How much does Seedance cost?
Seedance, ByteDance's video model (also surfaced through Dreamina), is one of the more affordable premium video models when you use its faster tiers. It comes in a standard, a fast, and a mini variant that trade resolution and fidelity for a lower price, so the cost depends heavily on which one you pick.
This guide gives the verifiable per-second rate for the fast tier, explains how the three tiers relate on price, and shows how to estimate a clip. Where a hard figure isn't publicly published for a tier, this guide says so rather than guessing — the numbers below are the ones that are confirmable as of mid-2026.
The short answer
Seedance's fast tier is available at roughly $0.10 per second through hosted providers — so a 5-second clip is about $0.50 and a 10-second clip about $1.00. That puts it among the cheaper premium video models per second, competitive with the fast tiers of larger names.
The full standard tier costs more and raises the resolution ceiling (up to 4K), while a mini tier runs at roughly half the standard price for high-volume work. The exact standard and mini figures depend on the provider and are quoted per token of output rather than a flat per-second rate, so confirm them against your specific host.
Seedance tiers and what they cost
Three variants sharing the same core capabilities, differing on speed, resolution ceiling, and price.
| Fast | ≈ $0.10 per second via hosted providers — a 5-second clip around $0.50. Caps at a lower resolution; the value tier for drafts and volume. |
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| Standard | Higher price, highest resolution ceiling (up to 4K), best for hero content. Often quoted per million tokens of output — confirm the rate with your provider. |
| Mini | Roughly half the standard price. Built for high-frequency, large-scale generation — batch marketing, e-commerce, UGC at volume. |
How to estimate a Seedance clip's cost
The fast tier has the cleanest per-second number to reason about.
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Start with the fast tier for a baseline
At roughly $0.10 per second, a 5-second clip is about $0.50 and a 10-second clip about $1.00. That's your cheapest per-clip baseline.
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Step up only for resolution or fidelity
Move to the standard tier when you genuinely need the higher resolution ceiling or the extra detail for hero content — it costs more, so reserve it for clips that justify it.
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Use mini for bulk
For large batches of similar clips where per-clip cost dominates, the mini tier at roughly half the standard price is the volume workhorse.
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Multiply by clips and iterations
Take your per-clip baseline, multiply by how many finished clips you need, then by a realistic iteration count for the attempts you'll actually make.
Preguntas frecuentes
- Is Seedance free?
- Seedance offers limited free trials through consumer surfaces like Dreamina, but production use is paid — either per generation through hosted API providers or via credits on a consumer plan. There is no unlimited free tier.
- How much does a Seedance video cost?
- On the fast tier through hosted providers, Seedance runs about $0.10 per second, so a 5-second clip is roughly $0.50 and a 10-second clip about $1.00. The standard tier costs more and raises the resolution ceiling; the mini tier is roughly half the standard price for bulk work.
- Is Seedance cheaper than Kling or Veo?
- On the fast tier, Seedance is competitive — around $0.10 per second is in the same range as Kling's newer standard rate and cheaper than Veo's standard tier (about $0.40 per second). At the top standard tier the gap narrows, so the honest answer depends on which tier of each model you compare.
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