Seedance Pricing: Official API and App Costs

Seedance pricing depends on where you buy access: BytePlus bills the API per million tokens, while Dreamina and Jimeng sell app subscriptions with credits. Dreamina currently advertises a $0.29 first month for eligible Basic payments, renewing at $15/month; that introductory offer is not a universal price for ByteDance's video model.

Verified against BytePlus's pricing page and the official Dreamina, Jimeng and CapCut pages on 15 November 2026. Prices below retain the currency and billing period each maker displays. Choose the API for automated generation; choose an app when a person will direct and finish each clip.

Seedance is ByteDance's video-model family. A model is the generation engine; the service selling access determines your bill. Third-party routes also exist, with their own prices and terms.

Seedance Pricing at a Glance

The route matters before the plan. These are official-page prices, not interchangeable offers for the same deliverable.

The detailed sources and conditions follow. App credits are a service's internal spending units. API tokens measure billable generation usage. There is no verified conversion between them here.

Seedance API Pricing: BytePlus ModelArk

BytePlus ModelArk, ByteDance's developer service, publishes its rates in USD per million tokens. The official model-pricing page separates requests without video input from requests with video input. A reference image is not a reference video: use the correct pricing branch.

Seedance 2.0 API Pricing

For online generation at 480p or 720p, the published rates are:

• Dreamina Seedance 2.0, model ID dreamina-seedance-2-0-260128: $7.00 without video input; $4.30 with video input.
• Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Fast, dreamina-seedance-2-0-fast-260128: $5.60 without video input; $3.30 with video input.
• Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini, dreamina-seedance-2-0-mini-260615: $3.50 without video input; $2.10 with video input.

All amounts in that list are per million tokens, not per clip. The full 2.0 model also lists 1080p at $7.70 without video input or $4.70 with it, and 4K at $4.00 or $2.40 respectively. Fast and Mini do not list support for those higher resolutions.

A lower token rate at a higher resolution does not mean a cheaper video. Higher-resolution output consumes more tokens. For a marketer comparing campaign formats, preserve resolution, aspect ratio, duration and reference type before comparing quotes.

Seedance 2.5 and Flash API Rates

Dreamina Seedance 2.5, dreamina-seedance-2-5-260628, costs $10.70 per million tokens without video input or $6.40 with video input at 480p/720p. At 1080p, those rates become $11.70 and $7.00. Its API pricing row marks 4K as unsupported.

Dreamina Seedance 2.5 Flash, dreamina-seedance-2-5-flash-261115, lists $7.00 without video input or $4.30 with video input at 480p/720p. Its row does not support 1080p or 4K. Do not silently substitute Flash when a brief specifies the full model.

The older Seedance 1.0 Pro, seedance-1-0-pro-250528, lists $2.50 per million tokens online and $1.25 offline. Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast, seedance-1-0-pro-fast-251015, lists $1.00 online and $0.50 offline. Those are separate model choices, not discounts on Seedance 2.5.

How the API Bill Is Calculated

The API charges for successfully generated videos. BytePlus says failed generations, including failures caused by content moderation, are not charged. A successful clip you dislike is still a successful generation for budgeting purposes.

The published estimate is:

Estimated tokens = (input video seconds + output video seconds) × output width × output height × output frame rate ÷ 1024.

Estimated cost = tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × the applicable token rate.

Actual usage comes from usage.completion_tokens in the API response. Video-input requests also have minimum token consumption based on resolution, aspect ratio and output duration. This is why adding a reference video can increase the bill even though its token rate is lower.

One worked example: BytePlus's own no-video-input example lists a five-second, 16:9, 720p Dreamina Seedance 2.5 video at $1.156. Dividing its published clip estimate by its published duration gives $1.156 ÷ 5 = $0.2312 per generated second, approximately $0.231. This is an estimate for that configuration, not a flat per-second tariff or a finished-ad quote.

Activation, Expiry and Unused Balance

Budget for access as well as usage. BytePlus's activation and cancellation rules give these alternatives:

• Pay by Credits: verified eligible accounts can activate when their available ordering balance reaches $30. These Credits have no expiration, but cannot be withdrawn after purchase.
• AI Savings Plan: a dedicated decreasing plan of $30 or more, with remaining balance. The $30 plan lasts one month; the $60 and $100 plans last three months. These plans cannot be canceled.
• Resource pack: $30 or more, with remaining quota, valid for 90 days. A pack offsets only its corresponding individual model version and cannot be canceled.

Usage deducts from a matching resource pack first, then an AI Savings Plan, then the account balance. A resource pack is a poor speculative purchase if you have not decided which version your production will use.

Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Pricing and Seedance 2.5 Plans

Dreamina is the app route for hands-on creation. Its Seedance 2.5 page and subscription cards display the following recurring monthly offers in USD. The promotion's stated window is November 9 to 16, 2026; use the renewal amount for a continuing commitment.

• Basic: $0.29 first month with a credit card, debit card or PayPal, then $15/month, with 1,575 credits/month. The page lists $9 for the first month with other payment methods.
• Standard: $21.60 first month, then $36/month, with 3,885 credits/month.
• Advanced, 8.6K option: $31.60 first month with the listed eligible payment methods, then $79/month, with 8,645 credits/month. Other payment methods show $39.50 initially.
• Advanced, larger options: 17,600, 23,500 or 35,500 credits/month, with monthly renewal prices of $159, $212 or $320. The displayed eligible-payment introductory amounts are $63.60, $84.80 and $128; the alternative first-month amounts are $79.50, $106 and $160.
• Ultra: 59,000 credits/month, renewing at $520/month. The page displays both $208 and $260 introductory variants. Confirm the offer assigned at checkout instead of assuming the lower one.

These are subscription allowances, not guaranteed quantities of full-model videos. The page's video-count footnote uses five-second Seedance 2.0 Mini at 720p. It must not be read as a Seedance 2.5 allowance.

Annual Billing and Promotional Limits

Dreamina's annual Basic offer is $100.79 for the first year, renewing at $167.99/year; Standard is $245.99, renewing at $409.99/year. Monthly credit allowances remain those stated above.

Advanced's annual renewal amounts are $900, $1,825, $2,425 and $3,660 for its ascending credit options. The page exposes alternative first-year offers: $315 or $450, $638.75 or $912.50, $848.75 or $1,212.50, and $1,281 or $1,830, respectively. Ultra shows $2,099.65 or $2,999.50 initially, renewing at $5,999/year. These alternatives are displayed offers, not prices every account is promised.

Quarterly and a separate “1-month” tab also appear. Select the billing period before comparing: a yearly payment is a yearly commitment even when the credit allowance replenishes monthly. The page says orders with added free benefits are non-refundable. It does not establish a general credit-rollover or top-up tariff in the material verified here, so do not budget on either assumption.

The practical upgrade rule is simple: pay for a larger allowance only after the selected model's displayed credit charge and your own approval rate show you need it. Image-generation bonuses and “unlimited” image benefits do not establish unlimited Seedance video.

Jimeng: Seedance 2.0 VIP Membership Prices

Jimeng publishes prices in Chinese yuan and names Seedance 2.0 VIP in its membership benefits. Preserve that model label; this page does not establish a Seedance 2.5 entitlement.

Its recurring monthly options are:

• 基础会员 (Basic): ¥33 first month, then ¥69/month, with 725 credits/month.
• 标准会员 (Standard): ¥100 first month, then ¥199/month, with 2,210 credits/month.
• 高级会员 (Advanced): 6,160, 12,320, 18,480 or 27,720 credits/month. First-month prices are ¥199, ¥398, ¥597 or ¥896; renewals are ¥499, ¥998, ¥1,498 or ¥2,246/month, respectively.
• 超级会员 (Super): ¥1,706 first month, then ¥4,299/month, with 54,600 credits/month.

Annual Basic costs ¥393 initially, then ¥659/year; Standard costs ¥1,099, then ¥1,899/year. Advanced's ascending allowances cost ¥2,599, ¥5,199, ¥7,019 or ¥10,529 initially, renewing at ¥5,199, ¥10,398, ¥15,598 or ¥23,398/year. Super costs ¥19,656 initially, then ¥43,680/year. The page also offers quarterly and single-month purchase choices; compare within the same billing period.

Jimeng lists daily login credits but does not give a numerical free allowance in the benefits checked. Its Super membership also says API usage must be purchased separately and is not interchangeable with membership credits. Choose this route for its app workflow, not because a CNY credit count looks larger than a USD plan's count.

CapCut: Price Not Published for This Model

CapCut names Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini on its official product page, but publishes no Seedance-specific price there; its free-try invitation does not state a free quantity.

Seedance AI Pricing: Choose by the Work You Need to Do

Use BytePlus for a product that must request videos automatically. Use an app for a marketer directing individual shots. An app subscription's entry price cannot establish an API budget, and an API's token rate cannot tell you how many app credits a shot consumes.

For a product-launch brief, decide what would make the output usable before choosing a plan. A successful generation with distorted packaging may still need replacing. A promising motion study is mood-board material until the product shape, continuity, audio and final copy pass review. The Seedance review covers the creative decision; keep this page's dated official prices as the budgeting reference.

Seedance 2.0 Cheapest: Match the Configuration First

Mini has the lowest listed token rate among the official 2.0 API variants at the shared resolutions. That makes it a sensible cost candidate, not a proven cheapest route to an approved asset. No cross-app break-even is defensible without the account's actual credit charge, selected model and output settings.

For a same-brief creative comparison, the site's Wan versus Seedance cost comparison provides a separate workflow discussion. Its provider-specific figures are not substitutes for the official tariffs above.

Start the next brief with a small, controlled evaluation:

1. 1

   Fix the deliverable

   Specify the product, action, camera movement, aspect ratio, duration and delivery resolution. State which model the account must use. Keep the same brief when comparing routes.

2. 2

   Record the charge before generation

   In an app, record the displayed credit cost and renewal terms. In the API, record the exact model ID, video-input branch and returned usage. Separate an introductory benefit from continuing spend.

3. 3

   Change only the failed part of the brief

   Before: a product shot has acceptable camera motion but an incorrect pack silhouette. Proposed revision: strengthen the product reference and simplify the action, then inspect the new result against the same approval criteria. This is an evaluation recipe, not a claimed test result.

4. 4

   Count approved output

   Track successful generations you reject as well as those you keep. Approve the downloaded clip only after checking product fidelity, continuity, audio and exact overlaid copy. Use that record to choose the next allowance.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Seedance free?

Dreamina says it supplies free daily credits to try Seedance 2.5, but the page does not specify their quantity. Jimeng lists daily login credits without establishing a free Seedance entitlement, and CapCut invites a free try without stating a quota. Someone whose occasional evaluation fits the available allowance may not need to pay; recurring production should not depend on an unspecified free supply.

What does Seedance 2.5 cost?

On BytePlus, the full model starts at $10.70 per million tokens without video input, or $6.40 with video input, at 480p/720p. Dreamina sells app access through subscriptions and credits; its introductory Basic offer and later renewal are different payments. Neither route creates one universal per-video price.

Should I use the Seedance API or an app?

Choose the API when software must generate videos automatically and you need request-level usage records. Choose an app when a person will direct, inspect and finish each clip. Verify the exact version before paying: the Jimeng and CapCut pages checked here name different variants from Dreamina's Seedance 2.5 page.

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