Runway
Generation plus a full editing toolkit aimed at film and advertising production.
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Runway vs Vidu
Runway (Runway) and Vidu (Shengshu AI) both sit in Video. Vidu is the cheaper entry point at Free tier available with free credits; paid plans available (pricing not fully disclosed in text).. Runway shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 7). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Runway Runway | Vidu Shengshu AI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Video | Video |
| Version | Gen-4.5 | S1 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $15 one-time | Free tier available with free credits; paid plans available (pricing not fully disclosed in text). |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Standard $15 · Pro $35 · Max $95 | Free Tier 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 | GPT2 · Vidu Q1 · Vidu Q1 Image · Vidu Q2 · Vidu Q2 Image · Vidu Q3 · Vidu S1 |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 10 | 7 |
| Origin | Global | China |
| Capabilities | Text to video, Video to video, Act-Two performance capture, Aleph editing, Frames, AI Video Generation, AI Image Generation, AI Audio Generation | Multi-image reference, Anime styles, Start and end frames, Audio generation, Text to Video, Image to Video, Reference to Video, AI Sound Effect Generator |
Vidu
Vidu's reference-to-video mode conditions on several images at once for consistent characters and props.
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