Generally available — API fully available to clients on BytePlus ModelArk; live in Jimeng Web and Doubao Pro[1]
ByteDance Seed's video model: up to 30 s[2] per generation, up to 50[2] image, video and audio references in a single pass, native audio and multi-shot output[2]. Text-to-video and image-to-video are both supported[2]; ByteDance publishes no per-second API price.
Pricing
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| API price, 720p with audio (per second) | No public data |
| API price, 1080p with audio (per second) | No public data |
| API price, 4K (per second) | No public data |
| API billing basis | No public data |
| Cheapest paid consumer plan | No public data |
| Consumer plan ladder | No public data |
| In-app cost per second | Dreamina app: $0.035 per generated second at 720p (Basic plan, first-month promotional price); $0.047 per second (Super annual, first-year price)[3] |
| Free tier | No public data |
Output specs
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Max length, single generation | 30 s[2] |
| Max length with extensions | No public data |
| Max output resolution | 720p (BytePlus ModelArk plans)[1] |
| Frame rate | No public data |
| Aspect ratios | No public data |
| Max reference inputs per generation | 50 (images + video + audio)[2] |
Features
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Native audio | Yes[2] |
| Lip-sync | No public data |
| Text-to-video | Yes[2] |
| Image-to-video | Yes[2] |
| First / last frame control | No public data |
| Multi-shot in one generation | Yes[2] |
| Video editing | Yes (timestamp-level)[2] |
| Video extension | Yes (multi-round)[2] |
Access
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available — API fully available to clients on BytePlus ModelArk; live in Jimeng Web and Doubao Pro[1] |
| Public API | Yes (BytePlus ModelArk)[1] |
| Where to use it | Jimeng and Doubao apps; Dreamina (international consumer app); API on BytePlus ModelArk[2] |
| Regional limits | No public data |
| Release date | 2026-07-31[2] |
Public leaderboards
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| LMArena text-to-video score | 1474 ±9 (dreamina-seedance-2.5-720p)[4] |
| LMArena text-to-video rank (of 48) | #7 (dreamina-seedance-2.5-720p)[4] |
| LMArena image-to-video score | 1477 ±7 (dreamina-seedance-2.5-720p)[5] |
| LMArena image-to-video rank (of 48) | #4 (dreamina-seedance-2.5-720p)[5] |
| VGI-Bench overall score | No public data |
Where Seedance 2.5 appears on this site
Seedance 2.5 vs Sora 2 · Alternatives guides
Related:
All head-to-head comparisons
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Evidence
Only official sources are cited: vendor pages, and leaderboard publishers for their own rankings. Anything we could not find on such a page is shown as “No public data”.
- Dreamina-seedance-2.5 API Now Fully Available to Clients — BytePlus (ByteDance). www.byteplus.com/en/product/seedance. Checked 2026-10-06
- Introducing Seedance 2.5 — One-Take Creation, Flexible Referencing — ByteDance Seed. seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-i…. Checked 2026-10-06
- Seedance 2.5 pricing (Dreamina) — Dreamina (ByteDance / CapCut). dreamina.capcut.com/seedance/seedance-2-5-pricing-2026. Checked 2026-10-06
- Text-to-Video Arena leaderboard — LMArena (arena.ai). arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-video. Checked 2026-10-06
- Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard — LMArena (arena.ai). arena.ai/leaderboard/image-to-video. Checked 2026-10-06