The facts, with their sources

Done-for-you service: NoYou run the software yourself on a self-serve plan; the only people-delivered element is Enterprise onboarding help, not an agency that produces the work for you.Onboarding services with forward deployed creativesrunway.com/pricing

Runs autonomously: PartlyThe agent plans and generates a campaign in one conversation, but the vendor stresses the human stays in the loop; only through a ChatGPT dot does it describe work finishing unattended.Nothing runs without yourunway.com/product/agent
Agent permissions: PartlyGeneration is user-directed rather than open-ended, and team workspaces add roles, permissions and sharing policies, but no published per-action approval controls for the agent itself.Direct every edit in plain languagerunway.com/product/agent

GPT: YesOpenAI image models are offered inside Runway: GPT Image 2 and GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst are listed as callable models on the developer platform with their own per-image pricing.OpenAI's highest-quality image generation and editing model with up to 4K resolution.dev.runwayml.com
Model choice: YesYou can let Runway pick or name the model yourself, and the developer platform adds a router that chooses per request against your cost, quality and latency rules.It chooses the best model for the task automatically. Prefer a specific model? Just ask, and Agent will use it.runway.com/product/agent

In your editor: YesRunway's MCP server is designed to be added to developer-facing clients, with Cursor and Replit named alongside the chat assistants, and Dev MCP covers Cursor, Claude Code and Codex.Runway MCP also works in Claude, Grok Bot, Cursor, Replit and any other MCP-compatible agent.runway.com/mcp/chatgpt
In a browser: YesThe creative product is a hosted web app with its own dashboard and billing pages, backed by iOS and Android apps and a browser playground on the developer platform.you can purchase additional credits from the Plans & Billing page in your dashboardrunway.com/pricing

How it meters: YesEverything is priced in credits spent per generation, varying by model, duration and resolution, with monthly allotments on plans and per-second or per-image rates on the API.Credits are the unit you spend to generate images, video, and audio on Runway. Each model uses a set number of credits per generation depending on…runway.com/pricing
Free tier: YesA $0 plan exists with no call required, and the developer platform also lets you start without a credit card, though the free plan's credits are a single non-renewing deposit.the Free plan includes a one-time deposit of 125 credits that doesn't expirerunway.com/pricing
API access: YesRunway Dev is a self-serve usage-billed API covering every model, and the Team and Enterprise creative plans also carry API access against the shared credit pool.The best image, video and audio models from Runway and other frontier labs. One API platform.dev.runwayml.com
MCP server: PartlyA hosted MCP server lets other agents generate through your account, but on the individual plans it appears only from Pro upward, so Free and Standard buyers do not get it.Runway MCPrunway.com/pricing

A company can buy it: YesTwo organisation-facing offers exist beside the individual plans: a per-seat Team plan sold self-serve and a custom-credit Enterprise agreement through sales.Built for organizations: security, privacy, admin controls and dedicated supportrunway.com/pricing
Seat model: YesTeam is billed per seat monthly starting at two users with a nine-member ceiling on that plan; going beyond nine means an Enterprise conversation.$69 /seat/month billed monthlyrunway.com/pricing
Pooled budget: YesTeam and Enterprise workspaces draw on one shared balance rather than per-seat allowances, quoted as a single monthly total for the whole team.Shared credit poolrunway.com/pricing
Admin controls: PartlyTeam and Enterprise add roles, sharing policies, tiered admin and third-party model configuration, so constraints are real but only from the Team plan upward.User roles & permissionsrunway.com/pricing
Audit log: PartlyThe security document claims platform-wide audit trails and team plans add usage reporting, but no page describes an admin-visible audit log a customer can read or export.Comprehensive Logging: Detailed audit trails of all platform activityrunway.com/data-security
Single sign-on: PartlySingle sign-on is sold as 'Custom SSO' on the Team and Enterprise plans only, and the vendor does not say whether that means SAML, OIDC or both.runway.com/pricing

Opt out of training: PartlyThe Terms of Use let Runway train on inputs and outputs by default, and only the Enterprise plan column promises that your data is excluded from training.You acknowledge that Inputs and Outputs may be used by the Company to train and improve its AI models, algorithms and related technology, products…runway.com/terms-of-use
Data residency: PartlyData is held in the United States and may move to vendor countries; no customer-selectable region is published, though Enterprise can ask for zero-data retention.We are headquartered in the United States and may use vendors or service providers that operate in other countries.runway.com/privacy-policy
Getting out: PartlyPurchased credits never expire and Max rolls one month over, but Standard and Pro monthly credits are forfeited each cycle, and no data-export route is documented.On the Standard and Pro plans, monthly credits don't roll over — they reset within 24 hours of your billing date each cycle.runway.com/pricing
Certifications: YesSOC 2 Type II is recertified annually and ISO/IEC 27001 was issued by an accredited body, with GDPR and CCPA/CPRA controls claimed alongside them.Runway maintains SOC 2 Type II certification, validating our security controls through rigorous independent auditing.runway.com/data-security

Plans and pricing

Free to start: PartlyPartly
The terms in full
Free plan at $0/month gives a one-time deposit of 125 credits that does not expire and does not renew monthly, plus 5GB asset storage and only a selection of models; the developer API can also be started with no credit card.