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Updated Aug 7, 2026 · 14:00 UTC

Seedance 2.5 — where to access it & real cost

API opening today — routes activating by ByteDance released 2026-07-31 t2v · i2v · ref2v up to 30s · native 4K · 50 refs
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Seedance 2.5 has no openly purchasable global API yet. The model launched July 31, 2026; official token pricing is published (BytePlus: $10.70 / 1M tokens without video input, $6.40 with video input — roughly $1.16 per 5-second 720p clip by the official example), and public API access is scheduled to open August 7. Live generation today is China-only via the Jimeng app. No Western aggregator (fal.ai, Replicate) lists the model yet. Every figure below is scaled from a published token price and marked as an estimate until a provider quotes the clip price directly.

Reference SKU for all prices on this page: 10s / 1080p / text-to-video / no audio.

Provider board

Every price is the provider's own published figure, converted to this model's reference SKU. Figures we derived rather than read off a price list are marked est.

10 providers tracked · sorted by status, then price
Provider Access Claimed (5s/720p)ref SKU Status
Jimeng
Consumer app
 consumer —
subscription credits
 — staged rollout
BytePlus ModelArk
Official API
 official $1.16 est.
computed from official token-pricing example
 $3.50 est. opening Aug 7
Dreamina
Consumer app
 consumer — — coming soon (global)
Volcengine
First-party API
 official —
CNY 70 / 1M tokens (no video input); not converted to the reference SKU
 — console listed
EvoLink
Official aggregator
 official —
price not set
 — docs ready, route pending
APIMart
Unofficial reseller
 unofficial —
tier not published
 — pre-release listing
CometAPI
Unofficial reseller
 unofficial —
tier not published
 — pre-release listing
kie.ai
Unofficial reseller
 unofficial $0.70 est.
≈$0.14/s estimate, credit billing; not extrapolated to 1080p
 — pre-release listing
fal.ai
Official aggregator
 official — — not listed yet · watching
Replicate
Official aggregator
 official — — not listed yet · watching
Billing trap of the week Official billing is per token, not per second: $10.70 / 1M tokens, and the real cost of a request depends on duration, resolution, frame rate and input type. Every "$/sec" figure circulating in vendor blogs is a back-calculation from examples. Our reference SKU (10s / 1080p / t2v) computes to ≈ $3–4; a 30-second 4K clip lands around $15+. Until a provider quotes a clip price directly, every figure here stays labelled as an estimate.

For developers — current fallback chain

  • 1 seedance-2.5 · official route — pending activation
  • 2 seedance-2.0-fast · fal.ai / Replicate — stable, ≈$0.09/s
  • 3 kling-3.0 · official aggregators — price-quality alternative
  • 4 veo-3.1-fast · Google direct — drafts, native audio

Step 1 moves to the official route once it is actually purchasable. JSON: /api/models/seedance-2-5/providers

For users — apps & subscriptions

Seedance 2.5 is not yet included in any Western subscription service tier (Higgsfield, Syntx, Freepik-class) as of Aug 7. New flagship models typically land in top-tier plans within the first weeks — we track tier listings weekly.

Free to try: Dreamina free credits after global rollout; Jimeng daily credits (CN account required).

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