Seedance 2.5 Review: What It's Best At and When to Use It

Seedance 2.5 has been live on our video API since August 7, 2026, and as of September 3, 2026, the model page lists it from $0.1028 per second of generated video, which is what 480p works out to. That per-second figure is derived, not fixed. Billing is per video token, and the token count scales with output pixels as well as duration, so a second of 720p costs a little over twice a second of 480p from the same model. The model is also a different shape from Seedance 2.0. It runs to 30 seconds instead of 15, and it stops at 720p instead of 4K. Below is what it does well, what a clip costs at each resolution, how it compares to Seedance 2.0, Wan 3.0, and Veo 3.1 on our own catalog data, and the cases where we’d recommend a different model. Best at long single takes and at work that starts from existing footage. Clips run to 30 seconds, and input_references accepts image, video, and audio assets, so an existing clip can be edited or extended rather than regenerated. Live specs as of September 3, 2026: clips of 4 to 30 seconds, 480p or 720p, six aspect…