Seedance 2.0
ByteDance's unified audio-video model — top 2026 newcomer.
About
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's video model: unified audio-video generation (joint lip-sync in 8+ languages), multi-shot storytelling, 5–12s 1080p clips.
The 2026 newcomer that topped rankings — 100 free credits/day with no watermark for drafts. $0.05–0.14/s via PiAPI, Atlas, BytePlus, and OpenRouter. The value-and-quality combo to watch.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
No standard benchmarks; topped 2026 newcomer rankings on unified audio-video — qualitative.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Breakout 2026 model with unified audio-video and generous free tier, but proprietary (ByteDance) with provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.5/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · ByteDance Seedance 2.0; top 2026 ranking newcomer
- · released 240 days ago
- · manual review: Seedance 2.0 — unified audio-video, multi-shot storytelling; $0.05-0.14/s; 100 free credits/day; license: proprietary