A cheaper Runway API alternative for Seedance, Veo, Grok and Wan

The short answer

• Seedance 2.5: $0.55 a second at 1080p on Revana against $0.68 on the Runway API, 19% below; 45% below Runway at 480p, and Revana has no 80 credit minimum per generation.
• Seedance 2.0, Fast and Mini: $0.15 a second for Seedance 2.0 at 720p against Runway's $0.36, 58% below; Fast and Mini are 62% below and 69% below Runway at 720p. Level at Seedance 2.0 1080p.
• Grok Imagine 1.5 and Wan 3.0: Grok is 56% below Runway at 720p and Wan 3.0 15% below it at 1080p.
• Veo 3.1: Veo 3.1 Fast with sound is $0.11 a second at 1080p on Revana against $0.15; Veo 3.1 itself costs the same on both.

Revana and the Runway API, per second

Runway's API is priced in credits at one cent each; the figures below are its published credit rates in dollars beside Revana's pricing page, checked on 26 October 2026. The catalogue has every other model. Runway lists Veo without a resolution, so its rate appears at both 720p and 1080p.

What a batch costs

The same batches priced on each:

When Runway is still the better pick

Runway's own models, Gen-4.5, Aleph and Act-Two, are only on Runway, and its creative tools sit on the same account. If you build on those, stay. For Seedance, Veo, Grok Imagine and Wan through an API, Revana charges less or the same, bills only for clips that finish, and lists every price in dollars. The cheapest AI video API roundup compares more sellers, and the Seedance 2.5 price comparison covers that model alone.

Switching from Runway

Create a key on the sign-up page, add credit, and send the job to Revana instead: one JSON request with the model name and its input, then a job id to poll or a webhook. The docs list each model's fields. For Seedance 2.5 at 1080p:

curl https://api.revana.si/v1/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REVANA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "seedance-2.5",
    "input": {
      "prompt": "A chef plates a dessert in a busy restaurant kitchen, handheld camera, sizzling pans in the background",
      "resolution": "1080p",
      "duration": 10,
      "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
    },
    "max_cost_usd": 6.6
  }'

The finished job carries the video link and cost_usd, the exact amount charged.

How we compared

Runway's figures are the credit rates on its API pricing page and its Seedance 2.5 page on 26 October 2026, at one cent a credit, without sales tax. Charges for input video and reference images, where Runway adds them, are left out. Every figure is in market-prices.json with the date it was checked.