Pika
Creative AI video generation
68
/100
Runway
AI video generation and editing suite
59
/100
Pika vs Runway
Detailed side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, and performance
Comparing
Our Expert Verdict
RankTool's data-driven recommendation based on scores, features, and pricing.
Winner
Pika
clearly
For most users, both Pika and Runway are strong options. Pika edges ahead overall, while Runway may be better for specific workflows. Use the category winners and feature matrix below to decide.
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Best Price
Pika
🧩
Best Ecosystem
Runway
Overview
Complete side-by-side specs in one place.
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| RankScore™ | 68 /100 | 59 /100 |
| Category | AI Video | AI Video |
| Starting price | $10/month | $15/month |
| Free plan | ✓ | — |
| API available | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Platforms | Web, Cloud SaaS | Web, Cloud SaaS |
| Target user | individual | team |
| Learning curve | Beginner | Intermediate |
| Context window | — | — |
| Image generation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Languages supported | ["English"] | ["English"] |
| Launch year | — | 2018 |
| Company | Pika Labs | Runway |
| Funding | — | Private / Growth-stage · $860M |
| Team size | — | — |
Pricing Comparison
Plan-by-plan breakdown with what's included at each tier.
Free
Pika
Basic
Free
- ✓ Monthly video credits: 80 monthly video credits
- ✓ Pika 2.5 access: 480p only
- ✓ Pika 2.5 resolution: 480p only
- ✗ Pikaframes
- ✓ Pikascenes: Included
- ✓ Pikadditions: Included
- ✓ Pikaswaps: Included
- ✓ Pikatwists: Included
- ✓ Pikaffects: Image-to-video only
- ✗ Generation speed
- ✓ Purchase roll over video credits: Included
- ✓ No-watermark downloads: Included
- ✓ Commercial use: Included
- ✓ Turbo model cost for Pikascenes, Pikadditions, or Pikaswaps: 10 credits per video
- ✓ Turbo model cost for Pikatwists: 60 credits per video
- ✓ Pro model cost for Pikadditions or Pikaswaps: 20 credits per video
- ✓ Pro model cost for Pikatwists: 80 credits per video
- ✓ Pikaffects image-to-video: 15 credits; 5s; free plan
- ✗ Pikaffects video-to-video
- ✓ Pikascenes 480p 5s: 20 credits; free plan
- ✗ Pikascenes 720p 5s
- ✗ Pikascenes 1080p 5s
- ✓ Text-to-video and image-to-video 480p: 12 credits for 5s; 24 credits for 10s
- ✗ Text-to-video and image-to-video 720p
- ✗ Text-to-video and image-to-video 1080p
- ✓ Pikaformance: 720p; up to 10s or up to 30s audio; 3 credits/second
Runway
Free
Free
- ✓ Credits included: 125 one-time credits
- ✓ Generative video: Gen-4 Turbo image-to-video
- ✓ Generative image: Gen-4 text-to-image and references, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 2.5, Image Apps
- ✓ Generative audio: Text to Speech and Audio Apps
- ✗ All AI image and video models
- ✗ 4K Upscaling
- ✗ No watermarks: Free plan videos include a Runway watermark
- ✓ Video editor projects: 3 projects
- ✓ Asset storage: 5GB
- ✗ Custom voices
- ✗ Credit rollover: One-time credits do not expire, but no monthly credits renew
- ✗ First access to newest models
- ✗ Highest generation volume
- ✗ Single sign-on
- ✗ Workspace analytics
- ✗ Configurable teamspaces
- ✗ Priority support
- ✗ Additional credit purchases: Credit purchases are not available on Free plan
- ✗ API usage: API credits are separate from web app credits
Plus / Pro
Pika
Standard
$8/month
- ✓ Monthly video credits: 700 monthly video credits
- ✓ Pika 2.5 access: All resolutions
- ✓ Pika 2.5 resolution: All resolutions
- ✓ Pikaframes: Included
- ✓ Pikascenes: Included
- ✓ Pikadditions: Included
- ✓ Pikaswaps: Included
- ✓ Pikatwists: Included
- ✓ Pikaffects: All Pikaffects
- ✓ Generation speed: Fast generations
- ✓ Purchase roll over video credits: Included
- ✓ No-watermark downloads: Included
- ✓ Commercial use: Included
- ✓ Turbo model cost for Pikascenes, Pikadditions, or Pikaswaps: 10 credits per video
- ✓ Turbo model cost for Pikatwists: 60 credits per video
- ✓ Pro model cost for Pikadditions or Pikaswaps: 20 credits per video
- ✓ Pro model cost for Pikatwists: 80 credits per video
- ✓ Pikaffects image-to-video: 18 credits; 5s; paid plan
- ✓ Pikaffects video-to-video: 18 credits; 5s; paid plan
- ✓ Pikascenes 480p 5s: 20 credits; free plan access also listed
- ✓ Pikascenes 720p 5s: 35 credits; paid plan
- ✓ Pikascenes 1080p 5s: 65 credits; paid plan
- ✓ Text-to-video and image-to-video 480p: 12 credits for 5s; 24 credits for 10s
- ✓ Text-to-video and image-to-video 720p: 20 credits for 5s; 40 credits for 10s
- ✓ Text-to-video and image-to-video 1080p: 40 credits for 5s; 80 credits for 10s
- ✓ Pikaformance: 720p; up to 10s or up to 30s audio; 3 credits/second
Runway
Standard
$15/month
- ✓ Credits included: 625 credits monthly
- ✓ Generative video: Access to paid video generation models
- ✓ Generative image: Access to paid image generation models
- ✓ Generative audio: Supported audio tools included
- ✓ All AI image and video models: Includes models listed by Runway such as Gen-4.5, Nano Banana Pro, Aleph, Veo 3.1, and more
- ✓ 4K Upscaling: Included
- ✓ No watermarks: Included
- ✓ Video editor projects: Not publicly specified on pricing page for this plan
- ✓ Asset storage: Not publicly specified on pricing page for this plan
- ✗ Custom voices
- ✗ Credit rollover: Monthly credits do not roll over
- ✗ First access to newest models
- ✗ Highest generation volume
- ✗ Single sign-on
- ✗ Workspace analytics
- ✗ Configurable teamspaces
- ✗ Priority support
- ✓ Additional credit purchases: Minimum purchase is 1,000 credits
- ✗ API usage: API credits are purchased separately in the developer portal
Enterprise
Runway
Enterprise
Custom
- ✓ Credits included: Custom credits
- ✓ Generative video: Everything in Max
- ✓ Generative image: Everything in Max
- ✓ Generative audio: Everything in Max
- ✓ All AI image and video models: Everything in Max
- ✓ 4K Upscaling: Everything in Max
- ✓ No watermarks: Everything in Max
- ✓ Video editor projects: Custom team usage
- ✓ Asset storage: Custom team usage
- ✓ Custom voices: Everything in Max
- ✓ Credit rollover: Custom terms not publicly specified
- ✓ First access to newest models: Everything in Max
- ✓ Highest generation volume: Scalable for large organizations
- ✓ Single sign-on: Included
- ✓ Workspace analytics: Included
- ✓ Configurable teamspaces: Included
- ✓ Priority support: Included
- ✓ Additional credit purchases: Custom credit packages
- ✗ API usage: Runway API pricing is listed separately from web app plans
Monthly cost for a 5-person team
Pika: $50/month
Runway: $75/month
Feature Matrix
Grouped capabilities — see who has what at a glance.
Other 11 features — Pika: 6/11 · Runway: 7/11
Feature
Pika
Runway
Text to video
✓
✗
Gen-3 Alpha
✗
✓
Image to video
✓
✓
Video to video
✗
✓
Pikaffects
✓
✗
Motion brush
✗
✓
Lip sync
✓
✓
Expand canvas
✓
✗
Sound effects
✓
✗
Green screen
✗
✓
Timeline editor
✗
✓
Who Should Use What
Pick the tool that matches your workflow.
Choose Pika if you…
- Creative AI video generation
- Text and image to video with effects and scene editing.
Choose Runway if you…
- AI video generation and editing suite
- Creative tools for Gen-3 video, inpainting, and motion design.
Ratings Breakdown
All 8 RankScore dimensions compared side-by-side.
Pika
Runway
Decision scores
Five-dimension breakdown from expert reviews and verified user ratings (1–10 scale).
Pika
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
Runway
Decision score
Expert + user ratings blended per dimension (1–10 scale)
5.0
Overall / 5★ search score
Privacy/Security
5.0
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