Pick Kling AI if
motion designers and marketers who want a clip from a prompt and will buy credits.
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Our take
Pick Kling AI if motion designers and marketers who want a clip from a prompt and will buy credits. Pick Runway if creators who want text-to-video or timeline edits and will burn credits. Skip Kling AI if people who need to cut their own footage (Descript) or a local diffusion graph (ComfyUI). Skip Runway if people who need a presenter avatar (HeyGen, Synthesia) or speech-only TTS (ElevenLabs).
Kling AI
hosted text-to-video (and image) generator
Best for
Kling AI A cinematic clip from a sentence
Runway Generate or edit moving pictures
Free plan
Kling AI $0 · daily free credits; 0 monthly included credits on the comparison row
Runway $0 · /month. 125 one-time credits that don’t expire (not a monthly refill). 5GB storage. A selection of models to test
Lowest paid
Kling AI Standard $10/mo
Runway Standard $12/mo yearly
Next step up
Kling AI Pro $37/mo
Runway Pro $28/mo yearly
Coding agent
Kling AI
Runway Agent
Runs where
Kling AI Hosted
Runway Hosted
Watch out
Kling AI Credits are the meter
Runway Free is 125 credits once
Last checked
Kling AI 2026-10-20 · kling.ai/dev/pricing
Runway 2026-10-19 · runwayml.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Runway if
creators who want text-to-video or timeline edits and will burn credits.
Read the Runway page