Runway Free Plan (2026): 125 One-Time Credits and What They Buy

Runway's pricing page lists the Free plan at $0 a month with the line Free forever, and gives it three things:

• 125 credits, granted once. Runway's FAQ says the Free plan includes a one-time deposit of 125 credits that does not expire.
• A selection of generative creative models to test concepts.
• 5GB of asset storage.

Paid plans, by contrast, include a monthly credit allotment. So the Free plan has no refill: once the 125 credits are used, you need a paid plan to generate more. Runway lists No watermarks as a feature of its Standard plan and does not list it for Free.

Runway states what its Standard plan's 625 monthly credits buy: 52 seconds of Gen-4.5, 104 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo, or 78 Gen-4 images at 1080p.

The Free plan's 125 credits are one fifth of that amount, so by simple arithmetic they come to about 10 seconds of Gen-4.5 video, about 20 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo video, or about 15 Gen-4 images.

The Free plan lists only a selection of models, so check which of these it can use.

For scale, a video built from several generated clips will use that budget quickly. Runway's credit cost per second differs by model, and its pricing page lists a per-model table for the paid plans.

Runway's paid plans are billed monthly or annually, with annual billing priced lower.

Standard lists access to all of Runway's AI video and image models, no watermarks, 4K upscaling, up to 3 projects, music, voice and sound effects generation, and 20GB of storage. Pro adds one Brand Kit, one custom voice clone, top-up credits, Runway MCP and 100GB.

Max adds credit rollover for one month, up to three Brand Kits and voice clones, studio-grade quality generations such as HDR and ProRes, and 500GB. On Standard and Pro, unused monthly credits do not roll over.

The Free plan is for trying Runway's generation before you commit: running a few short clips, seeing how a model handles your kind of prompt, and judging the result against the price of Standard. Because the credits are a one-time deposit, it is a trial, not a monthly allowance, and it will not support a regular posting schedule.

Runway meters its work in seconds of model output. If that is the job you want, Standard at $12 a month billed annually is the entry point on the pricing page. If you want a finished video, with script, voiceover and captions, from a topic, that is a different workflow.

FluxNote publishes this page, so weigh the comparison with that in mind. The units differ.

Runway's Free plan counts credits that convert to seconds of generated footage. FluxNote's Free plan counts finished videos: 1 finished AI video a month at 720p, 100 Image Studio credits and preview access to UGC Studio, with no credit card.

A FluxNote video is built from a topic or script, with an AI-written script, voiceover, captions and AI or stock visuals, and FluxNote's pricing page names Runway among the video models on its paid plans. No FluxNote export is watermarked on any plan.

Free is for personal use and evaluation; commercial rights come with paid plans, and Rise is $20 a month, or $10 a month billed yearly, on the pricing page.

All Runway figures come from Runway's pricing page, read in the US view on 21 October 2026. The 10 and 20 second figures are our arithmetic from Runway's published credit conversion, not a Runway statement.

Runway changes models and prices often, so confirm the current numbers before you decide. Nothing here comes from hands-on testing of either product.