Runway Gen-4 Turbo
Generates a ten-second clip in roughly thirty seconds, about five times faster than the standard Gen-4, and the Gen-4 family is specifically tuned for keeping characters and locations consistent across shots. No native audio on this family — budget for a separate audio pass.
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gen4_turbo Price
$0.05
/ video sec
Context
—
not token-based
Max output
—
varies
Pricing caveat: Billed as 5 credits per second at $0.01 per credit. No native audio on the Gen-4 family.
Where Runway Gen-4 Turbo fits
- Consistent characters across scenes
- Fast creative iteration
- Editor-grade production workflows
- Image-to-video animation
Specifications
- API model ID
- gen4_turbo
- Provider
- Runway
- Model family
- Runway Gen-4
- Released
- April 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Context window
- —
- Max output
- —
- Native reasoning
- No
- Relative latency
- low
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- video
- Open weights
- No
- Cached input
- —
- Batch discount
- —
Frequently asked
How much does Runway Gen-4 Turbo cost?
Runway Gen-4 Turbo is billed at $0.05 / video sec.
What is Runway Gen-4 Turbo's context window?
Context limits for Runway Gen-4 Turbo depend on the input format rather than a token count.
Is Runway Gen-4 Turbo a reasoning model?
No. Runway Gen-4 Turbo answers directly without a native thinking phase, which keeps latency and cost predictable.
What is Runway Gen-4 Turbo best for?
Fast iteration inside an editing suite. Generates a ten-second clip in roughly thirty seconds, about five times faster than the standard Gen-4, and the Gen-4 family is specifically tuned for keeping characters and locations consistent across shots. No native audio on this family — budget for a separate audio pass.