invideo vs Runway (Nov 2026): plans, credits, cost per video

As of Nov 3, 2026 (CT), Runway Standard costs $12 a month billed annually ($15 monthly) for 625 credits. invideo Starter costs $10 per seat a month billed annually, half its $20 monthly price, for 400 credits. Runway has a free plan with 125 one-time credits; we found no free plan on invideo's pricing page. Pick Runway for Gen-4.5 and Aleph generation, and invideo for editing-led videos with its agents and Seedance models.

Our pick: Pick Runway to generate footage with Gen-4.5, Aleph and other models; pick invideo to assemble and edit finished videos with its agents and Seedance models. No quality winner: we have not run either. Updated Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago).

By Agentic Weekly, operated independently from Texas, US · Published Oct 25, 2026 · Last updated Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago) · How we work

Last verified Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago) on Runway pricing and invideo pricing. Evidence: Reported for both. We have not generated a video with either; prices and credit rates are the vendors' own, and any arithmetic is labelled as ours.

invideo prices: invideo.io/pricing · Checked Nov 3, 2026 · Plus at 5,000 credits ($75 a seat a month billed annually): last confirmed Oct 25, 2026, not rechecked (the page showed no price for that credit level on Nov 1)
Runway prices: runwayml.com/pricing · Checked Nov 1, 2026

invideo

Reported

AI video editor with agents; Starter $10 and Plus $30 per seat a month are annual-billing prices, 50% below monthly billing ($20 and $60 a month); Max is $250 a seat a month, billed annually.

Runway

Reported

A strong choice if you want one place to drive many video, image and audio models from an agent; many items are paid-plan only.

Side by side, from what we recorded

Each row compares one recorded fact for both tools. Rows are not weighted and nothing is added up into a score; the note under each row says what the marker means.

Evidence
Reported for invideo
Reported for Runway
Tested = we ran it (smoke test); Reported = we read official sources
Pricing we could verify
Partly verified for invideo
Verified from official page (Runway is ahead on this row) for Runway
About our evidence only, not about the price
Steps in our setup guide
2 for invideo
3 for Runway
Counts our guide's steps, not difficulty
Sources we cite
2 for invideo
1 for Runway
How much we had to read; more is not better

Recorded differences, not a quality score; any head-to-head results we ran are in their own section below. How we label evidence.

What each product is

Runway is a generation studio: its pricing page lists its own Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models next to third-party ones such as Kling 4.0, Seedance 2.5 and Nano Banana Pro, plus 4K upscaling, music, voice and sound-effect generation, and Runway MCP on Pro.

invideo is an AI video editor: its plans list a timeline editor, multiplayer editing, professional colour, audio and 3D tools, access to its frontier agents (Lite on Starter; Lite, Pro and Ultra on Plus and Max) and Seedance models. For Runway's full credit table, see Runway pricing explained.

Plans and prices side by side

Runway and invideo plans (vendor pages read Nov 3, 2026, CT)
Plan tier	Runway price (annual / monthly)	Runway credits/mo	invideo price (annual, per seat)	invideo credits/mo	Models included	Seats	Storage
Free	$0	125 one-time credits	Not verified: no free plan on the pricing page we read	n/a	Runway: a selection of generative models	Runway: not stated	Runway 5GB
Entry	Standard $12 / $15	625	Starter $10 ($20 monthly)	400 per seat	invideo Starter: Seedance 2.0 Fast and Mini only, agents Lite only; Runway Standard: Gen-4.5, Nano Banana Pro and more	invideo: up to 5 seats, no guest seats	Runway 20GB; invideo 200GB
Mid	Pro $28 / $35	2,250	Plus $30 ($60 monthly)	2,000 per seat	invideo Plus: Seedance 2.5 and all models, all agents; Runway Pro adds Seedance 2.5, Topaz upscale and Runway MCP	invideo: up to 10 seats + 10 free guest seats (190 credits each)	Runway 100GB; invideo 600GB
Top self-serve	Max $76 / $95	9,500, roll over 1 month	Max $250 (no annual discount)	8,000 per seat	All models on both	invideo: up to 20 seats + 20 free guest seats	Runway 500GB; invideo 2,000GB

invideo shows its annual prices as "50% off" and "Save $120 per seat compared to monthly" (Starter) and "Save $360" (Plus), so the discount is the annual-billing rate, with no end date shown. Sources: Runway pricing, invideo pricing, both read Nov 3, 2026.

What a credit buys

Runway publishes per-model rates: Gen-4.5 costs 60 credits per 5 seconds and Aleph 2.0 costs 140 credits per 5 seconds; Kling 4.0 at 1080p is listed at 118 credits per 5 seconds, 89 during the current discount. On Standard and Pro, monthly credits do not roll over; Max credits roll over one month; extra credits can be bought from 1,000 at a time.

invideo's FAQ says credits are used across the platform and that generative models are billed at their original API pricing; its plan cards give examples such as "~15 Seedance 2 fast videos" for Starter's 400 credits. The FAQ also says invideo may update credit costs at any time; we could not read its answer on whether unused credits roll over, so that is Not verified.

Our arithmetic from Runway's rates: Standard's 625 credits cover about 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 (625 ÷ 12 credits per second), or about 22 seconds of Aleph 2.0. invideo does not publish a fixed per-second rate, so we cannot compute the same figure for it.

Free options

Runway's Free plan is $0 with 125 one-time credits, a selection of generative models and 5GB of storage. invideo's pricing page, read Nov 3, lists Starter, Plus and Max (plus business plans) and no free plan; we have not confirmed whether invideo offers a free tier elsewhere, so treat that as Not verified.

Promos with end dates

Runway: 25% off Kling 4.0 generations "until November 30" (2026), shown on Standard, Pro and Max.
Runway Enterprise: "Enterprises get up to 2 months of usage free. Sign by 12/31" (see Runway's terms).
invideo: the "50% off" label is the annual-billing price against monthly; no end date is shown, so we do not treat it as a time-limited promo.
invideo image offer: a banner reads "Nano Banana 2.1, Ideogram 4.5 & many more image models Unlimited for 30 days", "Applicable on all annual plans"; no end date is shown.

Seats and teams

invideo prices per seat: Starter allows up to 5 seats, Plus up to 10 plus 10 free guest seats with 190 credits each, and Max up to 20 plus 20 guest seats. SOC 2 and SSO are listed on invideo Enterprise. Runway's individual plans list project limits (up to 3 projects on Standard, 5 on Pro) and sells team and enterprise plans separately; we did not read its team prices.

Which to pick when

Pick Runway if you want to generate shots with Gen-4.5 or Aleph, or several third-party models in one place, and you want published credits-per-second rates.
Pick invideo if you want an editor that assembles a finished video with agents, and a team of several seats on one plan.
Start on Runway Free to test generation before paying; invideo had no free plan on the page we read.
Compare more tools on best AI video tools, Runway alternatives, Kling, Luma and Kling vs Luma.

FAQ

Is invideo cheaper than Runway?

At the entry tier, slightly: invideo Starter is $10 per seat a month billed annually for 400 credits, Runway Standard is $12 a month billed annually for 625 credits. Credits buy different things on each, so the price per finished video depends on the models you use.

Does invideo have a free plan?

We did not find one on invideo's pricing page on Nov 3, 2026; we have not confirmed it elsewhere, so this is Not verified. Runway has a free plan with 125 one-time credits.

How many credits does a Runway video use?

Runway lists Gen-4.5 at 60 credits per 5 seconds and Aleph 2.0 at 140 credits per 5 seconds.

Have you tested invideo or Runway?

No. Both are Reported from their pricing pages, read Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago).

Sources

Runway pricing (fetched 2026-11-03)
invideo pricing (fetched 2026-11-03)

Page history

Oct 25, 2026: First published. Facts read from vendor pages and the GitHub API on 2026-10-25.
Nov 3, 2026: Rewritten in place: answer first, a dated comparison table and sources, with every price re-read on the vendor pages on Nov 3, 2026 (America/Chicago). The page was noindexed before this rewrite.

Markdown version for agents: /compare/invideo-vs-runway.md

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