Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| For video gen |  Runway |  Google Gemini API |
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| Free tier | No A $10 minimum credit purchase is required to get started. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Yes Free of charge on Flash and Flash-Lite models and Gemma 4; free-tier content is used to improve products. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Starting price | $0.01 per credit gen4.5 video is 12 credits/second; gen4_turbo is 5 credits/second. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | $0.10 per 1M input tokens Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite standard text input, $0.40 output; cheapest paid standard rate on the page. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Rate limit | Tier 1: 1 to 2 concurrent video tasks Per model and project: 50 to 200 video generations per rolling 24 hours; tiers rise automatically with spend. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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| Size limit | Not listed | 1M token context Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,048,576 input tokens, 65,536 output tokens. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Official SDKs | JavaScript / TypeScriptPython Packages: @runwayml/sdk (npm) and runwayml (pip). Source, Nov 15, 2026 | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript |
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| Trains on your data | Not listed | No Paid tier prompts and responses are not used to improve products; free tier data is. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| EU hosting | Not listed | Yes EU multi-region endpoints via Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform), not AI Studio. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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