Runway Team Plan vs Hyperdream Team: Agencies Compared

Runway's Team plan is $69 a seat for 6,900 pooled credits, its own video models, an API and up to 100 Brand Kits. Hyperdream's Team plan is $59 to $249 a seat for 1,000 to 4,000 pooled credits, client folders with monthly budgets, and one project that runs from script to edit. Pick Runway for its models and scale; pick Hyperdream when keeping each client's work and spend apart is the hard part (checked 10 November 2026).

Key takeaways

• Runway Team: $69 a seat a month ($55 billed yearly), two to nine people, 6,900 credits a seat, pooled, one month of rollover.
• Hyperdream Team: $59, $119 or $249 a seat by level, 2 to 9 seats, 1,000, 2,000 or 4,000 credits a seat, pooled, credits last 2 months.
• Runway is better at: its own models, API access, Brand Kits, parallel generations, frame-accurate comments, SSO on Enterprise, and public proof.
• Hyperdream is better at: a budget per client, a limit per member, no-account client approvals, and a film flow of eight steps in one project.
• Unconfirmed: whether Viewers are free on Runway's Team plan. Runway's help pages blocked our fetch.

How do the two team plans compare?

Sources: runway.com/team-plan and runway.com/pricing, read 10 November 2026; Hyperdream's pricing and the live product, the same day. "Not stated" means we did not see it on those pages.

Where is Runway better?

Runway is the bigger, older and better-proven product, and it would be dishonest to bury that.

It makes its own models. Runway builds the video models it sells. Hyperdream does not train a video model. It brings ten from other makers into one project (Google, Kuaishou, ByteDance, Alibaba, MiniMax, xAI and Black Forest Labs). If the look you want comes from a Runway model, you can only get it from Runway.

A much larger credit number. 6,900 credits a seat against 1,000 to 4,000. Credits don't convert between the two tools, because each has its own price list, so this isn't a 7-to-1 gap in output. But Runway's pool is deep, and five seats put 34,500 credits in it.

API access. It's on the Team plan. Hyperdream has no API.

Brand Kits. Up to 100 on Team. An agency can hold a kit per client. Hyperdream has no brand kit; the nearest thing is a reference sheet for each character, place and product inside a film.

Frame-accurate comments. Runway lists "Frame-accurate commenting with @mentions" for teammates. Hyperdream's comments pin to a moment in a video, not to a frame number.

Throughput. Runway lists 24 parallel generations on Team. In Hyperdream's Shots step, three shots render at a time.

Connectors and skills. Runway lists 20 shared agent skills and connectors for Figma, Dropbox and Notion.

Security paperwork. Runway's Enterprise plan lists custom SSO, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001. Hyperdream has no SSO and no two-step sign-in today.

Proof. Runway has years of public work, independent reviews and a large user base. Hyperdream's new version went live on 9 November 2026 and has very few independent reviews. If you need references from other agencies before you buy, Runway has them.

Where is Hyperdream better?

A budget for each client. Runway's Team page says to manage each client in its own project, and its FAQ says there are "no per-person allowances to manage". That's one pool for every client. In Hyperdream each client is a folder with its own monthly credit budget, and you choose whether reaching it stops work or sends a warning. General, the work that isn't for a client, has a budget too. Details in per-client credit budgets.

A limit for each person. Each member can have a monthly credit limit. Work that would pass it is refused, with the reset date.

Access per client. You set, per person, whether they work in General and which clients they can open. People only see, make and spend where they have access. A freelancer hired for one client never sees the other five.

Approval from outside the team. "Share for review" makes a link the client opens with no account. They pin comments and approve or request changes on each item. See client review links.

One project from script to edit. Hyperdream's Director works through eight steps: Script, Look, Cast, Places, Storyboard, Sound, Shots, Edit. Each character gets a reference sheet (four full-body views and four expressions) that goes into the shots they appear in. Runway's product page now lists Runway Agent for end-to-end videos, a Multi-Shot Video app, and storyboards and animatics (checked 10 November 2026). We have not tested how they carry characters across a film. Hyperdream's difference is that the script, sheets, storyboard and edit sit in one project, with a folder and a budget per client.

Seats priced by what a person does. A producer who needs images and clips sits on a $59 Creator seat. The person running Director sits on a $119 Pro seat. On Runway every maker is $69.

Hand-overs and an audit log on Team. When someone leaves, an admin hands their files and projects to another person with notes. Every change to the team, plan, people, limits and ownership is logged.

What about viewers?

On Hyperdream, Viewers watch and comment, are free and take no seat.

On Runway we could not confirm it. The Team page doesn't mention viewers. A web search of Runway's help centre on 10 November 2026 summarised it this way: Admins and Editors count as paid seats and Viewers don't, but one article describes the Viewer role as an Enterprise feature. The help pages themselves returned an error to our fetch. Ask Runway before you plan around free viewers on Team.

What does a real film cost on each?

We can only answer for Hyperdream, with real numbers.

A two-film job for one of our clients gives a sense of scale. The second film had 22 shots and 144 seconds of kept footage. It took 68 generations and 1,200 credits in August 2026: 40 video renders for the 22 shots, or 1.8 renders per finished shot. That fits inside one Pro seat's 2,000 credits a month. The full account is in the MAHA-GFC case study.

We have not run the same film on Runway, so we won't guess what it would cost there. To compare fairly, price your own film on both: seconds of video, times the credits per second for the model you would use, times the takes per finished shot. The method is in AI video team plans compared.

Which should an agency choose?

Choose Runway Team if:

• You want Runway's own models.
• You need an API or Brand Kits.
• Your team is one group working on shared projects, and nobody needs a spending cap.
• You need the security documents an Enterprise plan brings.

Choose Hyperdream Team if:

• You bill several clients and need each one's spend capped and reported.
• Freelancers or junior staff should only see the clients they work on.
• Clients need to approve work without creating an account.
• You make multi-scene films and want script, cast, storyboard, shots and edit in one place.

Use both if you finish in Runway. A Hyperdream film exports as one MP4 at up to 1080p, and a zip holds every file, so individual shots can go anywhere.

How would you set up an agency in Hyperdream?

1. In Settings > Workspace and team, choose "Start a team" and pick the seats.
2. In Settings > Clients, add each client and give it a monthly budget. Choose "Stop spending here" or "Warn, but keep going".
3. Invite people by email with a role, a seat level and the clients they can work on.
4. Pick the client in the top bar before starting work, so films and spending are filed under it.
5. Send "Share for review" links for sign-off, and pull the usage CSV at month end.

Roles, seats and invites are covered in how Hyperdream teams work. The buyer's checklist is in AI video platforms for agencies, and plan prices are in Hyperdream pricing explained.

How we checked

We read runway.com/pricing and runway.com/team-plan on 10 November 2026; both pages were cut short by our reader after the plan details and FAQs. Runway's help centre articles on roles and members returned an error, so what we say about Runway's roles and viewers comes from a search summary of those articles and is marked as unconfirmed. We did not test Runway's product for this post. Hyperdream's side was checked against the live product and pricing data on the same day. The film numbers come from the project's own records.