Runway Gen-4 Image

Pricing — 1 offering(s)

Showing the active price and any recorded history. Full pricing history is available via the paid API — see API docs.

Capability profile

Operator guidance

Route here for stylised, reference-consistent images, especially in a Runway video pipeline. Note credit-based billing (≈8 credits ≈ $0.08/image) and a variable per-image cost; for cheap per-call images prefer FLUX schnell/dev.

Use cases

• Reference-consistent characters/scenes for creative and film workflows
• Teams already in the Runway ecosystem wanting stills alongside video

Limitations

• Closed model — architecture and training undisclosed
• Credit-based pricing makes per-image cost variable and harder to compare
• No independently-published T2I benchmark scores tracked yet. An independent Elo does now exist: Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image, confirmed 2026-08-19, SCO-462 sweep) ranks 'Runway Gen-4 Image' #125 of ~147 models tracked, Elo 992 — solidly below the arena median, though still a different benchmark type than GenEval/T2I-CompBench

Citations

• Runway API pricing
• Runway Gen-4
• Runway Gen-4 Image — Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (independent Elo)