Runway API v1

August 8, 2024 (January 31, 2025)

This is experimental API for for the Runway AI.

Our API supports all the functionality for Gen-3 Alpha and Gen-3 Alpha Turbo available on the original Runway AI website. This includes Text/Video-to-Video, Extend, Expand, Act One and Upscale to 4K, among others. We’re fully committed to bringing all the Runway AI website magic to our API customers.

The Frames is Runway’s most advanced base model for image generation, offering unprecedented stylistic control and visual fidelity.

The Lip Sync enables you to use an image or video to create generative videos where the selected face speaks lines from your audio clips or AI-generated voices (28+ languages, model eleven_multilingual_v2).

For free Runway accounts, the following features are unlocked with this experimental API:

• Watermarks will be removed automatically for Gen-2 Create and Gen-2 Extend generations
• Unlimited number of Text to Image Preview generations
• Unlimited number of Image Upscaler generations
• Unlimited number of Transcribe generations
• Unlimited number of Super-Slow Motion generations

Setup Runway

Postman collection

OpenAPI YAML schema

Q&A

Articles:

• Create Runway videos like a Pro
• Mastering Runway Frames

Developer Community:

• Discord Server
• Telegram Channel
• r/runwayml_api

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Table of contents

• GET accounts
• GET accounts/email
• POST accounts/email
• DEL accounts/email
• POST gen3turbo/create
• POST gen3turbo/video
• POST gen3turbo/extend
• POST gen3turbo/expand
• POST gen3turbo/actone
• POST gen3/create
• POST gen3/video
• POST gen3/extend
• POST gen3/actone
• POST gen3alpha/upscale
• POST gen2/create
• POST gen2/extend
• POST super_slow_motion
• POST lipsync/create
• POST frames/create
• GET lipsync/voices
• GET text_to_image_preview
• GET image_upscaler
• GET transcribe
• GET assets
• GET assets/assetId
• POST assets
• DEL assets/assetId
• GET scheduler
• DEL scheduler/taskId
• GET tasks
• GET tasks/taskId
• DEL tasks/taskId
• GET features