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Which model each app runs today, and when it last changed

Every line priced, and none named as the start

The pricing page converts credits into seconds for each named model, which makes the menu unusually complete. None of those rows is identified as what a new project runs on, so the starting engine is not published even though every purchasable engine is. As of 2026-09-22.

What has been announced, entry by entryFilled where the vendor has announced something in that column, hollow where it has not.What has been announced, entry by entryWhat Runway publishesWhat RunwaypublishesWhat that leaves openWhat that leavesopenIs a starting tier statedIs a starting tier stated — What Runway publishes: No row is identified as the starting oneIs a starting tier stated — What that leaves open: Conversions are prices, not defaultsAre all engines namedAre all engines named — What Runway publishes: Yes, each with its own conversion rateAre all engines named — What that leaves open: Including image lines with separate ratesCould the cheapest be assumedCould the cheapest be assumed — What Runway publishes: No, price is not a statement about defaultsCould the cheapest be assumed — What that leaves open: A conversion says cost, not placementWhat a change to the table would sh…What a change to the table would showWhat a change to the table would show — What Runway publishes: A rate moving, or a name leavingWhat a change to the table would show — What that leaves open: Neither identifies the starting line
Fig. 1 Filled where the vendor has announced something in that column, hollow where it has not.
What the credit conversion table settles about the starting engine. Recorded 2026-09-22.
What the page is askedWhat Runway publishesWhat that leaves open
Is a starting tier statedNo row is identified as the starting oneConversions are prices, not defaults
Are all engines namedYes, each with its own conversion rateIncluding image lines with separate rates
Could the cheapest be assumedNo, price is not a statement about defaultsA conversion says cost, not placement
What a change to the table would showA rate moving, or a name leavingNeither identifies the starting line

Inclusion rule. Filled when the entry's own public page says which model a new project starts on, or when a single-model menu makes the answer follow from the list having one line. Order. The absence first, then what the table does publish.

1Complete pricing, absent placement

This entry publishes more model names than almost anything else in the register and says nothing about which one arrives unasked. Those are different disclosures and a reader can have the second while lacking the first, or the reverse, as here.

It is a useful pairing to notice. Completeness of a price list is not evidence about product behaviour, and a reader who found every rate would reasonably assume the easy question was answered too.

2Cheapest is not a default

The temptation is to read the most favourable conversion as the starting line, on the grounds that a product would default to what costs least. Nothing on the page supports that, and a conversion rate is a commercial signal rather than a placement.

The register declines the inference for the same reason it declines every other: a cell filled from a plausible guess is a cell nobody can check, and the checkable ones are the whole product here.

Complete pricing is not evidence about placementThis entry publishes more model names than almost anything else in the register and says nothing about which one arrives unasked. A reader who found every conversion rate would reasonably assume the easier question was answered too.What the table givesWhat it withholdsModel namesEvery purchasable lineWhich one is the startPricesA conversion per modelWhether price implies placementChange signalA rate or a name movingWhich of the two happened and whyUnitA creditSeconds, until you convertTwo disclosures, and only one of them is here
Fig. 2 Reading the cheapest conversion as the default would fill the cell from a guess nobody can check.

3What credits do to detection

Because the unit is a credit rather than a second, a change to the starting engine could appear as a different conversion, a different name, or nothing at all. The abstraction sits between the customer and the model.

That is recorded in the notice reading for this entry, where the same table is read for a different question: two kinds of change hiding in one edit.

  • Models carried
    Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 in house, plus Kling 3.0 and three Seedance variantsnamed beside credit conversionsRunway, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
  • Notice before the credit table changes
    No date announced (as of 2026-09-12)nothing publishedRunway, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22

4Sources

Read from the pricing page on runway.com, 2026-09-22. The whole entry is on Runway, and the column it sits in is on Default tier. Same column, other entries: Adobe Firefly, fal.