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Seedance 2.5 · API live

Seedance 2.5:
thirty seconds in one pass.
No seam to hide.

The Seedance 2.5 AI video generator makes 30 continuous seconds in a single pass — scene changes, tempo shifts and camera moves inside one unbroken take, not stitched and not extended. Generate it in the browser, or with one API call.

30s
single pass
50
references
4K
unverified

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60 free credits
Live generator · no signupfree tier watermarked
Model

30 seconds in a single pass — no stitching, no seam to hide.

Resolution
Aspect
Tier
Duration — 4s
4s5s
00:00:04:00480p16:9standard267cr≈ $2.67
Balance0cr
After this generation-267cr
Typical wait210s

What is Seedance 2.5?

Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance’s video-generation model, live on the BytePlus ModelArk API since 16 July 2026. It generates up to 30 seconds of continuous video in a single pass — scene changes and tempo shifts inside one take — and accepts up to 50 multimodal references. This site resells it with the per-second cost shown before you generate.

Earlier Seedance models — 2.0, 2.0 Fast, 2.0 Mini and 1.5 Pro — top out at 15 seconds and reach longer runs by stitching or extending, which is where continuity usually breaks. 2.5 removes the join entirely. That is the whole reason to pay more per second for it.

Model family
Seedance (ByteDance)
Longest single pass
30 seconds
Resolutions
480p · 720p · 1080p · 4k
Multimodal references
50
Native audio
Yes
Typical wait
210s (p50)
30s at 1080p
7,179 credits · $71.79

Figures ByteDance has announced but we have not yet confirmed against the API are marked unverified on the model page rather than repeated as fact here.

What Seedance 2.5 adds — and what we could actually verify

01verified

30 seconds, one pass

4–30 seconds generated as a single continuous take, with scene changes and tempo shifts inside it. Not stitched, not extended — there is no seam to hide.

02unverified

Up to 50 references

50 multimodal inputs in one generation: 40 images, 5 video clips and 5 audio tracks, against roughly a dozen on 2.0.

03unverified

Region-level editing

Change one element and leave the rest of the frame untouched, instead of regenerating the whole take and hoping the rest survives.

04unverified

R2V motion control

Green-screen and white-model references drive motion, spatial layout and character interaction, so generation follows a structured visual plan rather than text alone.

05unverified

3D camera blockout

Plan the camera move against a white-box preview before spending a generation on it. The cheapest take is the one you did not need to run.

06unverified

Multilingual dialogue

Dialogue in multiple languages with lip movement synced to it, carried by the model rather than added in post.

Every figure marked unverified is ByteDance’s own announced claim, which we have not yet confirmed against the provider API. No independent benchmarks for Seedance 2.5 existed when this page was written — so rather than restate a keynote, we mark the gap and publish measurements as they land.

Every clip here is ours

Every take on this page was generated with Seedance here — no stock, no cherry-picked vendor reel. Prompt, model and settings shown on each one.

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Our numbers, not the keynote's

Full benchmark

Every Seedance 2.5 capability figure in circulation is ByteDance’s own. Our benchmark measures what actually comes back — billed cost, latency, failure rate, and how often a 30-second take holds character end to end. It has not been run yet. The rates below are the published vendor figures our pricing currently rests on, not measurements, and the columns we cannot honestly fill are marked as such.

RouteBilled /s 720p30s clip 720pp95 latencyFailure
BytePlus ModelArkunverified$0.3375$10.13not measurednot measured
fal$0.4296$12.31not measurednot measured

Billing shapes differ — some routes charge for input-video seconds, some add a per-request token component — so headline per-second rates are not comparable until they are normalised. These figures are.

For developers

One API call. One credit balance. Two front doors.

Idempotency keys on create, rate-limit headers on every response, a stable error code you can switch on, and a status page publishing real per-model p50 and p95. Prepaid packs never expire.

$0.012/credit6 models4 languagesDocs →
curl https://sedance.app/api/v1/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "seedance-2.5",
    "duration_sec": 30,
    "resolution": "1080p",
    "prompt": "one continuous take, camera rising over a night market",
    "confirm_cost": true
  }'

→ 202 { id, status: "reserved",
        credits_held: 7179, eta_seconds: 210 }

Seedance questions, answered

What is Seedance 2.5?
Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance’s video-generation model, available on the BytePlus ModelArk API since 16 July 2026. Its headline capability is 30 seconds of continuous generation in a single pass — including scene changes and tempo shifts inside one take — where earlier Seedance models stitched or chained extensions.
How long can a Seedance 2.5 video be?
30 seconds in one pass, generated 4–30 seconds per request. That is a single continuous take, not several clips joined together, which is what separates 2.5 from every earlier Seedance model.
How much does a 30-second Seedance video cost?
A 30-second clip costs roughly six times a 5-second one, because video models bill per output second. Our cost calculator shows the exact credit price for every duration and resolution before you generate, and the studio asks you to confirm any job over 800 credits.
Is there a free Seedance AI video generator?
New accounts get 60 credits, enough for one real 480p generation on Seedance 2.0 Mini, watermarked. It is deliberately small: at real GPU cost a generous free tier funds bot farms rather than customers. Paid plans start at $12/month.
Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0 — which should I use?
Use 2.0 or 2.0 Fast to draft: they are cheaper per second and cap at 15 seconds. Move to 2.5 when you need a single unbroken take longer than that, more reference inputs, or the region-edit and reference-to-video controls. Drafting short first costs less per usable clip.
Is Sedance the same as Seedance?
Yes. Sedance, Seedance, SeedDance and Seed Dance are all spellings of the same ByteDance model family. You are in the right place.
Can I use Seedance videos commercially?
Paid plans include commercial use, subject to the upstream provider’s terms and your holding the rights to anything you upload as a reference. Free-tier output is watermarked and not licensed for commercial use.
Is there a Seedance API?
Yes. The same credit balance powers the web studio and the REST API — one balance, two front doors. Keys are issued from the dashboard, the API is versioned at /api/v1, and it honours Idempotency-Key on create.
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