Runway Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Credit Costs and the Real Price per Video

Runway costs $12 a month on Standard, $28 on Pro and $76 on Max when billed yearly, or $15, $35 and $95 month to month, verified on Runway's pricing page in October 2026. Every paid plan is a monthly pool of credits, and Gen-4.5 spends 12 credits per second, so Standard buys about 52 seconds of video, Pro about 187 and Max about 791.

The sticker is not the price of a video. A 10-second Gen-4.5 clip costs $2.30 on Standard and $0.96 on Max at yearly rates, and you will rarely keep the first take. Below is the credit math in one place, plus who should pay for which plan.

Aipresso data: of the 139 tools we track in Toolradar's AI video generation ranking, as of October 2026, 7 of the 10 top picks have a free plan. Runway is in that directory as Runway on Toolradar, listed with a free plan. Our own calculation from the table below: the cheapest paid Runway plan works out to about $0.23 per second of Gen-4.5 video on yearly billing.

Plan	Price	Credits	Gen-4.5 seconds	Best for
Free	$0	125, one time	About 10	A first look at the tools
Standard	$12/mo yearly, $15/mo monthly	625 per month	About 52	Occasional clips
Pro	$28/mo yearly, $35/mo monthly	2,250 per month	About 187	Regular creators
Max	$76/mo yearly, $95/mo monthly	9,500 per month	About 791	Heavy solo use
Team	$55/seat/mo yearly, $69/seat/mo monthly	6,900 per seat per month	About 575 per seat	Groups of two to nine
Enterprise	Custom quote	Sized to the organization	Quote only	SSO, security, large rollouts

How much does Runway cost to use?

Runway sells credits, not clips. Standard, Pro and Max each include a fixed monthly allotment, and the allotment is the only thing that scales with price. Yearly billing takes 20% off, which adds up to real money on Max.

Credits on Standard and Pro reset each billing cycle and do not roll over. Max rolls unused credits forward for one month, which matters if your output comes in bursts around a campaign. Credits you buy on top of a plan never expire, though Runway's pricing page does not list a per-credit price for those top-ups, only a 1,000-credit minimum.

How many credits does a Runway video cost?

Credits per second depend entirely on the model, and the gap is wide. Runway's own plan table lists these costs; the 5-second clips per month column uses the Standard allotment of 625 credits.

Model	Credits	Per second	5-second clips on Standard
Gen-4.5	60 per 5 seconds	12	10
Aleph 2.0	140 per 5 seconds	28	4
Seedance 2.0 Fast	116 per 4 seconds	29	About 5 (4-second clips)
Seedance 2.0 Pro, 1080p	160 per 4 seconds	40	About 3 (4-second clips)

Gen-4.5 is the house model and the cheapest of these, so it is the sensible default for drafts. If you reach for Seedance Pro at 1080p, the same 625 credits stretch to about 15 seconds of footage, which makes Standard a trial plan for premium models rather than a working one.

Is Runway free?

Yes, but only as a sample. The Free plan gives 125 credits once, which does not renew, and covers a selection of models for testing concepts. That is about 10 seconds of Gen-4.5, enough to judge the look and not enough to finish a project.

Free also carries 5GB of storage, against 20GB on Standard. If a single test clip convinces you, the paid plans below remove the one-time cap and add all models. Our best free AI video generators roundup covers options that renew a free allowance every month.

Standard, the entry plan

Standard is for people who need a handful of clips a month. Its 625 credits cover about 10 five-second Gen-4.5 clips. It includes all video and image models, no watermarks, 4K upscaling and 20GB of storage.

The weakness is the pool size. A full minute of Gen-4.5 video is 720 credits, which does not fit in a Standard month, and a single usable shot often takes several attempts. Choose it for social snippets and storyboards, not for a weekly output schedule.

Pro, the plan most creators land on

Runway marks Pro as popular. Its 2,250 credits are 3.6 times the Standard pool for 2.3 times the price. That makes every second cheaper: about $0.15 per Gen-4.5 second versus $0.23.

It also adds unlimited 4K video upscaling, 15 parallel generations, a Brand Kit, a custom voice clone and the ability to top up credits any time. If you generate only a few clips a month, Standard is enough. If you iterate daily, Pro is the better fit, because the extra parallel slots and top-ups matter more than the headline credits.

Max, the heavy solo plan

Max has the lowest per-second price of the individual plans, about $0.096 per Gen-4.5 second on yearly billing. It adds early access to new models, 20 parallel generations, three Brand Kits, studio-grade outputs such as HDR and ProRes, and 500GB of storage.

On monthly billing Max is $95, and the credit price lands at exactly one cent, the same as the API. So only yearly Max and yearly Team beat Runway's own developer price per credit. A solo freelancer working to client deadlines gets value here, while a hobbyist will leave most of the pool unused.

Team and Enterprise

Team is $69 per seat per month, or $55 yearly, and each seat adds 6,900 credits to one shared pool that rolls over for a month. Runway describes it for groups of two to nine. It includes everything in Max plus shared projects, frame-accurate comments and priority support.

Per credit, a Team seat on yearly billing costs about the same as Max, so pay for it only when you need shared review and a pooled balance, not to save money. Enterprise has no public price and is sold through sales, with SSO and custom credit sizing.

What does a finished video really cost?

Raw seconds understate the bill, because you generate more footage than you keep. This scenario assumes you keep one take in three, which is our assumption and not a Runway figure. Gen-4.5 at 12 credits per second, yearly pricing.

Finished footage per month	Generated at 1 in 3	Credits	Plan that fits	Monthly cost
10 seconds	30 seconds	360	Standard	$12
60 seconds	180 seconds	2,160	Pro	$28
250 seconds	750 seconds	9,000	Max	$76

At the Pro line, one finished minute uses the whole plan, about $0.47 per finished second. The same minute on Standard would need 2,160 credits against a 625 pool, so you would be buying top-ups. Check the number of takes you really need before picking a tier.

Runway API pricing

Developers pay a flat one cent per credit through Runway's API, with no subscription. Gen-4.5 costs 12 credits per second, so $0.12 per second and $1.20 per 10-second clip. Gen-4 Turbo costs 5 credits per second, so $0.05, and Aleph 2.0 costs 28 credits per second, so $0.28.

The API suits developers or anyone who needs a few clips without paying a monthly fee, since there is no editor or subscription attached. Once you generate more than a Pro pool allows, a yearly Max still undercuts the API by about 20%.

Runway vs Kling, Luma and Google

Entry prices do not line up, because each vendor spends credits at its own rate. Compare the price of a finished clip, not the plan card. For a full side-by-side on quality and control, see Kling vs Runway vs Luma, and for Kling's plan math see Kling AI pricing.

Tool	Entry paid price	What it buys, per vendor page
Runway Standard	Entry paid plan, see plan table	625 credits, about 52 seconds of Gen-4.5
Luma Plus	$30/mo, or $300 billed yearly	10,000 credits; Ray3.14 at 720p spends 20 credits per second
Google AI Pro	$19.99/mo	Limited trial of Veo 3.1 Lite video generation
Kling API	Pay per second, from $0.084/s	Kling 3.0 at 720p without audio

Luma's pricing page puts Ray3.14 at 720p at 20 credits per second, so 10,000 credits cover about 500 seconds at that setting. Google lists its AI plans with Veo video only as a limited trial on Pro and full Veo 3.1 access on Ultra, which starts at $99.99. Kling's developer pricing shows $0.084 per second, cheaper than Runway's $0.12 for Gen-4.5, though the models are not the same. Our Sora alternatives page covers OpenAI's route. Toolradar also tracks Kling AI and Luma.

Is Runway worth it?

Yes, if you produce short clips for ads, social or concepts and want one subscription that also runs third-party models such as Kling 3.0. No, if you need long continuous video or a talking presenter, where an avatar tool such as HeyGen or Synthesia costs less per finished minute.

For a broader view, our best AI video generators ranking, the image-to-video picks and the AI video editors list show where Runway sits among alternatives. Its honest weakness is credit burn: iteration is where the money goes.

FAQ

How much does Runway cost per month?

Standard is $12 a month on yearly billing or $15 month to month, Pro is $28 or $35, and Max is $76 or $95. Team seats are $55 yearly or $69 monthly. Free costs $0 for 125 one-time credits, and all prices were verified on Runway's pricing page in October 2026.

How many seconds of video does each Runway plan give?

At Gen-4.5's 12 credits per second, Standard gives about 52 seconds a month, Pro about 187 and Max about 791. A Team seat gives about 575 seconds from its 6,900 credits. Pricier models such as Aleph 2.0 spend more than twice as many credits per second.

Is Runway free?

Runway has a Free plan, but it is a sample: 125 credits one time, which is roughly 10 seconds of Gen-4.5, with 5GB of storage. It does not renew each month, so anyone producing regular work needs Standard or higher.

Is Runway Unlimited really unlimited?

Runway's pricing page today lists no Unlimited tier, only Free, Standard, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. Every paid plan is a credit pool, and only Max rolls unused credits over, by one month, so none of them are unlimited generation.

What does the Runway API cost?

The API charges $0.01 per credit with no subscription. Gen-4.5 is 12 credits per second ($0.12), Gen-4 Turbo is 5 ($0.05) and Aleph 2.0 is 28 ($0.28). A 10-second Gen-4.5 clip is $1.20 through the API.

Is Runway cheaper on yearly billing?

Yes, by 20%. That saves $36, $84 and $228 a year across Standard, Pro and Max. The credit allotment stays the same on both billing options.

What happens if I run out of Runway credits?

You can buy extra credits from the Plans and Billing page, with a minimum purchase of 1,000, and purchased credits never expire. Monthly credits on Standard and Pro reset within 24 hours of your billing date and do not roll over.

How we checked: Plans, credits and API rates were read on Runway's pricing and API pricing pages in October 2026, and competitor prices on Luma's and Google's pricing pages and Kling's developer page the same month. Dollar-per-second figures are our arithmetic from those pages. We recheck vendor prices monthly.

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Cite this: AIpresso, "Runway Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, Credit Costs and the Real Price per Video", October 2026.

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