Runway licenses Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 weights to enterprises on Baseten: single-tenant, fine-tunable on your own footage

Companies can now license Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 and run a private, custom trained copy on Baseten. Nobody has named a buyer or a price, and on this route the model runs in Baseten's cloud.

Companies can now license Runway's video models and run their own copy on Baseten, a cloud company that hosts AI models for other businesses. Baseten announced it on Oct 14 and Runway confirmed it on X minutes later. The two models are Gen-4.5, which turns text and images into video, and Aleph 2.0, which edits footage you already have, generated or shot, across clips of up to 30 seconds.

Each buyer gets computers reserved for its company alone, can train the model further on its own footage so the output matches a house look, and gets a promise of 99.99% uptime. Selling the license is not new: Runway set out the program on Aug 20 for customers running the models on their own hardware. What changed is that a company no longer needs to buy and run its own servers to do it.

The word private needs a footnote. On this route your model runs in Baseten's cloud, Baseten manages the layer above it, and the security certifications in the announcement are Baseten's, not Runway's. Nobody has named a company that has signed up, neither side has published a price, and Runway's FAQ describes an annual license without saying who keeps a custom trained model when the payments stop.

In practice, the craft in a house style model is the footage it learns from. Someone has to pick it, clean it and label it, then judge whether the output looks like the brand or only close to it. If a client brings up a private model, ask who owns the trained version and what happens to it when the license ends.

Source: Baseten blog, Runway on X, Runway model licensing page, Oct 14, 2026.