Runware

Runware is an AI inference platform founded in 2023 and headquartered in London. It gives developers and businesses a single API for accessing thousands of generative AI models spanning five modalities: image, video, audio, 3D and language. The Runware Platform supports open-source models such as FLUX and Stable Diffusion alongside frontier closed-source models, and is designed to remove the need for infrastructure management or capacity planning on the part of its users.

The company's technical differentiation lies in vertical integration. Its proprietary Sonic Inference Engine is a fully custom hardware and software stack built specifically for AI inference, delivering up to 10x lower cost per generation compared with market rates. This runs on Sonic Pods, modular inference data centres built on Runware's own GPU infrastructure, which the company designs and operates itself.

Runware reports serving more than 300 million end users and processing over 10 billion API requests. Its platform is used across developer tools and APIs, enterprise software and media and content generation, and it serves enterprises globally. The company holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification and is GDPR compliant.