Pika
Pika Labs
7
Playful short-form video generation
- Version
- H3 Flex
- Cost
- Free tier · from $10/mo
- Model
- Banana 2.1
Seedance
ByteDance · #1 most active of 17 in Video
Seedance handles multi-shot sequences and is priced well below Western video APIs.
100
Trust score · Verified
2 data points checked · 2026-11-04
Current version
2.5
Entry cost
from $0.15/mo
Changes / 30d
11
The short answers · verified November 8, 2026
- What is the latest version of Seedance?
- The current shipped version of Seedance is 2.5, as of November 8, 2026.
- How much does Seedance cost?
- Seedance starts at $0.15 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of November 8, 2026.
- What AI model does Seedance use?
- Seedance runs primarily on Doubao Seedance 2.0.
Source: ByteDance — www.volcengine.com · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- Multi-shot sequences
- 1080p
- Image to video
- Native audio
- 视频生成
- video-generation
- video generation
- Video Generation
- Portrait Video Generation
- AI Agent Support
- Multi-modal Understanding
- 多模态理解
- 文本生成
- 图片生成
- Image Generation
- Text Generation
- 3D Generation
- Function Calling
- Context Caching
- 视频理解
- 肖像视频创作
- 视频生成教程
- 提示词指南
- ai avatar
- 肖像视频
- Portrait Video Creation
- portrait video generation
- text-to-video
- portrait video creation
- Text-to-Video
- AI Video Creator
- AI Agent
- Fine-tuning
- API Access
- image-to-video
- 模型精调
- image generation
- text generation
- multimodal understanding
- function calling
- agent capability
- 3D 生成
- 图片理解
- AI 视频生成
- 肖像视频生成
- Image-to-Video
- multimodal
- 视频生成 (Video Generation)
- 多模态理解 (Multimodal Understanding)
- API
Pricing
Jimeng app
Free
API per 5s clip
$0.15
Entry price over time
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
Doubao Seedance 2.0
ByteDance
- disclosed
Doubao Seedance 2.5
ByteDance
- disclosed
Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash
ByteDance
- disclosed
Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro
ByteDance
- disclosed
Seedance 1.5
ByteDance
Context window
n/a
Public API
yes
Multi-model routing
yes
Stack signals
- Volcano Engine
- Jimeng app
Shared model stack
Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.
- Doubao Seedream 5.0 flashByteDance · 3 products
- Doubao Seedream 5.0 proByteDance · 3 products
- Doubao Seedance 2.0ByteDance · 2 products
- Doubao Seedance 2.5ByteDance · 2 products
- Seedance 1.5ByteDance · 1 product
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
Reported scale
Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.
No public usage figure on record for this product.
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AI avatars and video translation
- Version
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- Cost
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- Model
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Elsewhere on the same models
Products in other segments that name one of Seedance's models in their stack.
Seedream
ByteDanceChina
6
ByteDance's text-to-image model, strong on Chinese typography.
- Version
- 5.0 pro / flash
- Cost
- from $0.02/mo
- Model
- Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash
Change history
- capability
- version
- version
- capability
New capabilities: 视频生成 (Video Generation), 多模态理解 (Multimodal Understanding)
47 tracked49 tracked · +视频生成 (Video Generation), 多模态理解 (Multimodal Understanding)
source - version
- capability
- version
- capability
- capability
- version
- capability
- version
- version
- version
- model
Seedance added Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash, Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro to its model stack
Doubao Seedance 2.0, Doubao Seedance 2.5, Seedance 1.5Doubao Seedance 2.0, Doubao Seedance 2.5, Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash, Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro, Seedance 1.5
source - capability
New capabilities: image generation, text generation, multimodal understanding
36 tracked41 tracked · +image generation, text generation, multimodal understanding, function calling, agent capability
source - capability
- capability
- capability
New capabilities: AI Agent, Fine-tuning, API Access
31 tracked34 tracked · +AI Agent, Fine-tuning, API Access
source - capability
- version
- capability
- version
- capability
- version
- version
- capability
New capabilities: portrait video generation, text-to-video
26 tracked28 tracked · +portrait video generation, text-to-video
source - capability
- version
- capability
- version
- capability
- capability
- capability
- capability
New capabilities: Image Generation, Text Generation, 3D Generation
14 tracked19 tracked · +Image Generation, Text Generation, 3D Generation, Function Calling, Context Caching
source - capability
- version
- model
Seedance added Doubao Seedance 2.5 to its model stack
Doubao Seedance 2.0, Seedance 1.5Doubao Seedance 2.0, Doubao Seedance 2.5, Seedance 1.5
source - capability
- capability
Seedance compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Video.
How to cite this page
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Tomorrow. (2026). Seedance — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/seedance
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-seedance,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {Seedance — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/seedance}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}