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 vision |  Runway |  OpenAI |  Google Gemini API |
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| Free tier | No A $10 minimum credit purchase is required to get started. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed | 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 |
| $2 per 1M input tokens GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Sol; $10 per 1M output tokens (GPT-6 Luna from $0.10 input). 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 | 5,000 requests/min Build tier ($5 in total credit purchases), GPT-6 Sol; 1,000,000 tokens/min. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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| Size limit | Not listed | 1.05M token context GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra and GPT-6 Luna. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 1M token context Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,048,576 input tokens, 65,536 output tokens. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Storage | Not listed | 1 GB free File search storage, then $0.10 per GB per day. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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| Official SDKs | JavaScript / TypeScriptPython Packages: @runwayml/sdk (npm) and runwayml (pip). Source, Nov 15, 2026 | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript | PythonJavaScript / TypeScript |
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| Trains on your data | Not listed | No API data is not used for training unless you explicitly opt in. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 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 Europe (EEA + Switzerland) data residency via eu.api.openai.com for eligible orgs; image support needs approval. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Yes EU multi-region endpoints via Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform), not AI Studio. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Compliance | Not listed | SOC 2ISO 27001GDPRHIPAASource, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed |
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