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CAdobe Premiere Pro vs Runway
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Adobe Premiere Pro if…
- you work on Windows, macOS
- you're in its core audience: professional video editors, content creators
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Choose Runway if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you want the lower entry price ($12/mo vs $22.99/mo)
- you need an API to build on
- you work on Web
- you're in its core audience: content creators, marketing teams
Side by side
Feature Adobe Premiere Pro Runway
Pricing modelFree trialFreemium
Starting price$22.99/mo$12/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Security and compliance—SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR
Updates, last 90 days—30
PlatformsWindows, macOS, iOS, AndroidWeb, iOS, Android, API
CategoryVideo EditingVideo Generators
CompanyAdobeRunway AI, Inc.
Based in—United States
Founded—2018
Part of——
Key features
A Adobe Premiere Pro
- Generative Extend to lengthen clips and fill ambient sound
- Object Mask that tracks a subject after one click
- Text-Based Editing through an auto-generated transcript
- Media Intelligence search using plain-language descriptions
- Color grading with wheels, curves and video scopes
- Enhance Speech and noise reduction for dialogue
- Caption translation in 18 languages
- In-app music browser with auto-fit and licensing
R Runway
- Text and image to video with Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0
- Third-party models such as Kling, Seedance and Nano Banana Pro
- Music, voice, sound effects and text-to-speech generation
- Agentic creative collaborator
- Runway Ads publishes ads to Meta, Google and TikTok
- 4K upscaling, plus HDR and ProRes output on Max
- Custom voice clones and brand kits
- Developer API and MCP server
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Adobe Premiere Pro
PremiereUS$22.99/mo
Creative Cloud ProUS$69.99/mo (US$34.99/mo for the first 3 months for new subscribers)
Creative Cloud Pro (Students and teachers)US$19.99/mo for the first year
Premiere for teamsUS$37.99/mo per license
Creative Cloud Pro for teamsUS$99.99/mo per license
Runway
Free$0
Standard$12/mo billed yearly ($15 monthly)
Pro$28/mo billed yearly ($35 monthly)
Max$76/mo billed yearly ($95 monthly)
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Adobe Premiere Pro
- Available on desktop, iPhone and Android
- 7-day free trial for individuals and 14-day trial for teams
- Includes Frame.io and 100GB of cloud storage
- Student plan costs US$19.99/mo for the first year
- Sold only by subscription, with no one-time purchase
- Single-app plan includes only 25 generative credits a month
- Trial converts to a paid subscription unless you cancel
- Color Mode and the new shape masks are still in beta
Runway
- Free plan with 125 credits that don't expire
- Own models and third-party models available in one workspace
- iOS and Android apps plus an API
- Extra purchased credits never expire
- Free credits are one-time, not monthly
- Monthly credits on Standard and Pro don't roll over
- Minimum top-up purchase is 1,000 credits
- Standard is limited to 3 projects
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