Runway
Generation plus a full editing toolkit aimed at film and advertising production.
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Runway vs Descript
Runway (Runway) and Descript (Descript) both sit in Video. Runway is the cheaper entry point at Free tier · from $15 one-time. Runway shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Runway Runway | Descript Descript |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Video | Video |
| Version | Gen-4.5 | Underlord |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $15 one-time | Free tier · from $24/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Standard $15 · Pro $35 · Max $95 | Free free · Hobbyist $24 · Creator $35 · Business $65 · Enterprise free |
| Model stack | Aleph · Aleph 2.0 · Banana Pro · Gen-4 · Gen-4 Image · Gen-4 Turbo · Gen-4.5 · Kling 3.0 · Kling 3.0 Nano · Lyria 3 · Lyria 3 Clip · Lyria 3 Pro · Nano Banana Pro · Nano Banana Pro 2 · Nano Banana Pro 2 2K · Nano Banana Pro 2K · Seed Audio 1.0 · Seedance 2.0 · Seedance 2.0 Fast · Seedance 2.0 Pro · Seedance 2.5 · Veo 3.1 | ChatGPT · In-house speech models · Underlord · Undisclosed frontier LLM |
| Context window | n/a | Not published |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 10 | 9 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Text to video, Video to video, Act-Two performance capture, Aleph editing, Frames, AI Video Generation, AI Image Generation, AI Audio Generation | Text-based editing, Overdub voice clone, Studio Sound, Eye contact, Underlord agent, Video editing, Audio transcription, Screen recording |
Descript
Transcript-based video and podcast editing with AI voice and filler-word removal.
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