Descript vs Runway

Side-by-side comparison of Descript and Runway: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Descript AI-powered video & podcast editor where editing is as easy as typing Visit	Runway AI video generation and editing — Gen-3 produces cinematic clips from text or image. Visit
Category	Video generation	Video generation
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price		USD 12/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider		Runway
Founded	2017	2018
Headquarters		New York, US
Key strengths	·Text-based video editing via automatic transcription ·AI-powered filler word removal and speech regeneration ·Voice cloning and AI avatar generation ·Studio Sound audio enhancement without professional equipment	·text-to-video ·image-to-video ·inpainting ·motion brush