Create or update Runway API account configuration

August 8, 2024 (July 16, 2026)

Table of contents

  1. Request Headers
  2. Request Body
  3. Responses
  4. Model
  5. Examples
  6. Try It

For your convenience, you can specify your Runway configuration values under your account. If you specify multiple Runway accounts, the API will automatically perform load balancing by randomly selecting an account with available capacity before making calls to Runway.

https://api.useapi.net/v1/runwayml/accounts/email

Request Headers 
Authorization: Bearer {API token}
Content-Type: application/json
Request Body 
{
    "email": "Runway account email",
    "password": "Runway account password",
    "maxJobs": 1-10,
    "useWorkspace": true
}

  • email, password are required. Please see Setup Runway for details.

  • email value specified in the request body must match the email value specified in the URL path https://api.useapi.net/v1/runwayml/accounts/email.

  • maxJobs is required. Currently, it should be between 1 and 10. We recommend setting this value to 5.

  • useWorkspace is optional. Set it when the account’s plan comes from a Runway workspace (team) the account was added to rather than from its own subscription, so generation bills against that workspace. Pass true to auto-select the account’s single paid workspace, or pass a numeric team id to pin a specific workspace when the account belongs to more than one. Omit it (the default) to use the account’s own plan. The team ids available to an account are listed in the teams array returned by GET /features.

  • When useWorkspace is set, the resolved workspace is returned in the workspace object (see the response below) and reused for every generation. The request returns 400 when no active paid workspace is found, when the account belongs to more than one paid workspace and none was pinned, or when a pinned team id is not a paid workspace the account can generate in. Re-send this request to re-resolve if the workspace or its plan later changes.

Responses

  • 200 OK

    {
  "email": "user-1@example.com",
  "password": "<password>",
  "maxJobs": 5,
  "workspace": {
    "id": 654321,
    "name": "Team workspace",
    "plan": "unlimited-monthly",
    "auto": true
  },
  "jwt": {
    "token": "<token>",
    "exp": 1734858598.864,
    "iat": 1732266598.864,
    "id": 123456,
  }        
}

    The workspace object is present only when useWorkspace was set and resolved. id is the team the request bills against, plan is the workspace plan name, and auto is true when the workspace was auto-selected (useWorkspace: true) or false when a team id was pinned.

  • 400 Bad Request

    {
  "error": "<Error message>",
  "code": 400
}

  • 401 Unauthorized

    {
  "error": 
    "Unauthorized",
    "Wrong username/password combination.",
    "This account has been suspended."
  "code": 401
}
Model 
{ // TypeScript, all fields are optional
  email: string,
  password: string,
  maxJobs: number,
  useWorkspace: boolean | number,
  workspace: {
    id: number,
    name: string,
    plan: string,
    auto: boolean,
  }
  jwt: {
    token: string,
    exp: number,
    iat: number,
    id: number,
  }
  error: string,
  errorDetails: string,
  code: number
}
Examples 
  • curl -H "Accept: application/json" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer …" \
     -X POST https://api.useapi.net/v1/runwayml/accounts/<email> \
     -d '{"email": "…", "password": "…", "maxJobs": …}'

  • const email = "Runway account email";      
const password = "Runway account password";      
const apiUrl = `https://api.useapi.net/v1/runwayml/accounts/${email}`; 
const token = "API token";
const maxJobs = 5;
const data = { 
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
};
data.body = JSON.stringify({ 
  email, password, maxJobs
});
const response = await fetch(apiUrl, data);
const result = await response.json();
console.log("response", {response, result});

  • import requests
email = "Runway account email"
password = "Runway account password"
apiUrl = f"https://api.useapi.net/v1/runwayml/accounts/{email}" 
token = "API token"
maxJobs = 5
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json", 
    "Authorization" : f"Bearer {token}"
}
body = {
    "email": f"{email}",
    "password": f"{password}", 
    "maxJobs": maxJobs
}
response = requests.post(apiUrl, headers=headers, json=body)
print(response, response.json())
Try It