Wan
Open-weight video generation family from Alibaba.
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Wan vs Seedance
Wan (Alibaba) and Seedance (ByteDance) both sit in Video. Wan is the cheaper entry point at Open weights; API usage-based. Seedance shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (11 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Wan Alibaba | Seedance ByteDance |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Video | Video |
| Version | Wan 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Entry cost | Open weights; API usage-based | from $0.15/mo |
| Pricing tiers | — | Jimeng app free · API per 5s clip $0.15 |
| Model stack | Wan 2.5 | Doubao Seedance 2.0 · Doubao Seedance 2.5 · Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash · Doubao Seedream 5.0 pro · Seedance 1.5 |
| Context window | — | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 11 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Text-to-video, Image-to-video, Audio sync | Multi-shot sequences, 1080p, Image to video, Native audio, 视频生成, video-generation, video generation, Video Generation |
Seedance
Seedance handles multi-shot sequences and is priced well below Western video APIs.
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