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Google Veo 3.1 vs Runway Gen-4 Turbo
Specs, pricing, and capabilities side by side, plus outputs generated from identical prompts, so the only variable between the columns is the model.
Cloud
Google's high-quality video model with native audio, reference-image support, and frame-to-frame control.
Learn more about Veo 3.1 →Cloud
Runway's fast, low-cost Gen-4 image-to-video model: animates a start frame into a 2 to 10 second clip.
Learn more about Gen-4 Turbo →Overview
Creator
Google
Runway
Released
Oct 2025
Apr 2025
Available on
OpenRouterRunwareReplicate
Runway
Model ID
google/veo-3.1
runwayml/gen4-turbo
Specs
Pricing
$0.40 per second
$0.05 per second
Max resolution
4K
-
Aspect ratios
16:9, 9:16
16:9, 9:16, 4:3 +3 more
Clip length
Up to 8s
Up to 10s
Audio
Synchronized track
-
Image-to-video
Start & end frame + reference images
Start frame
Negative prompt
Supported
-
Seed control
Supported
-
Text to video rank
#13
-
Image to video rank
#14
#47
Samples
Establishing shotCamera motion, scene coherence over time
No sample yet
Close-upFluid motion, fine detail, temporal stability
No sample yet
Every sample is the model’s first result for the shared scene prompt (no cherry-picking), generated via Runware or Replicate. Hover a copy icon to read the full prompt.
LMArena ranks come from the arena.ai leaderboard (dataset, CC BY 4.0), board of Sep 22, 2026.
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