Seedance API
Seedance by ByteDance generates cinematic video with native audio, multi-shot editing and camera control, from text, images or multimodal references.
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Seedance 2.5 Text to Video
ByteDance's next-generation text-to-video model, generating native single-shot clips up to 30 seconds at 720p with coherent motion, native audio, and director-level camera control for professional-gra...
Seedance 2.5 Image to Video
ByteDance's next-generation image-to-video model, animating a single still into a native clip up to 30 seconds at 720p with continuous, coherent motion, native audio, and director-level camera control...
Seedance 2.5 Reference to Video
ByteDance's next-generation reference-to-video model, generating video from multimodal references (images, videos, audio) and locking a character, set, and palette across a full take up to 30 seconds ...
Seedance 2.0 Text to Video
ByteDance's most advanced text-to-video model delivering cinematic output, native audio, multi-shot editing, and director-level camera control for professional-grade video creation.
Seedance 2.0 Fast Text to Video
ByteDance's most advanced text-to-video model in its fast tier delivering lower latency and cost without compromising on cinematic output, native audio, multi-shot editing, and director-level camera ...
Seedance 2.0 Image to Video
ByteDance's most advanced image-to-video model transforming still images into cinematic video with native audio, multi-shot editing, and director-level camera control for professional-grade video cre...
Seedance 2.0 Fast Image to Video
ByteDance's most advanced image-to-video model in its fast tier delivering lower latency and cost without compromising on cinematic output, native audio, multi-shot editing, and director-level camera...
Seedance 2.0 Reference to Video
ByteDance's most advanced reference-to-video model generating cinematic video guided by reference content, with native audio, multi-shot editing, and director-level camera control for professional-gr...
Seedance 2.0 Fast Reference to Video
ByteDance's most advanced reference-to-video model in its fast tier delivering lower latency and cost without compromising on cinematic output, native audio, multi-shot editing, and director-level ca...
Seedance 2.0 Mini Text to Video
Seedance 2.0 Mini is Bytedance's text-to-video AI model. Turn written scripts and prompts into professional-quality video clips with realistic motion, lighting, and scene composition.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Image to Video
Seedance 2.0 Mini by Bytedance - animate still images into dynamic videos with AI. Transform photos into cinematic clips with natural motion, camera movement, and optional audio generation.
Seedance 2.0 Mini Reference to Video
Seedance 2.0 Mini by Bytedance - animate still images into dynamic videos with AI. Transform photos into cinematic clips with natural motion, camera movement, and optional audio generation.
Model lineup
The most used endpoints first.
| Model | Task | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 Reference to Video | Reference → video | ByteDance's most advanced reference-to-video model generating cinematic video guided by reference content, with native audio, multi-shot editing,… |
| Seedance 2.0 Text to Video | Text → video | ByteDance's most advanced text-to-video model delivering cinematic output, native audio, multi-shot editing, and director-level camera control for… |
| Seedance 2.0 Image to Video | Image → video | ByteDance's most advanced image-to-video model transforming still images into cinematic video with native audio, multi-shot editing, and… |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast Text to Video | Text → video | ByteDance's most advanced text-to-video model in its fast tier delivering lower latency and cost without compromising on cinematic output, native… |
| Seedance 2.5 Text to Video | Text → video | ByteDance's next-generation text-to-video model, generating native single-shot clips up to 30 seconds at 720p with coherent motion, native audio,… |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast Reference to Video | Reference → video | ByteDance's most advanced reference-to-video model in its fast tier delivering lower latency and cost without compromising on cinematic output,… |
| Seedance 2.5 Reference to Video | Reference → video | ByteDance's next-generation reference-to-video model, generating video from multimodal references (images, videos, audio) and locking a character,… |
| Seedance 2.5 Image to Video | Image → video | ByteDance's next-generation image-to-video model, animating a single still into a native clip up to 30 seconds at 720p with continuous, coherent… |
| Seedance 2.0 Fast Image to Video | Image → video | ByteDance's most advanced image-to-video model in its fast tier delivering lower latency and cost without compromising on cinematic output, native… |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini Text to Video | Text → video | Seedance 2.0 Mini is Bytedance's text-to-video AI model |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini Image to Video | Image → video | Seedance 2.0 Mini by Bytedance - animate still images into dynamic videos with AI |
| Seedance 2.0 Mini Reference to Video | Reference → video | Seedance 2.0 Mini by Bytedance - animate still images into dynamic videos with AI |
Cinematic video from ByteDance
Seedance is ByteDance's video generation family. Its descriptions highlight native audio, multi-shot editing and director-level camera control.
Versions
- Seedance 2.5: the next generation, with native single-shot clips up to 30 seconds at 720p. Its reference mode locks a character, set and palette using image, video and audio references.
- Seedance 2.0: Standard, Fast and Mini tiers for text, image and reference to video.
Seedance 2.0 Reference to Video is the most used Seedance endpoint on SandBase. For images from the same team, see Seedream.
Start using Seedance API on SandBase
One API key and one request shape for every model on this page.
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Create an API key
Sign in to the SandBase Console and create a key on the API Keys page. Keep it in an environment variable and never commit it to source control.
TERMINALexport SANDBASE_API_KEY="YOUR_SANDBASE_API_KEY" - 02
Submit a run
Send a request to the Unified Run API with model bytedance/seedance/2.5/text-to-video. Only the model field changes between models on this page.
TERMINALcurl https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model": "bytedance/seedance/2.5/text-to-video", "aspect_ratio": "16:9", "duration": 5, "prompt": "A bright modern kitchen with one wooden dining chair standing in the middle of the tiled floor. A round black robot vacuum glides across the floor, reaches the chair, steers around its legs, passes briefly behind them and reappears on the other side, continuing in the same direction. Static wide camera, no people, realistic lighting.", "resolution": "720p"}' - 03
Fetch the result
The response includes a run id. Poll it every few seconds until the status is completed, then download the output URL.
TERMINALcurl https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/$RUN_ID \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY"
Questions, answered
Seedance 2.5 or 2.0?
Use 2.5 for long single shots up to 30 seconds and multimodal references. Use 2.0 for its Fast and Mini tiers and the most tested prompts on SandBase.
What does reference-to-video do?
It generates a new clip guided by reference images, video and, on 2.5, audio, keeping the subject and look consistent.
Is there a cheaper Seedance option?
Seedance 2.0 Fast and Mini cost less and have lower latency than Standard.
Does Seedance support audio?
Yes. Native audio is part of Seedance 2.0 and 2.5.
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