Seedance 2.0
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveByteDance's video model that generates video and synced audio together from text, image, or reference clips.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $4.04/min
- Billing
- Metered · per minute
ByteDance bills through the API by the second rather than a flat monthly fee. The lowest published rate is about $0.067 per second of 480p video with audio (roughly $4/minute), rising to about $0.78 per second at 4K; ByteDance's own product page does not show a price table.
Use tool ↗About Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's video generation model, built to produce a video and its matching audio in one pass instead of adding sound afterward. It accepts text prompts, reference images, or existing video as input, and gives control over camera movement, lighting, and performance within the generated clip. ByteDance's own site offers a web demo and API access, but does not publish direct pricing; third-party API resellers such as OpenRouter and fal.ai list per-second rates that scale with resolution, from roughly 480p up to 4K output.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Describes the multimodal audio-video joint generation architecture and control featuresseed.bytedance.com ↗
- Per-second API pricing by resolution and input typeopenrouter.ai ↗
Is Seedance 2.0 legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Nov 16, 2011 (14 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar eName Technology Co., Ltd., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by DigiCert Inc, valid until Jan 18, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- ByteDance, ChinaOur research, card verified Sep 1, 2026
Pros & cons of Seedance 2.0
A capable video-and-audio generator from a company with the compute to back it, offering finer input control than a plain text box. The tradeoffs are opaque self-serve pricing on ByteDance's own site and per-second API costs that climb fast at higher resolutions.
Pros
- Generates synced audio and video together instead of two separate steps
- Accepts text, image, and video inputs for different workflows
- Available through several third-party API providers, not locked to one reseller
- Scales from 480p up to 4K output
Cons
- No direct pricing or checkout on ByteDance's own product page
- Cost per second rises sharply at higher resolutions
- Content and usage rights policy is not visible on the page we reviewed
Best for
- Teams that need video with synced audio in one generation step
- Developers comfortable wiring up a third-party API reseller
- Projects needing camera and performance control beyond a text prompt
Not for
- Anyone wanting a flat monthly subscription with a fixed budget
- Casual users who just want a free demo to keep
- Projects requiring long-form video rather than short clips
Watch out: Actual billing happens through whichever API reseller you pick, not through ByteDance directly, so rates and terms vary by provider.
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