Runway is the industry-leading AI video platform, offering Gen-4 models with cinematic consistency, a full creative suite, developer APIs, and robotics simulation powered by world models.
Runway has defined AI video since Gen-1, and its Gen-4 family cements that leadership. Released March 2025, Gen-4 introduced persistent scene memory that maintains character faces, clothing, lighting, and environments across cuts, solving the morphing and flickering that plagued earlier models. Gen-4 Turbo offers 5x faster generation for rapid iteration, while Gen-4 Aleph transforms existing footage with prompt-based edits: VFX, relighting, object removal, and new camera angles.
The platform now spans three products. Runway Creative is the all-in-one cloud suite for generating and editing video, images, and audio, used by over 60 million creatives. Runway Dev provides API access to the best models for building production applications. Runway Robotics uses GWM-1, a General World Model generating video frame by frame, for policy inference and synthetic data. Signature features include Motion Brush for painting motion onto stills and precise camera controls for pan, tilt, zoom, and dolly moves.
Free plan includes 125 one-time credits. Standard is $15 per month (625 credits), Pro $35 per month (2,250 credits), Unlimited $95 per month with unlimited generations in explore mode. Annual billing saves around 20 percent. Enterprise plans are custom.
Filmmakers, content creators, marketers, and agencies needing controllable AI video with real editing tools. Developers build on the API. Casual users may find the credit system complex; simpler tools like Pika suit quick experiments better.