Video Gen
Everybody quotes the subscription price. Nobody quotes the cost per minute of usable footage. Those are different numbers, and the gap between them is where the economics of AI video generation get uncomfortable. I tracked my credits, my time, and my output across Runway, Kling, Pika, and Sora over several
Video Gen
Runway has been in the AI video game longer than anyone else who's still relevant. While competitors dropped demo reels and disappeared, Runway shipped product, iterated on it, and built an actual editing toolkit around video generation. That head start matters. It also means Runway's accumulated
Video Gen
There's a version of this article that lists everything AI video generation could theoretically do, waves its hands about the pace of improvement, and tells you the future is closer than you think. This is not that article. This is the capability map as of early 2026 — what