Seedance
Seedance handles multi-shot sequences and is priced well below Western video APIs.
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Seedance vs Sora
Seedance (ByteDance) and Sora (OpenAI) 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 (6 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Seedance ByteDance | Sora OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Video | Video |
| Version | Doubao Seedance 2.5 | sora-2 |
| Entry cost | from $0.15/mo | from $20/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Jimeng app free · API per 5s clip $0.15 | Free free · ChatGPT Plus $20 · ChatGPT Pro $200 · API free |
| Model stack | Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Seedance 1.5 | Sora 2 · Sora 2 Pro · sora-2-12-08 · sora-2-2025-10-06 · sora-2-2025-12-08 · sora-2-pro-2025-10-06 |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 6 | 3 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Multi-shot sequences, 1080p, Image to video, Native audio, 视频生成, video-generation, video generation, Video Generation | Synchronised audio, Cameos, Remix, Storyboard, Vertical video, text-to-video, image-to-video, character consistency |
Sora
Video generation with audio, remixing and a consumer app around it.
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