runwayml.comReviews of runwayml.com

Editing pictures or movies is like shooting with a scattergun with a blindfold on. It's broad and you hit many targets, but most of the time not the target you were aiming for. If you want good results, you need many, many credits... Even interpretation of prompts does not always go right. You can refine and adjust, but most of the time it hallucinates and does not listen to the instructions given. I regret having agreed on a yearly subscription. Until april 2026 i will faithfully burn my prepaid credits on useless media.

I understand that the product is experimental but sometimes the outputs are so poor and unusable it seems like it's doing it deliberately to eat up credits.

Sucks up your credits and gives you crap results.

Good enough but there is a lot of room for improvement. It has cool features, but it is expensive. Half the time, it cancels the process.

They should improve the quality of Ai so it looks real

Way too restrictive on innocuous prompt. Not worth the money. I have a very particular idea for a short-film in mind that I have wanted to make for a long time that involves an 18 year old woman and her kid sister, trying to escape an apocalyptic situation with their Dad. The prompt has absolutely *nothing* to do with nudity, or anything nsfw. There is no gore, no horrible imagery; nothing except for people trying to deal with a difficult situation (I even have a wonderful moral for the story, and a beautiful ending prepared) - BUT RunwayML WON'T LET ME USE THE PROMPT OR ANY VARIATIONS that involve a young woman and her little sister looking frightened, no matter how hard I try. I'm not sure what the system is trying to prevent from happening, but considering the prompt is innocuous and with no prompting for any kind of material that they should understandably prevent, it's kind of ridiculous. Please do better RunwayML; by the looks of things I'm far from the only person with this complaint - as it stands I will have to forego my planned pro subscription in favor of Kling AI, as their system doesn't try to stop me from having a scene with a FAMILY escaping a difficult scenario...

Nowhere near worth the exorbitant pricing. Even with the slightly less expensive Gen 3 Alpha Turbo, there are times where there is almost no prompt adherence, even if you follow their prompting guide. You may enjoy playing with the service if you don't actually care what you get and don't mind a LOT of static images barely animated, but if you're in need of something that will actually follow your instructions, Runway is not there yet. You get between 20-40 5-10 sec videos per month (a little over 3 minutes of video) at their lowest pricing tier. This is more expensive than Midjourney's lowest tier, and yet it provides nowhere near the product quality of Midjourney. Given the extremely high expense but low number of monthly video generations, most users don't have the freedom to experiment in order to find that just-right-magical-prompt-wording that will yield any result that even approaches accurate. Even with start images, where most of the work is done for them, the resulting video is disappointing 9 times out of ten. As an example, I used 65 of my 205 allotted seconds only to discover that I was never going to get my character to just simply smile. Only one 5 second clip of that 65 seconds had a result that was accurate to my prompt. And let me be clear, the reason the runway is so lowly rated for me is not that the models are hard to work with. This is new tech and difficulty is par for the course. The problem is that the monetary framework Runway has chosen to go with is so restrictive as to make their product almost useless at times due to the difficulties they have yet to iron out. You can get some cool looking results from runway, but it's a lot of luck, money, and work to do so. If runway seemed like they cared more about their customers or was more upfront about the limitations of their tool, then they'd get a higher rating from me. Not worth the money at this time.

The third generation of Runway ML is quite disappointing. The video quality is poor, and it only follows about half of the provided prompts accurately. Considering the high credit cost for usage, it's not worth it. Feels like a scam compared to previous versions.