Seedance 2.5 API: Pricing, Specs and Examples

Seedance 2.5 API

Seedance 2.5 is a text to video, image to video and reference to video model by ByteDance Seed, available on the Venice API as seedance-2-5-text-to-video-basic. Requests are anonymized, so the provider never sees your identity.

Seedance 2.5 API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`seedance-2-5-text-to-video-basic`	Text to video	Anonymized	from $0.1685 / sec
`seedance-2-5-edit-video-basic`	Text to video	Anonymized	priced by source
`seedance-2-5-image-to-video-basic`	Image to video	Anonymized	from $0.1285 / sec
`seedance-2-5-reference-to-video-basic`	Reference to video	Anonymized	from $0.1685 / sec

Clip prices for seedance-2-5-text-to-video-basic, silent:

Duration	480p	720p	1080p
4s	$0.67	$1.16	$2.86
5s	$0.84	$1.45	$3.58
6s	$1.01	$1.74	$4.29
7s	$1.18	$2.03	$5.01
8s	$1.35	$2.32	$5.72
9s	$1.52	$2.61	$6.44
10s	$1.69	$2.90	$7.15
11s	$1.85	$3.19	$7.87
12s	$2.02	$3.48	$8.58
13s	$2.19	$3.77	$9.30
14s	$2.36	$4.06	$10.01
15s	$2.53	$4.35	$10.73
16s	$2.70	$4.64	$11.45
17s	$2.86	$4.94	$12.16
18s	$3.03	$5.23	$12.88
19s	$3.20	$5.52	$13.59
20s	$3.37	$5.81	$14.31
21s	$3.54	$6.10	$15.02
22s	$3.71	$6.39	$15.74
23s	$3.88	$6.68	$16.45
24s	$4.04	$6.97	$17.17
25s	$4.21	$7.26	$17.88
26s	$4.38	$7.55	$18.60
27s	$4.55	$7.84	$19.31
28s	$4.72	$8.13	$20.03
29s	$4.89	$8.42	$20.74
30s	$5.06	$8.71	$21.46

Seedance 2.5 specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	ByteDance Seed
Released	Aug 7, 2026
Privacy	Anonymized
Status	Stable
Modes	text to video, image to video and reference to video
Resolutions	1080p, 720p, 480p
Durations	4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s, 19s, 20s, 21s, 22s, 23s, 24s, 25s, 26s, 27s, 28s, 29s, 30s
Aspect ratios	21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16
Audio	Optional

How to use the Seedance 2.5 API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/queue with "model": "seedance-2-5-text-to-video-basic" and your API key.

# 1. Queue the job (returns a queue_id)
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/queue \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "seedance-2-5-text-to-video-basic",
    "prompt": "Slow aerial drone shot over a misty mountain valley at golden hour",
    "duration": "5s",
    "resolution": "720p",
    "aspect_ratio": "21:9",
    "audio": true
  }'

# 2. Poll until the MP4 is ready
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/retrieve \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "model": "seedance-2-5-text-to-video-basic", "queue_id": "<queue_id>" }' --output video.mp4

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