Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's next-generation multimodal video generation model, supporting image, text, audio, and video inputs to create cinematic, photorealistic clips up to 15 seconds with native audio.
Overview
What is Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance Seed's advanced image-to-video model, released on February 12, 2026. It supports multimodal inputs including images, text, audio, and video, enabling users to generate high-quality, up to 15-second video clips with native audio. Designed for creative control, it excels in motion stability, physical realism, and instruction following.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, Seedance 2.0 runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts and input assets are not stored or used for training. This ensures private, permissionless access to a high-performance video model without surveillance. You retain full sovereignty over your creative inputs while benefiting from Venice’s end-to-end workflow for cinematic, audio-enabled generations.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Exceptional motion stability and physical realism in complex scenes with multiple interacting subjects.
- Supports up to 12 mixed inputs (9 images, 3 video clips, 3 audio clips, text), enabling rich reference-based control.
- Unified audio-video joint generation produces synchronized, high-quality soundtracks natively.
- Strong instruction-following and consistency in character and scene continuity across shots.
- Ideal for cinematic, photorealistic, and long-duration video creation up to 15 seconds.
- Not open-source or self-hostable: proprietary model with no open weights available.
- Access outside China can be limited; content moderation filters may restrict certain prompts.
- Higher cost for 4K and longer clips makes it less accessible for casual or experimental use.
- No tool use, web search, or reasoning capabilities — strictly a video generation model.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
Slow aerial drone shot gliding over a misty mountain valley at golden hour, sunlight piercing clouds onto a winding river, ancient pine forests on either side, ultra-smooth motion, professional color grading, atmospheric haze, 4K
Calm ocean waves rolling onto a black-sand beach at sunrise, golden light on wet sand, foam dissolving into the shore, a single silhouetted figure at the waterline, smooth continuous forward push, serene cinematic atmosphere
A slow tracking shot through a rain-soaked Tokyo street at night, neon reflecting in puddles, steam rising from a food cart, a person with a translucent umbrella, shallow depth of field, teal-and-orange grade, smooth steady camera
Capabilities
What it supports
- Image to video
- Native audio generation
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- ByteDance Seed
- Released
- February 12, 2026
- Modality
- Image-to-video, multimodal input (text, image, audio, video)
- Max resolution
- 4K
- Resolutions
- 4k, 1080p, 720p, 480p
- Clip lengths
- 4s – 15s
- Mode
- image-to-video
- Audio
- Yes
- Prompt limit
- 10,000 chars
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Mar 2026
- License
- Proprietary
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-image-to-video-basic",
"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 $0.76.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedance 2.0 | 4K | Multimodal control & realism | No | from $0.76 |
| Kling O3 Pro | 2K | Text-to-video fidelity | No | from $0.46 |
| Wan 2.7 Enhanced | 1080p | Open-source flexibility | Yes | from $0.68 |
| Grok Imagine 1.5 | 1080p | Speed & integration | No | from $0.09 |
Industry-leading multimodal input support and motion stability.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Short-form social content (TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts) with consistent characters and branding.
- 02Storyboarding and pre-visualization for film and ad production.
- 03Product showcases combining reference images, audio, and motion cues.
- 04Music video generation with synchronized visuals and rhythm.
- 05Multimodal creative direction where style, motion, and sound are guided by reference assets.
Prompting
Getting better results
Combine a reference image with motion descriptions (e.g., 'camera pans left') for stable composition.
Include audio input to influence mood and pacing — especially effective for music-driven scenes.
Use concise, structured text prompts when layering multiple inputs to avoid conflicting directives.
Start with 720p or 1080p for faster iteration, then scale to 4K for final output.
Version history
Predecessor with limited multimodal support.
Current — unified audio-video, multimodal input, 15s max.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance Seed's next-generation multimodal video generation model, released on February 12, 2026. It supports image, text, audio, and video inputs to generate up to 15-second clips with native audio, excelling in motion stability, realism, and creative control.
On Venice, Seedance 2.0 pricing starts at $0.76 per clip for 720p at 4 seconds, scaling up to $3.89 for 4K at the same duration. Prices vary based on resolution, length, and quality settings.
No. Seedance 2.0 is a proprietary model developed by ByteDance Seed and is not open source. It is not free to use, though Venice offers pay-per-clip access without subscription lock-in.
Seedance 2.0 supports 4K, 1080p, 720p, and 480p output resolutions, allowing users to balance quality and cost depending on their use case.
Yes. Seedance 2.0 features native audio-video joint generation, meaning it can produce synchronized soundtracks as part of the video output, including from user-provided audio references.
Yes. Seedance 2.0 supports up to 12 mixed inputs — including up to 9 images, 3 video clips, 3 audio clips, and natural language text — enabling powerful multimodal control over the output.
Seedance 2.0 offers superior multimodal input flexibility and motion stability, making it better for reference-driven, complex scenes. Kling O3 Pro is strong in text-to-video fidelity but supports fewer input types and lower max resolution.
Yes. Seedance 2.0 has been available on Venice since March 2026, running under an anonymized privacy tier where prompts and assets are not stored, ensuring private, uncensored access.
No. Seedance 2.0 is a dedicated video generation model and does not support tool use, web search, or reasoning capabilities. It operates strictly within the scope of multimodal video synthesis.
Run Seedance 2.0 privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.