ActoriaActoria Research · August 16, 2026 · Actoria row updated Aug 24
Seedance 2.5 pricing: 15 platforms compared
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 is the same model everywhere it's sold — but the price of an identical 5-second clip varies by up to 10×. We pulled the public rate cards and credit sheets of every platform we could find and normalized them to one number: dollars per 5-second 720p clip with audio.
Key findings
- The spread is huge: from ≈$0.49(Dreamina, ByteDance's own consumer app) to ≈$5.00(Pollo's computed Seedance 2.0 rate) for a comparable clip — roughly a 10× difference for the same underlying model.
- Developer APIs charge a premium for convenience: fal.ai's per-token price is exactly 2× the official BytePlus rate ($0.0214 vs $0.0107 per 1K tokens), and Replicate tracks fal at parity.
- Nobody has published 1080p pricing yet — the 1080p tier began rolling out mid-August 2026; every number here is 480p/720p.
- Several platforms gate 2.5 behind higher tiers: Higgsfield excludes it from plans below $49/mo; most competitors' cheapest 2.5-capable plans cost $14–49 up front.
- “Free Seedance” exists only as limited daily credits or short promos — with queues, watermarks or caps; every unlimited-feeling workflow is paid.
- For creator platforms (as opposed to raw APIs and ByteDance's own app), the field compresses to $1.58–5.00 per clip — Actoria's ~$1.58 entry sits at the bottom of that band, below every developer API in the table.
The table: $ per Seedance clip, August 2026
| Platform | Access | 5s · 720p · audio | 10s | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreamina (ByteDance) | Consumer app · from $15/mo | $0.49–0.58 | $0.97–1.15 | ByteDance's own app; $0.097/s advertised on the annual Advanced plan. Cheapest raw clips; daily free credits with queues. |
| Poyo.aiv2.0 | Credits | ≈ $1.00 | ≈ $2.00 | Undercuts fal/Replicate on Seedance 2.0; 2.5 rate not separately published. |
| BytePlus ModelArk | Official API | $1.16 | $2.31 | The wholesale floor: $10.70 per million tokens (t2v/i2v); $6.40/M with video input. 480p ≈ $0.51. |
| OpenArtv2.0 | Subscription · $14/mo | ≈ $1.40 | ≈ $2.80 | Essential plan math on Seedance 2.0; ran a free 2.5 promo through Aug 16, 2026. |
| Actoria (this site) | Browser studio · sub | $1.15–1.80 | $2.30–3.60 | 16 tokens/second with native audio (80 per 5s clip; from $1.15 on annual plans); the only platform here with liveness-verified real people and multi-scene films. |
| Higgsfield | Subscription · $49/mo | ≈ $1.59* | ≈ $3.18* | *Pro-rated: real unit is an 8-second clip at $2.55 (52 credits). Seedance 2.5 is excluded from cheaper plans. |
| A2E.aiv2.0 | Credits · $14.90 | ≈ $1.76 | ≈ $3.52 | 3,600 credits pack, Seedance 2.0 math. |
| WaveSpeed | API | $1.80 | $3.60 | Published per-run price at 720p; 480p $0.90; turbo endpoints from $1.00; prorated 4–30s. |
| Magnific (Freepik) | Subscription · €16/mo | ≈ $1.90 | ≈ $3.80 | 1,760 credits per 4s at 720p on the Premium credit sheet (≈€1.76 per 5s at €0.0008/credit). |
| fal.ai | API | ≈ $2.31 | ≈ $4.62 | $0.0214 per 1K tokens — exactly 2× the official BytePlus token rate. 480p ≈ $1.10. |
| Replicate | API | ≈ $2.31 | ≈ $4.62 | Hosts Seedance 2.5; prices render client-side. Third-party trackers show parity with fal at every 2.0 tier; 2.5 reported equal. |
| VideoAI.me | Credits | ≈ $2.40 | ≈ $4.80 | 48 credits/s at 720p, 1 credit = $0.01. |
| Pollo.aiv2.5 / 2.0 | Subscription · from ~$10/mo | not published | — | Hosts 2.5 but publishes no fixed credit cost (“varies by settings”). Seedance 2.0 computed at ≈$5.00 per 5s on the Lite plan — the priciest mainstream figure found. |
| Runway | Subscription | ≈ $1.20 | ≈ $2.40 | Figure from a competitor's comparison table ($0.240/s) — treat as low-confidence; no first-party rate card found. |
| OpenArt / Runway annual tier | Annual subs | ≈ $1.08–1.20 | ≈ $2.15–2.40 | Annual-plan rates cited in Dreamina's own comparison ($0.215–0.240/s) — low-confidence, listed for completeness. |
Rows without a version badge are Seedance 2.5 rates; badged rows are the platform's latest published Seedance rate (2.0) where 2.5 credit costs weren't public on the research date. Asterisked Higgsfield figures are pro-rated from their 8-second unit.
Methodology
All prices were collected on August 16, 2026from public pricing pages, credit sheets and API rate cards; where a platform prices in credits, we divided the plan price by its credit allowance and multiplied by the credits charged per Seedance generation. Token-priced APIs were converted with the standard Seedance token formula (width × height × 24fps × seconds / 1024): a 5-second 720p clip ≈ 108K tokens. Euros converted at $1.08. Where clips come in non-5-second units (Higgsfield's 8s), we pro-rated and flagged it. Two rows rely on second-hand comparisons and are marked low-confidence. Audio: Seedance 2.5 generates native audio on every platform, so audio is not a differentiator within 2.5 rows.
Actoria is a participant in this market — our own row uses the same math as everyone else's (80 tokens per 5-second clip against our plan prices). Corrections welcome: support@actoria.ai — we'll update the table and the modification date.
Sources
dreamina.capcut.com/seedance/seedance-price · dreamina.capcut.com/seedance/seedance-2-5-pricing-2026 · higgsfield.ai/blog/seedance-2-5-pricing-2026 · fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.5/image-to-video · fal.ai/models/bytedance/seedance-2.0/text-to-video · replicate.com/bytedance/seedance-2.5 · wavespeed.ai/seedance-2-5-api · magnific.com/pricing · pollo.ai/m/seedance-2-5 · a2e.ai/cheapest-seedance-2-pricing · poyo.ai/comparison/seedance-2-fal-vs-replicate-vs-poyo · cometapi.com/seedance-2-5-api-pricing · atlascloud.ai/blog/tips/seedance-2.5-pricing-guide · byteplus.com/en/blog/seedance-1-0-pro-guide-api-pricing
Want to try Seedance 2.5 without an API console? Actoria runs it in the browser — with verified real people in the cast and multi-scene films around the model. Or see how we keep the overall price down on the cheap AI video generator page.