Video comparison
Gatsbyai vs Runway
Generating short text-to-video and image-to-video clips across four model families from one browser workspace, with the credit cost of each run shown before you spend it · AI video generation and creative production experiments
| Decision point | GatsbyAI | Runway |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Generating short text-to-video and image-to-video clips across four model families from one browser workspace, with the credit cost of each run shown before you spend it | AI video generation and creative production experiments |
| Category | Video | Video |
| Price | Lite $19.98/mo or $119.88/yr (2,000 credits a month); Pro $39.98/mo or $239.88/yr (5,000); Ultra $77.98/mo or $467.88/yr (10,000); one-time packs 1,500 credits $29.90, 3,000 $49.90, 5,000 $69.90, 8,000 $99.90; two free guest generations a day and 10 daily credits for a signed-in account | Free + paid plans |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 3.8/5 | 4.2/5 |
Scores are editorial product assessments — job fit, likely output quality, ease of adoption, and operational cost — not lab benchmarks, and no tool here has a published hands-on result. How we score.
Evidence status
Lite $19.98/month or $119.88 billed annually ($9.99/month equivalent, 2,000 credits a month); Pro $39.98/month or $239.88 annually ($19.99 equivalent, 5,000 credits); Ultra $77.98/month or $467.88 annually ($38.99 equivalent, 10,000 credits). The page states the yearly option as 50% off and the arithmetic is exact against twelve times the monthly price. One-time credit packs: 1,500 credits $29.90, 3,000 $49.90, 5,000 $69.90, 8,000 $99.90, valid six months, with 50% bonus credits for active subscribers. Subscription credits refresh to the monthly allowance and do not accumulate; failed generations release reserved daily credits and return charged credits. Free access: two generations a day for guests and 10 daily credits for signed-in accounts, with the default Seedance 2.0 Mini generation costing 5 credits.
Official sources checked 2026-10-21Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-22 03:38 UTC (2026-10-21 20:38 PDT); editorial entry written independently from live pages the same working day. Plan prices were read from the rendered yearly cards on /pricing, cross-checked against the site's own llms.txt, and the monthly-billed equivalents ($19.98 / $39.98 / $77.98) plus the four credit-pack prices were read from the shipped plan config inside the served Next.js chunks, because the Monthly and Credit Packs tabs of the pricing page render client-side and carry no figures in the served HTML. Free-tier claims verified from the public credits endpoint (/api/ai-video/credits returns dailyLimit 2 for an anonymous visitor) rather than from marketing copy. /privacy (last updated 2026-10-09) and /terms (2026-10-13) read in full; neither names an operator, jurisdiction or governing law, the privacy policy names no processor and no retention period, and GA4 G-GDTETMSPS7 loads on both policy pages with no consent control. Contact route verified before relying on it: gatsbyai.app MX is Cloudflare Email Routing, support@gatsbyai.app returned 250 in an SMTP RCPT probe while a random local part returned 550. Domain registered 2026-10-01 (Spaceship, Cloudflare NS); no checkout or purchase was exercised.
Creative plans: Free $0 with 125 one-time credits and 5 GB storage; Standard $15 monthly or $12/month billed annually with 625 credits/month; Pro $35 monthly or $28/month billed annually with 2,250 credits/month and 500 GB storage; Max $95 monthly or $76/month billed annually with 9,500 credits/month and up to one month of credit rollover; Enterprise has custom pricing and credits. Standard and Pro subscription credits do not roll over; purchased credits do not expire. The pricing page states Gen-4.5 costs 12 credits per generated second.
Official sources checked 2026-09-18Open verification questions
- The self-serve terms authorize training on Inputs and Outputs, while Runway separately advertises no training on Enterprise customer data. The precise Enterprise exceptions depend on the separate Enterprise agreement and cannot be generalized to self-serve plans.
- The pricing page does not provide a fixed Enterprise price or credit allocation.
Official pricing and Help Center pages agree on the 625/2,250/9,500 monthly credit allocations. Terms last updated May 11, 2026 state that Runway does not claim ownership of Inputs or Outputs and does not restrict commercial use of Outputs, subject to compliance with the agreement. The same terms grant Runway a perpetual license to use Inputs and Outputs for model training, labeling, classification, moderation, and related improvement. The privacy policy says submitted voice and face characteristics may be biometric data and are used only to provide the requested biometric-enabled feature. Runway's official voice-verification documentation requires explicit, in-app consent from the same speaker before custom-voice training and prohibits non-consensual replicas. Terms also prohibit impersonation and submitting another person's photograph without permission. Official voice-consent source: https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/29828787723411-Voice-verification
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