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Runway

Runway is an applied AI research company that builds generative AI tools for creative professionals. Their developer platform provides APIs for video generation, image generation, real-time conversational avatar experiences, media uploads, and audio synthesis powered by advanced generative models including Gen-4, Gen-4 Turbo, Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Aleph, Veo 3.1, Act Two, and GWM-1 (General World Model). The API uses asynchronous task processing with Bearer token authentication.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Runway the way a machine reads it — 89 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Runway scores 51.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 35/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 51.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Access Clarity 8.7 / 20
Discoverability 7.2 / 10
Runway Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Runway

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Runway. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 22

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

Runway Python SDK

The Runway Python SDK provides a convenient Python library for interacting with the Runway API. Supports Python 3.8+ with type annotations compatible with MyPy. Includes automat...

Runway Node.js SDK

The Runway Node.js SDK provides a JavaScript and TypeScript library for integrating with the Runway API. Supports Node.js 18+ with TypeScript bindings, automatic retries, and be...

Runway Avatars API

Create and manage persistent avatar personas with defined appearance, voice, and personality. Avatars can be created from a single reference image in any visual style.

Runway Character Performance API

Control a character's facial expressions and body movements using a reference performance video with the Act Two model.

Runway Documents API

Upload and manage domain-specific knowledge documents that avatars can reference during conversations to provide accurate, contextual responses. Each avatar supports up to 50,00...

Runway Frame Interpolation API

Interpolate between video frames to increase frame rate and smoothness.

Runway Image to Video API

Generate videos from input images with optional text prompts using Gen-4, Gen-4 Turbo, Gen-4.5, or Aleph models.

Runway Lip Sync API

Create generative videos where a selected face speaks lines from audio clips or AI-generated voices, supporting 28+ languages.

Runway Realtime Sessions API

Create live WebRTC sessions connecting users to avatars for real-time conversational interactions. Each session has a maximum duration of 5 minutes.

Runway Sound Effects API

Generate sound effects for videos using AI.

Runway Tasks API

Retrieve status and output of asynchronous generation tasks.

Runway Text to Image API

Generate high-quality images from text prompts using the Gen-4 Image model.

Runway Text to Video API

Generate videos from text prompts alone using Gen-4.5, Veo 3.1, or Veo 3.1 Fast models.

Runway Uploads API

Upload temporary media files that can be referenced in generation requests.

Runway Video to Video API

Generate new videos from existing video inputs using the Gen-4 Aleph model.

Runway Video Upscale API

Upscale video resolution and quality.

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 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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Postman Collections 14

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 19

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

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

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Runway Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Runway Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

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

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free: 125 one-time credits with Gen-4 Turbo image
Standard at $12/mo annual: 625 credits, all video models
Pro at $28/mo: 2,250 credits, custom voices
Unlimited at $76/mo: 2,250 credits + unlimited Explore Mode
Enterprise: SSO, custom org spaces, Workspace Analytics
Gen-4.5, Gen-4, Gen-4 Turbo video generation
Image generation (Gen-4, Gemini 3 Pro/2.5)
Text-to-Speech with custom voices
Lip Sync
Upscaling and watermark removal
REST API for video/image generation
Webhooks for completion notification
OAuth 2.0 + API tokens
Asset storage (5 GB Free, 100/500 GB paid)
Video editor with unlimited projects on paid
Enterprise integrations with internal tools

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Runway Characters Realtime Events

The Runway Characters realtime event interface describes the WebRTC-based communication protocol for live conversational avatar sessions powered by GWM-1. Once a realtime sessio...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Runway Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Runway API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Runway API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Runway API Rules

17 rules · 5 errors · 11 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Runway Avatar

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Runway Generation Task

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Runway Task Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

Runway Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Runway Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

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

Runway Agentic Access

17 operations · 15 acting

17 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Runway — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Runway, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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