Runway

aid: runway-ml
name: Runway
description: Runway is a generative AI research company that builds creative tools for video, image, and audio production.
  Its flagship Gen-4 family of models powers text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, and text-to-image generation,
  alongside text-to-speech and avatar capabilities. Runway serves filmmakers, advertisers, designers, and developers, monetizing
  through consumer creative subscriptions and a developer API with self-serve and enterprise tiers. The Runway API lets teams
  embed generative media directly into their applications and agent workflows.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/runway-ml.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Video
- Image
- Text To Video
- Image To Video
- Text To Image
- Text To Speech
- Avatars
- Creative Tools
- Media
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/runway-ml/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: runway-ml:runway-api
  name: Runway API
  description: The Runway API exposes Gen-4 generative video and image models for programmatic creation of media assets. It
    uses an async task pattern where clients submit generation jobs and poll for completion, with official Node.js and Python
    SDKs that wrap the polling lifecycle.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Generative AI
  - Video
  - Image
  - Text To Video
  - Image To Video
  - Text To Image
  - Text To Speech
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api
  - type: Signup
    url: https://dev.runwayml.com/login
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@runwayml/sdk
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/runwayml/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/runwayml/skills
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/runwayml/avatars-sdk-react
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/runwayml/figma-plugin
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api
  - url: graphql/runway-ml-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
  features:
  - name: Image to Video
    description: Animate a still image with optional prompt text using the Gen-4.5 model.
  - name: Text to Video
    description: Generate video clips directly from a text prompt.
  - name: Video to Video (Gen-4 Aleph)
    description: Transform existing video footage using a prompt and style conditioning.
  - name: Text to Image (Gen-4 Image)
    description: Create images from text prompts with configurable aspect ratios.
  - name: Text to Speech
    description: Generate spoken audio from text for narration and voiceover.
  - name: Avatars SDK
    description: React SDK for embedding Runway-generated talking avatars into web apps.
  - name: Async Task Pattern
    description: Submit a generation, receive a task ID, and poll until the asset is ready (with helpers like waitForTaskOutput()).
  - name: Enterprise Limits
    description: Higher concurrency and throughput available via enterprise plans on the developer portal.
  useCases:
  - name: Marketing Asset Generation
    description: Programmatically produce on-brand video and image ad creative at scale.
  - name: Personalized Video at Scale
    description: Generate individualized video content per user or campaign.
  - name: Creative Tooling
    description: Embed video generation into design tools such as Figma plugins and Chrome extensions.
  - name: Pre-Visualization
    description: Quickly mock up storyboards and animatics for film and advertising teams.
  - name: Agentic Media Workflows
    description: Let AI agents create and edit media via the Runway Skills repository.
  integrations:
  - name: Figma
  - name: Chrome
  - name: Claude Code
  - name: Cursor
  - name: Node.js
  - name: Python
  - name: React
  authentication:
  - type: Bearer Token
    description: Requests use the Authorization header with a Bearer token (RUNWAYML_API_SECRET) generated in the developer
      portal.
- aid: runway-ml:runway-ml-image-to-video-api
  name: Runway Image To Video API
  description: The Image To Video API from Runway — 1 operation(s) for image to video.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Image To Video
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runway-ml-image-to-video-api-openapi.yml
- aid: runway-ml:runway-ml-tasks-api
  name: Runway Tasks API
  description: The Tasks API from Runway — 1 operation(s) for tasks.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runway-ml-tasks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: runway-ml:runway-ml-text-to-image-api
  name: Runway Text To Image API
  description: The Text To Image API from Runway — 1 operation(s) for text to image.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Text To Image
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runway-ml-text-to-image-api-openapi.yml
- aid: runway-ml:runway-ml-video-to-video-api
  name: Runway Video To Video API
  description: The Video To Video API from Runway — 1 operation(s) for video to video.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Video To Video
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runway-ml-video-to-video-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/runway-ml-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/runway-ml-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/runway-ml-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://runwayml.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://runwayml.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/runwayml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://runwayml.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://runwayml.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://runwayml.com/privacy-policy
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/runwayml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/runwayml
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com