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Runway guide: every plan, price and AI model, updated weekly

SLOP TV's running guide to Runway: what each plan costs, which models it runs, what shipped this month and every story we have written about it.

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Key takeaways

  • Runway's individual plans cost $12 (Standard), $28 (Pro) and $76 (Max) a month billed annually, or $15, $35 and $95 billed monthly, and the Free plan gives 125 one-time credits, according to Runway's pricing page on 26 September 2026.
  • On the Runway Dev API a credit costs $0.01 and Gen-4.5 costs 12 credits a second, which works out to $0.12 a second of Gen-4.5 video.
  • Runway's Team plan, launched on 4 September 2026, costs $69 a seat a month or $55 billed annually for 2 to 9 seats, with 6,900 pooled credits per seat each month.
  • Runway raised a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic at a $5.3 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported on 10 February 2026, and Bloomberg reported on 8 September 2026 that its annual recurring revenue had reached $200 million.

Updated 9 Nov 2026 · next update 16 Nov 2026

Key facts as of 26 Sep 2026

  • Plans: Standard $12, Pro $28 and Max $76 a month billed annually ($15, $35 and $95 billed monthly); Free gives 125 one-time credits. (source)
  • Gen-4.5 in the app: 12 credits a second, so Standard's 625 monthly credits buy 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 video. (source)
  • Rollover: Standard and Pro credits reset each billing cycle; Max carries up to one month over; bought top-ups (minimum 1,000 credits) never expire. (source)
  • Team plan (from 4 Sep 2026): $69 a seat a month, or $55 billed annually, for 2 to 9 seats; each seat adds 6,900 credits a month to one shared pool. (source)
  • API price: a Runway Dev credit costs $0.01 and Gen-4.5 costs 12 credits a second, so $0.12 a second (12 x $0.01). (source)
  • One credit pool (from 18 Sep 2026): credits bought from Runway work in both the web app and Runway Dev. (source)
  • Inside other editors: a free Runway plugin runs in DaVinci Resolve Studio 19 or later (from 23 Sep 2026), after the Premiere Pro and After Effects plugin; generating uses paid-plan credits. (source)
  • Funding: a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic at a $5.3 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported on 10 Feb 2026. (source)
  • Revenue: annual recurring revenue reached $200 million in September 2026 after doubling in five months, co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis told Bloomberg. (source)

Today's line

Runway is now selling the workspace and the API as products in their own right - App Studio turns a team's workflow into a hosted tool, Ads connects the agent to live campaign data, and the Dev plugins put the API inside the coding agents teams already build with - while Kling 4.0 sells through its API at a promotional rate. (source)

What Runway is

Runway is a New York-based AI research company that makes generative video, image and audio tools, founded in 2018 by Cristóbal Valenzuela, Alejandro Matamala Ortiz and Anastasis Germanidis, according to Crunchbase News. It sells those tools to creators and companies through its web app and to developers through the Runway Dev API. Its about page says Runway is building AI to simulate the world and calls world models the clearest path to general-purpose simulation.

Runway lists offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and Tokyo on that page. On 8 September 2026 it said the team from Kinetix, a Paris lab working on 3D human motion, is joining its Paris hub; the same announcement names Germanidis as co-CEO.

The money behind it: a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic at a $5.3 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported on 10 February 2026. Crunchbase News put the previous valuation at $3.3 billion, at the $308 million Series D, and Runway's total raised at $860 million. Bloomberg reported on 8 September 2026 that Runway's annual recurring revenue had reached $200 million, doubling over five months, citing an interview with Germanidis.

What Runway costs

Runway sells credits. Each generation spends a set number that depends on the model, the length and the resolution, according to Runway's pricing page.

  • Free: $0, 125 credits once.
  • Standard: $12 a month billed annually ($15 monthly), 625 credits a month.
  • Pro: $28 a month billed annually ($35 monthly), 2,250 credits a month.
  • Max: $76 a month billed annually ($95 monthly), 9,500 credits a month, with up to one month of rollover.
  • Team: $55 a seat a month billed annually ($69 monthly), 2 to 9 seats, 6,900 pooled credits per seat a month, per the Team plan announcement.
  • Enterprise: no public price; the Team announcement sends teams that need SSO or more than nine seats there.

In the app, Gen-4.5 costs 60 credits per 5 seconds and Aleph 2.0 costs 140 credits per 5 seconds. Developers buy credits at $0.01 each on Runway Dev, where gen4.5 costs 12 credits a second and gen4_turbo 5; a request sent through Model Router is billed at the rate of whichever model the router picks, according to the same page.

Since 18 September 2026, purchased credits work across both the web app and Runway Dev from one pool, and new enterprise customers who sign by 31 December 2026 get 10% more credits, according to Runway's unified pricing post.

What Runway does

Its own models. Gen-4.5 is Runway's video model, released on 1 December 2025; Runway said at launch that it ranked first on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video benchmark with 1,247 Elo points (Runway research). Aleph 2.0 restyles and edits footage that already exists, and Gen-4 Image makes stills. The pricing page also lists outside models on the same credits, including Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 and Nano Banana Pro, plus audio models such as Lyria 3 and Seed Audio 1.0 and text to speech.

Finishing tools. Enhance Frame Rate, launched on 17 September 2026, converts video up to 4K and five minutes long to 25, 30, 48, 60 or 120 fps, including 59.94, for one credit per two seconds of video.

Inside editing software. Runway's plugin puts a panel in Premiere Pro and After Effects (from 8 September 2026) and in DaVinci Resolve Studio 19 or later (from 23 September 2026). Its Edit Studio sends the clip under the playhead to Aleph 2.0 and brings the restyled version back at the same length.

For developers. Runway Dev sells Runway's models and outside models by the credit, and Model Router picks a model per request. In Runway's own test of 250 image-to-video prompts, a quality router capped at $1.00 a clip produced 74% usable clips at $0.61 each, against 78% at $1.80 for always using Seedance 2.5. Every figure in that test is Runway's own.

Research. GWM Worlds 2, shown on 3 September 2026 as a research preview, generates an explorable world as continuous 720p video at 24 fps with 48,000 Hz audio, steered by text actions and camera moves.

Who Runway is for

Individual creators buy Standard, Pro or Max; groups of 2 to 9 buy Team; larger companies buy Enterprise; developers buy Runway Dev credits. Runway's head of operations and partnerships, Michelle Kwon, told Crunchbase News that its customers include every major film studio, along with advertising, gaming and architecture firms, and named companies such as Chime, Robinhood and PayPal.

For people who want to work with Runway rather than buy it, Runway launched DIFFUSE on 22 September 2026, a platform where brands, agencies and studios find and hire AI-native creative talent. Runway said 17% of the more than 1,000 creative job postings it studied mention AI skills or generative tools.

The Runway diary

Dated entries, newest first. Each entry is added once and never rewritten; corrections are made in a new entry.

9 Nov 2026

Runway Research published its serving paper for Runway Characters on 5 November: a live session runs a roughly 57B-parameter autoregressive video diffusion transformer that has to produce a four-frame chunk of 704x1088 video every 166.7 milliseconds at 24 frames per second for one user at a time, and Characters cannot batch users because each session is a private stream. On four H100s the launch software took 240.9ms per diffusion step against the 166.7ms the product needs; applying rotary position embeddings and FP8 quantization at write time and storing the cache as a ring cut cache upkeep from 69.7ms to 6.2ms a step and the step to 159.3ms, or 24.5 fps sustained, with a fused communication kernel taking it to 147.4ms. Seven weeks of telemetry put the worker above 23.5 fps in 99.5% of sessions that streamed for at least a second. Every figure is Runway's own measurement of its own production system. Source: runway.com.

Runway's legacy Unlimited plan ends on 30 November 2026. The company's own help article, updated 27 August 2026, says eligible legacy Unlimited subscriptions stay unchanged until then: monthly subscribers move automatically to Max at the same $95 a month, or can cancel instead, and annual subscribers can take a refund of the remaining months or a credits bonus to migrate. Max carries 9,500 monthly credits and a month of rollover but not Explore Mode, against the 2,250 credits plus Explore Mode that Unlimited offered. The same article says Unlimited stopped being sold to new customers on 1 June 2026, the day Max was introduced. Source: help.runwayml.com.

2 Nov 2026

On 2 November Runway launched Runway Dev plugins for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor: one install connects a coding agent to a Runway Dev account through the Runway Dev MCP and adds Runway's API skills, so the agent can read a project's models and prices, create a Model Router or a Character, build on Recipes and published Workflows, and look up why a router picked a model. No API key is stored in the plugin, and the per-tool install commands are published for all three editors. Source: runway.com.

On 27 October Runway made Runway Ads generally available on every paid plan, after introducing it in September. Teams connect Meta, Google and TikTok ad accounts to one dashboard, start a new round from an ad that is already performing or from a template, and approve each variant before it publishes; Runway says using it for its own performance marketing took weekly ad volume from under 100 to roughly 1,000 with the same team and cut its cost per subscriber by 41%, which is the company's own figure for its own campaign. Source: runway.com.

Runway announced App Studio on 26 October: describe the creative tool you need in plain language and it builds an app with its own interface that generates images, video and audio from your Brand Kits and Workflows, tests and deploys it, and hosts it for you, with versions that can be rolled back and code that stays visible. It ships with built-in apps from Runway's own teams - Character Swap, AutoComp, Product Portfolio, 3D Camera Control, Precise Edit and Runway Pro - and is included in every paid plan, drawing on the account's existing credits. Source: runway.com.

26 Oct 2026

On 20 October Runway joined Claude Marketplace with Runway Creative, so eligible enterprise customers can point part of their committed Anthropic spend at Runway's video, image, audio and editing workspace, which carries Gen-4.5, Aleph 2.0, Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 and ElevenLabs V4; Claude supplies the reasoning behind Runway Agent, which turns a brief into a shot plan and picks a model per shot. Runway puts its reach at more than 65 million creators, and the route to buying is through an Anthropic or Runway representative rather than self-serve. Sources: runway.com, sloptvnews.com.

19 Oct 2026

On 14 October Runway and Baseten announced that Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 can be licensed directly from Runway and deployed in a single-tenant environment on Baseten Dedicated Inference: each deployment runs in an isolated workload plane with dedicated GPU nodes and reserved capacity while Baseten manages the control plane, and a customer can fine-tune either model on its own data so the output fits its brand. Baseten backs the deployments with a 99.99% uptime SLA under its SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA programs, and its access to Runway's weights is governed by a distribution agreement; neither company published a license price or named a customer running one, and Baseten lists Amazon, Robinhood, Dolce & Gabbana and Microsoft as existing Runway users rather than as licensees. Sources: baseten.co, sloptvnews.com.

12 Oct 2026

On 8 October Runway was named a launch partner in Anthropic's Claude Motion, so animated explainers built in Claude export into Runway for generated footage and editing, and the same day it joined the Tech Coalition and its Lantern signal-sharing program against child sexual exploitation, saying it will contribute signals from its own enforcement. Sources: runway.com, runway.com.

On 1 October Runway Labs introduced Project Continuum, an operating system research application it builds around real-time video interfaces, with a demo walkthrough and four interaction modes; it is a research application with no price, waitlist or release date. Source: x.com.

On 30 September Runway announced Runway Ads, an engine that generates ad creative, publishes approved variants to Meta, Google and TikTok, reads performance back and regenerates the next round; Runway says it grew its own weekly ad volume from 77 to roughly 900 since July and cut its cost per subscriber 41%. The same day it previewed Praxis-1, its first open-weight world action model, which turns its video pretraining into control for real robots and is due for public release in the coming months. Sources: runway.com, runway.com.

Runway joined the OpenAI Marketplace as a launch partner on 29 September 2026, listing Runway Creative there so eligible enterprise customers can put committed OpenAI budget toward its video, image, audio and editing models, including Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2.5 and ElevenLabs V4. Source: runway.com.

26 Sep 2026

The hub opens. This first entry records the three weeks of Runway news the page starts from. Runway published a cost-versus-quality test of Model Router on 24 September: a quality router capped at $1.00 a clip kept a 74% usable rate at $0.61, against 78% at $1.80 for Seedance 2.5 alone. Source: Runway.

On 23 September Runway released a free plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio 19 and later, on macOS and Windows, with generation on paid-plan credits. Source: Runway.

On 22 September Runway launched DIFFUSE, a hiring platform for AI-native creative talent. Source: Runway.

On 18 September purchased credits became usable in both the web app and Runway Dev, with 10% more credits for new enterprise customers who sign by 31 December 2026. Source: Runway.

On 17 September Enhance Frame Rate arrived, converting video to 25 to 120 fps for one credit per two seconds. Source: Runway.

On 8 September Bloomberg reported that Runway's annual recurring revenue had reached $200 million. The same day Runway shipped its Premiere Pro and After Effects plugin and said the Kinetix team was joining. Sources: Bloomberg, Runway, Runway.

On 4 September the Team plan launched at $55 to $69 a seat, and on 3 September Runway showed GWM Worlds 2 as a research preview. Sources: Runway, Runway.

What changed this week

Against the 2 Nov 2026 edition: Runway Research published its real-time serving paper for Characters on 5 November, cutting a live session from eight H100s to four, and Runway's own help article dates the end of the legacy Unlimited plan to 30 November, with monthly subscribers moving to Max at the same $95 a month. The pricing page, read on 9 November, still lists Standard at $15 a month or $12 billed yearly with 625 credits, Pro at $35 or $28 with 2,250 and Max at $95 or $76 with 9,500, and now advertises 25% off Kling 4.0 generations through 30 November with App Studio and Runway Ads included on every paid plan; the company news index shows nothing published after the 2 November Runway Dev plugin post except this week's research paper.

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