Runware

Runware is an AI inference platform founded in 2023 and headquartered in London. It provides developers and businesses with a unified API for accessing thousands of generative AI models spanning image, video, audio, 3D and language modalities. Through a single API call, customers can integrate media generation into their products without managing infrastructure or planning capacity. The platform supports open-source models such as FLUX and Stable Diffusion alongside frontier closed-source models from major providers.

The company is vertically integrated, designing and operating its own hardware and software rather than renting capacity. Its proprietary Sonic Inference Engine is a custom-built stack for AI inference that the company states delivers up to 10x lower cost per generation than market rates. This sits on Sonic Pods, modular AI inference data centres and GPU infrastructure designed and run by Runware.

Runware reports serving over 300m end users and processing more than 10bn API requests across enterprise customers worldwide. Technical work spans AI inference, generative media, GPU infrastructure and API platform engineering. The company holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification and is GDPR compliant, reflecting an enterprise-grade approach to security and data privacy, and maintains a developer-centric emphasis on simplicity of integration.