Seedance 2 overview
Seedance 2 by ByteDance
It combines text, images, audio, and video into a single coherent generation pipeline, making it one of the most flexible and production-ready models available today.
Seedance 2 specs
- Model ID
bytedance/seedance-2-0- Developer
- ByteDance
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Video
- Endpoint
POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations
What is Seedance 2?
Seedance 2 is ByteDance's latest flagship video generation model, and it represents a serious leap forward from anything the company has shipped before. Built on a multimodal foundation, it accepts text prompts, still images, audio tracks, and even video clips as simultaneous input sources, then blends them into coherent, cinematic output that holds up to professional scrutiny.
What sets Seedance 2 apart from earlier models isn't just the number of input types it handles. It's the director-level control baked into the generation pipeline, frame-by-frame motion guidance, precise camera path control, and character identity locking that stays consistent across an entire sequence. This addresses one of the biggest headaches in AI video production: characters changing mid-clip, or motion becoming jerky and unnatural after a few seconds.
The model also generates native audio alongside the video, including realistic lip-sync, environmental sound, and ambient scoring. That's a capability that only a handful of models in the world currently match, putting Seedance 2 in direct competition with Google's Veo 3.1 and the upcoming Kling 3 as one of the most complete end-to-end video generation systems of 2026.
Why is it generating so much noise right now? Because early results circulating from Chinese developers suggest that Seedance 2 produces significantly more stable motion than its predecessor and demonstrates an almost unnerving level of photorealism in human subjects. If those results hold at scale, it could challenge the current pecking order among frontier video models.
Cinematic Output Without Post-Processing
One of the most noticeable aspects of Seedance 2 is how “finished” the output feels. The model understands lighting, depth, and camera movement at a level that significantly reduces the need for editing. Scenes look intentional rather than generated, with smooth transitions and stable composition across frames.
Motion and Temporal Consistency
Motion is where many video models break down, but Seedance 2 handles it with surprising stability. Objects persist across frames, movements feel continuous, and scenes evolve in a predictable way. This makes it suitable not just for short clips, but for sequences that require coherence over time.
Multimodal Scene Control
Instead of relying on text prompts alone, Seedance 2 allows you to guide generation using multiple inputs simultaneously. A reference image can define style and composition, while audio can influence pacing and rhythm. This results in output that is much closer to creative direction than simple prompt engineering.
Audio-Visual Alignment
The model is also capable of aligning visuals with sound in a way that feels intentional. Whether it’s syncing motion to music or matching scene transitions to rhythm, this capability opens the door to more engaging and dynamic content formats.
What You Can Build with Seedance 2
If you’re building a video generation platform, the model enables fully automated workflows where users can generate high-quality clips from simple prompts. These can be templated, customized, and scaled across thousands of users without sacrificing consistency.
For marketing teams and SaaS products, Seedance 2 unlocks a new level of content automation. Instead of producing a handful of video ads, you can generate hundreds of variations tailored to different audiences, formats, and channels. This dramatically improves testing velocity and campaign performance.
In gaming and interactive environments, the model can be used to generate dynamic cutscenes or narrative visuals on demand. Rather than pre-rendering everything, developers can create adaptive experiences that respond to user input in real time.
Media platforms and education products benefit in a similar way. Video summaries, visual explainers, and storytelling formats can all be generated programmatically, reducing production time while increasing output volume.
Use cases
Commercial production, content creation, and professional video workflows are documented as strong fits for Seedance 2.0, which is described as especially valuable when multiple reference types need to be combined in one output.
It is also documented for games use cases, including in-game cinematics, character reveal trailers, boss reveals, and marketing shorts with dialogue.
Advertising is another stated use case, including product spots with baked-in voice-over, seasonal ad variants of an approved cut, and market-specific restyles.
Film and animation workflows are explicitly listed too, such as pre-vis with sound, animatics with scratch dialogue, mood exploration on live-action plates, and storyboards animated for pitches.
Seedance 2 API pricing
| Usage | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Video generation | $0.394 | per second |
| Additional | $0.018 | per 1K tokens |
Prices from the AI/ML API price list, checked on Nov 4, 2026.
Seedance 2 vs other video models: prices
AI/ML API rates for 5 models, per second.
| Model | Per second |
|---|---|
 Seedance 2 | $0.394 |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast | $0.0572 |
| Seedance 2.0 | $0.0711 |
 Veo 3.1 Extend Video | $0.2 |
 FLUX 3 Video Video to Video | $0.41 |
How to use the Seedance 2 API
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Build with your agent
Give your agent the model details, code and documentation.
1Get your API key
Create API keyexport AIMLAPI_KEY="8f2b4c7d9a1e6b3f…"2Make your first request
curl 'https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"model": "bytedance/seedance-2-0",
"prompt": "A slow dolly shot through a sunlit greenhouse full of ferns, light dust in the air, natural camera motion"
}'import os
import requests
headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['AIMLAPI_KEY']}",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
payload = {
"model": "bytedance/seedance-2-0",
"prompt": "A slow dolly shot through a sunlit greenhouse full of ferns, light dust in the air, natural camera motion"
}
response = requests.post("https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations", headers=headers, json=payload, timeout=120)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())const response = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"model": "bytedance/seedance-2-0",
"prompt": "A slow dolly shot through a sunlit greenhouse full of ferns, light dust in the air, natural camera motion"
}),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
console.log(await response.json());The request returns a generation id. Poll GET https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations?generation_id=<id> until the status is completed.
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Seedance 2 FAQ
How much does Seedance 2 cost?
Seedance 2 costs $0.394 per second on AI/ML API, billed as you go with no subscription.
Who created Seedance 2?
Seedance 2 was built by ByteDance.
What is the Seedance 2 model ID?
Use bytedance/seedance-2-0 as the model parameter. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v2/video/generations with your AI/ML API key.