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Model Pareto

Seedance 2.0 vs Seedance 2.5

In video generation, Seedance 2.0 scores 85.2 and Seedance 2.5 77.6 on the 0–100 quality scale. Seedance 2.5 costs 1.5× as much as Seedance 2.0 ($0.23 vs $0.15 per second of 1080p video).
Seedance 2.0Seedance 2.5
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Video generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 36 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Boreal, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite, Agnes-Video-2.5, Grok Imagine Video, HiDream-O1-Video, Gemini Omni Flash. 4 models are not plotted: Vidu Q4 Preview, Muse Video, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step, MAGI-2 Preview.

4 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Vidu Q4 Preview, Muse Video, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step, MAGI-2 Preview

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Seedance 2.0
    Quality
    85.2
    Rank
    #6/38
    Price
    $0.15/s
    Speed
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    vs Seedance 2.5: +7.6 quality · 0.65× price

  • Seedance 2.5
    Quality
    77.6
    Rank
    #8/38
    Price
    $0.23/s
    Speed
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    vs Seedance 2.0: −7.6 quality · 1.5× price

Overview

Metric
Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.5
Lab
ByteDance Seed
ByteDance Seed
Released
Mar 18, 2026
Jul 31, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per second
1080p
$0.15Best
$0.23

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.5
Video generation
85.2±2.9Best
#6/38Verified
77.6±3.7
#8/38Verified

Video generation benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.5
AA Text-to-Video Arena
third-party
#7/271082Verified
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1128
  2. #6SkyReels V41083
  3. #7Seedance 2.01082
  4. #8Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash1073
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#4/271104BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1128
  2. #3Bach 1.0 ProFew votes1109
  3. #4Seedance 2.5Few votes1104
  4. #5FLUX 3 Video1090
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-07
AA Image-to-Video Arena
third-party
#5/321340BestVerified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #4MiniMax H31357
  3. #5Seedance 2.01340
  4. #6PixVerse V61337
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#28/321129VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #27LTX-2.5 ProFew votes1195
  3. #28Seedance 2.5Few votes1129
  4. #29Agnes-Video-2.5Few votes1115
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-30
AA Text-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#6/241122Verified
  1. #1Seedance 2.5Few votes1160
  2. #5Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash1132
  3. #6Seedance 2.01122
  4. #7SkyReels V41078
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#1/241160BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Seedance 2.5Few votes1160
  2. #2Wan 3.01157
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-15
AA Image-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
#9/291114Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1177
  2. #8Wan 3.01118
  3. #9Seedance 2.01114
  4. #10Grok Imagine Video1073
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#3/291139BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1177
  2. #2HiDream-O1-VideoFew votes1176
  3. #3Seedance 2.5Few votes1139
  4. #4FLUX 3 Video1138
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text-to-Video
third-party
#4/171479BestVerified
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #3FLUX 3 VideoFew votes1493
  3. #4Seedance 2.01479
  4. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
#6/171474Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
  3. #6Seedance 2.51474
  4. #7MiniMax H31460
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
LMArena Image-to-Video
third-party
#5/191475Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #4Seedance 2.51477
  3. #5Seedance 2.01475
  4. #6Gemini Omni Flash1465
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
#4/191477BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #3Wan 3.0Few votes1480
  3. #4Seedance 2.51477
  4. #5Seedance 2.01475
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
VBench
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