Runway cuts Pro plan storage 500GB to 100GB, its first capacity cut in nearly two years of tracking
Runway's Pro plan advertised asset storage allowance was cut from 500GB to 100GB, an 80% reduction.
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WHY IT MATTERS
Teams using Runway's Pro storage as a project archive rather than active workspace now face near-term decisions about what to export or delete. Watch whether Runway introduces a storage add-on or higher tier to backfill the gap, and whether other AI video vendors follow with their own allowance cuts as storage and compute costs rise.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Pro storage cut 500GB to 100GB, an 80% reduction
- First capacity cut across 21 tracked changes since Nov 2024
- 12 changes in the last 90 days; average cadence ~31 days
- 232 companies made a limit cut in the last 180 days
THEIR RATIONALE
Runway is framing this as a feature trade rather than a straight downgrade, pairing the storage cut with new capability in the same release. That fits the company's broader rhythm since tracking began in November 2024: 21 real changes averaging one every 31 days, with 16 of 44 tracked events being feature additions like Seedance model upgrades and Topaz AI Upscale. A capacity cut, though, is new — this is the first one the index has recorded for Runway.
THE SIGNAL
Bundling a limit cut with new features is a common way to soften a downgrade, and Runway's last few weeks show the edges thinning even as the center keeps growing: a Free-plan video editor project cut and an expired launch promo preceded this Pro storage reduction. Limit cuts touched 312 changes across 232 companies index-wide in the last 180 days, about 5.8% of everything tracked, but most of those hit free tiers or usage caps rather than a paid tier's core storage allowance.
IN CONTEXT
This is the first capacity cut the index has recorded for Runway across 21 tracked changes since late 2024 — a summer that otherwise reads as steady feature accretion, from Topaz AI Upscale landing on Pro and Max in July to studio-grade exports and HDR added to Max in late August. The edges have been thinning in parallel, though: a Free-plan video editor project cut preceded this Pro storage reduction. Limit cuts like this touched 232 companies index-wide in the past 180 days — recent examples include Replit tightening its agent concurrency limits and Krea halving its MiniMax video quotas — but most of those hit free or usage caps, not a paid tier's core storage allowance.