ByteDance Seedance 2.0
ByteDance's advanced video model with improved motion coherence and scene quality.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 is a cloud video-generation model. It produces short video clips from a text prompt, a starting image, or by interpolating between a first and last frame. It can also take reference video and audio to guide the result. Clips run up to 15s at 4k with a synchronized audio track. It also supports seed control and reference images. It runs through ByteDance, OpenRouter, Runware, and Replicate using your own API key, from about $0.1512 per second of output.
- Released
- Feb 2026
- Pricing
- $0.1512 per second
- Max resolution
- 4k
- Aspect ratios
- 21:9, 16:9, 4:3 +4 more
- Clip length
- Up to 15s
- Audio
- Synchronized track
- Image-to-video
- Start & end frame + reference images
- Seed control
- Supported
- Text to video rank
- #5
- Image to video rank
- #5
- Video edit rank
- #5
Samples
Generated with Seedance 2.0 via Runware. The same two prompts run against every video model in the catalog (one landscape, one portrait), so the only thing that changes between two models’ clips is the model.
Camera motion, scene coherence over time
Fluid motion, fine detail, temporal stability
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