Runway MCP

What it does

Runway's hosted MCP server connects agents like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to Runway's full generation stack. As of September 2026 the marketing page lists Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo, Gen-4 Image, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana Pro, routed by plan, making it a one-stop video tool for filmmaker agents with automatic task polling and media URL delivery.

Connect

https://mcp.runwayml.com/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http runway https://mcp.runwayml.com/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "runway": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.runwayml.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "runway": {
      "url": "https://mcp.runwayml.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Sample tools

Field notes

Hosted server (OAuth, no API key, bills Runway credits) is the flagship; the open-source self-hosting repo is archived as of 10 Oct 2026 (README warning, MIT, 23 stars, last push 30 Sep 2026) and now points developers to dev.runwayml.com/agents, a separate Runway Dev MCP for coding agents with a quickstart.txt, and everyone else to runway.com/mcp, where Runway lists itself in the ChatGPT app directory alongside Claude, Grok, Cursor and Replit. The tool names listed here are read from that repo's README — the hosted endpoint is a black box, so treat them as indicative and let the client enumerate. Since the last check the repo added `runway_listModels`, `runway_generateAudio` (TTS), `runway_cancelTask` and `runway_getOrg`, plus local OpenAPI-derived payload validation that rejects bad ratio/duration combinations before they cost credits. Recommended model defaults are Nano Banana Pro (`gemini_image3_pro`) for images, Seedance (`seedance2`) for video and Aleph (`aleph2`) for editing; valid ratios and durations are per-model, so call listModels first. The marketing page moved Seedance from 2.0 to 2.5. Runway has moved its web presence from runwayml.com to runway.com — the old host 308s across, and the mcp.runwayml.com endpoint still answers (401 unauthenticated). The Zendesk help article blocks scripted fetches; open it in a browser. Self-hosting from the archived repo is a clone-and-build job, not an npx one, and it wants MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT raised; expect no fixes. Generated asset URLs from the API expire after 24h — download outputs promptly.

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