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Seedance 2.5: where to access it & real cost

live on the first-party API, official aggregators, resellers and consumer apps by ByteDance released 2026-07-31 t2v · i2v · ref2v

🎬 Long takes: 30 seconds in one generation, where nothing else here passes 15.

Quick answer 11 of 13 selling routes verifiedoldest
Best for our call
🎬 Long takes: 30 seconds in one generation, where nothing else here passes 15.
Cheapest
$2.16 at APIMart · 10s / 720p / t2v / no audio · derived
First-party
$2.312 at BytePlus ModelArk · 10s / 720p / t2v / no audio · derived
Routes selling
13 of 13 tracked
Max resolution
1080p
Max duration
30 seconds
Native audio
yes
Verified
2026-08-13 11 of 13 routes

Seedance 2.5, from ByteDance, is purchasable on 13 of the 13 routes we track. One 10s 720p t2v clip, no audio costs $2.16 at APIMart, the cheapest published rate we can cite. The first-party route, BytePlus ModelArk, is $2.312 for the same clip. Some of these rates are a promotion running to 2026-09-17; the board marks which, and the list price behind it sits beside them.

The longest clip in the family by a wide margin: thirty seconds in one generation, where nothing else here passes fifteen. It tops out at 1080p rather than the 4K of Seedance 2.0, so it is the version to reach for when the length is the point and not the finish.

The figure above buys one 10s 720p t2v clip, no audio. The board below prices 3 units in all, each column named. Figures come from each seller's own published rates and carry the date we last read them.

Which route should you take

Each row is the table above read for one question, at the unit named beside the price. Rows marked our call are editorial judgement instead, and appear only where we have something specific to say.

Provider board

Each column is one unit, and every price in it buys the same thing. The figures quoted elsewhere on this page are one 10s 720p t2v clip, no audio. That is a baseline for comparing providers, not a quote. What you are actually billed depends on the settings you send, and on some routes on how much you top up at once. Every figure is the provider's own published price; anything we derived rather than read off a price list is marked est.Seedance 2.5 generates audio, but the clip compared here is silent. Where a provider publishes no silent rate, the pricing note under the board says so.

8 providers tracked · sorted by status, then price
ProviderAccess5s/720p10s/720p10s/1080pStatus
BytePlus ModelArk
Official API
official$1.156claimed$2.312derived$4.0939derivedpromo to 2026-09-17 · then $5.686live · first-party international API
Volcengine
First-party API
official———live · CNY pricing, mainland China account
Replicate
Official aggregator
official$1.156derived$2.312derived—live · official listing, priced by resolution
fal.ai
Official aggregator
official$2.31claimed$4.62est.—live · token formula, per-second figures approximate
EvoLink
Official aggregator
official$1.465derived$2.93derived—live · rate card split by reference type
APIMart
Unofficial reseller
unofficial$1.08derived$2.16derived—live · credits, discounted against a published list rate
CometAPI
Unofficial reseller
unofficial$1.155derived$2.31derived—live · no reseller discount on this model
kie.ai
Unofficial reseller
unofficial$1.575derived$3.15derived—live · beta pricing, may be adjusted

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Seller terms not in the figures

Things that change what you pay without changing a price on this board. None of them is applied to the figures above: what one unit costs at the posted rate is a number anyone can check, and what it costs after a bonus depends on how much you buy at once.

kie.ai · top-up bonus · 10%
Credit bonus on a top-up, depending on how much is bought at once. kie.ai

How these prices were read

How each figure above was read off the provider's own price list, and what that price list does not say.

BytePlus ModelArk
Billed per token, but BytePlus publishes its own worked clip prices, so the 5s column needs no arithmetic. Three resolutions are priced, 480p, 720p and 1080p; there is no 4K tier for this model, which is what Seedance 2.0 is for. The worked examples are list prices: the 1080p discount running until 17 September is not applied in them and is applied here.
Volcengine
Published in CNY and not converted to the priced clip: a conversion needs a dated exchange rate, and we do not publish one. The figures track the BytePlus USD price list at roughly 6.5 CNY to the dollar.
Replicate
Replicate lists only two billing criteria, the video_in variant and the target resolution, so the audio toggle does not change the rate. Priced here off the non_video_in column, which is the text-to-video route. A video reference is metered on its own, higher per-second rate, quoted in the price list above.
fal.ai
The token formula, not the per-second rate, is what fal bills on, so prices here come from its own worked example rather than from the rounded $/s figure. Only 480p and 720p are offered, and every endpoint is labelled "with audio".
EvoLink
The video-reference rows post a lower rate but bill input seconds as well as output, so they are not the rows a text prompt is billed on. Priced here off the text-to-video row.
APIMart
Credits are quoted with a dollar equivalent on the same row, so no credit rate has to be assumed. Priced here off the plain 720P row, which is the text-to-video route; the input rows bill reference duration as well as output.
CometAPI
CometAPI discounts Seedance 2.0 but passes this model through at the official rate, so its two columns are identical.
kie.ai
Priced here off the no-video column, which is the text-to-video route.
Seedance 2.5 pricing trapsFirst-party billing is per token rather than per clip, so a rate card quoted per million tokens says nothing about what a clip costs until the token count is worked out, and the token count moves with resolution as well as with duration. That is why the board prices a clip and not a rate. The second trap is the one the whole family shares: supplying a reference video moves you onto a formula billed on input + output seconds rather than output alone, so a lower posted rate can still cost more.

What it can do

Resolutions
480p, 720p, 1080p
Clip length
4 to 30 seconds
Reference inputs
up to 50
Generates audio
yes
Spoken languages
10+ languages
Extends a video
yes
Edits a video
yes

Where a row says not verified, we have not checked that figure yet; it does not mean the model lacks the feature. Every row is read off published documentation for the model, never from our own testing.

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4 consumer apps sell Seedance 2.5

These are not API routes. Most of these sell a month of the whole app, and where a figure is shown it is that subscription and not the price of one Seedance 2.5 generation. We record one thing per app: the cheapest plan that unlocks this model, at its monthly-billing rate, and the date we checked. What a generation costs inside a plan is not published anywhere, and dividing a plan by its allowance would invent it.

Dreamina and Jimeng, ByteDance's own consumer apps, both front this version on their home pages. Neither publishes a plan price that can be read without an account, so no monthly figure is recorded for them rather than one taken second hand. Sources: dreamina.capcut.com

5 apps tracked · cheapest plan first
AppPlanStatus
Syntx
Consumer app
$17.96/mo
Pro · billed monthly
live · one plan covers every model
Magnific
Consumer app
$20.00/mo
Premium · billed monthly
live · 720p, billed in credits
Higgsfield
Consumer app
$59.00/mo
Plus · billed monthly
live · needs the Plus plan
Dreamina
Consumer app
—
no public plan price
live in the app · credit costs behind a login
Jimeng
Consumer app
—
no public plan price
China-only app · mainland account required

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How each plan price was read

Syntx
Syntx sells a single tier rather than a ladder, so this is both the entry price and the only price. The plan list is visible only when signed in, so the figure is what the plans page showed on the date beside it. The figure is the monthly-billing price, not the lower per-month rate an annual plan advertises, so it is comparable with the other apps here. No per-generation cost is published and we do not derive one: a plan divided by an allowance is an invented price.
Magnific
Magnific lists Seedance 2.5 at 720p in the model list on its pricing page, marked new, and bills it in credits per clip. The plan states a yearly credit allowance, but dividing one by the other would be an invented per-clip price, so the plan price is the only money shown here. This route was recorded as a checked absence before, which the model list contradicts.
Higgsfield
The newer version is the one the entry plan does not carry: Starter stops at Seedance 2.0, so this version needs the Plus tier. The figure is the monthly-billing price, not the lower per-month rate an annual plan advertises, so it is comparable with the other apps here. No per-generation cost is published and we do not derive one.
Dreamina
The subscription and reference-video perks quoted here before are no longer on Dreamina's home page, either withdrawn or moved behind a login, so there is no seller price list to quote. The app fronts this model on its home page but publishes no credit table or plan price without a login, so there is no per-generation figure to quote.
Jimeng
Model selection and daily credit costs are only visible behind a mainland China account, so no figure can be quoted.

If this is not the right model

Priced at the same unit

Seedance 2.0 Mini Seedance 2.0

These sell 10s / 720p / t2v / no audio too, so their figures on the index can be read against this one. Models that do not are shown with their own unit instead.

When to reach for another model

For 4K, Seedance 2.0 is still the only member of the family that outputs it. 1080p is no longer a reason to reach for 2.0: BytePlus lists 1080p output on this version too, and prices it. When it is volume work at 720p and the length does not matter, Seedance 2.0 Mini is the cost tier.

Sources: docs.byteplus.com , docs.byteplus.com

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