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Both Haiper and Runway expose REST APIs with Bearer-token authentication, covering text-to-video, image-to-video, image generation, and status polling — making programmatic migration feasible without a UI workflow change. To migrate from Haiper to Runway: generate a Runway API key at dev.runwayml.com, deposit a minimum $10 in credits, then remap API calls: Haiper's text-to-video endpoint maps to Runway's gen4.5 model endpoint (POST /v1/video), image-to-video maps to gen4_turbo or gen4.5 with a first-frame asset, and creation status polling (Haiper uses async task IDs) maps to Runway's task-status endpoint. Install the official SDK (@runwayml/sdk for Node.js or runwayml for Python) to reduce boilerplate. Consumer-facing apps built on Runway must display a 'Powered by Runway' attribution link. To migrate from Runway to Haiper: swap the Bearer token, remap model identifiers (e.g., gen4.5 → haiper-video-2), and update polling logic to Haiper's endpoint structure.
- Warning: Runway API requires a minimum $10 credit deposit before the first call; Haiper's API pricing is documented separately from its web/iOS credit pricing — confirm both pricing tables before migrating to avoid billing surprises.
- Warning: Runway imposes daily generation caps by tier (50 generations/day at Tier 1, scaling up with cumulative spend); Haiper documents rate limiting on its API but does not publish per-day generation caps, so throughput assumptions may differ.
- Warning: Runway's consumer-facing branding requirement ('Powered by Runway' attribution) has no equivalent in Haiper's API terms — this may affect app design if switching from Runway to Haiper or building a product that supports both.
- Warning: Runway's gen4.5 API model costs 12 credits/s; Haiper Video 2.x costs 8 credits/s at 720p — Runway API generation will be more expensive per second of output.
Both tools accept an uploaded image as the first frame and animate it into a video clip. In Haiper, upload the reference image in the web app or iOS app, optionally add a motion prompt, and select the Video 2.x or 1.5 model. In Runway, use Gen-4.5 image-to-video (launched January 2026): supply the image as the first-frame input alongside a text prompt in the Gen-4.5 generator. To migrate: export Haiper source images and prompts (download the original assets from your Haiper gallery), then re-submit them in Runway's Gen-4.5 image-to-video flow. Runway also supports adding a reference image for world-consistency, which is separate from the first-frame input.
- Warning: Haiper image-to-video supports 720p (8 credits/s) and 540p (5 credits/s) via Video 2.x; Runway Gen-4.5 generates at 720p by default and requires a Pro plan ($28/mo) to unlock 4K upscaling.
- Warning: Runway Gen-4.5 image-to-video was launched in January 2026 and may not yet be available to all plan tiers — verify your plan includes it before migrating.
- Warning: Haiper allows keyframe conditioning (start + end frame) natively in its image-to-video flow; Runway's equivalent for end-frame control is motion-brush or a multi-shot approach, not a direct keyframe-to-keyframe animation.
Both tools provide a way to exert spatial control over how an image animates into a video, but the mechanisms differ. In Haiper, keyframe conditioning lets you supply a start image and an end image; the model interpolates motion between the two defined anchor frames. In Runway, Motion Brush (up to 5 independent brush areas each with horizontal/vertical/proximity vectors) and Advanced Camera Controls (zoom, pan, tilt, truck) are applied on the start image before submission — there is no end-frame anchor, but you can approximate a desired final state by adjusting motion vectors and camera movement. To migrate from Haiper to Runway: replace the end-frame anchor concept with Runway's motion-vector brush painting on the relevant scene regions, and use Camera Controls (Director Mode) to handle wide-angle pushes or pulls. To migrate from Runway to Haiper: replace brush-painted motion with start+end keyframe pairs, accepting that fine-grained per-region direction control is replaced by overall motion interpolation.
- Warning: Haiper keyframe conditioning targets the output path between two images (start and end frame); Runway Motion Brush controls direction of motion from a single start image — there is no equivalent end-frame anchor in Runway, so results will not be pixel-identical.
- Warning: Runway Advanced Camera Controls (Director Mode) apply to Gen-3 Alpha family; Gen-4 and Gen-4.5 support camera motion via prompt description rather than a dedicated camera-control UI, so the workflow changes depending on which Runway model you use.
- Warning: Haiper keyframe conditioning is priced at the same rate as standard image-to-video (8 credits/s at 720p for Video 2.x); Runway Motion Brush does not add credit cost beyond the base generation rate.
Both tools generate still images from text prompts and support higher-resolution output on paid tiers. Haiper produces batches of 4 images per generation (720p at 5 credits per batch with Image 2.x, or 4K at 20 credits per batch); Runway Gen-4 Image produces individual images with an Aesthetic Range slider (0–5) that controls how literally the model interprets the prompt. To migrate from Haiper to Runway: re-enter prompts in the Runway Gen-4 Image generator in the web app; use the Aesthetic Range slider (lower values = more literal) to approximate Haiper's output fidelity. Runway also accepts reference images for style or character consistency — useful if Haiper outputs were later used as reference imagery. To migrate from Runway to Haiper: re-enter prompts and expect a batch of 4 variants per generation rather than a single controlled output; Haiper Image 2.x outputs at 720p (5 credits) or 4K (20 credits).
- Warning: Haiper always returns 4 images per generation; Runway Gen-4 Image generates one image per call (though the API supports batching), so per-image cost structures are different — compare Haiper at 5 credits/4 images vs. Runway gen4_image at 5 credits/image (720p) or gen4_image_turbo at 2 credits/image.
- Warning: Runway Gen-4 Image was initially gated to Unlimited and Enterprise plan users (as 'Frames') before expanding to all paid plans — verify your current Runway plan includes it before migrating.
- Warning: Runway supports multiple reference images for compositional or style transfer, a capability Haiper's text-to-image workflow does not offer, so migrating complex reference-guided Runway workflows to Haiper may require simplification.
Both tools generate short video clips from a text prompt, so switching is largely a matter of re-prompting on the new platform. In Haiper, prompts are entered in the web app or iOS app and the model (Video 2.x or 1.5) is selected per generation; outputs are downloaded from the creation gallery. In Runway, prompts go into the Gen-4 / Gen-4.5 video generator in the web app; the workflow also accepts an optional first-frame reference image if needed. Download existing Haiper generations as MP4s before migrating, then re-create the prompt library in Runway. Note that Runway requires a paid plan (Standard $12/mo+) for Gen-4/Gen-4.5 access — Free-tier users are limited to Gen-4 Turbo image-to-video.
- Warning: Haiper bills by credits-per-second of generated video (8 credits/s at 720p for Video 2.x); Runway Gen-4.5 costs 25 credits/s in the web app and 12 credits/s via the API — factor in that Runway's per-second rate is materially higher if generating long clips.
- Warning: Haiper free plan can generate with watermarks; Runway free plan does not include Gen-4/Gen-4.5 video at all, so any free-tier Haiper workflow must move to a paid Runway plan.
- Warning: Prompt phrasing may need adjustment: Runway Gen-4 is trained toward cinematic, motion-aware prompts; Haiper accepts more casual, shorter prompts for similar output length.
Both tools process an existing video clip and return an improved output, but their focus differs: Haiper Video Enhancement upscales resolution (to 1080p), whereas Runway Video-to-Video Restyle (powered by Aleph 2.0) reshapes the visual style, lighting, color, and character appearance using a text prompt or reference image while preserving motion. Workflows that need pure resolution upscaling should stay on Haiper's enhancement path; workflows that need visual restyling or aesthetic transformation belong on Runway. To migrate a Haiper enhancement workflow to Runway: upload the video to Runway's Edit Studio, supply a text prompt describing the desired style change, and optionally attach a reference style image. To migrate a Runway restyle workflow to Haiper: upload the stylized Runway output to Haiper's enhancement pipeline if higher resolution is needed; note Haiper does not replicate Aleph's style-propagation logic.
- Warning: Haiper Enhancement targets resolution upscaling (to 1080p at 10 credits/s); Runway Aleph 2.0 restyle targets aesthetic/style changes (gen4_aleph API at 15 credits/s) — these are complementary capabilities, not a direct swap.
- Warning: Runway Aleph 2.0 can edit clips up to 30 seconds at 1080p; Haiper enhancement duration limits are not explicitly documented, so very long clips may behave differently on each platform.
- Warning: Runway video-to-video is available on all paid Runway plans via Edit Studio; Haiper enhancement is accessible via both the web app and API, but the 10 credits/s rate is the highest in Haiper's pricing structure, making it the most expensive operation per second.