ByteDance
Seedance 2.0
Text/image/audio-to-video — 4 variants, per-second pricing.
From $0.041 per second
Seedance 2.5 — Text, Photo, Video & Audio to Video
Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance's next-generation video model — turn text, photos, clips, or audio into short video. Coming soon to reApi with per-second pricing and an async OpenAI-style endpoint.
Coming soon — the API for this model is not available yet.
What you can build with this model
Real-world workflows and production use cases you can build and ship with this model.
Spin up product demos with Seedance 2.5
Send one product photo to Seedance 2.5 and get a hero shot, pan, or zoom video back in minutes. Iterate on cuts at the speed of prompts — no film crew, no storyboard, no edit timeline.
Preview a clipBring stills to life as social videos
Pass a static image with a motion prompt. Seedance 2.5 returns a short clip ready for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok. Skip the storyboard, ship the post.
Lip-sync real people with the Face variants
Combine reference video and audio with the Seedance 2.5 face variants to animate real people speaking. One call covers voiceovers, explainers, and character animation.
Why reAPI
Next-generation quality
Seedance 2.5 builds on the Seedance family with sharper motion, stronger prompt adherence, and richer multi-modal control — text, image, video, and audio in one shape.
Per-second credit pricing
1 credit equals $0.001. The Seedance 2.5 cost scales with seconds × resolution × reference mode. Failed jobs are refunded automatically — you only pay for video that ships.
Async with continuous chaining
Submit returns a task ID instantly. Set return_last_frame and feed the URL into the next call to chain unlimited Seedance 2.5 video without re-prompting.
Seedance 2.5 vs Veo 3
How ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 is positioned against Google's Veo 3 for short-form video generation.
Capability
Seedance 2.5
Veo 3
Input modes
Text, image, first/last frame, reference video, and reference audio
Text and image to video
Audio
Optional generated audio plus reference-audio lip-sync
Native synchronized audio
Real-person inputs
Supported via the Face variants
Restricted
Pricing model
Per-second credits, refunded on failure
Per-second, premium tier
Variants
Standard, fast, face, and fast-face share one request shape
Single flagship tier
API access
Async OpenAI-style endpoint on reApi (coming soon)
Available through Google tooling
Comparison reflects publicly documented behavior at the time of writing and may change. Seedance 2.5 details on this page are a preview and will be finalized at launch.
Integrate Seedance 2.5 in three steps
- step 01
Create an API key
Sign up and grab a key from the dashboard. Free credits will cover your first Seedance 2.5 generations — no card required.
Open - step 02
Submit a video task
POST your prompt to /api/v1/videos/generations with the model field set to a Seedance 2.5 variant. The endpoint returns a task ID immediately.
Open - step 03
Poll the result
GET /api/v1/tasks/:id until status is completed. Download the Seedance 2.5 output video and ship it.
Open
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this model.
Seedance 2.5 is the next-generation video model in ByteDance's Seedance family. It turns text, images, video, and audio into short video clips. Seedance 2.5 is coming soon on reApi — this page is a preview.
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