LLM Reference

Runway Gen-4 Image

Released
2025-05-16
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 38d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalVision

Runway Gen-4 Image is a released vision model; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
  • Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
Specifications
Released
2025-05-16
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Created by

Democratizing video creation through AI

New York City, New York, United States
Founded 2018
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Runway Gen-4 Image by Runway. A production text-to-image model supporting reference image generation for character and location consistency across scenes. Released to API May 16, 2025, part of the broader Gen-4 creative AI family (released March 31, 2025). Available on Replicate (runwayml/gen4-image) and Runway API.

Runway Gen-4 Image is a proprietary model in the Runway Gen family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Runway Gen-4 Image yet.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.