Model · Video

Runway Gen-4

Runway's video model that keeps the same character, object or place looking consistent across shots, guided by a reference image and a text description. Not downloadable: you use it in Runway's app or through its API. Runway has since released Gen-4.5.

Go to Runway Gen-4’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
Offered only in Runway's apps and developer platform; no weights.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
Licence: Runway Terms of Use (The maker's own terms)
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Can I sell what I make?: Yes
s.4.4: 'the Company does not restrict your commercial use of your Outputs'; outputs may not be used to build competing AI products.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Cost: No free plan.
Plans below.
How you use it: In your browser, Phone app, Maker's own API
Page links the web app, iPhone and Android apps and the developer platform; Gen-4 API access not spelled out.
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Made by: Runway AI, Inc. (US)
Terms s.18.8 notice address in Dover, Delaware; services offered from facilities in the USA (s.15).
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Status: Available
Research page links to Gen-4.5; no retirement notice for Gen-4 seen.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial

What you can make with it

A video, by bringing a photo to life (main use)
A video, from a description

image to videotext to video

Page: consistent characters, objects and locations from a single reference image plus text instructions; VFX that blend with live action.

source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial

Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

Runway pricing and API pricing pages not read (shared fetch budget ran out).

source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · inferred or from a secondary source; needs review

Rights and safety

Trains on your work?: Trains on your work
s.4.4: inputs and outputs may be used to train and improve Runway's models; no opt-out described.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page

Where you can run it

Runway

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About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.