seedance2 is ByteDance’s Seedance 2 generation — a step up in fidelity and prompt adherence over the original Seedance Pro line. The right call for Chinese-market video where aesthetic quality and East-Asian subject handling matter. For the cheapest, fastest variant, see seedance2-fast.
Pricing: $0.08 / second of generated footage — see the rate card. Failures don’t bill.
Protocols
| Protocol | Path | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Video — submit | POST https://llm.bytespike.ai/v1/videos/generations | enqueues; returns task_id |
| OpenAI Video — poll | GET https://llm.bytespike.ai/v1/videos/tasks/{task_id} | returns status and result_url |
Quickstart
Capabilities
| Capability | Supported |
|---|---|
| Text-to-video | ✅ |
Image-to-video (with source_image) | ✅ |
duration_seconds 5 / 10 | ✅ |
size 1280×720 / 1920×1080 | ✅ |
| Chinese aesthetic / East-Asian subjects | ✅ |
| Modality | video |
| Capability bucket | video_generate |
When to use
- Chinese-market video — products, ads, posters where Chinese aesthetic and East-Asian subject quality matter.
- DOSIA
generate_video— main brain reaches for this for Chinese-market video when permissioned.
- Cheapest / fastest tier — drop to
seedance2-fast. - Sora-grade physics required —
sora2orsora2-pro.
Next
seedance2-fast— cheapest, fastest Seedance 2 tierseedance-pro— Seedance Pro flagshipveo3.1-fast— Google fast tier- Multimodal endpoints — overview