AI avatar video platform for business training and communications with 230+ avatars and 140+ languages.
Runway
AI Video Creation & EditingRunway is a generative media platform whose Gen-4.5 model creates video from text and images, while Aleph edits existing footage and Act-Two drives character performances from a reference video. It also includes image generation, text-to-speech, voice cloning, lip sync, 4K upscaling and access to some third-party models. Filmmakers, agencies and studios use it for concept work, VFX and ad production.
Pricing
Runway pricing
Free plan (one-time 125 credits); Standard $15/mo ($12/mo annual)
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on runwayml.com
Features
What Runway does
- Gen-4.5 text-to-video and image-to-video
- Aleph video-to-video editing of real footage
- Act-Two performance capture for characters
- Lip sync, text-to-speech and voice cloning
- 4K upscaling; HDR and ProRes on the Max plan
- Developer API and iOS/Android apps
Pros
- Wide toolset for editing and transforming existing footage
- No watermark and commercial use on paid plans
- Available on web, mobile and via API
- Studio-oriented outputs such as ProRes on top tier
Cons
- Credits are consumed quickly by video models
- Free plan offers only a small one-time credit allowance
- Video models do not generate native audio in the same pass
- No auto-captioning or long-to-short tools
Fit
Who Runway is for
Look elsewhere if: Creators who mainly need captions, talking-head edits or avatar presenters will find Descript, CapCut or HeyGen more practical.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Enterprise SSO works through OIDC providers such as Okta and Entra; Runway says it does not support SAML or SCIM.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise plan (OIDC)
- SCIM user provisioning
- No
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- HIPAA (BAA available)
- —
- GDPR DPA
- —
- Data residency options
- —
- No training on your data
- —
- Audit logs
- —
- Admin controls
- Yes
- Deployment
- Cloud
From the vendor's own security documentation (trust center). "—" = not confirmed. Verify during your security review. Compare all tools.
| Video feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| AI avatars / presenters | Limited |
| Generative text-to-video | Yes |
| Long-to-short clipping | No |
| Auto captions | — |
| Edit video by editing text | No |
| AI voiceover | Yes |
| Translation / dubbing | — |
| Max export resolution | 4K (upscaled) |
| Stock media library | No |
Runway compared
- Runway vs Synthesia
- Runway vs Descript
- Runway vs InVideo AI
- Runway vs VEED
- Runway vs OpusClip
- Runway vs CapCut
- Runway vs HeyGen
- Runway vs Pictory
- Runway vs Colossyan
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