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Everything Runway shipped in September 2026, collected from official Runway sources. Each entry is dated and links to the page it came from.
Runway introduced Team Plan for collaborative workflows, Adobe plugin integrations, and Enhance Frame Rate tool for video resolution adjustments. Key model updates included Seedance 2.5 edit/draft modes and GPT Image 2.5 support on Runway Dev.
Summary generated from the releases listed below.
September 2026 was Runway's 3rd busiest month of the 9 we had tracked by then: 19 releases, about 2× its monthly average of 9. That was 9 releases fewer than August 2026. Releases were spread across Model (6), Product (6) and Developer Tools (4).
Releases
19
-9 vs August 2026
Rank of 9 months
3rd
Average 9.4 a month
Most shipped
Model
6 releases
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…
Source: Runway API ChangelogElevenLabs V4 is now supported in Runway, letting you generate audio with the latest, most expressive ElevenLabs model.
Source: Runway ChangelogSeedance 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…
Source: Runway API ChangelogNewest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.
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.
Seedance 2.5 (seedance2_5) now supports mode: "edit" on video to video, which changes the input video in place. Edit mode requires promptText and duration: "auto" , does not accept ratio , and keeps the input video’s aspect ratio. See Seedance 2.5 video to video modes and use th…
Runway releases per month, for September 2026 and the 8 months before it. A taller bar means more releases that month; the dated entries for each month are on its own page.
26 of the companies we track shipped in September 2026; Runway ranks 4th by number of releases.
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