Runway ML
online
AI video generation. 125 credits free on signup.
Videoest. 2018 · New York, NY
90
/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
125 credits on signup · no card
Category
Video
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Gen-3 AlphaGen-3 Alpha Turbo
Monthly Requests
125 one-time free credits
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">import runwayml
client = runwayml.RunwayML(api_key=300">"YOUR_RUNWAY_KEY")
task = client.image_to_video.create(
model=300">"gen3a_turbo",
prompt_image=300">"https://example.com/image.jpg",
prompt_text=300">"A river flowing through a forest",
duration=5,
ratio=300">"1280:768",
)
print(task.id)// Overview
Runway Gen-3 Alpha is the leading AI video generation API. The API supports text-to-video and image-to-video with 5 and 10 second generation. 125 free credits on new accounts.
// Pros
- Leading video quality
- Official developer API
- Image-to-video support
// Cons
- Free credits are one-time only
- Video gen is slow (~60s)
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)84/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)86/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Video content creationAnimated storyboardsMarketing videos
// Recent changes
Apr 20, 2026Gen-3 Alpha Turbo releasedadded