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- Version
- Underlord
- Cost
- Free tier · from $16/mo
- Model
- ChatGPT
Seedance
ByteDance · #7 most active of 17 in Video
Seedance handles multi-shot sequences and is priced well below Western video APIs.
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Trust score · Verified
2 data points checked · 2026-08-12
Current version
Doubao Seedance 2.5
Entry cost
from $0.15/mo
Changes / 30d
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The short answers · verified September 11, 2026
- What is the latest version of Seedance?
- The current shipped version of Seedance is Doubao Seedance 2.5, as of September 11, 2026.
- How much does Seedance cost?
- Seedance starts at $0.15 per month on its cheapest paid tier, as of September 11, 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
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
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 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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Change history
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New capabilities: portrait video generation, text-to-video
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New capabilities: Image Generation, Text Generation, 3D Generation
14 tracked19 tracked · +Image Generation, Text Generation, 3D Generation, Function Calling, Context Caching
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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
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Seedance added Doubao Seedance 2.0 to its model stack
Seedance 1.5Doubao Seedance 2.0, Seedance 1.5
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Seedance compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Video.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/seedance
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Seedance — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, 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: 2026-09-17}
}