Seedance 2.0
A versatile model, balanced across most use cases.
Overview
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's video generation model, released February 10, 2026, and it has held the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena for both text-to-video and image-to-video since launch, ahead of Google Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0 — at a significantly lower cost. It's the same model powering Dreamina, Jimeng, Doubao and CapCut under different brands. Its real differentiator is multimodal input: up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio files as references in a single generation, addressable directly in the prompt (@Image1, @Video1...). You can replicate choreography from a reference video, lock a character or product across the whole clip, and get natively synchronized audio with no post-production. Clips run 4 to 15 seconds, up to 1080p (a 4K upgrade was announced in June 2026), with multi-shot editing in a single pass. Access: global API via fal.ai since April 9, 2026 ($0.30/s at 720p standard, $0.24/s fast tier), consumer interface via Dreamina (~$18/month, free tier of 225 tokens/day). Two caveats: the model is not available in the United States, and it faces cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount over IP infringement — a legal risk to factor in for commercial use. Its successor Seedance 2.5 (30-second clips, 50 references) was announced June 23 and lands in July 2026.
Skill profile
Not disclosed
Three independent measures
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Strengths
- Has a free tier
Limitations
- No documented EU residency
Who is it for
- you handle sensitive data with no EU option
Ideal use cases
- Ads and short-form social content
- Cinematic pre-visualization (animated storyboards)
- Product videos with brand consistency via references
Access & availability
Key specifications
What it costs per month
Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.
Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.
nAIvigate Trust Index
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10/20 criteria documented · 50 % · provisional: 50 % documented criteria or fewer
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| EU data residency | No |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | Not documented |
| Transfer outside the EU | Yes |
| Training on your data | Not documented |
| Configurable retention | Not documented |
| Zero Data Retention | Not documented |
| Self-hostable | No |
| Declared hosting | CN/SG |
Quality of this card’s data
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3/6 documented · 0/6 primary sources
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| Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…) | missing | |
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| Data & compliancederived from declared hosting | derived |
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