Last updated · 92 releases tracked since January 2026
A dated log of everything Runway has shipped, collected from official Runway sources and updated as new releases land.
Runway integrated with OpenAI Dots, launched Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite, introduced Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode, and added Ideogram 4.5. These releases focused on video generation, image workflows, and faster iterations.
Summary of October 2026, generated from the releases listed below.
This month
8
-10 vs last month
Last 12 months
92
Busiest: August 2026
Most shipped
Model
40 releases
Newest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.
Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro (kling2.5_turbo_pro) generates from text or a start frame, with an optional last frame, at 5 or 10 seconds (default 5). Text-to-video ratio is 1920:1080 (the default), 1440:1440, or 1080:1920 (1280:720, 720:720, and 720:1280 are still accepted). Image-to-vide…
Generate images with legible typography and layout from a prompt of up to 10,000 characters, with up to 5 reference images and outputCount from 1-8.
Generate images with legible typography from a prompt of up to 4,000 characters, or remix a single reference image, with outputCount from 1-4.
Generate images from a prompt of up to 5,500 characters, with up to 14 reference images (optional prompt-referenceable tags) and outputCount from 1-4.
Agent can now generate with Seedance 2.5 Draft mode, creating fast 480p drafts with post-generation enhancement. Iterate and correct generations faster and cheaper, with Draft mode automatically suggested and easy to toggle on or off.
Ideogram 4.5 is now supported in Runway MCP, bringing its image generation capabilities directly into your MCP workflows.
Runway is now available in OpenAI's Dots. Brief your dot before bed: it plans the shots, Runway shoots them, and the finished spot is waiting in the morning.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite ( grok_imagine_1_5_lite ) is now available on Runway Dev. A faster, lower-cost version of Grok Imagine Video 1.5 for generating videos from text or a start-frame image. Text-to-video takes ratio as width:height sizes across 480p, 720p, and 1080p (for…
Eleven v4 (eleven_v4) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate expressive speech with audio tags like [laughs], [whispers], and [pause] in the script. Scripts can be up to 2,500 characters, using the same Runway preset voices as Eleven v3. Billed at 2.2 credits per 1,000 charact…
ElevenLabs V4 is now supported in Runway, letting you generate audio with the latest, most expressive ElevenLabs model.
Seedance 2.5 ( seedance2_5 ) now supports draft mode. Pass draft: true on text to video , image to video , or video to video for a 480p preview, billed at the 480p rate. When that task succeeds, enhance it to 1080p by sending draftTaskId alone to text to video. The enhancement r…
Runway MCP is now available on Cursor's Marketplace, making it easy to bring Runway's generative capabilities directly into your Cursor workflow.
Runway is now available directly inside DaVinci Resolve. Bring Runway's tools into your existing edit without switching tabs.
Agents in Runway MCP can now find your Brand Kits and use those assets as references. Brand Kits are currently read-only via MCP, with creating and editing still done in product.
Kling O3 4K, Kling 3.0 Standard, Kling O3 Standard, and Kling 3.0 Motion Control are now available on Runway MCP.
Runway is now available as a plugin in Grok Bot. Sign in with your Runway account to generate images and video directly from a Grok Bot chat.
Enhance Frame Rate (enhance_frame_rate) is now available on Runway Dev. Convert a video to a target frame rate of 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60, 120, 23_98 (23.98 fps), 29_97 (29.97 fps), or 59_94 (59.94 fps). Inputs can be at most 300 seconds. Billed at 1 credit per 2 seconds.
Convert any video, Runway-made or not, to 25, 30, 48, 60, 120 or 59.94 fps, up to 4K and 5 minutes long. Available in the Enhance menu, Tool Mode, Workflows and Agent.
You can now @-mention Agent directly in comments on any asset page. Collaborate and iterate right in context, with Agent's responses forming a clear history of edits for your team.
Ruby ACEScg sequences are now referenced to the source. The hdr_exr_acescg_sequence_1_3 and hdr_exr_acescg_sequence_2_0 outputs of /v1/video_to_hdr are now built from the source plate: the plate brought into ACEScg through the inverse ACES SDR (Rec.709) Output Transform, with th…
Ruby now preserves the alpha channel of a source video on /v1/video_to_hdr. Sources with alpha (ProRes 4444, WebM with alpha, RGBA codecs) are detected automatically; no request parameter is needed.
Agent can now create and edit Brand Kits for you, right in the conversation. Group, describe and reuse assets and text to build a durable creative identity without leaving your session.
Runway is now available directly inside Premiere Pro and After Effects. Bring the full power of Runway into your existing creative workflow without leaving your editor.
OpenAI’s GPT Image 2.5 Flare (gpt_image_2_5_flare) and GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (gpt_image_2_5_sunburst) are now available on Runway Dev. Both generate images from a prompt of up to 32,000 characters, accept up to 16 reference images (with optional prompt-referenceable tags), supp…
Team is a new self-serve plan for small teams that create together in Runway. Every seat adds 6,900 credits a month to one shared pool, and up to nine people work from shared projects in one workspace with 1TB of storage. Comment on generations, share agent skills and connect th…
MiniMax H3 Max (h3_max) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate videos from a text prompt or a start-frame image, with an optional last-frame keyframe. Durations are 5-15 seconds at 480p or 768p.
Ruby is now available as its own model in the Tool Mode model selector, with a dedicated UI. Bring in videos from outside Runway and color-grade them with Ruby.
HDR outputs can now be delivered as scene-referred ACEScg OpenEXR sequences - in both ACES 1.3 and ACES 2.0 variants, with outputFormat: "hdr_exr_acescg_sequence_1_3" or "hdr_exr_acescg_sequence_2_0" matching your pipeline’s config version - on /v1/video_to_hdr and on Gen-4.5 HD…
Runway MCP now supports upgrading your video content to HDR, wherever your agents are. Choose from HDR10, HLG, or HDR ProRes output formats.
WAN 3.0 (wan3) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate up to 30 seconds of video with native audio from a text prompt or a start-frame image. WAN 3.0 is built for reference-driven shots - pass images, video, or audio to keep characters and style consistent, or use first and las…
Meta Muse Image (muse_image) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate images from text with optional reference images - when references are provided, the model edits and combines them as the prompt describes. Supports prompts up to 4,000 characters, up to 10 reference images, ou…
Wan 3.0 is now available in Runway in tool mode and workflows. Generate near state-of-the-art video with audio, using multiple image, video, and audio reference inputs, at 480p, 720p, or 1080p.
Org admins now see alerts in org settings when workspaces are missing SSO enforcement or lack a low-credit email, with a link to fix each issue directly.
Org admins can now set a default SSO configuration that automatically applies to every new workspace created in the org. This removes the need to manually copy SSO settings each time a new workspace is spun up.
Agents can now list workflows in your workspace, open one in the web app editor, tweak it, and run it from chat. Built for advanced, re-runnable pipelines you don't want to put together by hand.
Ruby (ruby) is now available via the Runway API. Convert any SDR video - uploads or generations from any model - into true HDR, delivered as 10-bit HEVC in HDR10 (outputFormat: "hdr10", the default) or HLG ("hlg") with BT.2020 signaling and measured HDR10 metadata, as a BT.2020…
Transform any SDR video into true HDR with Runway Ruby, a native color grading model available in Tool Mode, Workflows, and Runway Dev. Convert outputs from any model, first or third party, or your own existing video files, and get updated brightness and color range for professi…
Gen-4.5 text to video and image to video can now deliver directly in HDR and post-production formats via outputFormat: hdr10 and hlg streaming HDR, sdr_rec709_10bit for 10-bit SDR grading, and mastering-grade hdr_pq_12bit_master (12-bit lossless), hdr_prores (ProRes 422 HQ), hdr…
Split images into layers with a new tool that lets you toggle and transform each layer independently. Ideal for fine-grained image editing and asset extraction.
Compose and blend images and video together with new compositing workflow nodes, now available to all customers.
Seedance 2.5 (seedance2_5) now supports 1080p output on text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video. Pass a 1080p ratio such as 1920:1080 (16:9) or 1080:1920 (9:16). 4K stays on Seedance 2.0.
Seedance 2.5 now generates in 1080p across all surfaces. Get sharper, higher-resolution results wherever you create.
Ideogram's latest image model is now available in Runway MCP as ideogram-4, for text-to-image or remixing from a single reference. It excels at accurate, readable text in designs, with support for ultra-tall 9:21 and ultra-wide 21:9 aspect ratios.
xAI's Grok Imagine 1.5 is now available in Runway MCP as grok-imagine-1.5, supporting text-to-video and image-to-video from any MCP client. Generate 1-15 second clips with native audio, up to 1080p resolution.
Seedance 2.5 is now available in Runway MCP. Generate up to 30 seconds of video with native audio, using text-to-video, image-to-video, or video-to-video, with first frame, last frame, and reference image controls, all directly from your AI agent.
Agent sessions now live inside Projects, so you can start a session directly from a Project or move existing ones in. Your Project's assets and Brand Kits are instantly accessible from inside the session, so you never re-upload logos, product shots or style references.
Grok Imagine Image 2 (grok_imagine_image_2) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate images from text with optional reference images, an edit mode for direct image editing or combining references, quality of low or medium (default medium), outputCount from 1-4, and fixed width:h…
Tool Mode and Edit Studio now let you export Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2 generations as ProRes 4444 with PCM audio or a PNG sequence, instead of a compressed MP4. Drop your output straight onto a Resolve or Premiere timeline for a true editorial-grade workflow.
Seedance 2.5 (seedance2_5) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate cinematic videos from text, images, or video with optional generated audio, larger reference budgets, and durations from 4-30 seconds at 480p or 720p. Text-to-video can run from references alone (omit promptText…
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 (grok_imagine_1_5) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate videos from text or a start-frame image with optional native audio, prompt-addressable image references, and audio references. Text-to-video supports ratio values 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, a…
Leave feedback directly on an image or video with the new Comments tab. Pin comments to an exact spot or moment in a video, and @-mention teammates to notify them by email.
MiniMax Hailuo 3.0 is now live on Runway Dev. Generate video from text, image, or video, with support for keyframes plus reference images, videos, and audio.
Hailuo 3.0 (hailuo3) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate videos from text, images, or video with support for keyframe control, reference images, reference videos, and reference audio. Hailuo 3.0 supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video generation modes, wi…
Every live routed request is now recorded, so you can see which model your Model Router picked and why. View it in the Activity tab of the dev portal or fetch the same records via the public API, and click any row for the full pipeline breakdown.
API responses now include the credit cost of each task, both while running as an estimate and on completion as the final cost. This makes it easy for platforms to meter and display per-generation pricing to their own users.
Gen-3 Alpha Turbo (gen3a_turbo) and Gen-4 Aleph (gen4_aleph) are no longer available on Runway Dev. Requests that use these model identifiers will fail. Upgrade from Gen-3 Alpha Turbo to Gen-4.5 (best quality) or Gen-4 Turbo (fastest), and from Gen-4 Aleph to Aleph 2.0 (aleph2).
Eleven v3 (eleven_v3) is now available on Runway Dev. Generate expressive speech with audio tags like [laughs] and [whispers] in the script. Same Runway preset voices as Multilingual v2. Billed at 1 credit per 50 characters, with a 1 credit minimum.
ElevenLabs v3 is now available on Runway Dev. Generate expressive text-to-speech with inline audio tags like [laughs] and [whispers] via POST /v1/text_to_speech.
When you hit your concurrency limit on a model, Model Router can now automatically fall back to the next-best eligible model with capacity instead of queuing your request. Opt in per model router in the dev portal to scale past your per-model concurrency limits without added lat…
Pass in any video with a text prompt describing an entity to cut it out as a transparent webm video. You can also invert your selection to remove the background instead.
Organizations on an enterprise plan can now export per-generation credit usage and audit log history for the Runway web app workspaces linked to their API project. /v1/organization/webapp/usage returns one row per generation with the credits it cost, and /v1/organization/webapp/…
Agent can now build and run entire Workflows for you. Just describe what you want in plain language, and it assembles the full multi-step pipeline, nodes, inputs and all, which you can still inspect and edit yourself.
Runway MCP now supports Seedance 2.0 video generation in 4K resolution. Just explicitly request 4K to generate at the higher resolution.
Two new lightweight Seedance 2.0 tiers are now available through Runway MCP. Seedance 2.0 Fast delivers quick 480p/720p turnaround with full text-to-video, image-to-video, audio, and keyframe support, while Seedance 2.0 Mini offers the cheapest and fastest option for rapid itera…
Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available through Runway MCP. It's the fastest and most affordable Nano Banana model, ideal for quick iteration and experimentation at scale, at 4 credits per image and free in explore mode.
Configure allow/deny lists, cost caps, and optimization preferences for cost, latency, or quality, and Runway Dev will automatically select the best video model for each generation request. Build your integration once and stay on the best model as new ones are released, without…
Nano Banana 2 is now available in Runway MCP. Generate images at 1K, 2K or 4K resolution for 7 credits per image, a more affordable option for experimentation.
Seedream 5.0 is now available as an image model in tool mode. Use up to 14 reference images and generate at 2K or 3K resolution across eight aspect ratios.
Aleph 2.0 is now available through the Runway MCP. Ask your agent to edit videos, such as adding new elements to the background, using the new Edit Video tool.
Seedream 5.0 Lite is now available on Runway Dev. Generate images at 4 credits per image using the same text-to-image endpoint as Seedream 5.0 Pro.
Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available in Tool Mode on mobile, with support for up to 14 reference images and fast image generation.
Studio's timeline editor now lives inside Agent, so you can generate, assemble, refine and export a video in a single conversation. Ask the agent to sync clips to a track or assemble a multi-shot scene, or build and edit the timeline by hand.
Agent can now build custom Skills for you. Ask it to create one from scratch or turn an existing conversation into a reusable Skill you can share with your workspace.
Agent can now read PDFs you upload, pulling their content directly into generation. Drop in a brief, script or style guide up to 10MB and skip the copy-pasting.
Introducing Agent Skills. Build an ad campaign, create a commercial, localize your ads and more with a simple command.
Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available in Runway. Create images at warp speed, without compromising on quality.
Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni Flash, now in Runway. Start with a prompt, an image or video and create anything you can imagine.
Generate up to 120 seconds of dynamic speech, sound design and music with simple text prompts.
Make marketing that drives revenue. Runway Agent creates entire campaigns, analyzes data to improve your creative and scales your marketing across platforms, formats and markets.
Trim, stitch, reorder and export a final video. All in one place.
Get the video you need from the video you already have. Edit a frame the way you want, and Aleph 2.0 - our upgraded video editing model, now in Edit Studio - edits the rest of your video to match.
Work with an AI creative partner to develop and produce a finished video. Describe the video you need, refine the direction together and generate it all in one conversation.
Use anything-text, image, video or audio-to generate or edit videos with Seedance 2.0. Now available on Unlimited and Enterprise plans outside the US.
Launch of Runway Fund, an investment vehicle supporting startups in AI, media, and world simulation with $10M commitment and focus on AI research, new applications, and new media content.
Introducing Runway Builders program for startups with complimentary API credits and early access to Runway Characters API. Launch of Runway Characters, a real-time video agent API powered by GWM-1 general world model.
Runway introduced Labs as an internal incubator for new generative video applications and experimental products.
Runway launched Characters, a real-time video agent API for custom conversational avatars, alongside preset avatars in the consumer app.
The most advanced and consistent image generation and editing model. Now available in Runway.
All of the world’s best models, are now all available right inside of Runway. Including Kling 3.0, K
Announced $315 million in Series E funding led by General Atlantic.
Runway exposed Gen-4.5 through its API so apps can use the model for text-to-video and image-to-video generation.
Runway said Gen-4.5 was ported from NVIDIA Hopper to Vera Rubin NVL72 in a day and previewed its GWM-1 world model family.
Releases per month over the last 12 months. Busiest month: August 2026, 28 releases.
Releases in the last 12 months by category and product.
The most recent Runway update we track is “Kling on Runway Dev”, released on October 13, 2026.
Runway shipped 8 updates in October 2026, including “Kling on Runway Dev”, “Ideogram 4.5 on Runway Dev”, “Ideogram 4.0 on Runway Dev” and 5 mores.
We tracked 92 updates from Runway in the last 12 months, about 8 a month. The busiest month was August 2026, with 28 releases.
Runway publishes release notes on Runway Changelog and Runway API Changelog, linked at the top of this page. Every entry here links back to the official page it came from.
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