Runway
▶ Play demoYouTube · loads on clickWhat they did
Runway's main site: a web studio and API for generating and editing video with its Gen-series models.
Worth knowing
- Price: Plans: "Standard ... $15 $12 /month 625 credits /mo" (yearly price shown second); API: "gen4.5 12 credits per second", "Credits can be purchased for $0.01 per credit"
- Status: vendor-checked against the vendor page; re-verify before purchase, prices change.
- Quality bar (computed by code): 5/5 (primary source ✓, reproducible ✓, new ✓, example output ✓, safe ✓)
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▶ example at sourceRunway pricing
Runway's plan page (Free, Standard, Pro, Max), credit-based. Check it before estimating per-clip costs, since credits per second vary by model.
▶ demo on XRunway API docs
Developer docs for Runway's API: auth, endpoints and model options for building video generation into your own product.
▶ example at sourceRunway Changelog
Runway's running log of releases. It's the quickest way to see which models, clip lengths and features are new.
▶ YouTube demoBuild an ad studio app with Runway Dev and a coding agent
Runway's walkthrough for turning one product photo into a social campaign: start from the Runway Dev quickstart, describe the app to a coding agent, and it generates campaign images, translated on-image copy, and product and UGC videos. A Draft mode keeps iteration cheap and a Final mode switches to top quality.