Runway's unlimited plan became Max, and the credits came with it

Runway's plan page prices Standard, Pro and Max in credits and states 625 credits as 52 seconds of Gen-4.5. Monthly credits on Standard and Pro do not roll over; Max rolls over up to one month; credits bought separately never expire. No notice period is published for a plan change. From 4 source pages, read 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-26; no maker pays to be listed.

1What this register already holds

What Runway's own page prints, the one pricing clause in this register that admits the menu can change, and the pipeline rows this register reads for tier behaviour.

• 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 notice period publishednothing publishedRunway, pricing page / recorded 2026-09-22
• Published notice
  The pricing page reserves the right to update, modify or replace available models and does not guarantee continued availability of any specific modelthe only one of its kind hereLTX Studio, pricing / recorded 2026-09-12
• Default tier
  Wan 3.0 at 480Pwhat a new project getsSceneMixer, price list / recorded 2026-09-12
• Models carried
  Wan 3.0 at 480P, 720P and 1080P; Seedance 2.5 Pro, Lite and 480P; Seedance 2.0, Fast and 480P; MiniMax H3 and H3 Fast; Kling 4.0 and Kling 4.0 Flashnamed per tierSceneMixer, price list / since 2026-10-15 / checked 2026-10-26
• Notice before a tier changes
  No notice period publishednothing publishedSceneMixer, price list / recorded 2026-09-12
• Work in progress when a tier goes
  When a tier is withdrawn, text and image work falls back to the default tier and video to the tier the episode last used if it is still listed, otherwise the default; the price shown is the tier that will runSceneMixer, withdrawn tier guide / recorded 2026-10-13
• Finished work when a tier goes
  Sheets and segments already made keep their pixels and their record of which tier made them; versions are kept, and nothing is regenerated or charged by a fallbackSceneMixer, withdrawn tier guide / recorded 2026-10-13

2What the plan page meters now

Runway's pricing page sells credits and converts them on the same page. Standard runs $15 a month, or $12 if it is billed yearly, and the page states 625 credits as 52 seconds of Gen-4.5. That conversion is what makes the plan readable at all: a credit without a seconds figure beside it is a unit with no denominator, and the page would not be comparable with anything.

The same table is a model list that nobody set out to publish. Naming Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 in house, then Kling 3.0 and three Seedance variants beside them, tells a reader which lines the vendor controls and which it licenses. A licensed line ends when somebody else decides, and the page does not say who would tell the subscriber.

3A word can leave a plan page without an announcement

The community question behind this page is not about a rate at all; it is about the word unlimited, and it has been asked often enough to have its own line in the material. A plan page is a live document, and a qualifier can be removed between two readings without any notice, because no register in this market requires one.

That is why this register dates every row instead of describing a product. A plan read on one day and a plan read a month later are two readings, and the difference between them is the only evidence of change a reader outside the company can hold. Where nothing changed, the two readings agree — which is also a finding.

4The one vendor here that writes the risk down

LTX Studio reserves the right on its pricing page to update, modify or replace the models available to a plan, and declines to guarantee continued availability of any specific model. Read beside the rest of this register, that sentence is unusual: it is a vendor stating the risk that every plan table carries silently.

It does not make the product safer. It makes the page honest, and honesty here is what lets a buyer price the risk instead of discovering it when a menu changes. The same sentence is the reason LTX is readable in this register at all: a clause like that is what a page looks like when the company has thought about the question.

5What a pipeline does when the tier underneath changes

The pipeline this register reads for tier behaviour starts every project on Wan 3.0 at 480P, and its list names a model and a version against each tier. When a tier is withdrawn, text and image work falls back to the default and video work to the tier the episode last used if it is still listed; the price shown is the tier that will run.

The rest of its behaviour is the part worth copying into a plan: sheets and segments already made keep their pixels and their record of which tier made them, versions are kept, and nothing is regenerated or charged by the fallback. The pipeline publishes no notice period either, which is the same silence as everywhere else in this register — recorded as silence.

6What each of them publishes about its own ending

Inclusion rule. Rows are the entries this page is about, each read on its own page, plus the pipeline this register reads for what happens to a tier when one is withdrawn. A point a page leaves open is written here as left open, not inferred from a menu. Order. Alphabetical by entry name.

7What the material counted

Two lines about this plan below: what the threads posted, and the question that repeats across them. Both come from the material collected on 2026-10-14.

Inclusion rule. Names the collection counted and that this page is about. A post arguing with itself can land in both the positive and the negative column. Order. Descending by posts.

Inclusion rule. Questions the collection counted, quoted as they were written. Order. Descending by the thread count.

Does signing up for Runway feel like getting ripped off?

r/runwayml, collected 2026-10-14

Is the Runway Unlimited annual plan at 50% off worth it?

r/runwayml, collected 2026-10-14

8When the other one is the safer pick

• You need the conversion printed beside the plan — Runway states a number of seconds against its top plan, which turns a credit into a denominator a buyer can multiply.
• You are buying capacity for a burst of work — Monthly credits that reset suit a short shoot; purchased credits that never expire suit everything that has to wait.
• You want house and licensed lines on one page — Naming both kinds in one conversion table is what makes a future swap visible rather than silent.

The question people kept asking about this was counted as "Why has unlimited lost its meaning in AI video pricing?" Next in this column: Nano Banana Pro and what replaces Sora.