Runway
89Video, image and audio generation studio built around the Gen-4.5 model, with mobile apps and a developer API
4 products our research names as a replacement for AI Image to Video in Text-to-Video Generators, each with what it does differently — prices, API and status from our own checks rather than from the vendors’ own pages.
Video, image and audio generation studio built around the Gen-4.5 model, with mobile apps and a developer API
has a free tier · has a public API
AI Image to Video vs Runway →Video model with motion control and lip-sync support
has a free tier · has a public API
Short video generation with effect-driven presets
has a free tier
Text and image to video with keyframe control
has a free tier · has a public API
Not named as direct replacements — the neighbours in the same part of the catalog, best-rated first.
Upload a photo, get a five-second AI kissing clip; one credit per video, no subscription.
Writes a script, storyboards it, and renders AI film scenes with dialogue and music in one browser tool.
Runs more than 170 image and video models in one workspace with shared characters and one credit pool.
Turns a written story idea into a full AI-generated short drama with script, characters, voiceover, and video.
Several video and image models behind one editor, billed in credits on annual plans.
Reusable AI actors that hold a likeness across images and video
Aggregates 20+ image and video models (Veo, Sora, Kling, FLUX) behind one paid subscription, no watermark.
One API that turns a song plus lyrics into a finished music video, shot by shot.
Turns a song into a beat-cut music video with storyboards and consistent characters
Conversational AI agents that produce short-form video, from music videos to UGC-style ads, from a text description.
Generates 8-second short-form videos from templates and an uploaded or AI-modified starting image.
Turns a script or idea into a short AI-narrated video with generated visuals and voiceover.
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