Runway Gen-4

Runway[video]

Gen-4 video model with consistent characters, locations and objects across scenes.

Per Second

$0.25

of media

Released

2025-03

Features

[text-to-video][image-to-video][motion-brush]

Technical Specifications

Resolution1080p

Duration4-16s

The Lab

location: New York, New York, USAfounded: 2018backed by: General Atlantic, Google, NVIDIA, Salesforce; venture-backed

Founded in 2018 by Cristobal Valenzuela, Alejandro Matamala and Anastasis Germanidis, Runway is a New York-based AI research company that co-released Stable Diffusion in 2022 and builds video generation models and world models. Its Gen series runs from Gen-1 (February 2023) through Gen-3 Alpha (June 2024) to Gen-4 (March 2025) and Gen-4.5 (December 2025); in December 2025 it released GWM-1, its first General World Model, in Worlds, Avatars and Robotics variants. The company raised $308M led by General Atlantic in April 2025 at a valuation above $3B.

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Model ID: runway-gen-4