Both RunwayML Gen-4 and Adobe Firefly Image 3 are powerful AI video generation tools with distinct strengths. RunwayML Gen-4 is better for users needing advanced video editing and longer video outputs, while Adobe Firefly Image 3 is ideal for those integrated into the Adobe ecosystem and prioritizing photorealistic image quality and speed.
| Attribute | RunwayML Gen-4 | Adobe Firefly Image 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Video generation quality | Enhanced consistency in character and scene generation, maintains visual coherence with enhanced motion realism and physics simulation, produces videos with impressive visual fidelity, improved clarity and coherence, minimizing AI "scribbled" effects, excels in generating dynamic videos with realistic motion and consistency in style. | Delivers photorealistic quality with better lighting, positioning, and attention to detail. Improvements in rendering photorealistic images, capturing intricate details that meet professional standards. May still not be fully convincing and struggles with reflections, often generating distorted, inconsistent, or entirely incorrect images. |
| Maximum video length | 5 or 10-second durations | 5 seconds |
| Text-to-video prompt accuracy | Improved understanding and execution of user prompts, allows for creating intricate scenes with precise movements and stylistic elements, can use prompt elements like subject motion, camera motion, scene motion, and style descriptors. | Significant upgrades in understanding complex prompts, allowing for richer detail and more accurate representations of user instructions. Better understanding of text prompts and scenes. |
| Image-to-video capability and quality | Requires an input image to establish the visual starting point, brings images to life with impressive detail, excels in generating highly dynamic videos with realistic motion. | Delivers natural motion, realistic physics, and enhanced coherence. |
| Video editing features | Offers advanced editing options like color grading, super slow motion, and face blurring, includes features like scene detection, real-time editing, and special effects addition, background removal and replacement without needing a green screen, offers a motion brush tool for precise control over movement in specific areas. | Only choice is to download the result. Premiere Pro users have access to the all-new Generative Extend feature, allowing you to add up to two seconds of generated video to an existing clip. |
| Customization options | Allows applying various visual styles, including live-action, stop-motion animation, VFX, and cinematic effects, offers custom style generators to train your own style models, provides settings to tweak aspect ratio and seed. | Introduces auto-stylization capabilities powered by a newly developed style engine, allowing for a broader variety of styles, colors, and compositions. Users can specify shot size, camera angle, and motion parameters. |
| Integration with other creative tools | Can be complemented by tools like VideoProc Converter AI for upscaling, noise reduction, and video editing. | Built for direct integration into Adobe workflows, including Photoshop, Express, Illustrator, Substance 3D, InDesign, and Premiere Pro. |
| Ease of use for beginners | User-friendly interface, a web-based studio where you enter a prompt, upload an optional reference image, and generate, designed for ease of use, allowing creatives without technical skills to perform complex tasks. | User-friendly interface, designed to be both straightforward and efficient. Clean layout and intuitive controls make it accessible for everyone, from beginners to seasoned users. |
| Pricing model and affordability | Offers a free plan with 125 credits for first-time sign-ups, Standard plan: around $15/month or $12/month (annual) for 625 credits. | Offers both free and paid plans. A free tier provides a limited number of generative credits. Paid plans include Firefly Standard ($9.99/month) and Firefly Pro ($29.99/month), offering more credits and features. |
| Commercial usage rights | You are free to use any content created using Runway AI for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, and you hold copyright for your creations. | Designed to generate content for commercial use that does not infringe on copyright and other intellectual property rights. Adobe offers IP indemnification for Firefly-generated content. |
| Output resolution and format | Allows downloading videos in MP4 (H.264) format, offers multiple aspect ratios (up to 720p resolution), can export videos as GIFs, offers a 4K upscaling feature, resolution is fixed at 720p but can be upscaled to 4K. | Can generate images up to 2K resolution. For video, the output is 1080p at 24fps. The output format for vector graphics is SVG. |
| Processing speed and rendering time | Gen-4 Turbo can generate a 10-second video in roughly 30 seconds. | Generated four images using the Firefly Image 3 model in just five seconds. |