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Seedance 2.0 API Pricing Per Second

Seedance 2.0 costs $0.0631–$0.6959 per second of generated video, by resolution. That's up to 11% below the official price. Billed by the second, with nothing added per request.

Per second from
$0.0631
480p
At 720p
$0.1356/s
official $0.1512/s
Per minute from
$3.79
480p
Below official
up to 11%
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Per second

Seedance 2.0 price per second by resolution

Our price with the official list price struck through, and what a minute of output costs.

Seedance 2.0 price per second
ResolutionPer secondPer minute
480p
$0.0631$0.0703−10%$3.79
720p
$0.1356$0.1512−10%$8.14
1080p
$0.3361$0.3742−10%$20.17
4K
$0.6959$0.7776−11%$41.76
  • Official price: BytePlus ModelArk international list price for dreamina-seedance-2-0 ($7 / 1M video tokens at 480p–720p, $7.7 at 1080p, $4 at 4K; with video input $4.3 / $4.7 / $2.4). Verified October 18, 2026; our prices are live.

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What Seedance 2.0 costs for your volume

Pick a resolution and clip length and a monthly volume. Every figure is a live quote, so per-clip billing is exact.

Resolution
Tries per keeper

Per month · 100 generations

31.53

$35.15 at the official price

Per clip
0.32
Per kept clip
0.32
Saved per month
$3.63
Saved per year
$43.58

Live prices · failed generations are free

Per clip

From per second to per clip

Every common clip length at 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4K.

Seedance 2.0 cost per clip length
Clip length480p720p1080p4K
4 s$0.26$0.55$1.35$2.79
5 s$0.32$0.68$1.69$3.48
8 s$0.51$1.09$2.69$5.57
10 s$0.64$1.36$3.37$6.96
12 s$0.76$1.63$4.04$8.36
15 s$0.95$2.04$5.05$10.44

With reference video

Per billed second with a reference video

Reference video seconds are billed together with the output, at this rate. Example: 5 seconds of output with a 5-second reference is 10 billed seconds.

Seedance 2.0 price per billed second with reference video
ResolutionOfficialCheaperGen5 s + 5 s
480p$0.0432/s$0.0411/s$0.42
720p$0.0929/s$0.0883/s$0.89
1080p$0.2284/s$0.217/s$2.17
4K$0.4666/s$0.4433/s$4.44

Billing

How Seedance 2.0 seconds are billed

Full details in the billing docs.

  • Unit. One second of generated video. A request for 4–15 s is billed for exactly that many seconds at its resolution's rate.
  • Audio. Included in the per-second price.
  • Reference videos. Their seconds are billed together with the output, at the reference rate (from $0.0411/s at 480p).
  • Tasks. Text to Video from $0.0631/s; Image to Video from $0.0668/s; Reference to Video from $0.0668/s.
  • No request fee. Nothing is added per request: a clip costs its seconds times the rate.
  • Failed = free. Failed generations, and jobs cancelled while queued, are refunded in full.
  • Price first. POST /v1/quote/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video returns the exact price of any request, free.

Compare

Seedance 2.0 per second vs other video APIs

Every video model we offer at 720p, cheapest first — each at its lowest silent price for that resolution. Seedance 2.0 is number 17 of 20.

video models ranked by price per second at 720p
#ModelTierAudioPer secondOfficial
1LTX-2.5
Lightricks
720pAudio included$0.0285/s$0.09/s
2PixVerse V6
PixVerse
720pSilent$0.0368/s$0.04/s
3Veo 3.1 Lite
Google
720p—$0.0375/s$0.05/s
4Vidu Q3 Turbo
Shengshu
720pAudio included$0.0412/s$0.06/s
5Seedance 2.0 Mini
ByteDance
720pAudio included$0.0627/s$0.0756/s
6Grok Imagine Video 1.5
xAI
720pAudio included$0.0675/s$0.14/s
7Vidu Q4
Shengshu
720pAudio included$0.0699/s$0.095/s
8Veo 3.1 Fast
Google
720pSilent$0.0736/s$0.08/s
9Vidu Q3 Pro
Shengshu
720pAudio included$0.0748/s$0.10/s
10Wan 3.0
Alibaba
720pAudio included$0.0757/s$0.10/s
17Seedance 2.0
ByteDance
720pAudio included$0.1356/s$0.1512/s

Price per second is one input; quality, speed and features differ. Models that include audio are compared with it.

FAQ

Seedance 2.0 price per second questions

480p: $0.0631/s; 720p: $0.1356/s; 1080p: $0.3361/s; 4K: $0.6959/s. The official list price is $0.0703/s to $0.7776/s.

You pay for the seconds of video you ask for: any whole number of seconds from 4 to 15, times the per-second rate of the resolution. With reference videos, their seconds are billed together with the output, at $0.0411/s per billed second at 480p. There is no per-request fee on top, and failed generations are refunded.

No. Seedance 2.0 generates synchronized audio at no extra cost, so the per-second price is the same with sound.

Text to Video starts at $0.0631/s; Image to Video starts at $0.0668/s; Reference to Video starts at $0.0668/s.

At 480p, a minute of output is $3.79 and an hour $226.96; at 4K, $41.76 a minute. Clips are generated 15 seconds at most at a time, so a minute is several requests — whole projects are priced on Seedance 2.0 API cost.

At 720p, Seedance 2.0 is $0.1356/s, number 17 of 20 video models we offer at that resolution; the cheapest is LTX-2.5 at $0.0285/s. Compare quality and features too: the table lists each model's tier, and Seedance 2.0 alternatives weighs them up.

Seedance 2.0 is developed by ByteDance. CheaperGen provides API access and does not own the model. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.