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Seedance 2.5

ByteDance Seed's video model line with native audio, offered in Dreamina/CapCut and via API.

  • ByteDance (Seed)
  • Closed
  • Released 31 Jul 2026

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Where it ranks

  • S
    Video generation
    Models · Cloud · 1,160 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio)
  • A
    Video editing
    Models · Cloud · 1,155 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)

Facts

Vendor
ByteDance (Seed)
Family
Seedance
Released
31 Jul 2026
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
License
proprietary
API price
$0.57 per second of video ($34.12/min as listed on the AA text-to-video board (with audio; resolution not stated); $24.60/min for image-to-video)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video (AA-Video-I2V v1.1, with audio)1,138Dreamina Seedance 2.5
AA-Video-I2V v1.1 (with audio) board
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio)1,160Dreamina Seedance 2.5
AA-Video-T2V v2.1 (with audio) board
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video, no audio (AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1)1,105Dreamina Seedance 2.5
AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1 (no audio) board
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio)1,155Dreamina Seedance 2.5
AA-Video-Editing v1.1 (with audio) board; AA notes Seedance 2.5 declined source videos showing real people on part of the test set
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing, no audio (AA-Video-Editing-Silent v1.1)1,146Dreamina Seedance 2.5
AA-Video-Editing-Silent v1.1 (no audio) board; AA notes Seedance 2.5 declined source videos showing real people on part of the test set
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena (Arena) Image-to-Video leaderboard1,477dreamina-seedance-2.5-720p
LMArena official leaderboard dataset (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, config image_to_video, split latest, publish date 2026-09-22); arena.ai page itself returned HTTP 403
22 Sep 2026datasets-server.huggingface.co
LMArena (Arena) Text-to-Video leaderboard1,474dreamina-seedance-2.5-720p
LMArena official leaderboard dataset (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, config text_to_video, split latest, publish date 2026-09-22); arena.ai page itself returned HTTP 403
22 Sep 2026datasets-server.huggingface.co
LMArena (Arena) Video Edit leaderboard1,410dreamina-seedance-2.5-720p
LMArena official leaderboard dataset (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, config video_edit, split latest, publish date 2026-08-27)
27 Aug 2026datasets-server.huggingface.co

Where you can use it

Earlier versions

  • Seedance 2.0 · 18 Mar 2026
  • Seedance 1.5 pro · 15 Dec 2025
  • Seedance 1.0 · 9 Jun 2025

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