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Runway
Runway is an AI creative suite for generating and editing video, images and audio, built on its Gen-4.5 video model, with an API for developers.
Runway builds AI models that understand and simulate the visual world, and offers them through three platforms. Runway Creative is a cloud workspace for generating and editing video, images and audio, with all of its video and image models, including Gen-4.5, an agentic creative collaborator, music, voice and sound effects, 4K upscaling, brand kits and custom voice clones. Runway Dev is an API platform for building with models from Runway and other labs, and Runway Robotics uses the GWM-1 world model for policy inference, evaluation and synthetic data in photorealistic simulation. Runway says more than 60 million creatives use it, and it has iPhone and Android apps as well as an MCP server. Plans range from a free tier with one-time credits to Standard, Pro and Max subscriptions starting at $12 a month.
Runway at a glance
- Best for: Designer, Marketer, Social media creator, Founder
- Runs on: Web, iOS, Android, API
- Pricing: Free with 125 one-time credits; Standard from $12/month; Pro and Max plans
- Released: May 2018
- Category: AI video tool
- Website: runway.com
Key features
- Gen-4.5 video generation from text and images
- Video, image and audio editing in one workspace
- Agentic creative collaborator
- Music, voice and sound effect generation
- 4K upscaling and HDR or ProRes exports
- Brand kits and custom voice clones
- Developer API and Runway MCP
Use it for
- Create short films and ads from prompts
- Edit and upscale footage for delivery
- Build video generation into an app via API
Companions
Tools that articles about Runway recommend using with it, each with its job.
- Kling — Cheaper B-roll, dialogue and motion-heavy shots around Runway's hero shots.
- Midjourney — Style frames you feed into image-to-video for a consistent look.
- ElevenLabs — Narration and character voices for silent clips.
- Suno — Original score for the finished film.
- Topaz Labs — Upscales and cleans AI footage for 4K delivery.
- CapCut — Assembles clips, voice and music with auto-captions.
Companion to
Tools whose articles name Runway as a companion, each with its job for them.
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- PixVerse — Own video models with agent-directed shots and fast generation
- Luma — Frame-level video control and brand-consistent assets from Luma's own models
- MaxVideoAI — Pay only for what you create with no monthly subscription.
- Melies — Generates films with 30+ models, 150+ AI actors, and character consistency.
- Wan — Provides native 30-second video generation and pixel-perfect consistency.
- Toonflow — Automates the entire video creation workflow with multi-agent collaboration and character consistency.
- OpenCreator — Runs locally to keep your projects, attachments, and runtime logs on your device.
- Short Video Factory — Generates videos in thirty seconds with automated scripts and batch editing.
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