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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. Clips at 4k with a synchronized audio track. It also supports seed control. It runs through Replicate and Runware using your own API key, from about $0.16 per second of output.

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Modality

Video

Available on

ReplicateRunware

Model ID

bytedance/seedance-2

Specs

Pricing: $0.16 per second
Max resolution: 4k
Aspect ratios: 21:9, 16:9, 4:3 +4 more
Audio: Synchronized track
Image-to-video: Start & end frame
Seed control: Supported

View provider documentation ↗

Samples

Examples

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.

Establishing shot16:9 · 5.1s

Camera motion, scene coherence over time

Close-up9:16 · 5.1s

Fluid motion, fine detail, temporal stability

About the creator

ByteDance

ByteDance's AI labs ship the Seedream image models and the Seedance video models, among other Doubao-branded research.

www.bytedance.com ↗

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