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Dreamina Seedance 2.5

ByteDance Seed’s flagship audio-video model (successor to Seedance 2.0): 30-second single shots, two extensions, up to 50 references, timestamp-level editing. Asynchronous ModelArk content-generation task API; activate the model in the ModelArk console first.

Model iddreamina-seedance-2-5-260628

Price$10.70 per 1m tokens 480p 720p

Checked25 October 2026

Where it stands

7newer video generation models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All video generation models

Before it from ByteDance Seed
Dreamina Seedance 2.0Feb 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

4 ways to use Dreamina Seedance 2.5, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Dreamina Seedance 2.5
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
BytePlus ModelArk dreamina-seedance-2-5-260628 https://ark.ap-southeast.bytepluses.com/api/v3/ docs.byteplus.com
OpenRouter bytedance/seedance-2.5
Web app (Jimeng / Doubao Pro, China) seed.bytedance.com
Web app (Dreamina, CapCut) dreamina.capcut.com

Pricing

Prices for Dreamina Seedance 2.5
Per 1m tokens 480p 720p$10.70
Per 1m tokens 1080p$11.70
Per 1m tokens with video input 480p 720p$6.40
Per 1m tokens with video input 1080p$7

As published: “USD per 1M video tokens on BytePlus ModelArk (online inference; 4K not supported). Tokens = (input + output video seconds) x width x height x fps / 1024. BytePlus examples, 5 s 16:9 without video input: 480p 0.514 (0.103/s), 720p 1.156 (0.231/s), 1080p 2.843 (0.569/s). Draft mode is billed as 480p”.

Source: docs.byteplus.com, checked 25 October 2026.

Specs

Input
Text, images, video and audio
Output
Video and audio
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
31 July 2026
Status
Current
Type
Video generation

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • 30-second single-shot generation with extensions

    Up to 30 s of joint audio-video per generation (15 s in Seedance 2.0), extendable twice with consistent characters, settings and pacing.

    Source: seed.bytedance.com

  • 50 multimodal references in one pass

    Up to 30 images, 10 video clips and 10 audio clips as references in a single request.

    Source: seed.bytedance.com

  • Timestamp-level audio/video editing

    Targeted edits of audio and video at given timestamps, plus green-screen, white-model (untextured previs) control and camera-perspective editing.

    Source: seed.bytedance.com

  • Draft-then-final workflow

    Found after launch

    API can render a cheap 480p Draft first and then generate the final video from the Draft task ID (final currently 1080p only; Draft IDs valid 7 days).

    Source: docs.byteplus.com

Notes

Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard (read 2026-10-25): #5 (rank range 2-8), Elo 1158; AA price 34.12 USD per minute of 1080p (matches BytePlus 0.569/s). Third-party pages claim native 4K, but BytePlus pricing marks 4K ‘Not supported’ and the Seed pages give no resolution. Launch entry: ByteDance Seedance 2.5 video model. Oct 23, 2026: Volcano Engine opened ‘Seedance 2.5 4K’ (4K 10-bit, 480p draft previews) to selected enterprise customers only (TechNode citing IT Home); no public 4K API id or price seen.

Artificial Analysis text-to-video (with audio) leaderboard, read 2026-10-25: rank 5 (CI range 2-8), Elo 1158 (https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video).

Sources: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5 · https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_5 · https://docs.byteplus.com/en/docs/modelark/seedance-2-5 · https://docs.byteplus.com/en/docs/modelark/model-pricing · https://technode.com/2026/07/31/bytedance-launches-seedance-2-5-video-generation-model/

Not yet checked against an official source: Launched 2026-07-31 in Jimeng and Doubao Pro with API ‘coming soon’; the ModelArk id dreamina-seedance-2-5-260628 is now in BytePlus docs and pricing (API go-live date not verified; OpenRouter lists it from 2026-08-07). Dreamina’s 180 s ‘long video’ beta not verified on Seed pages.