Seedance 2.5 API
ByteDance Seedance 2.5 is coming soon in Early July with longer single-shot generation, expanded reference capacity, and more controllable video generation and editing. Until the 2.5 endpoints launch, this page previews the current Seedance 2.0 API family available on WaveSpeedAI.
Seedance 2.5 is expected to add 30-second single-shot native video output, greatly increased reference material capacity, more controllable video generation and editing, and support for attaching up to 50 reference files. Current playground, examples, pricing, and API samples below use the live Seedance 2.0 endpoints.
About the Seedance 2.5 API
What Seedance 2.5 does, how it fits in the ByteDance model lineup, and why teams reach for it.
Seedance 2.5 is a video generation model from ByteDance, available through the WaveSpeedAI REST API. ByteDance Seedance 2.5 is coming soon in Early July with longer single-shot generation, expanded reference capacity, and more controllable video generation and editing. Until the 2.5 endpoints launch, this page previews the current Seedance 2.0 API family available on WaveSpeedAI.
Seedance 2.5 is expected to add 30-second single-shot native video output, greatly increased reference material capacity, more controllable video generation and editing, and support for attaching up to 50 reference files. Current playground, examples, pricing, and API samples below use the live Seedance 2.0 endpoints.
The Seedance 2.5 family on WaveSpeedAI ships 24 REST endpoints covering Text-To-Video, Image-To-Video, Video-Extend, Video-To-Video workflows. Each variant carries its own pricing, parameter knobs, and example outputs — pick the one that matches your input modality and production constraints, or call several from the same API key to compose multi-step pipelines.
Run Seedance 2.5 through the same API key, billing account, and rate-limit envelope you use for the other 1,000+ AI models on WaveSpeedAI. No separate vendor setup, no per-provider SDKs, no per-vendor rate-limit envelopes — one integration covers everything from text-to-image and text-to-video through audio synthesis, 3D generation, upscaling, and editing.
All Seedance 2.0 API endpoints
24 Seedance 2.0 endpoints available now on WaveSpeedAI — pick the variant that matches your workflow.

Text To Video Turbo (Turbo · Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast (Text-to-Video Turbo) generates cinematic 720p/1080p videos from text prompts using speed-optimized inference —the fastest and most affordable Seedance option with native audio-visual synchronization and director-level control.

Image To Video Turbo (Turbo · Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast (Image-to-Video Turbo) generates cinematic 720p/1080p videos from reference images using speed-optimized inference —the fastest and most affordable Seedance image-to-video option with native audio-visual synchronization and director-level control.

Text To Video Turbo (Turbo)
Seedance 2.0 Mini Text to Video Turbo is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost text-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It generates narrative sequences from text prompts with AI camera control, consistent characters, 720P / 1080P output, 5-12s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Text To Video Turbo (Turbo)
Seedance 2.0 (Text-to-Video Turbo) generates cinematic 720p/1080p videos from text prompts —delivering high-resolution output at near-480p speed with native audio-visual synchronization, director-level control, and exceptional motion stability.

Image To Video Turbo (Turbo)
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image to Video Turbo is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost image-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It turns reference images and optional text prompts into narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters, 720P / 1080P output, 5-12s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Image To Video Turbo (Turbo)
Seedance 2.0 (Image-to-Video Turbo) generates cinematic 720p/1080p videos from reference images —delivering high-resolution output at near-480p speed with native audio-visual synchronization, director-level control, and exceptional motion stability.

Image To Video Spicy (Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast Spicy Image to Video is a fast AI image-to-video generation model that creates high-quality cinematic clips from images at faster speed and lower cost, optimized for scalable content generation with smooth animations and stable aesthetics. Ready-to-use REST inference API for animating images, social media clips, product videos, advertising creatives, visual storytelling, and professional image-to-video workflows with simple integration, no coldstarts, and affordable pricing.

Text To Video (Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast (Text-to-Video) generates cinematic videos from text prompts with native audio-visual synchronization, director-level camera and lighting control, and exceptional motion stability — optimized for faster generation at lower cost. Built on Seed's unified multimodal architecture.

Image To Video (Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast (Image-to-Video) generates cinematic videos from reference images and text prompts with native audio-visual synchronization, director-level control, and exceptional motion stability — optimized for faster generation at lower cost. Built on Seed's unified multimodal architecture.

Image To Video Spicy
Seedance 2.0 Mini Spicy Image to Video is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost image-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It turns reference images and optional text prompts into narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Text To Video
Seedance 2.0 Mini Text to Video is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost text-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It generates narrative sequences from text prompts with AI camera control, consistent characters across scenes, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Image To Video Spicy
Seedance 2.0 Spicy Image to Video is a fast AI image-to-video generation model that creates high-quality cinematic clips from images, optimized for scalable content generation with smooth animations and stable aesthetics. Ready-to-use REST inference API for animating images, social media clips, product videos, advertising creatives, visual storytelling, and professional image-to-video workflows with simple integration, no coldstarts, and affordable pricing.

Text To Video
Seedance 2.0 (Text-to-Video) generates Hollywood-grade cinematic videos from text prompts with native audio-visual synchronization, director-level camera and lighting control, and exceptional motion stability. Built on Seed's unified multimodal architecture, it leads on instruction adherence, motion quality, and visual aesthetics.

Video Extend (Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast (Video-Extend) extends an input video with a new cinematic continuation generated from its last frame and a natural-language prompt — at the faster, cheaper Seedance 2.0 Fast tier. Ready-to-use REST API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Extend
Seedance 2.0 Mini Video Extend is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost video extension model for cinematic multi-shot continuation. It extends existing videos into seamless narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters, motion continuity, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Extend
Seedance 2.0 (Video-Extend) extends an input video with a new cinematic continuation generated from its last frame and a natural-language prompt. Ready-to-use REST API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Edit (Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast (Video-Edit) edits an input video from a natural-language prompt at a faster, cheaper tier. Built on ByteDance Seed's unified multimodal architecture, it preserves subject identity, composition, and motion while rewriting lighting, style, weather, environment, or specific elements as instructed. Ready-to-use REST API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Edit Turbo (Turbo · Fast)
Seedance 2.0 Fast (Video-Edit Turbo) is the fastest, cheapest turbo tier for editing an input video from a natural-language prompt — high-resolution output with optimized cost and speed. Ready-to-use REST API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Edit Turbo (Turbo)
Seedance 2.0 Mini is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost video generation model for text to video and image to video. It creates cinematic multi-shot videos with AI camera control, consistent characters across scenes, 720P / 1080P output, 5-12s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Edit Turbo (Turbo)
Seedance 2.0 (Video-Edit Turbo) is the turbo tier for editing an input video from a natural-language prompt — faster, more affordable high-resolution output while preserving subject identity, composition, and motion. Ready-to-use REST API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Edit
Seedance 2.0 Mini Video Edit is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost video editing model for prompt-guided video modification. It edits existing videos with cinematic multi-shot quality, AI camera control, consistent characters, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Video Edit
Seedance 2.0 (Video-Edit) edits an input video from a natural-language prompt. The reference video drives subject identity, composition, and motion while the model rewrites lighting, style, weather, environment, or specific elements as instructed. Built on ByteDance Seed's unified multimodal architecture for cinematic, motion-stable output. Ready-to-use REST API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Image To Video
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image to Video is ByteDance's faster, lower-cost image-to-video model for cinematic multi-shot videos. It turns reference images and optional text prompts into narrative sequences with AI camera control, consistent characters across scenes, 480P / 720P / 1080P / 4K output, 4-15s duration, and flexible aspect ratios. Ready-to-use REST inference API, best performance, no coldstarts, affordable pricing.

Image To Video
Seedance 2.0 (Image-to-Video) generates Hollywood-grade cinematic videos from reference images and text prompts with native audio-visual synchronization, director-level camera and lighting control, and exceptional motion stability. Built on Seed's unified multimodal architecture, it preserves the input image's subject and composition while adding expressive, physically accurate motion.
See Seedance 2.0 in action
Real outputs generated by the Seedance 2.0 API. Hover any video to preview, click to open the full-size viewer.
How to use the Seedance 2.0 API
Four steps from signup to a finished generation. Full Python, Node.js, and cURL examples are in the API section below.
- 1
Get an API key
Sign up for a WaveSpeedAI account and copy your API key from the dashboard. New accounts come with free starter credits — enough to run the playground a few dozen times before billing kicks in.
- 2
Submit a prediction
POST your input as JSON to https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video. The endpoint returns a prediction id immediately — generations are async so you don't hold an open connection during inference.
- 3
Poll for completion
GET https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{request_id}/result every 1-2 seconds. The response includes a status field; keep polling until it flips from"queued" or"processing" to"completed".
- 4
Read the output URL
Once status is"completed", read the URL from data.outputs[0]. The URL points to your generated media on the WaveSpeedAI CDN — image, video, audio, or 3D file depending on the Seedance 2.5 variant you called.
What you can build with Seedance 2.5
Common workflows developers and creators use the Seedance 2.5 API for.
Longer 30-second single-shot generation
Seedance 2.5 is planned for 30-second single-shot native video output, reducing the need to stitch multiple short clips when you need one continuous camera move, performance beat, or product scene.
High-reference creative workflows
The coming 2.5 release is expected to greatly increase reference material capacity, with up to 50 attached reference files. That makes it a better fit for brand kits, character packs, multi-shot style boards, and campaign-level continuity.
More controllable video generation
Seedance 2.5 is positioned around stronger control for video generation: clearer creative direction, better use of attached references, and more predictable prompt-to-motion behavior for production workflows.
More controllable video editing
For editing workflows, Seedance 2.5 is expected to improve prompt-guided changes on existing footage while preserving the source composition, subject identity, and motion intent.
Use Seedance 2.0 today
Until Seedance 2.5 is live, WaveSpeedAI exposes the current Seedance 2.0 family for text-to-video, image-to-video, video-edit, and video-extend. The endpoints below are the live models you can test now.
Tips for prompting Seedance 2.5
Practical advice for getting better outputs from Seedance 2.5 — drawn from the patterns that work across video models in production pipelines.
Plan for one continuous 30-second shot
Seedance 2.5 is expected to support 30-second single-shot native video output. Write prompts around a continuous action arc: opening frame, camera move, subject action, environmental change, and final frame.
Treat references like a production packet
With up to 50 reference files expected, organize references by role: character, product, environment, wardrobe, motion style, color palette, and brand examples. Cleaner reference intent should translate into more controllable output.
Keep using Seedance 2.0 for live API tests
Until Seedance 2.5 launches, the playground, endpoint cards, pricing, examples, and API samples on this page use the current Seedance 2.0 family. Use those endpoints for production traffic today.
Separate generation and editing prompts
The 2.5 positioning calls out more controllable generation and editing. For generation, describe shot design and motion. For editing, describe what should change and what must stay locked from the source clip.
Avoid overloading all 50 references without labels
More reference capacity helps only when references have clear purpose. In your prompt, name what each reference group should control so style, identity, motion, and scene guidance do not compete.
Seedance 2.0 API pricing
Pricing is per-output. The final charge scales with the parameters you set in each variant's playground (resolution, duration, output count, references).
Call the Seedance 2.0 API
Sign up for an API key at wavespeed.ai/accesskey, then submit a prediction via REST. The playground generates ready-to-paste samples for any combination of inputs.
HTTP example
# 1. Submit a prediction
curl -X POST "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY" \
-d '{}'
# 2. Poll the result until status = "completed"
curl -X GET "https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/predictions/{request_id}/result" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $WAVESPEED_API_KEY"
# Read the output URL from data.outputs[0].Node.js example
// npm install wavespeed
const WaveSpeed = require('wavespeed');
const client = new WaveSpeed(); // reads WAVESPEED_API_KEY
const result = await client.run("bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video", {});
console.log(result.outputs[0]); // → URL of the generated outputPython example
# pip install wavespeed
import wavespeed
output = wavespeed.run(
"bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video",
{}
)
print(output["outputs"][0]) # → URL of the generated outputSeedance 2.5 vs alternatives
When to pick Seedance 2.5 over similar models on WaveSpeedAI.
Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is available now with text-to-video, image-to-video, video-edit, video-extend, Fast, Standard, and Turbo variants. Seedance 2.5 is the coming upgrade, expected to extend single-shot duration to 30 seconds and raise reference capacity up to 50 files.
Seedance 2.5 vs Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1 is available today for photorealistic video generation across Standard, Fast, and Lite tiers. Seedance 2.5 is positioned for longer single-shot generation and heavier reference-driven control once it launches.
Seedance 2.5 vs Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0 is strong when you need tiered quality, 4K options, and motion-control variants. Seedance 2.5 should be more relevant when a single continuous 30-second shot and large reference packs are the limiting factors.
Seedance 2.5 API — Frequently asked questions
Pricing, license, integration — common questions about running Seedance 2.5 on WaveSpeedAI.
What is the Seedance 2.5 API?
Seedance 2.5 is a ByteDance video generation model exposed as a REST API on WaveSpeedAI. ByteDance Seedance 2.5 is coming soon in Early July with longer single-shot generation, expanded reference capacity, and more controllable video generation and editing. Until the 2.5 endpoints launch, this page previews the current Seedance 2.0 API family available on WaveSpeedAI. You can call it programmatically or try it from the playground linked above.
How do I call the Seedance 2.5 API?
Seedance 2.5 endpoints are not live yet. To test the current generation today, sign up for a WaveSpeedAI account, copy your API key from /accesskey, then POST to https://api.wavespeed.ai/api/v3/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video with your input as JSON. That sample endpoint is part of the live Seedance 2.0 family.
How much does the Seedance 2.5 API cost?
Seedance 2.5 pricing is not published in this catalog yet. The live Seedance 2.0 endpoints shown on this page start at $0.50 per run, with exact cost depending on resolution, duration, output count, and references.
Which Seedance 2.5 variants are available?
WaveSpeedAI hosts 24 live Seedance 2.0 endpoints: bytedance/seedance-2.0-fast/text-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0-fast/image-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/text-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0-mini/image-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0/image-to-video-turbo, bytedance/seedance-2.0-fast/image-to-video-spicy, bytedance/seedance-2.0-fast/text-to-video, and more. Each variant has its own playground page and pricing.
Can I use Seedance 2.5 outputs commercially?
Commercial usage rights follow the ByteDance model license. Most ByteDance models permit commercial output use; see each model's playground page for the specific license summary, and WaveSpeedAI's Terms of Service for platform-level conditions.
Why use Seedance 2.5 on WaveSpeedAI instead of going direct?
One API key + one billing account across Seedance 2.5 AND 1,000+ other AI models from other providers. No per-vendor SDK setup, no separate rate-limit envelopes, no rewrite-per-vendor integration code. Pricing is typically at parity with or below ByteDance's direct API.
About ByteDance
The team behind Seedance 2.5 and the broader ByteDance model lineup on WaveSpeedAI.
ByteDance — the company behind TikTok, CapCut, and Doubao — runs one of the largest AI research operations in the world. Its Seed and Doubao teams ship state-of-the-art models for video generation (Seedance), image generation and editing (Seedream, Nano Banana), and avatar / lip-sync work. Models are trained on internal-scale data and shipped to production through ByteDance's consumer apps before being released as APIs.
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