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AI video and image generator: text-to-video, image-to-video, Gen-4.5 model, API access

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Alt Score · 74

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Verified coverage 90%71
Visibility 10%100

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#4 of 8 in AI video generators

Runway ranks #4 of 8 in AI video generators, with an Alt Score of 74. It is proprietary, freemium from $15/mo and available on Web and iOS. 12 of 12 checklist rows are verified against a public source.

Runway is a web, iOS and Android AI platform for generating and editing video and images from text or image prompts, built around its own Gen-4.5 model plus third-party models (Veo 3.1, Kling, Nano Banana Pro). It offers a free plan with one-time credits and paid Standard/Pro/Max subscription tiers, plus a developer API and an experimental real-time AI-character product.

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Who it's for

Individual creators exploring AI video and image generation, and teams and enterprises (e.g. BBC, Under Armour) producing marketing, product and film content at scale, per the pricing and product pages.

What you get

Text-to-video, image-to-video, video editing/upscaling, AI lip sync, text-to-speech and music generation models, all metered by a shared credit system, plus a public API and, for enterprise, a real-time custom AI-character (avatar) builder.

How it works

Users generate content from text or image prompts in the web app (or iOS/Android apps) using Runway's own Gen-4.5 model or third-party models like Veo 3.1 and Kling, each consuming a set number of plan credits; developers can call the same models through the Runway API.

Where Runway stands out

Verified capabilities most alternatives don't have.

Commercial use rights only 4 of 8 apps

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HeyGen is an AI video platform for creating avatar-led videos from text or a photo, translating videos into other languages with dubbing and lip sync, and cloning voices for text-to-speech.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
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Alt Score · 85

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%83
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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InVideo AI turns a text prompt into a full video by writing a script and assembling matching stock and AI-generated visuals, then adding AI voiceover, subtitles, and music, rather than generating nove.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
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Alt Score · 81

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%79
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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Kling AI is an AI video and image generation platform operated by Kling AI Pte.

Proprietary WebmacOSWindowsiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 78

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%75
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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Synthesia is a web-based platform that turns text scripts into videos narrated by AI avatars, aimed at corporate training, sales enablement, and marketing use cases rather than open-ended cinematic ge.

Proprietary WebBrowser extension
Alt Score

Alt Score · 74

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%71
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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05

Luma Dream Machine was the original product name for Luma AI's video generator at lumalabs.ai; the vendor's own llms.txt now warns against conflating the current Ray3.2 model with 'deprecated' Dream M.

Proprietary Web
Alt Score

Alt Score · 62

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%58
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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Veo is Google DeepMind's video generation model, producing text-to-video and image-to-video clips with synchronized native audio and dialogue.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
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Alt Score · 59

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%54
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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Pika is a consumer AI video generation platform offering text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video effects (Pikascenes, Pikadditions, Pikaswaps, Pikatwists, Pikaffects) through its Pika 2.5 mo.

Proprietary WebiOS
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Alt Score · 48

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%42
Visibility 10%100

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Feature comparison

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Text-to-video
Image-to-video
AI avatars
Text-to-speech voiceover
Lip sync
Multi-language dubbing
Custom avatar training
4K export
Watermark-free free tier
API access
Commercial use rights
Free tier
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FAQ

Yes. HeyGen, InVideo AI and Kling AI have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.