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- Free allowance
- Free plan, printed as 'Free forever' with '125 credits' and '125 one-time credits to explore Runway's AI tools'.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota125 credits is a demo, not a budget: at 60 credits per five seconds of Gen-4.5 the entire free allowance is two five-second clips, and nothing renews, so the second film cannot be made.
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | Free plan, printed as 'Free forever' with '125 credits' and '125 one-time credits to explore Runway's AI tools'. The paid plans give the conversion: 625 credits is '52s of Gen-4.5, 104s of Gen-4 Turbo, or 78 Gen-4 Images (1080p)', so 125 credits is about 10.4 seconds of Gen-4.5, 20.8 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo, or 15 Gen-4 images. The rate card prices Gen-4.5 at '60 credits/5s' and Aleph 2.0 at '140 credits/5s'. unit seconds; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 125 credits is a demo, not a budget: at 60 credits per five seconds of Gen-4.5 the entire free allowance is two five-second clips, and nothing renews, so the second film cannot be made. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest HTTP API documented at docs.dev.runwayml.com, with Node and Python SDK examples |
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| Tooling | the Node SDK @runwayml/sdk and a Python SDK, both over the Runway API |
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| Composes with | the free allowance is best spent on images rather than video: 15 Gen-4 images for the same 125 credits is a usable figure set, where 10 seconds of video is a single shot. What breaks: there is no renewal, so a second experiment needs a second account. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | These are inference credits, not general compute. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 125 credits
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | runwayml.com/pricing | the Free plan prints 'Free forever' and '125 one-time credits to explore Runway's AI tools', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | runwayml.com/pricing | '625 credits monthly = 52s of Gen-4.5, 104s of Gen-4 Turbo, or 78 Gen-4 Images (1080p)', quoted, which fixes the per-second rate the free credit buys |
| 2026-10-22 | runwayml.com/pricing | the generation table prints 'Gen-4.5 60 credits/5s' and 'Aleph 2.0 140 credits/5s', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.dev.runwayml.com/ | Runway documents an HTTP API with Node and Python SDKs |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.dev.runwayml.com/ | the documented client is the @runwayml/sdk package |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "credit-too-small-for-a-workload","free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 5
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer