Move your team from Pika to Runway.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Runway — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Pika is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Move Pika 2.5 text-to-video and image-to-video generation into Runway's Gen-4 / Gen-4.5 text-and-image-to-video. Re-create each Pika clip as a Runway generation: a text prompt alone, or a reference image as the first frame plus a prompt. Runway's credit model is comparable in shape (credits per second of video), so budget by seconds rather than by Pika's per-clip credit estimates. Use Runway paid plans (Standard $12/mo+) since full Gen-4 Video and Gen-4.5 are gated off the free tier (which only runs watermarked Gen-4 Turbo image-to-video on a one-time credit grant), the same way Pika gates 480p-and-up and watermark-removal behind paid plans. For repeatable production, Runway also exposes a developer API (node:runway/developer-api) which Pika's consumer video product does not offer.
- Warning: Pika's signature one-tap preset transforms (Pikaffects like squish/melt/inflate) have no direct Runway equivalent; in Runway these looks must be driven by prompt and reference image, so simple viral effects become more manual.
- Warning: Runway's free tier (a one-time 125-credit grant that does not refresh) can only run Gen-4 Turbo image-to-video and watermarks every output; full Gen-4 Video and Gen-4.5 are gated to paid plans. Pika's free tier instead gives a renewing 80-credit monthly allotment producing watermarked 480p image-to-video clips -- so the cheapest like-for-like Runway path for the higher-quality models starts at the Standard paid plan.