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Runway Gen-3 Alpha is a closed-weights video model from Runway, released June 2024.

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39.7±2.6comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 4 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The video models ranked either side of Runway Gen-3 Alpha, out of 139 with a score, then more from Runway.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
99Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3B Alibaba40±4api $0.040/sec +local~8.6GB2025-02
100Mochi 1 Genmo40±2api price unknown +local~6.5GB2024-10
101Runway Gen-3 Alpha Runway40±3comparison only2024-06
102Open-Sora Plan v1.3 (I2V) Peking University (PKU-YuanGroup)39±7local~24GB2024-10
103UniVideo Kuaishou (Kling AI)39±3comparison only2026-01
more from Runway
26Runway Aleph 2.0 Runway65±7api $0.28/sec2026-05
36Runway Gen-4.5 Runway58±2api $0.12/sec2025-12
41Runway Aleph Runway56±5comparison only2025-07

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$ what it's good at

text to video▇▅▄▆█▆▇▂▃▃▂▄ #67 of 94 · 82% of its score · 3 tests

Trails Pika 2.2, LTX-2.3, T2V-Turbo-v2 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AIGVE-60K human perception MOS (LOVE)59.2% ✎▄▄·█··█▄▄▄▄▄ beats 9/10easy · avg 73%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%at its level
AIGVE-60K human text-video correspondence MOS (LOVE)55.7% ✎▄▄·█▄█▄··▄▄▄ beats 8/10easy · avg 70%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 22%at its level
SkyReels-Bench T2V (human rating)50.6% ✎▄····▄···█·▄ beats 0/4medium · avg 66%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 21%at its level
image to video▁▁▂▃██▄▃▃▄▂▂ #63 of 74 * · 15% of its score · 1 test

Beats Wan 2.2 A14B, LTX-2 here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
MagicArena image-to-video Elo (Seaweed-7B report)1000.0 ✎▄·····▄█··▄▄ beats 2/5avg 1043▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15%typical

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

$ how the score was worked out · LOVE: Benchmarking and Evalua… 61%, SkyReels-V2: Infinite-length… 21%, Seaweed-7B: Cost-Effective Tr… 15%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
LOVE: Benchmarking and Evaluating Text-to-Video Generation and Video-to-Text Interpretation (AIGVE-60K)2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 61%CC-BY-4.0
SkyReels-V2: Infinite-length Film Generative Model1▇▇▇▇▇▇ 21%CC-BY-4.0
Seaweed-7B: Cost-Effective Training of Video Generation Foundation Model1▇▇▇▇▇ 15%CC-BY-4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 3%
weighted average= 39.7

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