Reviewers see RunwayML as a promising, sometimes impressive text-to-video tool, especially for concepting, abstract b-roll, and low-budget creative work. Several users praise the overall experience, steady improvement, and the convenience of having multiple AI tools in one place. But the sharpest criticism is practical: weak prompt adherence, disappointing outputs, slow generation on some plans, no queuing, heavy moderation, and frustrating account enforcement. Overall, sentiment is mixed: strong creative potential, but many users do not yet trust it for demanding or commercial use.

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Pros

AI-driven editing (2)

API access (2)

text-to-video (2)

Cons

high pricing (2)

inconsistent results (2)

poor prompt adherence (2)

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•1 review

A miserable experience. The prices are way too high. If you get the unlimited (Relaxed) subscription, generating a 10 second video takes about 20 minutes. You can't que videos either, you have to wait until they are finished one by one. The AI gets your prompt wrong half the time. Which make you lose time and credits. Then there's the oversensitive censorship. Even people in short-sleeved t-shirts are too risky. They don't tell you what's the problem either. While you're figuring out what exactly is the problem, your account gets suspended. They say you can appeal to this, but that's a lie. They just mention that their decision is final, give no explanation and tell you to go away. Anything is better than this overpriced mess.

What needs improvement

slow performance (1)high pricing (2)poor prompt adherence (2)limited video queuing (1)censorship issues (1)

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110 views1yr ago

•1 review

Nowhere near worth the exorbitant pricing. Even with the slightly less expensive Gen 3 Alpha Turbo, there is almost no prompt adherence, even if you follow their prompting guide. And given the extremely high expense, most users won'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. Not worth the money at this time.

What needs improvement

high pricing (2)inconsistent results (2)poor prompt adherence (2)

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88 views2yr ago

•5 reviews

Wild how far video gen has come. Been messing with Runway to create b-roll from prompts, and it actually holds up for abstract sequences. Wouldn’t trust it for commercial work yet, but great for concepting or low-budget indie projects.

What's great

AI-driven editing (2)

What needs improvement

inconsistent results (2)

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56 views12mo ago

LangAI

•11 reviews

I've just used this tool for a video and the result is truly incredible. All of that in the free version as well. Super sharp masking and so many cool effects to add. I've found my new video editing best friend.

What's great

free version (1)sharp masking (1)

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35 views3yr ago

used RunwayML to build Melies

•17 reviews

Runway’s cutting-edge video generation adds cinematic effects and AI-driven editing to Melies, helping bring each scene to life with fluid animation and professional polish.

What's great

AI-driven editing (2)cinematic effects (1)

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23 views1yr ago

•1 review

Love the one-stop-shop approach to AI tools under one brand/domain. Quick, good explanations, expectation management is everything when it comes to AI tools and they do not overpromise things.

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10 views3yr ago