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In one or two sentences, before anything else.
Runable is a general AI agent that builds websites, apps, slides, documents, images and videos and now also runs ads and outreach, made by a 15-person startup in Bengaluru founded in 2025 by Umesh Kumar and Saksham Sarda. It turned on paid plans in March 2026 and raised a 21 million USD Series A on August 26, 2026.
What it can do, one sentence each, and whether we actually tested it.
Builds sites and web or mobile apps with a live URL, database, Stripe payments, custom domain, SEO and analytics, and keeps a version history you can roll back.
Per Runable's Runable 2.0 post (March 7, 2026) and its pricing page.
Asks clarifying questions and shows a plan before it builds; you can change parts of an output by asking, roll back, or fork a chat to try up to three directions.
Per the Runable 2.0 post.
Makes slide decks with PowerPoint export, documents and research, images and videos, and scripts and audio for podcasts.
Runable names Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 Pro, Sora 2 Pro, Seedance and Nano Banana Pro among its media models; podcasts per its Manus comparison page.
Plans and runs ad campaigns on ChatGPT, Meta, Google, LinkedIn and TikTok, posts to social accounts, does cold outreach by email, DMs and phone, and works on SEO and visibility in AI chatbots.
Runable says no ad account is needed; TechCrunch reported that this holds only for ads on ChatGPT.
Lists GPT 6 Astra, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, GLM 5.3, Grok 4.6, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and its own Runner model on every plan.
Per the pricing page in October 2026; TechCrunch reports Runable is developing its own models.
Lets you tag Runable in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, iMessage or Discord and get finished files back in the chat; it runs on an always-on cloud computer and can repeat tasks on a schedule.
Per Runable's Claw and pricing pages.
Notetaker joins Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls and writes summaries and action items; Flow turns dictation into clean text in any Mac app. Both come with the plans at no extra charge.
Per Runable's Notetaker and Flow pages.
Says it connects to more than 3,000 plugins, and its MCP server lets other AI assistants start Runable tasks, check them and fetch the finished files.
Per Runable's pricing and MCP setup pages.
The people it helps and the problems it solves, and where it ranks.
Built for
Problems it solves
Graded in
Public tests other people ran: what they gave it and how it did.
Case 1
Input
Build and deploy a website for a fictional coffee subscription business, set up analytics, and attract its first 100 visitors with a 25 USD ad budget.
What happened
Runable built the site and prepared an ad campaign, and handled more of the hosting inside its own platform than Cursor did in the same test. It stopped before running the ads and asked for an ad account to be connected. TechCrunch called the test brief and did not report on the quality of the site.
Case 2
Input
Ask for an investor pitch deck; Runable asks clarifying questions, shows a slide-by-slide outline and builds after you approve; you then edit headlines or sections inline and export to PowerPoint.
What happened
Runable says this ends the prompt-tweak-retry loop of its first version and claims 86% on SlidesBench without naming the comparison or method. This is the vendor's description; we found no independent test of its decks.
Case 3
Input
Connect Google Calendar, let Notetaker join a client call on Zoom, then ask it to pull every action item with its owner and send the recap to the team in Slack.
What happened
Runable says Notetaker records the full call, writes the summary and action items and can push them to Slack or Notion at no extra charge. Nobody has published a test of it yet.
What it does badly, with the evidence, and what we could not settle.
Weak
Ran no ads in the only press test.
Evidence: In TechCrunch's test (August 26, 2026) Runable prepared a campaign but stopped before spending the 25 USD budget until an ad account was connected; Runable said only ChatGPT ads run without one, through partners it would not name.
Hard to know what a task costs.
Evidence: Runable's FAQ explains the order in which credits are spent but not how many credits a task uses; free daily credits stop at 15,000 a month, and its terms say fees are non-refundable unless the law requires otherwise.
Support, refunds and account deletion draw complaints.
Evidence: Five of the six Trustpilot reviews on October 17, 2026 gave one star, citing slow support, a refused refund and no way to delete an account or its data. Runable's privacy policy says you delete your account by emailing support@runable.com. Six reviews are a small sample.
Prices and limits may change, so businesses that need stable costs and a named contracting party should wait.
Evidence: CEO Umesh Kumar told TechCrunch that Runable runs at negative gross margins because it subsidises AI usage. Its terms and privacy policy name no legal entity, address or jurisdiction and show no last-updated date.
Uncertain
How good its outputs are.
Why unsure: Runable claims 92.1% on GAIA, 86% on SlidesBench and 76% on BrowseComp in its 2.0 post without describing the setup; we found no independent benchmark or review with measured results.
How many people pay for it.
Why unsure: Runable told Inc42 it has 1.5 million users and TechCrunch 1.7 million registered users; Kumar declined to give current revenue or the number of paying customers.
When Runable first launched.
Why unsure: Runable's site gives a founding date of April 22, 2025, and its 2.0 post says version 1.0 drew over 500,000 sign-ups; we found no dated launch announcement.
Whether your content trains models.
Why unsure: Runable's privacy policy says Google user data is not used to train generalised models and that AI providers may not train on your data, but it does not say whether Runable trains its own models, such as Runner, on what you make.
The numbers, each with its source and the date we checked it.
| Spec | Value | Note and source |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Runable, a 15-person startup in Bengaluru, India; CEO Umesh Kumar, co-founder Saksham Sarda | Source: techcrunch.comchecked |
| Founded | April 22, 2025, per Runable's site | Source: runable.comchecked |
| Paid plans | Since March 2026; 2 million USD annual run rate within three weeks (company figure) | Source: techcrunch.comchecked |
| Funding | 21 million USD Series A on August 26, 2026, co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners; 65 million USD post-money valuation | Source: techcrunch.comchecked |
| Free plan | 0 USD: 1,500 credits a day, up to 15,000 a month; unused daily credits do not carry over | Source: runable.comchecked |
| Pro | 20 USD a month: 25,000 credits a month plus the daily 1,500; 25% off billed yearly | Source: runable.comchecked |
| Max | 100 USD a month: 150,000 credits a month plus the daily 1,500, and unlimited chats in Ask mode | Source: runable.comchecked |
| Platforms | Web, iPhone and iPad, Android and macOS; Windows coming soon | Source: runable.comchecked |
| Data | Stored on Google Cloud in Oregon, US; account deletion by email to support@runable.com | Source: runable.comchecked |
| Users | About 1.7 million registered users, mostly in the US, UK and Japan (company figures, August 2026) | Source: techcrunch.comchecked |
Answer first, then why, an example, the limits and what to do next.
Runable is a general AI agent that turns a prompt into a website, app, slide deck, document, image or video, and can then market the business. A 15-person startup in Bengaluru makes it, and it lists GPT 6 Astra, Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash among the models it uses.
Runable has a free plan with 1,500 credits a day, capped at 15,000 a month. Pro costs 20 USD a month for 25,000 more credits and Max 100 USD for 150,000; Runable does not say how many credits a task uses.
Runable is a real, venture-backed company: TechCrunch reported its 21 million USD Series A on August 26, 2026. Early user reviews are poor, though: five of six Trustpilot reviews gave one star, citing support, refunds and account deletion.
No public test has compared Runable with Manus or Genspark head to head. Runable's CEO calls them its closest competitors. Runable Pro and Manus Pro both start at 20 USD a month, for 25,000 and 4,000 credits, but credits are not comparable across products; Manus's free plan gives 300 credits a day against Runable's 1,500.
Runable can plan and prepare ad campaigns, but in TechCrunch's August 2026 test it stopped before spending money until an ad account was connected. Runable says its Grow agent runs ads on ChatGPT, Meta, Google, LinkedIn and TikTok without your own ad account; TechCrunch reported that this works only for ads on ChatGPT.
Runable's privacy policy says to email support@runable.com to delete your account and its data. Runable may verify your identity first and keep limited data for legal, security or fraud reasons; a Trustpilot reviewer in October 2026 said they found no way to delete the account or its data.
This page is built from what can be checked today: Runable's own site, pricing page, FAQ, blog and policies; reporting by TechCrunch and Inc42, including TechCrunch's brief hands-on test; and Trustpilot reviews. User and revenue numbers come from the company. Sources were checked on October 17, 2026.
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| April 22, 2025 | Founding date Runable gives on its site | Runable |
| 2025 | Builds browser technology for scraping data at scale; users keep asking its browser agent for slides and websites, so it pivots to a general agent | TechCrunch |
| Before March 2026 | Runable 1.0 launches; Runable says it drew over 500,000 sign-ups | Runable |
| March 2026 | Paid plans switch on; Runable says it reached a 2 million USD annual run rate within three weeks | TechCrunch |
| March 7, 2026 | Runable 2.0: a plan-first agent, Canvas, rebuilt slides and full-stack websites | Runable |
| August 26, 2026 | 21 million USD Series A co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners at a 65 million USD post-money valuation; Grow launches | TechCrunch, Inc42, Runable |
TechCrunch puts the company in Bengaluru with 15 people, led by CEO Umesh Kumar and co-founder Saksham Sarda; Inc42 adds that Kumar co-founded the edtech startup SkoolStream, sold in 2022.
Runable sells one agent for three stages: Build, Run and Grow.
The pricing page lists GPT 6 Astra, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, GLM 5.3, Grok 4.6, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and Runable's own Runner on every plan. The 2.0 post claims 92.1% on GAIA, 86% on SlidesBench and 76% on BrowseComp without saying how they were measured.
| Plan | Price | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 USD | 1,500 a day, up to 15,000 a month |
| Pro | 20 USD a month | 25,000 a month plus the daily 1,500 |
| Max | 100 USD a month | 150,000 a month plus the daily 1,500 |
Yearly billing saves 25% (pricing). Daily credits reset and do not carry over, top-ups never expire, and monthly plan credits are spent first (FAQ). Runable does not say how many credits a website, deck or video uses, and its terms say fees are non-refundable unless the law requires otherwise. Kumar told TechCrunch that Runable runs at negative gross margins because it subsidises AI usage, so today's allowances may not last.
We found no independent benchmark or long-form review with measured results.
Kumar told TechCrunch that Manus and Genspark are Runable's closest competitors.
| Runable | Manus | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 1,500 credits a day | 300 credits a day, Manus 2.0 Lite only |
| Entry paid plan | Pro, 20 USD a month, 25,000 credits | Pro, from 20 USD a month, 4,000 credits |
| Higher plan | Max, 100 USD a month, 150,000 credits | Pro from 40 USD a month, 8,000 credits |
Sources: Runable pricing, Manus help center. Credit counts are not comparable between products, because each one prices a task differently. Genspark, from MainFunc, launched in June 2024 as an AI search engine and offers an Autopilot Agent (Wikipedia). No public test has put Runable against either.
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