Runway Tier 1 caps spend at $100 a month; Sume returns 402 at balance
Runway's API tiers cap monthly spend from $100 at Tier 1 to $100,000 at Tier 5. Sume gates paid jobs on balance and returns 402 insufficient_credits.

Runway's lowest API tier, Tier 1, has a $100 monthly spend cap and one or two concurrent tasks, and accounts move up tiers as they spend. Sume does not use a spend ladder: it checks the workspace balance at submit, and if the estimate cannot be reserved it returns 402 insufficient_credits before any provider work starts.
Below are Runway's tiers, Sume's plan limits, and how to plan around each.
Runway's tiers
- Upgrade thresholds as listed on the page: $50, $100, $1,000 and $5,000 spent. Read the page to see which tier each one unlocks.
- The page says there is no RPM limit, and that throttled tasks queue in submission order.
| Tier | Concurrency | Monthly spend cap |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1-2 | $100 |
| 2 | 3 | $500 |
| 3 | 5 | $2,000 |
| 4 | 10 | $20,000 |
| 5 | 20 | $100,000 |
Sume's gate
Sume reserves the estimated Sume USD amount at submit and captures it on success; failed jobs and failed admission release or refund the reservation. Concurrency is a separate, plan-based limit, and prepaid top-ups do not raise it.
| Plan | Processing concurrency | Queue | Accepted jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Pro | 4 | 20 | 24 |
| Startup | 8 | 40 | 48 |
| Scale | 20 | 100 | 120 |
| Enterprise | 20 | 100 | 120 |
Planning differences
- Runway: a spend ceiling you may hit mid-month, so watch spend against the tier cap.
- Sume: a balance check at submit, so watch the balance. 402 means the estimate could not be reserved. Upgrade the plan, wait for included Gen$, or submit something cheaper.
- Both: concurrency is a separate limit from money. On Sume, full concurrency alone is not an error; jobs wait as queued until the queue is full.
- On Sume's MCP you can add max_spend_usd to a paid call as a per-call ceiling, and dry_run to preview.
Handling 402
Do not retry a 402 in a loop. Top up or change the request, and use the same Idempotency-Key only for the exact same operation. Read the Sume generation admission docs for the full error table.
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