Runway

What is Runway?#

Runway is an applied AI research company whose Gen-3 Alpha and Gen-4 models generate cinematic video from text, images, or reference clips. Alongside video generation, the platform provides motion brush, camera controls, inpaint, rotoscope, and a broader editing suite used by professional creators, marketing teams, and film studios.

What can Runway do?#

• 01

  Gen-4.5 video generation

  Text-to-video and image-to-video model with state-of-the-art motion quality and prompt adherence.

• 02

  Aleph video editing

  AI-native video editing model for modifying and composing clips inside Runway projects.

• 03

  Act-Two performance capture

  Drives a character from a reference performance without manual rigging.

• 04

  Runway Characters API

  Generates real-time conversational video agents from a single image with no fine-tuning.

• 05

  GWM-1 world model

  General World Model with Worlds, Avatars, and Robotics variants for simulation and agents.

• 06

  Third-party model access

  Run Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 Pro, Seedance 2.0, FLUX.2 and more inside one workspace.

• 07

  Generative image and audio apps

  Gen-4 text-to-image, Gemini 3 Pro, text-to-speech and audio apps alongside video.

• 08

  Credit-based workspaces

  Monthly credits, watermark removal, asset storage up to 500GB and team seats up to 10.

Use Cases#

• “film and TV studios — Generate cinematic shots and previsualization passes with Gen-4.5 for productions like those run with Lionsgate.
• “film school students — Experiment with AI-driven storytelling and short-form filmmaking inside a classroom toolchain, as UCLA does with its Film, Television and Digital Media program.
• “architecture and design studios — Animate still renders and streamline visualization workflows so in-house teams can present motion concepts to clients, as KPF does with Runway.
• “robotics teams — Simulate physical interactions and predict how robotic actions unfold using GWM Robotics before deploying on hardware.
• “product and developer teams — Build custom conversational video agents with any appearance and voice through the Runway Characters API.