Runway vs Toloka

Runway — Application · Private · $5.3B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Toloka — Infrastructure · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Runway Agent and Tendem do comparable work on marketing content; Toloka's scale not recorded.

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

3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 9 capabilities — Shares marketing content, model training and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldRunwayToloka
Size$5.3B valuationnot disclosed
Employees140—
Founded20182014 4 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerAI agent, Application, Developer tool, Model API, RobotAI agent, Data service, Platform
HeadquartersNew York, USAAmsterdam, Netherlands

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Marketing contentModel trainingWorkflow automation

Not verified for Toloka · 6

Avatar videoImage editingImage generationRobot controlVideo generationVoice agent

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

Not verified for Runway · 8

Agent orchestrationCode generationData analysisData labellingEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyText generationTranslation

Recorded for Toloka. Runway’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

Runway

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.

Toloka

AI agent

TendemAI agent

A hybrid AI-plus-human agent that takes a delegated task - research, data analysis, copywriting, design or development - has AI do the first pass, then routes it to one of 10,000+ vetted experts for verification and multi-layer QA, returning results in 2-24 hours.

No counterpart

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

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.

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.

Model API

Runway APIModel API

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

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.

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

Platform

Toloka ArenaPlatform

An independent evaluation platform that ranks frontier LLMs on agentic tool-use tasks using private, non-contaminated benchmarks across industry domains, scored on a pass^5 reliability metric, with the underlying RL Gyms and evaluation datasets available to license.

Toloka TrainPlatform

A self-serve service that lowers per-request inference cost through two tools - fine-tuning LoRA adapters on frozen Qwen3 base models to replace a frontier API on a narrow task, and prompt gisting that compresses long instruction prefixes into learned tokens.

Data service

Off-the-shelf DatasetsData service

Toloka's catalogue of ready-made training datasets sold outright — three named at the time of writing (Tau-bench Dataset Extension, University-level Math Reasoning, Multimodal Conversations) — as distinct from the custom data work its Platform sells.

Toloka Physical AIData service

Human-in-the-loop data programs -- demonstrations, annotation and evaluation -- for training robotics and physical AI systems.

Toloka PlatformData service

A self-serve platform where an AI agent turns a described data goal into a full human-annotation pipeline - RLHF and preference data, data collection, instruction tuning, model evaluation, synthetic-data validation and content-moderation QA - with LLM-based quality checks on the output.