The home page opens with a line that reads like a manifesto rather than a pitch: building real-world intelligence. The company explains that it is constructing foundational intelligence able to understand the world, simulate it and act inside it, and that its products rest on that base. Three lines hang off it. Creative is a cloud suite for people who make things. Dev is a media platform and an API for developers. Robotics packages policy reasoning and simulation for machines. All three sit on one family of models, and the company says more than 60 million creators have used the platform.

One bench where making and finishing meet

The official description of the creative suite is a single workspace where video, image and audio are generated and edited without leaving the page. It is not a slot that only spits out a clip: generation, editing and finishing work on the same asset, so nothing has to be exported from one program and imported into another. The subscription covers more ground than the company's own output. The product page states that one plan reaches models from Runway and from other labs across four families, video, image, audio and language, and the published list holds the in-house Gen-4.5 alongside outside video, image and audio models. For a creator that means one account instead of several, and a model swap when one handles a shot better than another.

Gen-4.5 is the model the company leads with

The research page calls Gen-4.5 the world's best video model, and the argument rests on three claims: motion quality, how closely it follows an instruction, and fidelity of the frame. Those three map exactly onto the complaints that have followed AI video from the start, namely drifting motion, ignored prompts and soft images. The same page places GWM-1 as a general world model whose stated purpose is interacting with the real world, and treats it as the floor the rest of the stack stands on.

Finishing happens in the same workspace

Runway does not stop at producing a clip. The product page says plugins exist for the two editing and compositing applications most cutting rooms already run, so material can be generated, edited and extended from inside the timeline. Editing features on the same page include the second generation of Aleph. The standard tier and above add 4K upscaling and exports without a watermark. The home page reduces the intended paths to three: create with an agent, assemble your own workflow, or run it at enterprise scale.

Two more doors: developers and robots

The same models leave the building through two other doors. Dev supplies keys and documentation so developers can run production output on Runway models or on models from other labs. Robotics bundles policy reasoning, evaluation and synthetic data generation into a toolkit driven entirely by GWM-1. For an individual the more immediate door is MCP: the product page notes that Runway can be attached to an outside agent, which means an assistant can call it for footage instead of a person clicking through a browser.

Pricing: 125 credits to try, from USD 12 a month

Four tiers exist, all priced in US dollars. Free targets people who want to test an idea and is labelled as free forever, carrying 125 one-off credits and 5GB of asset storage. Standard is aimed at creators who mean to work seriously with AI video: USD 15 a month, or USD 12 when paid yearly, which the page says saves USD 36; 625 credits a month, which the company translates into 52 seconds of Gen-4.5, 104 seconds on Gen-4 Turbo, or 78 stills at 1080p from Gen-4. It includes every video and image model, five parallel generations, no watermark, 4K upscaling and 20GB of storage. Above that sit Pro, at USD 28 a month on a yearly basis with 2250 credits and 15 parallel jobs, and Max, at USD 76 a month yearly with 9500 credits and 20 parallel jobs.

How credits are counted, and how to add more

The published answers go into detail. A credit is a unit consumed according to model, duration and resolution; Gen-4.5, for instance, spends 12 credits for every second of video, while a conversion table elsewhere on the pricing page puts it at 60 credits per 5 seconds. The 125 credits on the free tier arrive once and never expire. Monthly credits on Standard and Pro do not roll over and reset each billing period, whereas Max lets unused credits carry for one month. When the allowance runs low, more can be bought from the billing page inside the console in blocks starting at 1000 credits, and purchased credits do not expire.

Three boundaries

Credits get consumed, and the rate varies sharply between models: at 12 credits a second on Gen-4.5, 625 credits buy roughly 52 seconds of finished footage in a month, so anyone planning real projects should work the numbers before committing. Prices are quoted in US dollars and both plans and credit rules change, so treat the live pricing page as the reference rather than a screenshot. Some capabilities are still early, among them the world model research and the interface generation model, and advanced editing such as Aleph and 4K upscaling is limited by tier, which argues for a small trial before any of it carries a production schedule.

The short version is that Runway does not sell another video generator. It sells one cloud workspace where generation, editing and finishing live together. An individual can start with 125 credits, a paid plan works out to USD 12 a month on a yearly commitment, several labs' models can be reached from the same account, and MCP lets an assistant call the whole thing directly.