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HAKOOL vs Runway
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose AKOOL if…
- you're in its core audience: marketing teams, content creators
R
Choose Runway if…
- you work on iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: content creators, marketing teams
Side by side
Feature AKOOL Runway
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$12/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
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, iOS, Android, API
CategoryAvatar & Talking-Head VideoVideo Generators
CompanyAKOOLRunway AI, Inc. · United States · since 2018
Full feature lists
A AKOOL
- Talking avatar and streaming avatar videos
- Face, head, hair and clothing swap
- Video translation
- PPT/PDF to video conversion
- Text to speech, voice clone and voice changer
- Model Hub with Seedance, Kling, Veo, Sora and more
- Live face swap and live camera
- OpenAPI for developers
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
Their home pages
What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.
AKOOL · akool.com
Runway · runwayml.comWhat you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
| Team size | AKOOL | Runway |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | no published plan | $12 Standard |
All plans and prices
AKOOL
Free$0
Starter$12/seat/mo billed yearly ($144)
Pro$21/seat/mo billed yearly; $30 shown otherwise
Pro Max$41.30/seat/mo billed yearly; $59 shown otherwise
Business$174.30/seat/mo billed yearly; $249 shown otherwise
EnterpriseCustom
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
AKOOL
- Free tier available
- Access to many third-party video and image models in one place
- Paid plans have no watermark
- API and real-time avatar options
- API access starts at the Pro Max plan
- Starter plan limited to 1080P and 200 credits a month
- Free tier has slow processing and only 5 TTS uses in total
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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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Oct 26, 2026. Editorial policy