Seedance
Seedance handles multi-shot sequences and is priced well below Western video APIs.
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Seedance vs Pika
Seedance (ByteDance) and Pika (Pika Labs) both sit in Video. Seedance is the cheaper entry point at from $0.15/mo. Seedance shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 6). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Seedance ByteDance | Pika Pika Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Video | Video |
| Version | 2.5 | H3 Flex |
| Entry cost | from $0.15/mo | Free tier · from $10/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Jimeng app free · API per 5s clip $0.15 | Free free · Starter $10 · Creator $35 · Fancy $95 |
| Model stack | Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro · Seedance 1.5 | Banana 2.1 · Eleven Multilingual v2 · Eleven Turbo v2.5 · ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 · ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5 · Gemini 1.1 Omni Flash · Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash · Google Omni Flash · Google Veo 3.1 · GPT Image 2.5 · GPT Image 2.5 Nano · Grok Imagine · Grok Imagine 1.5 · Ideogram 4.5 · Kling 4.0 · MiniMax H3 · MiniMax Music 3.0 · Nano Banana 2 · Nano Banana 2.1 · Pika 2.5 · Pika Audio · Pika H3 Flex · Pika Music · Pika SFX · Pika Soundtrack · Pika Speech · Pikaframes · Pro · Pro model · Seedance 2.5 · Seedream 4 · Seedream 5 · Seedream 5 Lite · Turbo · Turbo model · Wan 3.0 |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 11 | 6 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Multi-shot sequences, 1080p, Image to video, Native audio, 视频生成, video-generation, video generation, Video Generation | Pikaffects, Pikaframes, Lip sync, Image to video, Scene ingredients, Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, Video-to-Video |
Pika
Effects-driven video generation aimed at social content creators.
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