Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's next-generation multimodal video model, enabling controllable, high-fidelity video generation from text, images, audio, and video inputs.
Overview
What is Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance Seed’s multimodal video generation model, released in February 2026. It supports text, image, audio, and video inputs to create up to 15-second clips with high motion stability, physical accuracy, and synchronized audio. Designed for cinematic and commercial use, it excels in complex scenes with multiple subjects and actions.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, Seedance 2.0 runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts and reference materials are not stored or profiled. This means creators get enterprise-grade video generation without sacrificing data sovereignty. You retain full control over inputs, and generations are processed without building a persistent user history.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Industry-leading controllability using multimodal references — users can guide composition, motion, and style with input assets.
- High usability in complex scenes: excels at multi-subject interaction, camera movement, and physical realism.
- Unified audio-video joint generation: produces synchronized soundtracks and ambient audio natively.
- Supports up to 15-second clips at 4K resolution with multiple aspect ratios for cinematic and social content.
- Strong instruction-following for video editing and extension tasks.
- Not open source or self-hostable: entirely proprietary to ByteDance.
- Limited to short-form video (max 15 seconds), not suitable for long-form storytelling.
- Access outside China can be restricted, with aggressive content filters in place.
- Steeper learning curve for users unfamiliar with reference-based workflows.
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
- Text to video
- Image to video
- Native audio generation
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- ByteDance Seed
- Released
- February 12, 2026
- Modality
- Text-to-video, image-to-video, audio-visual synthesis
- Resolutions
- 4k, 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
- 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-text-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 | No | from $0.76 |
| Kling O3 Pro | 2K | Cinematic realism | No | from $0.46 |
| Wan 2.7 Enhanced | 1080p | Speed & accessibility | Yes | from $0.68 |
| Vidu Q3 | 4K | Longer clips | No | from $0.27 |
Best-in-class for reference-guided video with mixed inputs.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Social media ads and short-form content with consistent characters and branding.
- 02Storyboarding and pre-visualization for film and animation teams.
- 03Product showcases combining reference visuals, audio, and motion.
- 04Multimodal creative experiments using mixed inputs like voiceover + sketch + text.
- 05AI-assisted video editing with controllable scene transitions and extensions.
Prompting
Getting better results
Use reference images to lock in character identity and style before generating.
Combine a short video clip with text to guide camera motion and pacing.
Add audio tracks to influence rhythm, mood, or dialogue timing in the output.
Break complex scenes into smaller prompts using reference continuity for longer sequences.
Version history
Predecessor with lower motion stability and fewer input modalities.
Current — unified multimodal architecture, enhanced controllability.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance Seed’s multimodal video generation model, released in February 2026. It creates up to 15-second videos from text, images, audio, and video inputs, with strong controllability and cinematic quality for commercial and creative use.
On Venice, pricing starts at $0.76 per clip for 720p at 4 seconds, scaling up to $3.89 for 4K at 4 seconds. Costs vary by resolution, duration, and aspect ratio — you pay per clip, not per token or minute.
No. Seedance 2.0 is a proprietary model developed by ByteDance Seed. It is not free to use and does not offer open weights, so it cannot be self-hosted or modified.
Seedance 2.0 supports 4K, 1080p, 720p, and 480p resolutions, with flexible aspect ratios including 21:9, 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, and 9:16 — ideal for both cinematic and social formats.
Yes. Seedance 2.0 generates synchronized audio natively, including ambient sound, music, and voice elements, based on input prompts or reference audio clips.
Yes. Seedance 2.0 supports mixed-modality inputs — you can combine up to 9 images, 3 video clips, 3 audio files, and text in a single prompt to guide the output.
Seedance 2.0 excels in multimodal control and reference-based generation, while Kling O3 Pro leads in pure cinematic realism at 2K. For creative workflows using references, Seedance is stronger; for standalone visual beauty, Kling may have the edge.
Seedance 2.0 generates clips from 4 to 15 seconds long. It is optimized for short-form content like social ads, storyboards, and product showcases.
Yes. On Venice, Seedance 2.0 runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts and inputs are not stored, profiled, or used for training, ensuring private, sovereign video generation.
Run Seedance 2.0 privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.