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FLUX 3 Video vs Seedance 2.5
Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 1 task where both are listed: they share a tier in 1.
FLUX 3 Video
Black Forest Labs' first video model (FLUX 3) with synchronized audio, offered via the BFL API.
- Vendor
- Black Forest Labs
- Weights
- Closed: API and apps only
- Released
- 23 Jul 2026
- API price
- $0.29 per second of video ($17.40/min as listed on AA (with audio); BFL bills per second by resolution (720p-2160p) but its docs load amounts dynamically)
- License
- proprietary
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Seedance 2.5
ByteDance Seed's video model line with native audio, offered in Dreamina/CapCut and via API.
- Vendor
- ByteDance (Seed)
- Weights
- Closed: API and apps only
- Released
- 31 Jul 2026
- 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)
- License
- proprietary
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Task by task
| Task | FLUX 3 Video | Seedance 2.5 | Higher tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video generation Models | S1,146 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) · Cloud | S1,160 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) · Cloud | Same tier |
A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.
Same benchmark, both results
| Benchmark | FLUX 3 Video | Seedance 2.5 | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video (AA-Video-I2V v1.1, with audio) Elo (pairwise human preference), higher is better | 1,086 | 1,138 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) Elo (pairwise human preference), higher is better | 1,146 | 1,160 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video, no audio (AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1) Elo (pairwise human preference), higher is better | 1,094 | 1,105 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| LMArena (Arena) Image-to-Video leaderboard Arena score (Bradley-Terry Elo-style rating from pairwise votes), higher is better | 1,449 | 1,477 | 22 Sep 2026 |
| LMArena (Arena) Text-to-Video leaderboard Arena score (Bradley-Terry Elo-style rating from pairwise votes), higher is better | 1,493 | 1,474 | 22 Sep 2026 |