API Changelog & Updates
A comprehensive history of updates, new features, and improvements to the Runway API. Create an account to get started today.
ElevenLabs Clean Audio
Section titled “ElevenLabs Clean Audio”October 16th, 2025 - ElevenLabs Voice Isolation is available directly via the Runway API. Strip background noise from any recording and isolate crisp, clear speech—built for film, podcast, and interview workflows.
ElevenLabs Voice Dubbing
Section titled “ElevenLabs Voice Dubbing”October 16th, 2025 - ElevenLabs Dubbing is available directly via the Runway API. Translate your content into 29 languages with AI-generated speech that maintains the speaker’s original voice characteristics and emotional tone.
Google Veo 3.1
Section titled “Google Veo 3.1”October 15th, 2025 - Google Veo 3.1 text to image and image to video are now available in the Runway API. Generate with even greater fidelity and control with first and last keyframe support, the new Reference to Video feature and support for full 1080p outputs. Learn more at the link below.
ElevenLabs text to Sound Effects
Section titled “ElevenLabs text to Sound Effects”October 8th, 2025 - Flexible generation times for Runway video models are now available via the Runway API. Choose any duration from 2-10 seconds using Gen-4 Turbo. Pay only for what you generate.
Flexible Generation Length
Section titled “Flexible Generation Length”October 8th, 2025 - Flexible generation times for Runway video models are now available via the Runway API. Choose any duration from 2-10 seconds using Gen-4 Turbo. Pay only for what you generate.
Text to Speech
Section titled “Text to Speech”September 25th, 2025 - Starting today, ElevenLabs’ Multilingual v2 Text to Speech is available directly via the Runway API. Generate natural, emotionally-aware speech in 29 languages while maintaining consistent voice quality and personality.
API Playground
Section titled “API Playground”September 24th, 2025 - Today we’re launching the Runway API Playground—a new interactive environment that lets developers test and refine their integrations before going to production. Build with confidence and ship faster. The Runway API Playground provides a full sandbox environment with all our latest models.
Third Party Models
Section titled “Third Party Models”September 23rd, 2025 - Select third party models are now available via the Runway API. All designed to make your creative workflows even more robust and controllable within Runway. Starting with Google Veo3 and Nano Banana (gemini_2.5_flash).
Launch Gen-4 Image Turbo in Runway API
Section titled “Launch Gen-4 Image Turbo in Runway API”August 19th, 2025 - Introducing our fastest image model. Generate with reference images in 10 seconds or less. Gen-4 Image Turbo costs 2.5-4x less than non-turbo and achieves a 93.3% quality Dreambench++ Score compared to standard Gen-4 Image generations.
Aleph in Runway API
Section titled “Aleph in Runway API”August 1st, 2025 - Aleph is now available via the Runway API, allowing you to bring an entirely new to way to edit, transform and generate videos directly into your apps, products, platforms and websites.
Act-Two in Runway API
Section titled “Act-Two in Runway API”July 21st, 2025 - Act-Two is now available via the Runway API, allowing you to bring our most advanced motion capture directly into your apps, products, platforms and websites.
Runway MCP Server
Section titled “Runway MCP Server”June 13th, 2025 - Our MCP server is now available on GitHub. Now you can connect Claude, or any MCP-compatible assistant, directly to Runway’s generation capabilities, allowing you to build AI agents that can generate videos, images and more as part of automated workflows.
Launch Gen-4 Image in Runway API
Section titled “Launch Gen-4 Image in Runway API”May 16th, 2025 - Gen-4 Image is now available via the Runway API, allowing anyone to integrate its powerful multimodal generation capabilities directly into their apps, products, platforms and websites.