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DeepSwap vs Runway
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose DeepSwap if…
- you're in its core audience: social media creators, meme makers
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Choose Runway if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you work on iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: content creators, marketing teams
Side by side
Feature DeepSwap Runway
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Starting price—$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
CategoryFace SwapVideo Generators
CompanyDeepSwapRunway AI, Inc. · United States · since 2018
Full feature lists
D DeepSwap
- Face swap in videos, photos and GIFs
- 4K HD video face swap
- Swap up to 6 faces in one video
- VR face swap
- Image-to-video, text-to-video and video extend
- Background removal, image enhancement and cartoonizing
- Face swap videos up to 30 minutes on PRO
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
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
| Team size | DeepSwap | Runway |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | no published plan | $12 Standard |
All plans and prices
DeepSwap
PRO (Full Access)Not listed
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
DeepSwap
- Swaps up to 6 faces in one video
- Processes a 1-minute video in about 10 seconds
- Clear per-feature credit costs, e.g. photo swap costs 0.1 credit
- Also includes AI video generation and image tools
- Video face swap uses 1 credit per 15 seconds
- PRO includes only 20 credits a month
- No free plan listed
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