PixlDocs never watermarks your renders. Not on Free, not on any plan, not on any key, not in any format. The only way a mark appears is if you ask for one.

Asking for one

Pass watermark: true to any render endpoint:

json

{
  "template_id": "…",
  "data": { },
  "watermark": true
}

Useful for draft copies, QA screenshots, and checking a layout still reads with a mark over it.
The mark is real rotated text drawn into the document, so it survives PDF text extraction as text.
Your plan, your key and the template make no difference — only the flag does.

This changed on 2026-08-05

Free accounts used to be issued pxd_test_ keys whose renders were always watermarked. That key type is gone: there is one key type, pxd_, and it renders clean output on every plan. Existing keys keep working and are no longer watermarked.