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Seedance 2.5 vs Wan 3.0
Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 2 tasks where both are listed: Wan 3.0 is a tier higher in 1 of 2 shared tasks, they share a tier in 1.
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
Wan 3.0
Alibaba's closed, API-only Wan video models (2.5 onward) with native audio; distinct from the open-weights Wan releases.
- Vendor
- Alibaba
- Weights
- Closed: API and apps only
- Released
- Aug 2026
- API price
- $0.2 per second of video ($12.00/min as listed on the AA leaderboard for its benchmarked configuration (with audio))
- License
- proprietary
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Task by task
| Task | Seedance 2.5 | Wan 3.0 | Higher tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video generation Models | S1,160 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) · Cloud | S1,174 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) · Cloud | Same tier |
| Video editing Models | A1,155 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio) · Cloud | S1,200 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio) · Cloud | Wan 3.0 |
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 | Seedance 2.5 | Wan 3.0 | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video (AA-Video-I2V v1.1, with audio) Elo (pairwise human preference), higher is better | 1,138 | 1,127 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) Elo (pairwise human preference), higher is better | 1,160 | 1,174 | 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 | 1,105 | 1,135 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing (AA-Video-Editing v1.1, with audio) Elo (pairwise human preference), higher is better | 1,155 | 1,200 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Video Editing, no audio (AA-Video-Editing-Silent v1.1) Elo (pairwise human preference), higher is better | 1,146 | 1,156 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| LMArena (Arena) Image-to-Video leaderboard Arena score (Bradley-Terry Elo-style rating from pairwise votes), higher is better | 1,477 | 1,480 | 22 Sep 2026 |
| LMArena (Arena) Text-to-Video leaderboard Arena score (Bradley-Terry Elo-style rating from pairwise votes), higher is better | 1,474 | 1,476 | 22 Sep 2026 |
| LMArena (Arena) Video Edit leaderboard Arena score (Bradley-Terry Elo-style rating from pairwise votes), higher is better | 1,410 | 1,414 | 27 Aug 2026 |