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
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: SDK
        url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@runwayml/sdk
      - type: SDK
        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
    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.
common:
  - 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: LLMsTxt
    url: https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com