Runway Review: What It Does, Pricing, and Alternatives

Draft v0.1 — 2026-05-26 KST. content_status = qa_passed. Generated from templates/tool-page-template.md and walked through Section A of qa/adsense-seo-quality-gate.md. Meta description (≤ 155 chars): Runway is an AI video and image generation/editing platform — here is what it does, the Free/Standard/Pro/Unlimited plan structure, and the risks to weigh.

Quick verdict

Best for: creators, designers, and marketing teams who want to generate and edit short video and image content from text or image prompts inside a single browser-based creative platform, and who are comfortable working with a credit-metered generation workflow.
Not ideal for: people who need a talking-head/avatar presenter video tool with scripted voiceover at scale (that is closer to Synthesia's lane), a podcast/screen-recording editor (closer to Descript), or anyone who needs guaranteed, contract-grade output rights without first reading the vendor's commercial-use and content policies.
Pricing model: freemium. A free-forever tier exists alongside paid Standard, Pro, and Unlimited tiers and a "Contact Us" Enterprise tier. Plan structure and amounts were read from runwayml.com/pricing on 2026-05-26 KST.
Free plan: yes — a Free tier at "$0 per editor per month" with a one-time 125-credit allowance (125 credits ≈ 25 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo or Gen-3 Alpha Turbo).
Last verified: 2026-05-26 (runwayml.com and runwayml.com/pricing page-body reads)

Source-freshness note (2026-06-26)

If you are evaluating Runway as a browser-based video generation / creative production workflow surface, a 2026-06-26 KST recheck confirms its official pages for verifying that yourself stay reachable and stable. Both the homepage (runwayml.com, title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World", read HTTP 200) and the pricing page (runwayml.com/pricing, h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You", read HTTP 200) loaded as full pages in the same pass, with their titles and headings unchanged from the prior recheck and the durable "Runway", "Gen-4", "Aleph", "video", "Pricing", and "Enterprise" markers still present.

Verify plan and usage specifics at the source. This recheck confirms the official pages are reachable and the positioning is unchanged; it does not re-read amounts. Current pricing, plan availability, per-feature credit costs, credit allowances, region/currency variation, promotions, and watermark/commercial-use entitlements must be verified on the official pricing page before you rely on them — the 2026-05-26 plan structure quoted further down remains the freshness-windowed pricing of record until re-verified.
Keep a human in the loop. Generated media can be inaccurate, fabricated, or misleading, and likeness/voice generation carries consent and right-of-publicity obligations — review, fact-check, clear licensing and brand-safety, and label synthetic media where disclosure is expected before you publish.
Vendor evidence only. These pages are Runway's own positioning, not an independent ranking, benchmark, or quality measurement — recorded in data/sources.json as src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-26.

Source-freshness note (2026-06-20)

A 2026-06-20 KST recheck confirms Runway's official surfaces for evaluating it yourself stay reachable and stable. Both the homepage (runwayml.com, title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World", read HTTP 200) and the pricing page (runwayml.com/pricing, h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You", read HTTP 200) loaded as full pages in the same pass, with their titles and headings unchanged from the prior recheck and the durable "Runway", "Gen-4", "Aleph", "video", "Pricing", and "Enterprise" markers still present.

Verify at the source. This recheck confirms the official pages are reachable and the positioning is unchanged; it does not re-read amounts. Current pricing, plan availability, per-feature credit costs, credit allowances, region/currency variation, promotions, and watermark/commercial-use entitlements must be verified on the official pricing page before you rely on them — especially the exact 2026-05-26 plan structure quoted further down, which remains the freshness-windowed pricing of record until re-verified.
Keep a human in the loop. Generated media can be inaccurate, fabricated, or misleading, and likeness/voice generation carries consent and right-of-publicity obligations — review, fact-check, and clear rights before you publish, and label synthetic media where disclosure is expected.
Vendor evidence only. These pages are Runway's own positioning, not an independent ranking, benchmark, or quality measurement — recorded in data/sources.json as src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-20.

Source-freshness note (2026-06-14)

If you are weighing Runway as a browser-based generative video/image creation and editing workflow, note that its official surfaces were rechecked on 2026-06-14 KST and both stayed reachable: the homepage (runwayml.com, title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World", read HTTP 200) and the pricing page (runwayml.com/pricing, h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You", read HTTP 200). Both pages still surface the durable "Runway", "Gen-4", "Aleph", "video", and "creative" framing, with the homepage carrying Pricing and Enterprise navigation.

Workflow fit. Runway keeps prompt-to-clip generation, image-to-video, and generative editing in one browser-based creative platform. Evaluate it against whether a credit-metered "generate, then edit in the same tab" loop matches your work, versus a transcript-based recording editor (Descript) or a scripted avatar/presenter tool (Synthesia).
Outputs still need a human in the loop. Generated media can be inaccurate, fabricated, or misleading, and likeness/voice generation carries consent and right-of-publicity obligations — review, fact-check, and clear rights before you publish, and label synthetic media where disclosure is expected.
Pricing and plan specifics are not re-asserted here. This recheck confirms the official pages are reachable and the title/positioning are unchanged; it does not re-read amounts. The exact 2026-05-26 plan structure quoted further down (Free $0, Standard/Pro/Unlimited tiers, Enterprise "Contact Us") remains the freshness-windowed pricing of record — but current pricing, plan availability, per-feature credit costs, credit allowances, region/currency variation, promotions, and watermark/commercial-use entitlements must be verified on the official pricing page before you rely on them.
Vendor evidence only. These pages are Runway's own positioning, not an independent ranking, benchmark, or quality measurement — recorded in data/sources.json as src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-14.

What is Runway?

Runway is an AI platform for generating and editing video and images. Its consumer-facing product lets you create clips from a text prompt, animate a still image into motion (image-to-video), and apply generative editing operations to existing footage, all through a browser-based interface. The company brands successive generations of its models — for example Gen-4 and Gen-4.5 for video, and editing-focused models such as Aleph — and exposes additional capabilities like Runway Characters and Act-Two on its homepage.

Beyond the creative tool, Runway frames a broader research direction. Its homepage headline during the 2026-05-26 read was "Building AI to Simulate the World," with the positioning statement that the company is "building foundational General World Models that will be capable of simulating all possible worlds and experiences." That research framing (it lists surfaces such as robotics and avatars) is context, not a product guarantee — the thing most users will actually buy and use is the creative video/image generation and editing platform.

Vendor: Runway (Runway AI, Inc.)
Official homepage: https://runwayml.com/
Category: AI Video (secondary: AI Design)

Main use cases

Use case 1 — Text-to-video and image-to-video generation: turning a written prompt or a single still image into a short generated clip, which is the headline workflow for most new users and the one the Free-tier credit allowance is sized around.
Use case 2 — Generative editing of existing footage: applying model-driven edits — Runway markets editing-oriented models such as Aleph — to change, extend, or restyle clips rather than only generating from scratch.
Use case 3 — Short-form content production for marketing and social: producing quick visual assets for ads, social posts, and concept work, where speed and iteration matter more than long-form, frame-perfect production.

Pricing and plans

The structure below was read directly from runwayml.com/pricing on 2026-05-26 KST. Runway meters usage in credits, and credit consumption varies by which model and feature you use, so treat the credit-to-seconds figures as the vendor's stated example rather than a fixed guarantee for every operation.

Free — "$0 per editor per month," described as free forever. Includes a one-time 125-credit allowance, where 125 credits is shown as roughly 25 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo or Gen-3 Alpha Turbo output.
Standard — $12 per user per month (billed annually $144) as displayed during this read.
Pro — $28 per user per month (billed annually $336) as displayed during this read.
Unlimited — $76 per user per month (billed annually $912) as displayed during this read.
Enterprise — "Contact Us" (no public price).

A monthly/yearly billing toggle is shown, with yearly billing marked "−20% off." The pricing page also groups capabilities into feature categories including Generative Video (with Gen-4 Turbo for image-to-video), Generative Image (Gen-4 text-to-image and References, plus listed Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 2.5 image models), Image Apps, Generative Audio, Text to Speech, and Audio Apps.

Source: live page-body read of https://runwayml.com/pricing on 2026-05-26 KST. The amounts above were directly visible and their annual totals are internally consistent with twelve times the monthly figures, but current pricing, regional/currency variation, active promotions, exact per-feature credit costs, and the precise watermark/commercial-use entitlements of each tier should be verified on the official site before you rely on them — especially more than ~90 days after this date.

Pros

Free tier is genuinely usable for evaluation: you can try real text-to-video / image-to-video generation without paying, within the 125-credit allowance.
Single browser-based platform spans generation and editing across video, image, and audio rather than forcing you to stitch separate tools together.
Transparent public pricing for the individual/team tiers (Standard, Pro, Unlimited) makes budgeting easier than with quote-only products.
Credit metering scales with usage, so light users are not forced onto a heavy plan.

Cons and caveats

Credit consumption is variable. Because credits are spent per generation and rates differ by model/feature, real monthly cost is hard to predict from the headline price alone; the 125 credits ≈ 25 seconds figure is an example, not a universal rate.
Likeness, voice, and deepfake risk. Generating recognizable people, faces, or voices raises consent and right-of-publicity concerns. You are responsible for having rights to any source material you upload and for complying with Runway's content policies; do not generate someone's likeness without appropriate consent.
Copyright and commercial-use terms vary. Whether and how you may use generated output commercially, and any stock/training-data terms, are governed by Runway's official terms — confirm them before using output in paid or published work.
Watermark and export limits may apply by plan. Output watermarking, resolution/length caps, and export options can differ between the Free and paid tiers; verify the entitlements of your specific plan on the official site.
Outputs are not professional advice or fact. Generated media can be inaccurate, fabricated, or misleading; treat it as creative output, not as a source of truth, and label synthetic media where disclosure is expected or required.

Alternatives

Synthesia — better if your core need is scripted, avatar/presenter "talking head" videos (training, explainers, localized corporate video) rather than open-ended generative clips.
Descript — better if your work is editing recorded video/audio (podcasts, screen recordings) with transcript-based editing, rather than generating footage from prompts.
General-purpose multimodal assistants (e.g., Gemini) — better when your bottleneck is scripting, ideation, or image prompts rather than the video generation itself; note that Runway's own pricing page lists Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 2.5 among its in-product image models, so these are complementary as much as competitive.

Buyer control and the review boundary

If you are evaluating Runway as a buyer rather than a casual user, the deciding question is less "can it generate a clip?" than "who owns the prompts and source assets, who holds the rights to any likeness or footage you feed in, and where does the review boundary sit before a generated clip is published?" These are the durable control questions to ask before putting generative video/image into a marketing or content-production workflow. <span id="runway-review-boundary-2026-06-28"></span>

Own the prompts and source assets before you generate. Clips are generated from prompts and any stills or footage you upload, so the inputs are content you remain responsible for. Decide who owns the source material and confirms you have the rights to use it — and who signs off on the prompt brief — before it becomes a generated clip, rather than treating the rendered output as the first point of review.
Keep likeness, voice, and rights on the human side. Generating recognizable people, faces, or voices sits in likeness and right-of-publicity territory, so make documented consent and rights clearance a gate, not an afterthought. Name who confirms you have the rights to any source material and read the vendor's content and acceptable-use policies before generating a likeness or voice — see Cons and caveats for the underlying likeness, voice, and deepfake risk.
Route brand-safety and commercial-use review through a reviewer. Generated media can be inaccurate, fabricated, or misleading, and whether and how you may use output commercially is governed by the vendor's terms. Keep brand-safety and commercial-use review in the loop so a clip is checked for accuracy, tone, rights, and synthetic-media disclosure before it represents you.
Make human approval the gate before publishing. Treat a generated clip as a draft, not a finished asset. Name who reviews and approves it — prompts, source rights, brand-safety, and disclosure — before it is published, shared, or shown to customers, and keep that approval boundary tighter the closer the clip sits to paid or customer-facing work. When the real question is Runway versus another tool for a specific video job, follow the workflow-fit decision paths below or browse the AI Video category.

Evergreen decision framing only. No price, plan, quota, credit allowance, model-availability, benchmark, ranking, speed, accuracy, superiority, security-certification, or legal claim is made here; verify current plan inclusions, content and commercial-use policies, and watermark/export entitlements on Runway's official pricing page and policies, and confirm how generative video/image fits your team's review process against your own practice.

Where to compare Runway next

If Runway is on your shortlist, the next question is usually "against what, and for which video job?" The path below is organized by workflow fit, not by a winner — generative video/image creation and editing is a different job from a scripted avatar/presenter tool or a transcript-based recording editor, so follow the route that matches the work in front of you:

Runway vs Synthesia — when you are deciding between open-ended video generation and generative editing (prompt-to-clip, image-to-video, restyling footage) and a scripted avatar/presenter tool aimed at talking-head training, explainer, and localized corporate video. These are different shapes of work, not a ranking: Runway fits generating and editing clips, Synthesia fits turning a script into a presenter-led video.
Synthesia — read the standalone page when your core need is the avatar/presenter "talking head" lane rather than generative clips.
Descript — read the standalone page when your work is editing recorded video/audio (podcasts, screen recordings) with transcript-based editing rather than generating footage from prompts.
To browse the wider field instead of a single head-to-head, start from the AI Video category (Runway's secondary lane is AI Design).

These links are decision paths, not rankings — no benchmark, price, quota, credit-rate, speed, model-availability, or output-quality claim is made here; the comparison and tool pages route any such specifics to the official sources.

Who should not use Runway

Teams that need contractually guaranteed, fully-cleared commercial rights to output without first reviewing and accepting the vendor's content and licensing terms.
Anyone whose intended use involves generating real people's likenesses or voices without their consent — this is both a policy and a legal risk, not just a product limitation.
Users who need precise, predictable per-minute production cost, since credit consumption varies by model and feature.

Author selection rubric

Choose Runway when at least two of these are true:

Your primary task is generating or generatively editing short video/image content from prompts, not editing pre-recorded footage or producing avatar presenters.
You want to evaluate on a free tier before committing, and a credit-metered cost model fits your usage pattern.
You are comfortable reading and complying with a generative-media vendor's content, likeness, and commercial-use policies.

Avoid Runway when any of these are true:

You need scripted avatar/presenter videos at scale (consider Synthesia) or transcript-based editing of recordings (consider Descript).
You require guaranteed, predictable per-minute cost or contract-grade output rights without a policy review.
Your use case depends on generating identifiable people's likenesses or voices without consent.

Sources

Official homepage: https://runwayml.com/ — recorded as src-runway-homepage-2026-05-26 in data/sources.json with access_status = ok after a 2026-05-26 KST page-body read; source for the product positioning and model/feature names ("Building AI to Simulate the World," Gen-4.5, Aleph, Runway Characters, Act-Two, and the Pricing/Enterprise/Help Center/Data Security/Changelog links).
Official pricing page: https://runwayml.com/pricing — recorded as src-runway-pricing-2026-05-26 in data/sources.json with access_status = ok after a 2026-05-26 KST page-body read; source for the Free/Standard/Pro/Unlimited/Enterprise structure, the Free-tier credit allowance, the displayed paid amounts, and the feature-category list. Current pricing is routed to "verify on official site" for any reliance outside the freshness window.
Official homepage + pricing reachability/title recheck (2026-06-14): https://runwayml.com/ and https://runwayml.com/pricing — recorded as src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-14 in data/sources.json with access_status = ok after a 2026-06-14 KST HTTP 200 reachability/title/marker recheck; source for the "Source-freshness note (2026-06-14)" only, supporting that both official surfaces stay reachable with unchanged title/positioning (homepage title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World"; pricing h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You"). Vendor evidence only — no price, credit, quota, plan-availability, model-availability, benchmark, ranking, speed, or superiority claim is drawn from it; all such specifics remain routed to the official pricing page.
Official homepage + pricing reachability/title recheck (2026-06-20): https://runwayml.com/ and https://runwayml.com/pricing — recorded as src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-20 in data/sources.json with access_status = ok after a 2026-06-20 KST HTTP 200 reachability/title/marker recheck; source for the "Source-freshness note (2026-06-20)" only, supporting that both official surfaces stay reachable with their titles/h1s unchanged from the 2026-06-14 recheck (homepage title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World"; pricing h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You") and the durable Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/video/Pricing/Enterprise markers still present. Vendor evidence only — no price, credit, quota, plan-availability, model-availability, benchmark, ranking, speed, or superiority claim is drawn from it; all such specifics remain routed to the official pricing page.
Official homepage + pricing reachability/title recheck (2026-06-26): https://runwayml.com/ and https://runwayml.com/pricing — recorded as src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-26 in data/sources.json with access_status = ok after a 2026-06-26 KST HTTP 200 reachability/title/marker recheck (logged in data/runway-source-gate-2026-06-26.json and .md); source for the "Source-freshness note (2026-06-26)" only, supporting that both official surfaces stay reachable with their titles/h1s unchanged from the 2026-06-20 recheck (homepage title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World"; pricing h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You") and the durable Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/video/Pricing/Enterprise markers still present. Vendor evidence only — no price, credit, quota, plan-availability, model-availability, benchmark, ranking, speed, or superiority claim is drawn from it; all such specifics remain routed to the official pricing page.

Internal links (at least 3)

Category page: /ai-video/ (secondary category: /ai-design/)
Related tools: /tools/synthesia/ (scripted avatar/presenter video) and /tools/descript/ (transcript-based recording editor) — the site's other AI-video tools; plus /tools/gemini/ (Gemini models are listed on Runway's own pricing page as in-product image models)
Comparison page: /compare/runway-vs-synthesia/ (the site's AI-video comparison weighing generation/editing against scripted avatar/presenter video)

Disclosure

Affiliate links: none.
Sponsored content: none. Runway has no relationship to this page.
Generative AI assistance: this draft was assembled with the help of an AI assistant working from a 2026-05-26 live read of the official Runway homepage and pricing page; every product, plan, and feature claim is constrained to wording visible on those pages on that date, and no benchmark or output-quality claim is made.

Trademark notice

Runway and Runway product/model names (Gen-4, Gen-4.5, Aleph, Runway Characters, Act-Two) are trademarks of Runway AI, Inc. Gemini is a trademark of Google. Synthesia and Descript are trademarks of their respective owners. Use here is referential only and does not imply endorsement, partnership, or affiliation.

Update log

2026-06-28 (buyer-control / review-boundary qualified-traffic increment — LOCAL source/content edit only, NOT a new revenue page/product and NOT a deploy): added one compact, evergreen "## Buyer control and the review boundary" section placed after "## Alternatives" and before "## Where to compare Runway next", carrying durable marker runway-review-boundary-2026-06-28 once as a single <span id="runway-review-boundary-2026-06-28"></span> in the section's lead. It frames Runway buying around buyer control over prompts and uploaded source assets, likeness/voice/rights and brand-safety review, commercial-use and synthetic-media-disclosure review, and human approval as the gate before a generated clip is published — routing tool-vs-tool questions to the existing compare-next paths and the /ai-video/ category already on this page. Existing page/source context only — no web fetch and no data/* edit; no new price/plan/quota/credit/model-availability/ranking/benchmark/speed/accuracy/superiority/security-certification/legal claim; no Gumroad/UTM/affiliate/sponsored/coupon/checkout link; the existing exact 2026-05-26 pricing rows are unchanged; data/tools.json and last_verified_at unchanged; content_type/content_status stay tool_page/qa_passed; revenue inventory unchanged. Local-only increment; no build/deploy performed — live verify/build is handled separately by Hermes.
2026-06-26 (source-freshness refresh — local source recheck, NOT a new revenue page, no deploy): added a compact "Source-freshness note (2026-06-26)" section (after "## Quick verdict", above the "Source-freshness note (2026-06-20)" section) framing Runway as a browser-based video generation / creative production workflow surface, and re-emphasizing verifying current pricing/plan/credit/model-availability specifics at the source, keeping a human in the review loop with licensing/brand-safety checks, and that these are vendor pages, not an independent ranking. Evidence: a 2026-06-26 KST reachability/title/marker recheck (curl -L, 30s timeout, generic desktop UA; logged in data/runway-source-gate-2026-06-26.json and .md) where both official surfaces returned HTTP 200 — homepage https://runwayml.com/ (title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World", body-sample SHA-256 d397976e36741a2d94f273853cf6d0882fa76aab97adfe8023d5f7b303a4b044, durable markers Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/video plus Pricing/Enterprise nav) and pricing page https://runwayml.com/pricing (title "AI Image and Video Pricing from $12/month | Runway AI", h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You", body-sample SHA-256 079383f8ad9ae36c0acda6d27b4574302ebee3f8ce66d42e6f774cb12224cde9, durable markers Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/Pricing/Enterprise/video) — both titles/h1s unchanged from the 2026-06-20 recheck. One new source added (src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-26, source_type = official_homepage, access_status = ok) and listed in the page Sources and the runway sources_used (now 5). The pricing-page title string is recorded verbatim as page-title evidence, not a price claim. Vendor evidence only, not an independent ranking. No price/credit/quota/plan-availability/model-availability/ranking/benchmark/speed/superiority claim added; the existing exact 2026-05-26 pricing rows are unchanged and current specifics stay routed to "verify on official site"; no Gumroad/UTM/affiliate/sponsored/coupon CTA. data/tools.json pricing rows and last_verified_at unchanged; content_type/content_status stay tool_page/qa_passed.
2026-06-20 (source-freshness refresh — local source recheck, NOT a new revenue page, no deploy): added a compact "Source-freshness note (2026-06-20)" section (after "## Quick verdict", above the "Source-freshness note (2026-06-14)" section) confirming Runway's browser-based generative video/image creation-and-editing positioning surfaces stay reachable, and re-emphasizing verifying current pricing/plan/credit/model-availability specifics at the source, keeping a human in the review loop, and that these are vendor pages, not an independent ranking. Evidence: a 2026-06-20 KST reachability/title/marker recheck where both official surfaces returned HTTP 200 — homepage https://runwayml.com/ (title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World", durable markers Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/video/AI plus Pricing/Enterprise nav) and pricing page https://runwayml.com/pricing (title "AI Image and Video Pricing from $12/month | Runway AI", h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You", durable markers Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/Pricing/Enterprise/video) — both titles/h1s unchanged from the 2026-06-14 recheck. One new source added (src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-20, source_type = official_homepage, access_status = ok) and listed in the page Sources and the runway sources_used (now 4). The pricing-page title string is recorded verbatim as page-title evidence, not a price claim. Vendor evidence only, not an independent ranking. No price/credit/quota/plan-availability/model-availability/ranking/benchmark/speed/superiority claim added; the existing exact 2026-05-26 pricing rows are unchanged and current specifics stay routed to "verify on official site"; no Gumroad/UTM/affiliate/sponsored/coupon CTA. data/tools.json pricing rows and last_verified_at unchanged; content_type/content_status stay tool_page/qa_passed.
2026-06-14 (source-freshness refresh — local source recheck, NOT a new revenue page, no deploy): added a compact "Source-freshness note (2026-06-14)" section (after "## Quick verdict", before "## What is Runway?") framing Runway as a browser-based generative video/image creation-and-editing workflow and emphasizing workflow fit, keeping a human in the review loop, and verifying current pricing/plan/credit/model-availability specifics on Runway's official pages. Evidence: a 2026-06-14 KST reachability/title/marker recheck where both official surfaces returned HTTP 200 — homepage https://runwayml.com/ (title "Runway | Building AI to Simulate the World", h1 "Building AI to Simulate the World", durable markers Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/creative/video/AI plus Pricing/Enterprise nav) and pricing page https://runwayml.com/pricing (h1 "Runway Pricing: Choose the Right Plan for You", durable markers Runway/Gen-4/Aleph/Pricing/Enterprise/video). One new source added (src-runway-homepage-pricing-2026-06-14, source_type = official_homepage, access_status = ok) and listed in the page Sources and the runway sources_used. Vendor evidence only, not an independent ranking. No price/credit/quota/plan-availability/model-availability/ranking/benchmark/speed/superiority claim added; the existing exact 2026-05-26 pricing rows are unchanged and current specifics stay routed to "verify on official site"; no Gumroad/UTM/affiliate/sponsored/coupon CTA. data/tools.json pricing rows and last_verified_at unchanged; content_type/content_status stay tool_page/qa_passed.
2026-06-04 (internal-link/traffic refresh — live deployed via Cloudflare static-assets upload, no web fetch): added a "Where to compare Runway next" section (placed after "## Alternatives", before "## Who should not use Runway") framed as workflow-fit decision paths rather than rankings. It links the now-qa_passed AI-video comparison /compare/runway-vs-synthesia/ (positioned as generative video/editing vs scripted avatar/presenter fit, not a universal winner), the standalone qa_passed tool pages /tools/synthesia/ and /tools/descript/, the /ai-video/ category hub, and the /ai-design/ secondary category. Repointed the "Internal links" comparison row from /compare/claude-vs-gemini/ to /compare/runway-vs-synthesia/ and added the two AI-video tool pages to the related-tools row (both are now finished qa_passed pages, so the earlier "no finished synthesia/descript page" soft caveat no longer applies). Hermes uploaded the production ZIP through the visible Cloudflare dashboard; live /tools/runway/ returns HTTP 200 with this marker. No source was fetched and no volatile claim was added: no benchmark, ranking, price, quota, credit-rate, speed, model-availability, or legal fact is asserted, and no affiliate/sponsored/UTM CTA was added. data/sources.json, data/tools.json, data/comparisons.json, and last_verified_at are unchanged. Revenue inventory unchanged.
2026-05-26 (draft and qa pass): first local draft created from templates/tool-page-template.md. Live page-body reads of https://runwayml.com/ and https://runwayml.com/pricing on 2026-05-26 KST (both HTTP 200) added the product positioning, model/feature names, and the Free / Standard / Pro / Unlimited / Enterprise plan structure with the Free-tier 125-credit allowance and displayed paid amounts. Two new source entries added (src-runway-homepage-2026-05-26, src-runway-pricing-2026-05-26, both access_status = ok). data/tools.json runway record advanced from candidate to qa_passed (pricing_model = freemium, has_free_plan = true, confidence_score = 0.78, last_verified_at = 2026-05-26, sources relinked, AI-media-risk policy notes expanded). Section A1–A6 of qa/adsense-seo-quality-gate.md satisfied. Page is pricing-sensitive; re-verify by 2026-08-24.