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 across image, video, audio, 3D and language modalities, allowing them to integrate media generation without managing infrastructure or planning capacity. The platform supports both open-source models such as FLUX and Stable Diffusion and frontier closed-source models from major providers.

The company is vertically integrated, designing and operating its own hardware and software rather than relying solely on third-party cloud infrastructure. Its proprietary Sonic Inference Engine is a custom-built hardware and software stack designed specifically for AI inference, delivering up to 10x lower cost per generation compared with market rates. Runware also builds Sonic Pods, modular AI inference data centres based on its own GPU hardware design and operation.

Runware reports having served over 300 million end users and processed more than 10 billion API requests through its unified API. The platform works with enterprises globally across generative AI and developer tools, enterprise software, and media and content generation.

Technical work spans AI inference, generative AI, custom hardware/software co-design, GPU infrastructure, and model support across computer vision and image generation, video, audio, 3D and large language models. The company holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification and is GDPR compliant.