Runway
AI video generation and editing, from Gen-4.5 to an agent that runs campaigns
Overview
Runway is a New York AI video company whose web app combines its own models, including Gen-4.5 for generation and Aleph 2.0 for editing existing footage, with third-party models such as Kling and Seedance, an AI Agent and plugins for Adobe and DaVinci Resolve. Plans are credit-based, from a one-time free grant to Team and Enterprise, and developers can use the same models through a pay-per-credit API.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 125 one-time credits
- A selection of generative models
- 5GB asset storage
- 625 credits a month (about 52 seconds of Gen-4.5)
- All video and image models; no watermarks
- 4K upscaling, 20GB storage, up to 3 projects
- 2,250 credits a month
- Custom voice clone, Brand Kit, Runway MCP
- Unlimited 4K upscaling, 100GB storage
- 9,500 credits a month; unused credits roll over 1 month
- Early access to new models
- HDR, ProRes and image sequences; 500GB storage
- Shared credit pool (165,600 credits a year for 2 users); rollover 1 month
- Custom SSO, roles and sharing policies
- API access with credit-based usage; 1TB storage
- Unlimited members and workspaces
- SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 compliant
- No training on your data
Use cases
What you can produce with Runway
- Text- and image-to-video clips from Gen-4.5
- Edits to existing footage, such as added elements or restyling, with Aleph 2.0
- Character performances animated with Act-Two performance capture
- SDR video converted to HDR with Ruby
- Full ad campaigns planned and produced by Runway Agent
- ProRes 4444 or PNG-sequence exports for editing timelines
- Generations inside Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve via plugins
Runway pairs strong in-house video models, Gen-4.5 for generation and Aleph 2.0 for editing, with a broad catalogue of third-party models, an Agent, HDR and ProRes output and plugins for the main editing suites. A $315 million Series E in February 2026 leaves it well funded.
The meter is the catch. At 12 credits a second for Gen-4.5, the $12 Standard plan buys under a minute of flagship video a month, and only Max and Team roll credits over. Best for agencies and studios that want generation and editing in one place; casual users should compare per-second costs first.
What we found
Runway is a New York company, operated as Runway AI, Inc., set up in 2018 and one of the earliest to sell AI video generation; it describes its earlier Gen-1 as the first publicly available video generation model. Its current flagship, Gen-4.5, was announced on 1 December 2025, when Runway said it ranked first on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard with 1,247 Elo points, a vendor-cited snapshot from 30 November 2025 rather than a standing result. Around it sit Aleph 2.0 for editing existing footage (May 2026), Act-Two for performance capture, Ruby for converting video to HDR (August 2026, Max plans and above) and an Agent that, since version 2.0 in June 2026, plans and produces whole marketing campaigns.
Runway increasingly works as a hub for other labs' models too. The pricing page lists Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5 and Nano Banana Pro beside Runway's own models, the changelog adds Wan 3.0, Seed Audio 1.0 and ElevenLabs voices, and Runway now runs as a panel inside Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve. Its research and robotics work centre on GWM-1, a general world model.
Pricing is credit-based, and the page defaults to annual billing. Standard costs $12 a month billed yearly or $15 monthly for 625 credits, Pro $28 or $35 for 2,250, and Max $76 or $95 for 9,500; Max is the only individual plan whose unused credits roll over, for one month. Gen-4.5 uses 12 credits a second, so Standard buys about 52 seconds of it a month. The free plan is a one-time grant of 125 credits. A self-serve Team plan arrived in September 2026 at $55 a seat a month billed annually, or $69 monthly, for two to nine people, and the API charges $0.01 a credit.
In February 2026 Runway raised a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic, with NVIDIA, Fidelity and Adobe Ventures taking part, at a reported valuation of about $5.3 billion. Runway itself claims more than 60 million creators.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
Notable facts
- Runway's technology was used in the production of the Academy Award-winning film 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'.
- Gen-3 Alpha can generate 10-second video clips with consistent characters and camera motion — a task that required multi-day rendering pipelines as recently as 2022.
- Runway trained its models on a proprietary licensed dataset, making it one of the few AI video tools that can be used commercially without copyright concerns.
Frequently asked questions
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Runway's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Runway unless explicitly stated.
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