Baseten hosts Runway's video models with a 99.99% uptime SLA

Baseten, a cloud company that hosts AI models for other businesses, said on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 that enterprises can now deploy Runway's Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models in secure, single-tenant environments through Baseten Dedicated Inference.

According to Baseten's blog post, customers "license Runway model weights directly from Runway" and deploy them in an isolated environment running on dedicated GPUs, with Baseten managing the control plane above it. The offer covers both stock and fine-tuned versions of the two models. Buyers can fine-tune either model on their own data so the output reflects what the post calls "your brand, canon, and content guidelines."

Runway's Gen-4.5 turns text and image inputs into video. Aleph 2.0 edits footage a company already owns, generated or shot, and carries a change across multi-scene clips up to 30 seconds at 1080p. Baseten's model library lists Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 under the license "Proprietary - Runway," each with a "Talk to an engineer" button instead of a sign-up. Baseten said it backs dedicated deployments with a 99.99% uptime SLA.

The license itself was already for sale. On Thursday, August 20, 2026, Runway's chief revenue officer, Sean Holcombe, wrote in a company post titled "The Next Phase of Enterprise Video Generation" that Runway would license closed model weights to customers who host the model in their own environment and fine-tune on their own data. Runway's model licensing page describes the package as weights, checkpoints, a training script and forward-deployed researchers, and lists the terms as an "Annual license," with renewal "built in." What changed on October 14 is where a private Runway model can run: a customer no longer needs its own GPU cluster, because Baseten supplies the isolation as a managed service. On this route the model runs in Baseten's cloud, and Baseten's access to the weights is "governed by a distribution agreement," Baseten's blog post says.

Baseten named Amazon, Robinhood, Dolce & Gabbana and Microsoft as enterprise creative teams "already using Runway in production." None of the four was described as licensing the models through Baseten, and neither company named a licensee or published a price for either the license or the reserved capacity.

Two questions stay open. Neither company has said who holds a fine-tuned model if a customer stops paying, and Runway's page invites customers to "license when you're ready to own it" even as its FAQ sets annual renewal.

If enterprises license and fine-tune house models, some of the work lands with the people who can assemble and judge the training footage: picking the clips, cleaning and labeling them, and deciding whether an output looks like the brand or merely near it. Whether that demand arrives depends on a licensing pipeline that still has no published price or named customer.

Neither company gave a closing date. The next signal is whether Runway or Baseten names a licensee or a price; both models currently sit behind a "Talk to an engineer" button on Baseten's model library.