Runware
Runware Grant Program

Grant Program

Funding and support for builders shipping with Runware.

Up to
$30,000in API credits
Apply for the grant
Program

What the grant includes

Grant duration

12 months of Runware API access to build and ship your product, with room to test before credits expire.

Credit volume

Up to $30,000 in API credits

Enough for over 750,000 image generations or more than 90 hours of generated video at average list pricing across modalities.

Community and support

Direct access to the Runware team and builder community channels.

Your grant runs on Runware's production platform, not a limited sandbox: the same model breadth and unit economics production teams rely on, with the scale to match from day one.

All AI models

All AI models on one API.

Integrate once. Access thousands of models across every modality.

  • No vendor sprawl or fragmented tooling
  • Open and proprietary models side by side
Engineered for

Lowest cost

Lowest-cost AI inference.

AI driven by custom hardware and a proprietary inference engine.

  • Up to 10× lower cost per generation, with no quality tradeoff
  • Pay per request, no commitments
Built for

Instant scale

AI inference at instant scale.

Ship to millions of users in days, not months.

  • No infrastructure setup or capacity planning
  • Auto-routed across regions
Eligibility

Applicants

We look for products with early signs of real usage and a genuine need for genAI at their core.

  • A real product or a credible MVP, not just an idea on paper
  • An early-stage startup at or before Series B, bootstrapped teams welcome
  • Building or launching on Runware within the next six months
  • Reachable at a business email tied to your product or company
  • Committed to actively building with Runware once accepted
  • No venture funding or investor introduction required
Mission

Remove cost as a blocker

Cost should not block early builders from shipping with production-grade models. The Runware Grant Program gives startups API credits and support so you can integrate and iterate without upfront inference spend until you're ready to launch.

What builders ship on Runware

  • AI creative tools with image and video generation in one workflow
  • Productivity apps that edit user media through conversational prompts
  • Marketing platforms generating on-brand visuals and short-form video at scale
  • Developer tools that expose Runware models to downstream builders
Platform

One API across every modality

Integrate once and route requests across image, video, avatar, audio, and language models, plus 3D, without managing separate vendor contracts.

Windup Orchard Harvest Tableau generated with FLUX.2 Flex.

Image generation

Text-to-image and reference-driven generation with style control across open and proprietary models.

Video generation

Text-to-video and image-to-video workflows, plus reference inputs with native audio on supported models.

Retro Arcade Marquee Refresh edited with Qwen Image Edit.

Image editing

Inpainting, outpainting, background removal, and upscaling through one API, along with prompt-based edits.

Video editing

Conversational edits and style transfer on existing footage, including object swaps and scene-level changes.

MiniMax Music Cover audio transformation example.

Audio

Speech and music generation, plus sound models for products that need synchronized media output.

Subway violinist scene analyzed with Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite vision inference.

LLMs

Text models for orchestration and captioning, alongside agent workflows and media generation.

Velvet astrolabe source photo reconstructed into a 3D mesh with Meta SAM 3D Objects.

3D

Mesh and asset generation for products that combine spatial output with 2D media pipelines.

Avatar

Talking-head and presenter video from a portrait plus audio or script, with lip sync and facial motion on supported avatar models.

Community

Builders shipping with Runware

Confirmed partners

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Process

How it works

Apply

Submit the form with your product and stage, plus how you plan to use Runware.

Reviewed within 2 weeks

Our team reviews applications on a rolling basis and responds within two weeks.

Get credits and build

Approved grants receive API credits on your Runware account so you can integrate and ship.

Resources

Start building

Documentation

API reference and model schemas, plus integration guides for every modality on the platform.

View docs

Quickstart

A platform introduction covering authentication and your first inference request in a few steps.

Get started

Playground

Test models interactively before you wire them into your product or grant application workflow.

Open playground

Apply for the grant

Tell us what you are building and how you plan to use Runware.

FAQ

Early-stage teams with a real product or a credible MVP that are building or launching within the next six months. We keep it low-friction: a business email and a working product matter more than your funding stage. Bootstrapped teams are welcome, and there is no venture funding or investor introduction required. We focus on teams at or before Series B.