Runway
AI video generation and editing.
Best for
Filmmakers, ad creatives, and motion designers who need controllable AI video with real camera direction.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemiumfrom $15/mo
- Setup time
- 5 minutes
- Learning curve
- medium
- Last verified
- 5/18/2026
What we love
- ✓Camera controls give real directorial control vs. competitors
- ✓Reference-driven consistency holds across shots
- ✓Act-One unlocks performance-driven animation cheaply
Where it falls short
- −Credit-based pricing burns fast on iteration
- −Long clips and complex motion still show artifacts
- −No audio generation — needs to be added separately
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20265 tiers
Free
forever
- ✓125 one-time credits
- ✓Gen-4 Turbo (Image to Video)
- ✓Gen-4 image generation, Gemini 3 Pro
- ✓Text to speech and audio apps
- ✓3 video editor projects, 5GB storage
Standard
per user / month, billed annually
- ✓625 credits monthly
- ✓Gen-4.5, Gen-4, Aleph, Act-Two, Veo 3.1
- ✓Third-party video and image models
- ✓Upscale and watermark removal
- ✓100GB storage, unlimited projects
Pro
per user / month, billed annually
- ✓2,250 credits monthly
- ✓Everything in Standard
- ✓Custom voices for Lip Sync and TTS
- ✓500GB asset storage
- ✓Up to 10 users per workspace
Unlimited
per user / month, billed annually
- ✓2,250 credits monthly
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓Explore Mode: unlimited generations at relaxed rate
- ✓All image and video model access
- ✓Up to 10 users per workspace
Enterprise
annual contract
- ✓All Pro features
- ✓Single sign-on and advanced security
- ✓Custom credit amounts
- ✓Configurable organization spaces
- ✓Priority support and analytics
Why we picked it
Best AI video right now, but burns credits fast. Storyboard before generating.
Overview
The leading AI video tool. Gen-3 model creates 10-second clips from text or image prompts. The full app also has editing, motion brush, lip sync, and a growing set of "magic" tools.
Key features
- ●Gen-4 model for cinematic short clips up to 10 seconds
- ●Image-to-video and text-to-video with reference frames
- ●Camera controls — pan, tilt, zoom, dolly, orbit
- ●Act-One — drive a character with a webcam performance
- ●Lip sync to uploaded audio across generated characters
- ●Video-to-video restyling with prompt and image references
- ●Frames model for high-fidelity stills and storyboards
Best use cases
Ad creative iteration
Spin up dozens of variations of a short ad clip with different camera moves and styles.
Storyboard to animatic
Turn still storyboards into animated previews to pressure-test pacing before production.
Music videos and shorts
Direct stylized short-form video without a camera crew or VFX pipeline.
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