Vidu (by Shengshu Technology) vs Runway: Which is Better in 2026?

• Vidu Q3
• Reference to Video
• Image to Video
• Text to Video
• Reference to Image
• +10 more

• Runway Creative
• Runway Dev
• Runway Robotics
• GWM-1
• Gen-4.5
• +1 more

Vidu is an AI creation platform from Shengshu Technology that generates video and images from text, images, or reference inputs, including a real-time interactive model (Vidu Q3) and up to 16-second audio-visual clips built for social media and e-commerce. It's aimed at individual content creators, animators, and enterprise teams, with an all-in-one app, creative toolkit, and Vidu Agent for guided production. Its standout is strength in stylized/anime animation with strong character consistency (via Character References) at fast, low-credit generation speeds.

Runway is the next-generation AI tool for creators. Best known for the Gen-3 text-to-video model, Runway provides 30+ AI-powered tools that let you generate videos, remove backgrounds, edit footage, and bring imagination to life.