What one credit costs on Runway
Runway states a cent a credit on the same page as its twelve-credits-a-second rate, which multiplies out to twelve cents a second. Both halves in one place is the shortest path from a credit figure to money in this register. As of 2026-09-22.
| What is published | As the API price page states it |
|---|---|
| Price of a credit | One cent, on the same page as the rate |
| Rate | Twelve credits a second |
| Multiplied out | Twelve cents a second of output |
| What the plans page adds | Credit expiry rules that differ by plan |
Inclusion rule. Figures on the API price page that complete the conversion. The consumer plans page is a separate document and appears here only where it bears on the credits themselves. Order. The credit price first, then the rate, then the product.
1Where Runway sits in this column
| Channel | Price of a credit |
|---|---|
| Hedra | Not stated, but the plans divide out |
| Luma | Not stated, though the rate is per second |
| Pika | Not stated, and the rate is per feature |
| PixVerse | 225 credits to the dollar, one reference |
| Runway | One cent, stated beside the rate |
| SceneMixer | $0.0149 down to $0.0078 by pack |
Inclusion rule. Channels that meter in credits. Whether the credit price is published decides whether anything on that page converts into money, so both answers are listed. Order. Alphabetical by channel name.
2Two halves on one page is rarer than it should be
A credit rate and a credit price are both short sentences. Printing them together is what separates a page that can be quoted from one that has to be reconciled across two documents, and most credit pages in this register do not.
The benefit shows up in disputes rather than in budgets. Twelve cents a second is not an estimate produced here; it is the seller's own multiplication, and a reader who disagrees with it disagrees with the seller.
3The clean conversion sits on top of a messy expiry rule
The credit price is flat and the credit lifetime is not: two plans reset the allowance within a day of the billing date, one carries a month forward, and credits bought separately never lapse. So twelve cents a second is exact for purchased credits and a floor for allowance credits.
That makes this channel two products at one printed rate. The developer buying credits outright pays what the page says; the subscriber paying monthly pays the page's figure divided by whatever share of the allowance actually gets used.
4A cent is a round number, which usually means a designed one
Credit currencies exist to decouple a seller's prices from its costs, and pinning a credit at exactly one cent gives that up almost entirely. The currency then does nothing except let the rate be quoted in whole numbers.
It is a reader's gain either way. Where a credit is a round fraction of a dollar, every rate on the page can be checked in one step, and nothing about the pricing depends on understanding the currency first.
- Published per-second price12 credits per second at $0.01 a credit, which is $0.12 per second
- Unused creditsStandard and Pro monthly credits do not roll over and reset within 24 hours of the billing date; on Max up to one month of unused credits rolls over; separately purchased credits never expireanswered per plan
5Sources
Read from the API price page published at docs.dev.runwayml.com on 2026-09-22. The rate this column sits beside is on Runway; what the register accepts as published is on the method page. The same column on other channels: Luma, Pika. Every column: what each channel publishes.