Runway

Cinematic quality AI video generation with Gen-4

Launched in 2018
ComplexityIntermediate

Origin

🇺🇸United States

Supported languages

1 language

Ideal for

freelancerStartupsMedium businessesenterprise
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About Runway

Runway is the reference platform for AI video generation. With its Gen-4 model (and Gen-3 Alpha), Runway creates impressively cinematic quality videos from text or images.

The Gen-4 model represents a major advancement in visual fidelity, temporal consistency, and motion quality. Generated videos are twice as fast as Gen-2, with photorealistic characters and natural movements.

Runway offers several creation modes: Text-to-Video to generate videos from detailed prompts (up to 1000 characters), Image-to-Video to animate still images, and Video-to-Video to restyle existing footage in cartoon, anime, or other styles.

Advanced control tools include Motion Brush to precisely define movements of specific areas, Director Mode to control structure and style, advanced camera controls, and keyframing to define start/end frames. Video Extender allows extending clips up to 40 seconds.

Act One Animator enables character animation from references, while Lip Syncing automatically synchronizes lips with audio. Exports are available at 1280x768 or 768x1280 at 24fps, with C2PA metadata for provenance.

Runway is designed for creators, filmmakers, advertisers, artists, and gaming professionals seeking professional-grade AI video quality with precise creative control.

Strengths
  • Exceptional video quality, cinematic level
  • Gen-4 with photorealistic fidelity and natural movements
  • Advanced controls: Motion Brush, Director Mode, keyframing
  • Multi-modes: text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video
  • Video extension up to 40 seconds
  • Lip Sync and character animation (Act One)
  • Fast generation (90s for 10s video)
  • ProRes export for professionals
Limitations
  • Base clips limited to 10 seconds (extendable)
  • High price for intensive use
  • Learning curve for optimal prompts
  • Interface primarily in English

Features

Motion brush
Image to video
Transitions
Camera controls
Voice cloning
Lip sync
Max video duration
40
Video extension
Max Resolution
1080p
AI Video Editor
AI Avatars
Auto-subtitles
Video Library

Pricing

Free
Free
  • 125 credits uniques
  • Gen-4 Turbo image-to-video
  • Gen-4 text-to-image
  • 3 projets Videos
  • +1 more...
Standard
15 USD/mo
  • 625 credits/month
  • All tools generative
  • Sans watermark
  • Upscaling
  • +3 more...
Most popular
Pro
35 USD/mo
  • 2250 credits/month
  • Creation Voice custom
  • Export ProRes
  • 500 GB stockage
  • +2 more...
Unlimited
95 USD/mo
  • 2250 credits/month + Explore Mode
  • Generations unlimited en mode relaxed
  • All features Pro
  • 10 users max
Enterprise
Free
  • credits custom
  • SSO
  • Security advanced
  • Priority support
  • +1 more...

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