Runware is an AI inference platform founded in 2023 and headquartered in London, UK, serving enterprises and developers globally. The company provides a unified API that gives access to thousands of generative AI models across image, video, audio, 3D and language modalities, allowing media generation with a single API call and without the need for capacity planning or infrastructure management.
The platform is built on technology the company designs and operates itself. The Sonic Inference Engine is a proprietary, fully custom hardware and software stack built specifically for AI inference, delivering cost per generation up to 10x lower than market rates. Sonic Pods are modular AI inference data centres with custom-designed and operated GPU hardware infrastructure, optimised for performance and cost efficiency.
By scale, Runware reports serving more than 300 million end users and processing more than 10 billion API requests. Technical work spans AI inference, generative AI across multiple modalities, custom hardware and software stacks, GPU infrastructure design and API platform engineering. The company is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, and has grown rapidly since its founding.
