Seedance
Seedance handles multi-shot sequences and is priced well below Western video APIs.
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Seedance vs Runway
Seedance (ByteDance) and Runway (Runway) both sit in Video. Seedance is the cheaper entry point at from $0.15/mo. Runway shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Seedance ByteDance | Runway Runway |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Video | Video |
| Version | Doubao Seedance 2.5 | Gen-4.5 |
| Entry cost | from $0.15/mo | Free tier · from $15 one-time |
| Pricing tiers | Jimeng app free · API per 5s clip $0.15 | Free free · Standard $15 · Pro $35 · Max $95 |
| Model stack | Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Seedance 1.5 | Aleph · Aleph 2.0 · Banana Pro · Gen-4 · Gen-4 Image · Gen-4 Image Turbo · Gen-4 Turbo · Gen-4.5 · Kling 3.0 · Kling 3.0 Nano · Lyria 3 · Lyria 3 Clip · Lyria 3 Pro · Nano Banana Pro · Nano Banana Pro 2 · Nano Banana Pro 2 2K · Nano Banana Pro 2K · Seed Audio 1.0 · Seedance 2.0 · Seedance 2.0 Fast · Seedance 2.0 Pro · Seedance 2.0 Pro 1080p · Seedance 2.5 · Veo 3.1 |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 3 | 10 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Multi-shot sequences, 1080p, Image to video, Native audio, 视频生成, video-generation, video generation, Video Generation | Text to video, Video to video, Act-Two performance capture, Aleph editing, Frames, AI Video Generation, AI Image Generation, AI Audio Generation |
Runway
Generation plus a full editing toolkit aimed at film and advertising production.
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