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Updated · By llmwise, AI-assisted.
llmwise vs Runway: one plan for chat and video
Runway's cheapest paid plan is $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly, and it uses chat models as steps in its Workflows. llmwise Pro is $20 for chat and creating: 60 everyday messages a day and 250 credits a month. A 5-second Gen-4.5 clip is about $1.44 on Runway's Standard plan, and 29 credits (about $1.45) on llmwise.
Checked : Runway pricing and Runway Academy: Credits & Available Models.
Runway, in Runway's words
“Access to all AI video & image models”
Source: Runway pricing
“Credits are the unit you spend to generate images, video, and audio on Runway.”
Source: Runway pricing
“Agentic creative collaborator”
Source: Runway pricing
“Music, voice & sound effects generation”
Source: Runway pricing
“Any additional credits you purchase never expire.”
Source: Runway pricing
Runway's plans and credits
Runway sets these prices and can change them. Each line quotes its page as we read it on October 9, 2026.
| Plan | Price | In its words | What a plan gives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | “For people looking to explore Runway's AI Tools” (Runway pricing) | “125 one-time credits to explore Runway's AI tools.” (Runway pricing) |
| Standard | $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly | “Billed annually. Save $36/year.” (Runway pricing) | “625 credits monthly = 52s of Gen-4.5, 104s of Gen-4 Turbo, or 78 Gen-4 Images (1080p).” (Runway pricing) |
| Pro | $35 a month, or $28 a month billed yearly | “Billed annually. Save $84/year.” (Runway pricing) | “2250 credits monthly = 187s of Gen-4.5, 375s of Gen-4 Turbo, or 281 Gen-4 Images (1080p).” (Runway pricing) |
| Max | $95 a month, or $76 a month billed yearly | “Billed annually. Save $228/year.” (Runway pricing) | “9500 credits = 791s of Gen-4.5, 791s of Gen-4, 1900s of Gen-4 Turbo, 1187 Gen-4 Images (1080p), or 475 Nano Banana Pro images (2K).” (Runway pricing) |
“125 one-time credits to explore Runway's AI tools.” (Runway pricing)
What Runway and llmwise each offer
Runway's side is its own pages' words; llmwise's is its catalog today.
| Runway | llmwise | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly | Pro $20 a month; Free to try, no card |
| Chat | “Well-rounded and budget-friendly LLM for text processing, image analysis, and more in Workflows.” (Runway Academy: Credits & Available Models) Runway's model list names language models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, used as steps in its Workflows and paid per run in credits. | 19 chat models from Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Kimi, GLM, and Mistral, with 60 everyday messages a day on Pro |
| Image and video models | Gen-4.5, Aleph 2.0, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0 Pro, Gen-4 Image, Nano Banana Pro, and Lyria 3 Pro (Runway pricing) | 30 video models (Alibaba, MiniMax, Google, Kling and 5 more), 45 image models (Recraft, Alibaba, Black Forest Labs, OpenAI and 5 more) and 18 voice and music models |
| On both | 3 of the models Runway's page names | Kling 3.0, Runway Gen-4.5, and 1 image model |
| Free | See above | 10 credits and 5 chat messages, once per email address |
Every limit is published. Paid plans also have a monthly fair-use limit on AI cost: Plus $3.75, Pro $7.50, Max $20, Ultra $42, Studio $85. Using every message on your plan at typical sizes stays under it; very large messages and heavy research use it faster. Every limit, explained.
What does one video cost on Runway and on llmwise?
Runway's own page prices Gen-4.5, 5 seconds. In money, that's its plan's price over its credits, 60 credits, on Standard's $15 for 625 a month. llmwise's money is at the credit pack price, as beside every llmwise price.
| Where | Model and setting | As priced | In money |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runway | Gen-4.5, 5 seconds | “Gen-4.5 uses 12 credits per second of generated video.” (Runway pricing) | About $1.44 |
| llmwise | Runway Gen-4.5, 5 s at 720p without sound | 29 credits | About $1.45 |
llmwise charges in credits, and the money beside them is a guide: 1 credit is about 5¢ (the credit pack price: $10 for 200 credits). On a paid plan the credits come out of the monthly allowance (250 a month on Pro), which the bigger chat models draw on too, so a month of video leaves fewer of those; the everyday models' 60 messages a day are separate. Every video model's price in money.
When is Runway the better choice?
Our view, set against Runway's own words above.
When Runway wins
Pick Runway if video is most of what you make, above all with Runway's own Gen-4.5: its Standard plan's 625 credits a month make 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 for $15, and Pro adds voice clones and brand kits.
What Runway has that llmwise doesn't
Its own video models, Gen-4.5 (in llmwise too) and Aleph 2.0, and models llmwise doesn't offer, such as Seedance. 4K upscaling on every paid plan, custom voice clones and brand kits from Pro, and up to 20 videos and images made at once on Max.
When llmwise wins
Pick llmwise if you chat with AI every day and make some video each month, and want one plan for both, with Claude, GPT and Gemini beside Gen-4.5 and Kling 3.0, each video priced before you press Create.
What one plan changes
Ask a chat model for an idea, press Make this under its reply, and the studio opens with a video prompt written from it. Each price shows before you press Create, and a failed creation costs nothing.
How that works, step by step: turning a chat idea into a video. Which model to use: Kling, Veo or Wan.
Other image and video apps
Runway or llmwise: questions
How much does Runway cost?
Free: $0, for 125 credits, once; Standard: $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly, for 625 credits a month; Pro: $35 a month, or $28 a month billed yearly, for 2,250 credits a month; Max: $95 a month, or $76 a month billed yearly, for 9,500 credits a month (from Runway's own page, checked October 2026).
Does Runway include an AI chat like ChatGPT or Claude?
Runway's model list names language models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, used as steps in its Workflows and paid per run in credits. llmwise is a chat app first: 19 chat models, Claude, GPT and Gemini among them, with 60 everyday messages a day on Pro, on the same plan as its image and video models.
What does one video cost on Runway and on llmwise?
Runway's own page says “Gen-4.5 uses 12 credits per second of generated video.”: about $1.44 for Gen-4.5, 5 seconds, 60 credits, on Standard's $15 for 625 a month. In llmwise, Runway Gen-4.5 (5 s at 720p without sound) is 29 credits (about $1.45), in money at the credit pack price. Per clip, the two cost about the same.
When is Runway the better choice?
Pick Runway if video is most of what you make, above all with Runway's own Gen-4.5: its Standard plan's 625 credits a month make 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 for $15, and Pro adds voice clones and brand kits. Pick llmwise if you chat with AI every day and make some video each month, and want one plan for both, with Claude, GPT and Gemini beside Gen-4.5 and Kling 3.0, each video priced before you press Create.
Runway's kind of video, with a chat beside it
Chat with 19 models and make video with 30 on one $20 plan, Kling 3.0 and Runway Gen-4.5 among them, each price shown before you press Create. Free has 10 credits to try it.