What is Runway ML?
Runway is a web platform for generating and editing video and images with AI models, both its own and third-party models offered inside one credit system. It also lists tools for audio and upscaling and an agentic creative assistant.
Who it's for
Creators, video editors and studios who want to make AI video and images in a browser. Higher tiers add team seats, brand kits and studio export formats, and developers can use a separate pay-per-credit API.
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Standard and higher plans list no watermark and 4K upscaling
- Credit rates are published per model; for example, Gen-4.5 video costs 12 credits a second
- Standard, Pro, Unlimited, Max and Team can buy extra credits (minimum 1,000), and purchased credits do not expire, per the help center
- Max lists studio-grade outputs (HDR, ProRes, image sequences) and up to 500GB of storage
- Team plans share a pool of 6,900 credits per seat, and Viewers are free, per the help center
Limitations
- The Free plan is a one-time deposit of 125 credits that do not expire, with 5GB of storage, and free users cannot buy credits
- Monthly credits on Standard and Pro expire on the billing date and do not roll over. Only Max and Team roll over, up to one month
- Generation is metered in credits. At 12 credits a second, a 5-second Gen-4.5 clip is 60 credits and Standard's 625 monthly credits cover about 52 seconds
- Credit rates vary widely by model. For example, Gen-4 Video Turbo is 5 a second, and Veo 3.1 is 20 a second without audio and 40 with audio
- Standard allows up to 3 projects and 5 parallel generations, and Pro allows 5 projects and 15 parallel generations
- The Unlimited plan has not been offered since 1 June 2026. The help center says legacy plans stay unchanged through 30 November 2026, then monthly subscribers move to Max at $95 a month
Plans and pricing
- Free: $0. 125 one-time credits that do not expire, 5GB of storage, no credit purchases. An independent source says exports carry a watermark; the official page does not say.
- Standard: $12 a month billed annually, or $15 a month billed monthly. 625 credits a month, no watermark, 4K upscaling, 5 parallel generations, up to 3 projects, 20GB of storage.
- Pro: $28 a month billed annually, or $35 a month billed monthly. 2,250 credits a month, 15 parallel generations, up to 5 projects, 1 Brand Kit, 1 custom voice clone, 100GB of storage.
- Max: $76 a month billed annually, or $95 a month billed monthly. 9,500 credits a month with one month of rollover, 20 parallel generations, up to 10 projects, HDR, ProRes and image sequence outputs, 500GB of storage.
- Team: Per seat; price not confirmed. 6,900 credits per seat in a shared pool. Admins and Editors use paid seats and Viewers are free. We could not read the per-seat price.
- Enterprise: Custom, contact sales. Custom terms.
Prices and credits for Standard, Pro and Max are from runway.com/pricing and the help center. The Team seat price and the Free-plan watermark could not be confirmed on an official page. Third-party price comparison pages list older prices, so we did not use them. Confirm on the live pricing page.
Details checked October 2026 against the vendor's own pages. Prices and limits change, so confirm before you buy. Official pricing page ↗
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Runway ML — at a glance
Runway is a web platform for generating and editing video and images with AI models, both its own and third-party models offered inside one credit system. It also lists tools for audio and upscaling and an agentic creative assistant.
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