Runware

Runware is a unified AI inference platform — "one API for all AI" — that gives developers a single endpoint for image, video, audio, 3D, and text (LLM) generation across 400K+ open and closed-source models. Every request is a task object (taskType, taskUUID, model identifier, and modality parameters) posted to a single HTTP endpoint, with WebSocket and Server-Sent Events transports for low-latency and streaming workloads. Models are addressed by a creator:family@version identifier and billed pay-per-request with no subscriptions — serverless open models bill on optimized compute time while closed partner models use fixed per-request rates. Runware ships official TypeScript and Python SDKs, a static-binary CLI, a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, published Agent Skills, a Vercel AI SDK provider, and an OpenAI-compatibility layer, so the same inference surface is reachable from code, terminal, and agents.

Runware is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Inference, and Image Generation.

Runware’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, changelog, pricing, signup flow, and 26 more developer resources.

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51.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 76/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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Company Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Inference Image Generation Video Generation Audio Generation Text Generation 3D Generation Generative AI Models Developer Tools

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Composite quality — 51.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 17

Access Clarity 17.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 44.7 — up to +7.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Hugging Face Hub Organisations	covered	33.7	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

The OpenAI Interface

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Runware Inference API

Single task-based endpoint for image, video, audio, 3D, and text inference across 400K+ models, reachable over HTTP, WebSocket, and Server-Sent Events.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Runware MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.runware.ai over HTTP; 8 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Runware API pricing

Prices published by Runware, read 2026-10-07 from runware.ai/pricing.

Plan	Price
Nano Banana 2.1 (image, input tokens)	$1 . 50/ 1M tokens
Ideogram 4.5 (image, Very low)	$0 . 008/ image
GLM-5.3-Flash (text, input tokens)	$0 . 15/ 1M tokens
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite (480p)	$0 . 02/ second
Serverless L40s (per hour)	$1.60 Includes: 48 GB GDDR6; $0.000444 per second
Serverless H100 (per hour)	$3.95 Includes: 80 GB HBM3; $0.001097 per second; reserved as low as $2.45 / GPU -hour
Serverless B200 (per hour)	$6.00 Includes: 180 GB HBM3e; $0.001667 per second
GB300 NVL72	Contact Includes: Rack-scale Blackwell Ultra; Scoped with our engineers

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Billed by: gpu-hour · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Runware Plans Pricing

10 plans

PLANS

Runware Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Runware

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Runware Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Runware Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Runware Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Runware Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Runware Trust Center

ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Compliance

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

StatusPage

Support

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: runware
name: Runware
description: Runware is a unified AI inference platform — "one API for all AI" — that gives developers a single endpoint for
  image, video, audio, 3D, and text (LLM) generation across 400K+ open and closed-source models. Every request is a task object
  (taskType, taskUUID, model identifier, and modality parameters) posted to a single HTTP endpoint, with WebSocket and Server-Sent
  Events transports for low-latency and streaming workloads. Models are addressed by a creator:family@version identifier and
  billed pay-per-request with no subscriptions — serverless open models bill on optimized compute time while closed partner
  models use fixed per-request rates. Runware ships official TypeScript and Python SDKs, a static-binary CLI, a hosted Model
  Context Protocol (MCP) server, published Agent Skills, a Vercel AI SDK provider, and an OpenAI-compatibility layer, so the
  same inference surface is reachable from code, terminal, and agents.
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Runware API — frequently asked questions

Does Runware have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Runware, including Runware Inference API.

How do I authenticate with the Runware API?

Runware documents its authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Runware Authentication.

How much does the Runware API cost?

Runware publishes its prices; its Nano Banana 2.1 (image, input tokens) plan is $1 . 50/ 1M tokens as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 10 pricing plans for Runware, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Runware have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Runware: Remote MCP server at mcp.runware.ai over HTTP; 8 tools listed.

Is the Runware API ready for AI agents?

Runware has a Kin Score of 51.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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