Runway vs Luma vs Pika: which AI video plan fits a creator
How this page is made. Every price comes from the vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date above. We have not compared the quality of the videos, so this page is about cost only. Some links are affiliate links; see the disclosure.
Runway, Luma and Pika all sell video generation by credits, but a credit is not worth the same on each. This page puts the paid monthly plans in one table. Credits alone don’t tell you much because each platform charges a different number of credits for the same video, so read it together with the Kling 4.0 price comparison.
monthly plans
| platform and plan | monthly price | credits per month | price per 1,000 credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runway app · Standard | $15.00 | 625 | $24.00 |
| Runway app · Pro | $35.00 | 2,250 | $15.56 |
| Runway app · Max | $95.00 | 9,500 | $10.00 |
| Luma · Plus | $30.00 | 10,000 | $3.00 |
| Luma · Pro | $90.00 | 40,000 | $2.25 |
| Luma · Ultra | $300 | 150,000 | $2.00 |
| Pika · Starter | $10.00 | 600 | $16.67 |
| Pika · Creator | $35.00 | 2,600 | $13.46 |
| Pika · Fancy | $95.00 | 8,550 | $11.11 |
Prices are the monthly rate, not the cheaper annual rate. The Pika Fancy plan is listed by Pika as "from" $95.00 and 8,550 or more credits.
details that change what you pay
- Runway: Standard and Pro credits don’t roll over. Max credits roll over for one month. A free plan gives 125 one-time credits.
- Pika: the free plan has no monthly credits, only paid credit packs. One-time top-ups are listed at 60 credits per dollar on every plan, and those top-up credits are not for the API.
- Luma: plans are credits only. We did not find a count of generations on the page, and credit costs depend on the model and the resolution.
how to choose
- You make a few clips a month: look at the entry plans and watch for credits that expire unused.
- You generate every week: compare cost per second on the model you actually use, not the monthly headline price. The calculator on the tools page does this.
- You need occasional bursts: pay-as-you-go through the Runway API avoids a subscription, at $0.01 per credit.
what we left out
Runway’s page lists several more models than we price here, and each platform adds models often. Hailuo and Kling’s own sites did not load for us on 2026-11-13, and Google’s and OpenAI’s pages did not list a per-second price for video, so they are not in this comparison.
sources
runway.com/pricing, Runway API pricing, lumalabs.ai/pricing, pika.art/pricing.