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Seedance 2.0 Mini
The economical Seedance: same references and ceiling, capped at 720p.
What it costs
| 5s · 480p · from a prompt or image | 17 credits | ≈ $0.40 |
| 5s · 480p · from a video | 21 credits | ≈ $0.50 |
| 5s · 720p · from a prompt or image | 37.5 credits | ≈ $0.89 |
| 5s · 720p · from a video | 46 credits | ≈ $1.09 |
Dollar figures are approximate, at the Starter plan's rate of $19.00 for 800 credits.
What AI video costs per second: 6 findings
What it takes
| Aspect ratios | 16:9 4:3 1:1 3:4 9:16 21:9 |
| Resolutions | 480p 720p |
| Duration | 4–15 seconds |
| Reference images | 9 |
| Reference videos | 3 |
| Reference audio | 3 |
| Last frame | Accepted |
When to reach for it
The cheapest way into the Seedance family's reference model. Nine reference images, three reference videos, three reference audios, a fifteen-second ceiling and the same six aspect ratios as the rest of the family, at a fraction of what 2.5 charges for a comparable take.
The cap is 720p, which for social, web and anything that will be viewed on a phone is not a real constraint. It becomes one only when the deliverable is a full-resolution master, and then base 2.0 is where to go.
Its natural place is the exploration phase of a multi-shot sequence. Because it shares the reference capacity and the frame handling with the rest of the family, a cast sheet and a chain of final frames built here transfer intact to 2.0 or 2.5 when it is time to render the keeper. That is worth more than the per-take saving: it means the cheap phase and the expensive phase are the same workflow rather than two.
How to prompt Seedance 2.0 Mini
Seedance 2.0 Mini is the economy member of the family, written for in the same Goal-to-Keep/Avoid blocks as Seedance 2.5.
Made with it
Your flat photo, now a video ad
The still you already run, in motion.
Guides that cover it
- Two pictures, fifteen seconds: the first-and-last-frame method
Make the opening frame and the closing frame yourself, hand a video model both, and let it fill the middle. Most models take a last frame. What it buys.
Seedance 2.0 Mini is one pick in the composer.
Every model in this catalog runs from the same prompt bar, priced in the same credits.
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