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Runway

Runway (RunwayML) is a generative AI media platform whose developer API turns text, images, and video into new video, images, speech, and character performances. The REST API at https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1 exposes Runway's Gen-4 and Gen-4 Turbo video models, Gen-4 Image text-to-image, the Aleph video-to-video editing model, and Act character performance, all through an asynchronous create-task-then-poll pattern authenticated with a Bearer API secret and a dated X-Runway-Version header. Access is API-key based via a developer organization; usage is billed in credits at roughly $0.01 per credit.

Runway publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Character Performance API, Image-to-Video API, Organization API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Video Generation, AI Video, Generative AI, Text-to-Video, and Image-to-Video.

Runway’s developer surface includes documentation, signup flow, engineering blog, authentication, pricing, and 12 more developer resources.

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48.3/100 developing ▲ 10.3 Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1
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8 APIs
Video GenerationAI VideoGenerative AIText-to-VideoImage-to-VideoText-to-ImageVideo-to-Video

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Composite quality — 48.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 8

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

Runway Character Performance API

Drive a character with a reference performance (Act-Two).

Runway Image-to-Video API

Generate video from an image and prompt (Gen-4 Turbo, Gen-4.5).

Runway Organization API

Usage tier and credit balance for the API organization.

Runway Tasks API

Poll and cancel asynchronous generation tasks.

Runway Text-to-Image API

Generate images from a prompt (Gen-4 Image, Gen-4 Image Turbo).

Runway Text-to-Speech API

Synthesize speech audio from text.

Runway Upscale API

Upscale a video to higher resolution.

Runway Video-to-Video API

Edit / restyle an existing video (Aleph).

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Runway ML API

OPEN COLLECTION

Runway API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Runway ML GraphQL Schema

Runway is a generative AI research company building creative tools for video, image, and audio production. Its Gen-4 family of models (and the legacy Gen-3 Alpha family) powers ...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Runwayml Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Runwayml Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Runwayml Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Runwayml Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Runwayml Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Runwayml Agentic Access

9 operations · 7 acting

9 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 LlmsText
LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps
 Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: runwayml
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/runwayml/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Runway
kind: company
description: Runway (RunwayML) is a generative AI media platform whose developer API turns text, images, and video into new
  video, images, speech, and character performances. The REST API at https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1 exposes Runway's Gen-4
  and Gen-4 Turbo video models, Gen-4 Image text-to-image, the Aleph video-to-video editing model, and Act character performance,
  all through an asynchronous create-task-then-poll pattern authenticated with a Bearer API secret and a dated X-Runway-Version
  header. Access is API-key based via a developer organization; usage is billed in credits at roughly $0.01 per credit.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/runwayml.png
tags:
- Video Generation
- AI Video
- Generative AI
- Text-to-Video
- Image-to-Video
- Text-to-Image
- Video-to-Video
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-08-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-character-performance-api
  name: Runway Character Performance API
  description: Drive a character with a reference performance (Act-Two).
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Character Performance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-character-performance-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-image-to-video-api
  name: Runway Image-to-Video API
  description: Generate video from an image and prompt (Gen-4 Turbo, Gen-4.5).
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Image-to-Video
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-image-to-video-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-organization-api
  name: Runway Organization API
  description: Usage tier and credit balance for the API organization.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Organization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-organization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-tasks-api
  name: Runway Tasks API
  description: Poll and cancel asynchronous generation tasks.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-tasks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-text-to-image-api
  name: Runway Text-to-Image API
  description: Generate images from a prompt (Gen-4 Image, Gen-4 Image Turbo).
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Text-to-Image
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-text-to-image-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-text-to-speech-api
  name: Runway Text-to-Speech API
  description: Synthesize speech audio from text.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Text-to-Speech
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-text-to-speech-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-upscale-api
  name: Runway Upscale API
  description: Upscale a video to higher resolution.
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Upscale
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-upscale-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
- aid: runwayml:runwayml-video-to-video-api
  name: Runway Video-to-Video API
  description: Edit / restyle an existing video (Aleph).
  humanURL: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/sdks/
  baseURL: https://api.dev.runwayml.com/v1
  tags:
  - Video-to-Video
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/runwayml-video-to-video-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/guides/using-the-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/runwayml.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/characters/integration/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/usage/tiers/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/runwayml-agentic-access.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/runwayml
- type: Website
  url: https://runwayml.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/runwayml-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/runwayml-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/runwayml-finops.yml
- type: SignUp
  url: https://dev.runwayml.com/
- url: https://runwayml.com/research
  type: Blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/runwayml-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/runwayml-authentication.yml
- 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: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-merged-from:
- runway-ml