# Runway AI Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits, Refunds and Rollover

> Runway costs $15, $35 or $95 a month, or $69 per seat a month on Team. What credits buy in Gen-4.5 seconds, rollover, top-ups, refunds and canceling.

_Source: https://professionalstoolkit.com/articles/runway-ai-pricing — The Professional's Toolkit · updated November 2026_

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Runway costs $0 on the Free plan, $15 a month on Standard, $35 a month on Pro, $95 a month on Max and $69 per seat a month on Team, with 20% off each paid plan when billed yearly. Every plan is really a credit allowance: 625 credits a month on Standard, 2,250 on Pro and 9,500 on Max. One balance pays for Runway's own models, such as Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0, and for other labs' models hosted in the same workspace, such as Kling 4.0 and Veo 3.1. There is no unlimited plan to buy. Pick a plan by the seconds of finished video you need each month, not by its name.


**12 credits a second** — Gen-4.5 in Runway's web app (2-10 s clips at 720p, Standard and up)



- **$15 a month** — Standard plan, 625 credits a month
- **125 credits** — Free plan, given once, never renewed
- **Nov 30, 2026** — Legacy Unlimited plan ends for existing subscribers


## Six plans, one credit currency



> **About these prices:** Prices shown are what Runway lists for visitors in the United States, in US dollars. Your price can differ by country, currency and local taxes such as VAT. Check your current price — Runway: https://api.colosus.site/go/runway?to=pricing


| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Credits | What the plan adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | 125, one time | Watermarked video, 5GB, up to 3 projects |
| Standard | $15 a month | $12 a month ($144 a year) | 625 a month | No watermark, Gen-4.5, Aleph 2.0, Act-Two, third-party video models, top-ups, 20GB |
| Pro | $35 a month | $28 a month ($336 a year) | 2,250 a month | 15 parallel generations, 1 custom voice, 1 saved brand set, 100GB |
| Max | $95 a month | $76 a month ($912 a year) | 9,500 a month | One month of rollover, HDR and ProRes output, early model access, 500GB |
| Team | $69 per seat a month | $55 per seat a month | 6,900 per seat, shared pool | 2 to 9 seats, shared projects, 1TB, Agent Connectors |
| Enterprise | Custom | Annual contract | Custom | SSO, audit logs, no training on your data |

The step from Free to Standard is bigger than the table suggests. Free gives 125 credits once; they never renew, every video carries a Runway watermark, and Gen-4.5, Aleph 2.0, Act-Two and the hosted video models all need Standard or higher. By our arithmetic those 125 credits cover 15 Gen-4 images at 1080p, enough to learn the interface but not to judge the video models. Standard, Pro and Max are also single-user plans. Inviting even one colleague means Team, which starts at two seats, or Enterprise. Our guide to [whether Runway AI is free](/articles/is-runway-ai-free) covers what the Free plan still does.


> 💡 **Check the cost before generating:** Runway shows the total credit cost of each generation before you start it, and rates differ widely by model, length and resolution.


## What a credit actually buys

Runway charges every generation by model, length and resolution, and it shows the total cost before you generate [1]. Gen-4.5, Runway's current flagship in November 2026, makes 2 to 10 second clips at 720p from text or an image, is not offered in the mobile apps, and adds no sound of its own in the web app. It costs 12 credits a second. Gen-4 Turbo and Act-Two cost 5 credits a second. Aleph 2.0, which edits footage you already have, costs 28 credits a second with a 56-credit minimum. Hosted models carry their own rates: Veo 3.1 with audio is 320 credits per 8 seconds, and Kling 4.0 at 1080p is 118 credits per 5 seconds.

Turn the allowances into footage and the plans look very different. By our arithmetic, Standard's 625 credits buy about 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 a month, roughly ten five-second clips. Pro buys about 187 seconds, or 37 clips. Max buys about 791 seconds, or 158 clips. Switch to Veo 3.1 with audio and the counts collapse: one eight-second clip on Standard, seven on Pro, 29 on Max. Aleph 2.0 edits shrink just as fast, with four five-second edits on Standard, 16 on Pro and 67 on Max. Those counts assume every clip is a keeper. Few are.

Credits come back only when a generation ends in an error. A finished clip you dislike keeps its cost, and so does a stuck generation you cancel yourself. Runway's own guide tells buyers to judge cost per usable output, which is the honest way to read the clip counts above: your real cost per usable clip sits above them, by however many takes your prompts need. Agent adds a second meter. Choosing Opus 5.5 as Agent's model costs 24 credits a message and GPT-6 Astra 40 credits a message, on top of whatever the generations spend.


> ⚠ **Rejected clips still cost credits:** Runway returns credits only for generation errors; a finished clip you dislike, or a stuck generation you cancel, keeps its cost.


By our arithmetic a plan credit costs 2.4¢ on Standard billed monthly or 1.92¢ billed yearly, 1.56¢ on Pro or 1.24¢ yearly, and 1.0¢ on Max or 0.8¢ yearly. A top-up credit costs 1.0¢ and never expires, so it undercuts every Pro credit. Standard at $15 a month plus $20 of top-ups buys 2,625 credits, while Pro at $35 a month buys 2,250. **Pick Pro for what it adds**, such as 15 parallel generations, a custom voice, a Brand Kit, 100GB and unlimited 4K upscaling, not for raw seconds. Heavy use flips the math. Topping up Pro to Max's volume totals $107.50 a month, against Max at $95 a month.

## Why the legacy Unlimited plan ends November 30

Searches for a Runway unlimited plan now land on an offer that no longer exists. The Unlimited plan, $95 a month with 2,250 credits plus Explore Mode for relaxed-rate generations, closed to new subscribers in June 2026, when Max replaced it [2]. Eligible subscribers keep it through November 30, 2026. After that date, monthly subscribers move automatically to Max at the same $95 a month, unless they cancel. Annual subscribers choose between canceling with a refund of their remaining months or taking a credit bonus to move to Max. Max carries more credits, 9,500 a month, but no Explore Mode. Every plan on sale today spends credits.

## Rollover, top-ups and the billing calendar

Plan credits reset within 24 hours of your billing day, and annual subscribers receive theirs monthly on that day too. On Standard and Pro, anything unused at reset disappears. Max and Team carry up to one month of unused credits forward. Runway also spends credits in a fixed order you cannot change: this month's plan credits first, then rolled-over credits, then purchased ones [3]. Top-ups are open on paid plans only, start at 1,000 credits for $10, and can be bought once, weekly, monthly, or through auto-refill with a monthly ceiling. Purchased credits never expire. They are the safe buffer for an uneven month.

The yearly discount is 20% on every personal plan, but it commits the money upfront. By our arithmetic a year billed yearly equals 9.6 monthly payments, so it pays off only if you would stay 10 months or more. Anyone testing whether AI video fits their work should start monthly. Plans renew automatically at the then-current price until you cancel, and Runway sells no fixed-term subscriptions, so a yearly plan keeps renewing as well.


> 💡 **Go yearly only past ten months:** By our arithmetic a year billed yearly equals 9.6 monthly payments, so monthly billing is cheaper for anyone who might leave sooner.


Upgrades are prorated and add the credit difference at once, so moving from Standard to Pro mid-cycle adds 1,625 credits immediately. Downgrades return the unused amount as a refund or as credit toward the next cycle, depending on the case; Runway's subscription article lists which applies. Switching an active annual plan to monthly is murkier. The help pages disagree on how the remaining annual balance comes back, so ask Runway support before you switch.

## Team, Enterprise, students and the API

Team costs $69 per seat a month, or $55 per seat a month billed yearly, for 2 to 9 seats in one workspace. The two-seat minimum is $138 a month, or $110 a month billed yearly ($1,320 a year). Editors and Admins take seats. Viewers do not. Each seat adds 6,900 credits to one shared pool with one month of rollover, alongside 100 shared projects, 1TB of storage, frame-accurate comments and Agent Connectors for Figma, Dropbox and Notion, which no other plan offers. By our arithmetic, one seat comes to $660 a year on yearly billing against $828 paid monthly, and nine seats run $621 a month or $495 a month billed yearly.

More than nine seats or a second workspace means Enterprise, which is priced by contract on annual terms and adds SSO, audit logs, credit caps, control over third-party models and a no-training commitment. That last point is worth weighing: Runway's consumer Terms let it train its models on your inputs and outputs, and only Enterprise removes that. College students and faculty get 25% off paid subscriptions, though not off credit purchases, after verification through SheerID. High school students are not eligible.

Runway Dev, the API, is billed on its own. It is pay as you go at $0.01 a credit, with a $10 minimum before the first call, and Gen-4.5 costs $0.12 a second there. On self-serve plans, web-app credits and API credits are separate pools; Enterprise contracts can pool them. Our [Runway API guide](/articles/runway-api) covers the per-model rates and usage tiers.

## Canceling and refunds

Cancel on the Plans & Billing page, and finish the flow. It ends with a Confirm cancellation step in Stripe, and Runway says an unfinished flow is the most common reason for a charge after canceling. Deleting your account does not cancel the subscription either. Once canceled, you keep access until the end of the paid period. The account then drops to Free, with watermarks and no new projects above three, and plan credits go to zero. Subscriptions bought through the App Store or Google Play are canceled and refunded through Apple or Google, not Runway.

Refunds are discretionary. A purchase or renewal from the last 30 days that is unused or close to unused may be refunded, and the plan then ends at once with its unused credits lost [4]. Plans that were used, purchases older than 30 days and disappointing results generally get nothing back. Requests go through the in-app AI assistant, since Runway offers no phone line or live chat with a person, and replies come Monday to Friday, typically within three business days. Approved refunds return to Alipay only within 90 days of payment; after that, Runway credits the amount to your account balance.


## FAQ

**Does Runway offer a free trial of its paid plans?**

Runway does not advertise a trial of its paid plans. The Free plan, with 125 one-time credits and no credit card needed to sign up, is the way to try it.

**Can I use Runway videos commercially on the Free plan?**

Runway does not restrict commercial use of outputs on any plan, Free included. Free-plan videos carry a Runway watermark, which Standard and higher plans remove.

**Which payment methods does Runway accept?**

Runway bills through Stripe, which accepts cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Alipay, Cash App Pay and WeChat Pay depending on your location. Plans bought in the iPhone or Android app are billed by Apple or Google.

**Does Runway's Agent cost extra?**

Agent is on every plan but spends credits. Choosing Opus 5.5 as its model costs 24 credits a message and GPT-6 Astra 40 credits a message, on top of generation credits; Runway does not publish the per-message cost of the default model.




> ⚠ **Canceling needs the Stripe step:** The cancellation flow ends with a confirmation in Stripe; leaving it unfinished, or only deleting the account, keeps the subscription running.

## The bottom line

Runway's sticker prices are simple; the credit math is not. Standard buys under a minute of Gen-4.5 a month, so it suits people still learning the tools or working mostly in images. Pro earns its price through parallel generations, a custom voice and more storage; for extra seconds alone, Standard plus top-ups buys more credits for the same money. Max is the cheaper meter for heavy monthly use, though its rollover lasts only one month. Teams of two to nine need Team, because no personal plan accepts members. Whatever you choose, start monthly, budget for takes you will discard, and remember that the Unlimited plan ends on November 30, 2026.



## Sources

[1] Runway pricing (US): plans, credits and model rates — https://runway.com/pricing (2026-11)
[2] Runway Help Center: Unlimited plan is switching to Max — https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/52068047744019-Unlimited-plan-is-switching-to-Max (2026-11)
[3] Runway Help Center: How do credits work — https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/15124877443219-How-do-credits-work (2026-11)
[4] Runway Help Center: Requesting a refund for your plan or payment — https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/24343363554067-Requesting-a-refund-for-your-plan-or-payment (2026-11)
[5] Runway Terms of Use — https://runway.com/terms-of-use
[6] Runway changelog — https://runway.com/changelog