Runway Gen-4.5
the toolchain is the product now
the base model no longer competes, but aleph video-to-video and act-two performance capture still have no real equivalent — you're buying the workflow, not the weights.
runway's gen-4.5 generates natively at 720p, which in a field that reached 4K is a real limitation, and it appears in neither leaderboard's top ten. as a text-to-video model it has been passed.
what runway still has is everything around the model: aleph for video-to-video transformation, act-two for performance capture, a genuine editing timeline, and 4K upscaling. those are workflow tools that the model labs mostly haven't built, and for teams doing post rather than generation they remain the reason to be here.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai video models
- pricing
- $0.12 / second (12 credits at $0.01)
- website
- runwayml.com
the base model no longer competes, but aleph video-to-video and act-two performance capture still have no real equivalent — you're buying the workflow, not the weights.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.