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Runway Compute

trialemailno cardDvolume-quota

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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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	volume-quota 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 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.
Binding	volume-quota 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	These are inference credits, not general compute. Recorded as a trial, not a free tier, because the vendor itself calls it 'one-time'. Not established: whether the free plan allows commercial use; the paid plan lists 'Commercial use' as a feature and the free plan text on the page does not.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 125.0 credits

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
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

More fields (1)

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   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 0
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated