Gen-4 Image

Runway Gen-4 Image (with references) is an image generation model designed for art-directed outputs using up to three reference images. It’s strongest when you want to carry over overall mood, lighting, and style cues from references while still generating a new composition from a prompt.

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Runway

Gen-4 Image sample outputs

Captured directly from our eval suite. Click any tile to inspect the full render.

Realistic portrait test

“A kodachrome 25 photograph of a woman with curly brown hair walking through a busy city street, natural lighting, dynamic composition, 35mm lens, authentic urban atmosphere”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 2884883712

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Text rendering capability test

“A vintage poster with the text 'GLIF ALLHANDS 2025' in bold retro typography, with undertext saying 'Reykjavik, Iceland', vibrant colors, psychedelic style with glossy 3d elements”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 1943795144

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Testing very long and detailed prompts

“studio photograph of a silver panther on the left, a giant beach ball in the middle and a tall man on the right. the panther has long fur and green horns, its claws are attached to garden hoses that end up in milkshakes, the left scene is a highway restaurant. The beachball has chrome and black sections and is in surrounded by water, the man is wearing hi-viz street fashion and is cosplaying as a techbro and is surrounded by multiple signs that 'we're so back'”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 844386260

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Vague prompt test

“determinism”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 2277195660

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Social media selfie test

“male power tool influencer taking a selfie, perfect lighting, trendy outfit, confident smile, modern background, candid raw iPhone photo style”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 4035397770

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Check if a model can do miniature scenes inherently

“Miniature tilt-shift scene of a wooden trebuchet siege engine in a medieval military warcamp, with canvas tents scattered around, armored soldiers and engineers working on the catapult, wooden fortifications in background, campfires smoking, banners fluttering in the wind, muddy ground with wagon tracks, medieval era setting”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 2511080389

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Suprise prompt

“grindle flompa zeet varoo, plingle drask in bloofer haze — twomple zarn reega 7, snibble dront kalee swoop, mirra gongle thru floovian glass, blorpa tect frindle noom, abstract glibber fog machine of gloon and jell, high surreal detail, untranslatable energy field, visual nonsense in motion”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 1884039722

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Test if model can stack animals in the right order on top of each other

“studio photo a group of stacked animals: a rooster sitting on the back fo a cat which is sitting on the back of a dog which is sitting on the back of a donkey, riding through a small german medieval town, shot in the 1980s”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 77712677

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Magic laptop test

“An ancient-looking laptop covered in mystical runes, its screen displaying swirling galaxies, used to hack into magical networks or cast digital spells.”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 1772416278

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AspectRatio: 1:1

TCG card test

“Create a trading card of a anime mecha-hamster with elite coding skills”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 919002295

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Style transfer test

“Transform into the style of a vintage rave poster”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 2195537607

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AspectRatio: 1:1

Edit parts of image test

“Open up the cyborg's right part of their head and show the underlying electronics”

EngineId: gen4-image

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Seed: 2745584227

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AspectRatio: 1:1

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