, country or postal address, and the Terms carry no governing-law clause; the only contact is w1952724273@gmail.com, which is published in the footer and in all three legal pages and is the working route because the domain has no MX. No separate refund page exists (/refunds and /refund-policy 404); refund terms are in /pricing and Terms section 5. Name checked for collisions: no other AI product trades as Marigold Pet (the nearest are an Animal Jam fan blog, a Portland pet-rescue site called Moss & Marigold, and a Claude skill for pet-boarding advice), and 'Binglin Studio' returns no AI-product footprint. No affiliate, partner or referral page exists (/affiliates, /affiliate, /partners, /referral and /api/referrals all 404), so no tracking URL was invented.

Checked 2026-11-03 at https://www.synthesia.io/pricing. Basic is $0 per month with 500 credits/month. Starter is $9 for the first month and $19 per month after that, with 1,250 credits/month. Pro is $49 for the first month and $89 per month after that, with 6,000 credits/month. The served page also lists higher monthly credit rungs on the Pro card and a yearly toggle that says save up to 4 months. It does not print the 2026-09-18 figures of $29 Starter, $18 yearly, 1,200 Starter credits, $64 Creator yearly, or 14,500 and 44,000 yearly credits. Enterprise pricing is custom. No rollover rule is stated.

Customer Terms effective July 20, 2026 say the customer owns Customer Data, including Inputs and Outputs, while Synthesia owns Synthesia Content. Customers receive a limited license to Synthesia Content during the subscription and, after termination, to the extent that content was incorporated into generated videos, subject to continuing compliance. The terms license Customer Data to Synthesia only as reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, and improve the services, address security/support issues, comply with law, prevent fraud, or as expressly authorized in writing. The privacy policy generally describes Synthesia as processor of Customer Data under customer instructions. Personal-avatar documentation requires a live consent recording matching the person shown; stock avatars are based on actors who consented. The Acceptable Use Policy prohibits rights violations, deceptive impersonation, and disabling provenance mechanisms. It restricts paid social advertising with Stock Avatars unless Synthesia gives express written consent; Custom Avatar advertising requires appropriate consent from the depicted individual. Stock-avatar use in sensitive endorsement-like contexts, news, politics, or current-events content is also restricted. Acceptable-use source: https://www.synthesia.io/legal/acceptable-use-policy