Runway
Capabilities & pricing
Runway is designed for bringing visual ideas to life and directing short scenes with intentional movement.
- Base rate
- from 24 tokens per video
- Category
- Video
- Access
- MCP + website
- Payment
- Syntasy tokens
What can you do with Runway?
Make movement part of the concept
Describe what should change: the subject's position, the environment or the viewpoint. Separating these actions makes the visual goal clearer.
Test a directing idea
Use short generations to explore mood, pacing and visual direction. An effective test helps define the next shot more precisely.
A scene from a written brief
Start without a prepared first frame. Describe the setting, action and camera movement, then choose generation settings.
Animate a source image
The image sets the scene's starting point. Focus the prompt on movement, the action's progression and camera behavior relative to that frame.
Where it fits
Previsualization, advertising sketches, animated visuals and short atmospheric scenes.
How to get a useful result
Specify movement direction, speed and end position. Avoid conflicting camera movements.
How much does it cost?
Current tariffs from the Syntasy catalog. Choose a mode and settings; check the final estimate before starting.
| Mode | Settings | Syntasy tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Text to video | 720p · 5 s · Text input | 24 tokens per video |
| Image to video | 720p · 5 s · With image | 24 tokens per video |
| Text to video | 720p · 10 s · Text input | 60 tokens per video |
| Text to video | 1080p · 6 s · Text input | 60 tokens per video |
| Image to video | 720p · 10 s · With image | 60 tokens per video |
| Image to video | 1080p · 5 s · With image | 60 tokens per video |
This is the rate for the specified billing unit. Duration, output count and input length may change the total.
Available modes
Text to video
Text input
Image to video
With image
Resolutions: 720p, 1080p
Use Runway via MCP
Connect Syntasy in your AI client and authorize access. Ask it to find this model, calculate the price and show the settings before generation.
- Open Access & tokens in the MCP section and create an MCP token.
- Add the server URL to your client:
/api/mcp - Ask: “Find Runway. Show its modes and estimate the cost before starting.”
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "syntasy_list_models",
"arguments": {
"kind": "video",
"query": "Runway"
}
}
}The example discovers models and does not start a paid generation. Replace YOUR_MCP_TOKEN with your own token.
Frequently asked questions
What are Syntasy tokens?
They are the shared balance used to pay for models in Syntasy. Token pack prices are available on the pricing page. View token packs
Why can the final cost differ from the base rate?
A per-second tariff is multiplied by duration, an image tariff by output count, and a character tariff by text length. Check the estimate on the website or use syntasy_estimate_generation via MCP for your chosen settings.
