Decart vs Runway

Decart — Foundation Models · Private · $4B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Runway — Application · Private · $5.3B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Delulu (by Decart) and Runway do comparable work on image editing; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale band

3 of 8 capabilities — Shares image editing, model training and video generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and model API.

Ludbee product records

Same scale band — Both growth-stage private.

Ludbee scale bands · from valuation and funding figures

Aligned comparison

FieldDecartRunway
Valuation$4B$5.3B Runway has 34% more
Employees—140
Founded20232018 5 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model APIAI agent, Application, Developer tool, Model API, Robot
HeadquartersTel Aviv, IsraelNew York, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Image editingModel trainingVideo generation

Not verified for Runway · 5

GPU programmingModel hostingModel inferenceText generationVideo editing

Recorded for Decart. Runway’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Decart · 6

Avatar videoImage generationMarketing contentRobot controlVoice agentWorkflow automation

Recorded for Runway. Decart’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Decart

Application

Delulu (by Decart)Application

Delulu is Decart's consumer mobile app for AI photo transformation, published on iOS and Android by Decart.AI, Inc. Its store listing describes it as a way to 'Turn any photo into something fun, weird, or just really good-looking, with a single tap', browsing preset styles and creating stickers to share.

LucyApplication

Real-time video editing platform that edits and transforms live video at streaming speed, for enterprises, brands, creators and live/streaming/gaming use cases; built on Decart's DOS infrastructure.

Model API

CogitoModel API

Cogito is Decart's OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API, serving frontier open-weight models including Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, GLM-5.2, Qwen3 235B and GPT-OSS 120B across Trainium, TPU and GPU capacity. A self-serve Standard tier is billed per token, while an ultra-fast reserved tier advertises 1,000+ tokens per second. It is built on Decart's own DOS optimization stack.

Decart API PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Decart's real-time video and world models.

Runway

Application

RunwayApplication

Generates and edits video and images from text and image prompts in the browser.

Runway CharactersApplication

Real-time conversational video avatars made from a single image, for education, customer support, training simulation and gaming use cases; integrates via React SDK, LiveKit Agents or an embeddable widget.

Runway WorkflowsApplication

Node-based pipeline builder for chaining multiple Runway generative models and LLM steps into reusable, no-code creative workflows.

Model API

Runway APIModel API

Hosted API for video, image and audio generation models from Runway and partner labs, billed per generation.

No counterpart

Decart sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Runway yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Oasis 3API service

Interactive world model for Physical AI, generating realistic, controllable real-time simulation environments for training autonomous systems, distributed as an API/SDK product built on Decart's Optimization Stack (DOS) infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

Decart Optimization StackInfrastructure service

The Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) is Decart's inference and training optimization infrastructure, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers and inference optimization. It is sold to hardware providers and AI teams as engagements covering benchmark optimization, customer-defined kernel and compiler work, cross-workload efficiency gains, and profiler and simulator licensing, and is marketed as hardware-agnostic across GPUs, TPUs, Trainium and AMD accelerators.

Runway sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Decart yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Runway AgentAI agent

AI marketing agent that generates complete ad campaigns (TikTok, Instagram, etc.), analyzes performance, runs A/B tests and auto-formats creative for different platforms and markets.

Developer tool

Runway Model RouterDeveloper tool

Reusable Dev API configuration that automatically selects the best generative model for a request based on configured cost/latency/quality preferences; not separately billed beyond underlying model usage.

Runway Video Model LicensingDeveloper tool

Commercial licensing of Runway's video model weights, checkpoints and training scripts for self-hosted, on-premises or air-gapped fine-tuning and deployment, with forward-deployed researcher support.

Robot

Runway RoboticsRobot

Robot-policy platform built on GWM-1 (General World Model): policy inference from camera observations, offline policy evaluation via simulation, synthetic data generation, and video-model licensing for custom policy training.