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.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Runway the way a machine reads it — 53 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 63.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 70/100 (agent native). 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.
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 16
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.
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Open Collections 3
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).
Runway Characters API
OPEN COLLECTIONRunway Image Generation API
OPEN COLLECTIONRunway Video Generation API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP 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 SERVERAgent 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.
runway-characters-meeting
AGENT SKILLPricing 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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Runway Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Runway Finops
FINOPSFeatures 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.
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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...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
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
JSON SCHEMARunway Generation Task
JSON SCHEMAJSON 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
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
Runway Create Avatar Example
EXAMPLERunway Create Video Example
EXAMPLESecurity 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.
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.
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 1
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 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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