Seedance
Seedance handles multi-shot sequences and is priced well below Western video APIs.
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Seedance vs Vidu
Seedance (ByteDance) and Vidu (Shengshu AI) both sit in Video. Vidu is the cheaper entry point at Free tier with credits. Paid plans are available but pricing is not disclosed in the text.. Vidu shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Seedance ByteDance | Vidu Shengshu AI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Video | Video |
| Version | Doubao Seedance 2.5 | Vidu Q3 |
| Entry cost | from $0.15/mo | Free tier with credits. Paid plans are available but pricing is not disclosed in the text. |
| Pricing tiers | Jimeng app free · API per 5s clip $0.15 | Free Tier free |
| Model stack | Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Seedance 1.5 | GPT2 · Vidu Q1 · Vidu Q1 Image · Vidu Q2 · Vidu Q2 Image · Vidu Q3 · Vidu S1 · Vidu S2 |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 3 | 9 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Multi-shot sequences, 1080p, Image to video, Native audio, 视频生成, video-generation, video generation, Video Generation | Multi-image reference, Anime styles, Start and end frames, Audio generation, Text to Video, Image to Video, Reference to Video, AI Sound Effect Generator |
Vidu
Vidu's reference-to-video mode conditions on several images at once for consistent characters and props.
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