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Model Pareto

Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0

In video generation, Seedance 2.5 scores 86.1 and Seedance 2.0 83.9 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 2.5Seedance 2.0
Focus

Video generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 32 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Hailuo 2.3, Grok Imagine Video, HiDream-O1-Video, Gemini Omni Flash. 4 models are not plotted: Muse Video, MAGI-2 Preview, Bach-1.0 Preview, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step.

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

Muse Video, MAGI-2 Preview, Bach-1.0 Preview, Cosmos3-Super-Image2Video-4Step

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Seedance 2.5
    Quality
    86.1
    Rank
    #5/34
    Price
    $0.23/s
    Speed
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    vs Seedance 2.0: +2.2 quality · 1.5× price

  • Seedance 2.0
    Quality
    83.9
    Rank
    #7/34
    Price
    $0.15/s
    Speed
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    vs Seedance 2.5: −2.2 quality · 0.65× price

Overview

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

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 2.5
Seedance 2.0
Video generation
86.1±6.0Best
#5/34Verified
83.9±3.0
#7/34Verified

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 2.5
Seedance 2.0
AA Text-to-Video Arena
third-party
~#4/26~1294Estimated
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #3MiniMax H31302
  3. ~#4Seedance 2.5Estimated1294
  4. #4HappyHorse-1.01286
estimated from related benchmarks
#6/251259Verified
  1. #1Wan 3.0Few votes1335
  2. #5HappyHorse-1.11272
  3. #6Seedance 2.01259
  4. #7Wan 2.7 06121243
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image-to-Video Arena
third-party
~#4/27~1341Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #3MiniMax H31357
  3. ~#4Seedance 2.5Estimated1341
  4. #4Seedance 2.01340
estimated from related benchmarks
#4/261340Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1369
  2. #3MiniMax H31357
  3. #4Seedance 2.01340
  4. #5PixVerse V61337
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Text-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
~#5/23~1202Estimated
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #4Seedance 2.01210
  3. ~#5Seedance 2.5Estimated1202
  4. #5MAGI-2 Preview1156
estimated from related benchmarks
#4/221210Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni Flash1233
  2. #3MiniMax H31220
  3. #4Seedance 2.01210
  4. #5MAGI-2 Preview1156
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image-to-Video Arena (with audio)
third-party
~#6/24~1158Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #5Wan 3.01164
  3. ~#6Seedance 2.5Estimated1158
  4. #6HappyHorse-1.11106
estimated from related benchmarks
#4/231174Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31181
  2. #3HiDream-O1-VideoFew votes1176
  3. #4Seedance 2.01174
  4. #5Wan 3.01164
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Video
third-party
#6/171474Verified
  1. #1Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashFew votes1516
  2. #5Wan 3.0Few votes1476
  3. #6Seedance 2.51474
  4. #7MiniMax H31460
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#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 · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image-to-Video
third-party
#4/191477BestVerified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #3Wan 3.0Few votes1480
  3. #4Seedance 2.51477
  4. #5Seedance 2.01475
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#5/191475Verified
  1. #1MiniMax H31495
  2. #4Seedance 2.51477
  3. #5Seedance 2.01475
  4. #6Gemini Omni Flash1465
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
VBench
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