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Runway

Lack of transparency

Runway does not disclose detailed information about model architecture and inference infrastructure. Thus, the environmental impacts are estimated with a very low precision.

This guide focuses on estimating video generation impacts for Runway models with the video_impacts function.

Video Generation

Supported Runway video models:

Model Identifier
Gen-4.5 runway/gen-4.5 
from ecologits.estimations import video_impacts

model = "runway/gen-4.5"
resolution = "1080p"
duration = 10

impacts = video_impacts(
    model_name=model,
    resolution=resolution,
    duration=duration,
)

print(impacts.energy.value)
print(impacts.gwp.value)

Runway uses range-based provider defaults for PUE and WUE. If you have more specific deployment information, you can override those values:

impacts = video_impacts(
    model_name=model,
    resolution=resolution,
    duration=duration,
    datacenter_location="USA",
    datacenter_pue=1.09,
    datacenter_wue=0.13,
)