Seedance 2.0
ByteDance's unified multimodal video model generating cinematic 1080p clips up to 15 seconds with synchronized audio.
Overview
What is Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's next-generation AI video model, launched February 2026. Built on a unified multimodal audio-video architecture, it generates cinematic clips up to 1080p and 15 seconds with synchronized audio from text, image, or reference-image inputs, supporting multiple aspect ratios and strong physical accuracy.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice you generate Seedance 2.0 clips under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. You pay per clip from $0.35, scaling with resolution and duration, with no subscription lock-in. Access the same ByteDance model privately, without Big-Tech surveillance of your creative inputs.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Cinematic motion stability and physical accuracy: handles multi-subject interactions and complex motion with industry-leading usability.
- Native synchronized audio: outputs clips with sound rather than silent footage.
- Flexible output control: 4s to 15s durations, six aspect ratios from 21:9 to 9:16, and three resolutions up to 1080p.
- Strong prompt adherence for camera movements, visual effects, and scene composition.
- Photorealistic, high-fidelity output suitable for professional creative workflows.
- Proprietary and closed: no open weights, so self-hosting or fine-tuning is impossible.
- On Venice it is currently limited to text-to-video; image-to-video and multimodal reference workflows are not exposed.
- Not uncensored: it may apply content filters on certain prompts, as with most commercial video models.
- Like most video models, it can struggle with perfect temporal consistency across longer 15-second generations.
- Higher resolutions and longer durations cost significantly more per clip.
Capabilities
What it supports
- Text to video
- Native audio generation
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- ByteDance
- Released
- February 12, 2026
- Architecture
- Unified multimodal audio-video joint generation
- Modality
- Text-to-video with native synchronized audio
- Resolutions
- 1080p, 720p, 480p
- Clip lengths
- 4s – 15s
- Mode
- text-to-video
- Aspect ratios
- 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16
- Audio
- Yes
- Prompt limit
- 10,000 chars
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Mar 2026
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/queue \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "seedance-2-0-text-to-video",
"prompt": "Aerial drone shot over a misty mountain valley at golden hour"
}'
# Use the returned queue_id with https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/retrieve.
# Call /video/complete after downloading if needed.Pricing
What it costs on Venice
Pay per clip on Venice — price scales with resolution and duration (4s–15s), from $0.35.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Best for | Max resolution | Max duration | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 | The only Venice-hosted option in this group with native synchronized audio and granular per-clip pricing from $0.35. | 1080p | 15s | No | from $0.35 |
| Wan 2.7 | The open-weights choice among Venice's video models — you can download and run it yourself or use Venice's hosted inference. | — | — | Yes | from $0.55 |
| Kling O3 Pro | A closed-weights rival focused on premium production values and character animation. | — | — | No | from $0.46 |
| Grok Imagine | A proprietary text-to-video model available in both standard and private variants on Venice. | — | — | No | from $0.32 |
The only Venice-hosted option in this group with native synchronized audio and granular per-clip pricing from $0.35.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Social media short-form ads and vertical content using native 9:16 output.
- 02Cinematic B-roll and concept visualization for film and commercial pre-production.
- 03Audio-synced music video prototyping and motion graphics with native sound generation.
- 04Multi-aspect-ratio marketing asset generation from a single prompt.
- 05Rapid storyboarding with explicit camera movement and lighting instructions.
Prompting
Getting better results
Describe camera movements explicitly (e.g., "slow dolly in," "handheld pan") — the model follows directional instructions well.
Include dialogue in double quotes to trigger matching lip movements and vocal tone.
Specify duration, resolution, and aspect ratio upfront to avoid re-generation.
Keep prompts under the 10,000-character limit but detail scene composition, lighting, and subject motion for best results.
Version history
Predecessor with lower multimodal support and motion stability.
Current — unified multimodal architecture, native audio generation, and 1080p output.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's next-generation AI video model, launched in February 2026. It uses a unified multimodal audio-video architecture to generate cinematic text-to-video clips up to 1080p and 15 seconds with synchronized audio.
On Venice you pay per clip, starting at $0.35 for a 480p · 4s generation and scaling up to $1.87 for 1080p · 4s. Longer durations increase the price further. There is no subscription required.
Seedance 2.0 is billed per clip on Venice. You can apply any available Venice account credits toward generations, but sustained use requires purchasing credits.
No. Seedance 2.0 is proprietary to ByteDance and the weights are not openly available. If you need an open-weights video model, Wan 2.7 on Venice is an alternative.
No. Seedance 2.0 is a standard proprietary model and may block or filter certain prompts. It is not an uncensored or open-weights model.
Choose Seedance 2.0 for cinematic clips with native synchronized audio and flexible duration control up to 15 seconds. Choose Wan 2.7 if you prefer an open-weights model that can be self-hosted outside of Venice. Both are pay-per-use on Venice.
It supports 480p, 720p, and 1080p resolutions, with clip lengths from 4 seconds up to 15 seconds. You can also choose from six aspect ratios ranging from ultrawide 21:9 to vertical 9:16.
Yes. Unlike many silent video generators, Seedance 2.0 outputs clips with synchronized audio generated natively by the model.
Venice runs Seedance 2.0 under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. Your generations are not tied to a personal creative history, so you can experiment without surveillance.
Run Seedance 2.0 privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.