Runway

Runway is a generative AI company building foundational video and world models for creating, editing, and animating video and images from text and images.

Runway (runwayml.com) is a generative AI research and product company focused on video, media, and art, developing proprietary foundational models used in filmmaking, post-production, advertising, editing, and visual effects. Its flagship Gen series of video models (including Gen-4 and Gen-4.5) generates high-fidelity video from text and images with strong motion quality, prompt adherence, and consistent characters, locations, and objects across scenes; Gen-4.5 also natively generates synchronized audio including dialogue and sound effects. Runway offers a full creative suite: a text/image-to-video generator, the Aleph video editor for prompt-based editing of existing footage, Act-Two performance-capture tools, and image generation. A developer API lets studios and enterprises integrate Runway's generation capabilities into production pipelines. The company is also building General World Models (GWM) for explorable environments, conversational video avatars, and robotics. Founded in 2018 by Cristóbal Valenzuela, Alejandro Matamala, and Anastasis Germanidis (who met at NYU Tisch ITP), Runway is headquartered in New York. It has partnered with studios such as Lionsgate and, as of February 2026, raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic (with Nvidia, Adobe Ventures, and AMD Ventures) at a $5.3B valuation.

Category

Video & Animation

Pricing

freemium, subscription, credit-based, per-seat, custom

Target Market

Creators, Filmmakers and studios, Advertising and marketing teams, Enterprise, Developers, Architecture and design

Founded

2018

Headquarters

New York City, New York, USA

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  Gen-4 / Gen-4.5 video models

  Text-to-video and image-to-video generation with high motion quality, prompt adherence, consistent characters and scenes, and native synchronized audio in Gen-4.5.

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  Aleph video editor

  Edit existing videos with text prompts and keyframe images, supporting input clips and timestamped edits via the app and API.

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  Act-Two performance capture

  Performance and motion-capture tooling to drive characters and animation from real performances.

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  Runway API

  Developer API to integrate Runway's video and image generation models into custom applications and production pipelines.

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  General World Models (GWM)

  Foundational world models for explorable environments, conversational video avatars, and robotic manipulation.

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  Generative video for media and entertainment

  Create cinematic video, storyboards, and VFX shots from text and images for film, advertising, and social content.

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  AI-powered video editing

  Use Aleph to edit and transform existing footage with prompts, restyling, and keyframe-guided changes without traditional post-production.

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  Enterprise and developer integrations

  Studios and enterprises integrate Runway's models via API into proprietary creative and production workflows.

Credit-based subscriptions; the Free plan includes 125 one-time non-renewing credits. Gen-4.5 video costs about 25 credits per second. The legacy 'Unlimited' plan was retired and replaced by the Max plan.

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