Runway Gen-4
Runway
Runway's professional video generation model (March 2025), the pro favorite for granular creative control. Gen-4 emphasizes reference-driven character and world consistency, camera moves, and motion brush, making it a production pick for teams that need editing control alongside model quality.
Strengths
- Reference-driven character and world consistency
- Granular creative control: camera moves and motion brush
- Production-grade editing workflow integration
- Text-to-video and image-to-video
- Trusted pro tool with a mature ecosystem
Caveats
- Proprietary - subscription and API only
- Credit/per-second costs for heavy use
- Clip length limits like most current video models
- Vendor
- Runway
- License
- Proprietary
- Release Date
- 2025-03-31
- Modalities
- video
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Subscription plans plus credit- and per-second-based generation; API access via the Runway Developer platform.