Name: Runway
Price: 15.0 USD

What Runway makes and what you get

Short-form video Video ads & UGC Animation & motion Images & illustrations Voiceovers & narration Music & songs

✓ Model choice
– Commercial use
– No watermark (free)
✓ API
✓ Official MCP server
– MCP client
– Agent Skills
✓ Brand kit
✓ Teams
– Content Credentials
✓ Mobile app
– 20+ languages

Features and rights come from Runway's own pricing and terms pages; check them before you publish commercially. Compare commercial use and watermarks across apps.

AI models inside Runway

Models you can pick when you generate in Runway, from the vendor's documentation. Compare every app on the model map.

Use Runway from your AI assistant

Runway publishes an MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients can use it directly. More MCP servers for Claude.

Runway MCP 🔌 MCP serverFreemium

Hosted Runway server to generate images and video with your Runway plan credits

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What is Runway?

What it is

Runway is a browser-based AI video studio from Runway AI, Inc. in New York. It generates and edits video, images and audio, and runs other labs' models as well as its own Gen-4.5 and Aleph, all in one project workspace.

Key features

Gen-4.5 text- and image-to-video at 12 credits per second, and Gen-4 Turbo for cheaper drafts
Aleph 2.0 video-to-video editing: restyle, relight or change objects in footage you already have
Act-Two performance capture to drive a character with your own acting
An agentic creative collaborator that plans and runs generations for you
Audio tools: text to speech, sound effects, voice dubbing, voice isolation and custom voice clones on Pro and Max
4K upscaling, Brand Kits, and ProRes/HDR export on Max
Runway MCP server, iOS and Android apps and a developer API

Models inside

Runway's own Gen-4.5, Gen-4, Gen-4 Turbo, Aleph and Act-Two, plus third-party models priced on the same credits: Google Veo 3.1 and Veo 3, Kling 3.0 / O3 / 2.6 / 2.5, Seedance 2.0 and 2.5, Wan 2.6, Grok Imagine video, Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5.0 Lite, GPT Image 2 and 1.5, FLUX.2, Lyria 3 music and Seed Audio.

Pricing and rights

As of September 2026: Free gives a one-time 125 credits and 5 GB storage with a limited set of models. Standard is $15/month ($12 billed yearly) for 625 credits a month, about 52 seconds of Gen-4.5. Pro is $35 ($28 yearly) for 2,250 credits, and Max is $95 ($76 yearly) for 9,500 credits that roll over for one month. Veo 3.1 costs 320 credits per 8-second clip, so premium third-party models use up credits fast. The pricing page lists "No watermarks" as a paid-plan feature, so expect watermarks on free exports. Check Runway's Terms of Use for commercial-use details. The page read for this listing did not state them.

Who it is for

Filmmakers, agencies and social video creators who want generation, editing and audio from several frontier models in one subscription.

Verdict

Runway is one of the most complete AI video workspaces, and Veo, Kling and Seedance next to Gen-4.5 make it a real multi-model hub. The catch is cost: monthly credits don't roll over below Max, and Veo or Aleph clips cost a lot of credits.

text-to-video video-editing multi-model filmmaking gen-4.5

Runway pricing

Free plan, paid from $15/mo. Prices and credit allowances change often, so confirm on the official pricing page. See every AI content app's pricing side by side.