Runway vs Wan AI

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

	Runway Video	Wan AI Video
Tagline	Pro-grade AI video editor and Gen-4 generation.	Alibaba's generative video and image playground, wrapping the open Wan model family in a consumer web app.
Category	Video	Video
Pricing	Paid· $15/mo Standard; $35/mo Pro; $95/mo Unlimited	Freemium
Model	Gen-4	Wan 2.1 / Wan 2.2
Editorial score	9.0 / 10	—
Use cases	short filmVFXimage-to-video	text-to-videoimage-to-videotext-to-imageimage editingshort-form content
Pros	Pro editing timeline Best-in-class control (motion brush, etc.) Used in real productions Generation + editing in one tool	Backed by Alibaba's Wan video models, which are competitive with top closed platforms Covers T2I, I2I, T2V, I2V and image editing in one interface Underlying model weights are openly released for self-hosting Lower barrier to try state-of-the-art video generation than running weights locally
Cons	Expensive for hobby use Render times can be long	Pricing and quotas are not clearly documented on the marketing page No obvious public API on the hosted product itself Consumer app UX limits fine-grained control vs ComfyUI workflows
Website	runwayml.com	wan.video

Pick Runway if

Pick Wan AI if

✅ Backed by Alibaba's Wan video models, which are competitive with top closed platforms
✅ Covers T2I, I2I, T2V, I2V and image editing in one interface
✅ Underlying model weights are openly released for self-hosting
✅ Lower barrier to try state-of-the-art video generation than running weights locally