✓Filed by gotnerfed.comCase #R-2018-346Classification CLEAN-trackOpened 2026-03-08Last scanned 2026-06-29 02:00 UTCACTIVE

AI VIDEO/Runway/founded 2018/Series D

Runway

AI video generation + editing

1 major change on record.

Defining receipt|Runway Gen-3 Alpha moved from Standard ($35/mo) to Pro ($95/mo) tier|2026-03-08

► Clean5-24 · no critical receipts; nothing on watch.
Ranked #12 of 23 tracked vendors.

Receipt trail

1 filed · latest 113d ago

◆ At a glanceAll time · since 2026-03-08

113days

Since last receipt

Runway Gen-3 Alpha moved from Stand… · major

Receipts

all time

Critical

—

Major

feature gated

Last 90d

quiet

Peak nerf

Mar 8 · feature gated

—

Cadence

avg between receipts

►Verdict: Clean

Receipt trail

1 filed

Methodology ↗

↗ Current pricing page How the index is calculated Embed badge Procurement report (PDF)Compare to peers

◆ 30 / 60 / 90 forecast →

likely next: feature gated · expected severity major

Next 30d39%

prob of any change

Next 60d63%

prob of any change

Next 90d78%

prob of any change

Observed 1 receipt over 1 days (cadence ~30d). Last receipt 113 days ago. Most common kind: feature-gated. Brier-scored against subsequent reality on the public leaderboard.

Vendor average28%Category avg22%Brier · last 90d0.18Modelv0 heuristic

◆ Nerf Index · trailing 12 monthsflat vs. 90d · now 16

JunAugOctDecFebAprJun

Recency-weighted Nerf Index, 30-day rolling. Dots mark receipts. Index breached “clean” threshold on 2026-03-08 at the defining receipt.

◆ Community sentimentReddit · last 90d

Community sentiment

No sentiment data yet. Reddit posts about Runway are scored by Claude Haiku 4.5 on first render and cached daily - the next page load will populate this card. Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY + Vercel KV.

Net = (positive − negative) / total Reddit posts mentioning Runway in the trailing 7 days. Updated daily. Read methodology →

Receipts · all time · reverse chronological

Every silent change Runway made.

1 receipt · 0 critical · 1 major · 0 minor

1 MORE RECEIPT HIDDEN · LAST 12 MONTHS

You’re seeing the last 30 days. Personal sees the last year.

Free tier shows the most recent 30 days of receipts per vendor. Personal ($9/mo) unlocks the full 1-year diff history - plus a 3-vendor watchlist, real-time alerts on every severity, migration playbooks, and Slack/Discord/Teams webhooks.

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◆ Escape pod · if you're leaving

Free & open-source alternatives to Runway.

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◆ ESCAPE POD · FREE / OPEN-SOURCE ALTERNATIVES

4 ranked alternatives to Runway.

ComfyUI ↗FREE / OSSGPL-3.0★ 65k
When you want full control over the diffusion pipeline. Power-user choice.
Node-based image/video pipelineSDXL, Flux, video diffusion modelsReproducible workflows you can share as JSON
install: git clone + Python deps
caveat: Steep learning curve vs A1111.
LTX-2 (Lightricks) ↗FREE / OSSLTX-2 Community License
Open-weight Runway/Sora/Veo alternative that generates video AND matching audio in one model.
DiT-based foundation model with synchronized audio + videoText/image/audio-to-video, up to 4KOpen weights + training code + LoRA trainerRuns locally (FP8 quantization for lower VRAM)
install: git clone https://github.com/Lightricks/LTX-2 && uv sync --frozen
caveat: Community License, NOT Apache/MIT: free (incl. commercial) only under $10M annual revenue; above that needs a paid commercial license. Heavy GPU for HD/4K.
Open-Sora ↗FREE / OSSApache-2.0★ 22k
When you want OpenAI Sora capability locally. Heavy GPU need.
Open-source video diffusion (Sora-style)Text-to-video and image-to-videoPublic model checkpoints
install: git clone + pip install -r requirements.txt
caveat: Needs 24GB+ VRAM realistically.
Stable Video Diffusion ↗FREE / OSSStability Community License
Best image-to-video model with permissive-enough license.
Image-to-video model from StabilityRun via ComfyUI workflowFree for non-commercial; commercial license available
install: Download checkpoint from HuggingFace, load in ComfyUI
caveat: Read the license - not pure open-source.

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