Seedance 2 Fast renders the take you keep. Text, a still image or an existing clip goes in and 480p or 720p comes out, billed per second, and noticeably cheaper when you hand it video to work from — the shape most short-form video actually gets watched at.
Four steps, and the first one is where the cost is decided.
Continuing motion that already exists is the cheapest way in on this tier — about 205 credits for 6s at 480p against 350 from text.
Stated actions and camera moves survive a render; adjectives largely do not.
Resolution has no bearing on whether the motion works, and it roughly halves the rate.
Every run gives you a different take of the same prompt, and at this rate you can afford to keep the one you like.
Seedance 2 Fast is the middle tier of ByteDance's Seedance 2 family, above Seedance 2 Mini and below Seedance 2.0. Like the rest of the family it accepts three kinds of input — text, a still image, or an existing video clip to work from — and it caps at 720p where the top tier reaches 1080p and beyond.
What shapes how people actually use it is where it sits on the ladder: cheap enough per second that a reshoot is not a decision, sharp enough that the result is worth keeping. That makes Fast the natural tier for iterating on a shot until the motion is right, as opposed to proving a prompt works at all.
When you are generating from scratch, it is the tier that renders the take you keep, once Mini has told you the prompt works.
Creative engine
Per second, by resolution.
Above Mini, below Seedance 2.0, and capped at 720p.
About 40% cheaper per second than generating the motion from text.
Length is the main lever on cost, so a short test is a cheap test.
Two situations, and they are different from each other. The first is working from footage: if you have a clip and want it restyled, extended or given a different look, this is where the rate drops hardest — handing Fast an existing clip runs about 40% under generating the same motion from text, at the same 720p. The second is a from-scratch shot you already understand — you found the prompt on Mini, the motion works, and Fast is where you render the take you keep. Most of these clips get watched at 720p, which is exactly where Fast tops out. Mini is the cheaper place to guess at a prompt, and 2.0 is where you go for 1080p — Fast owns the middle, where the prompt already works and you are dialling in the motion.
The video-input rate makes this the cheapest 720p-capable tier for transforming clips.
Once Mini has proven the prompt, Fast is the version worth keeping.
Enough for social video, where 720p is the delivery resolution anyway.
What this tier covers, and where the tier above it picks up.
Generate a clip from a written description with no source material.
Start from a still and describe the motion you want added to it.
Hand it an existing clip and let the model carry the motion forward.
Two resolutions, with 1080p and above on Seedance 2.0.
Taken from the model's published API spec.
Jobs where 720p is enough and the input is often footage rather than an idea.
Change the look of a clip you already have, at the lower video-input rate.
Short vertical clips delivered at 720p, where the extra tier buys nothing visible.
The keeper after Mini has confirmed the prompt does what you meant.
A photo given a camera move and a little life, without paying the top rate.
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, the safety check runs before the model does, and a failed run is refunded automatically. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
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A failed run is refunded automatically. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.5 | The long-take tier, priced per second: 5s 480p ≈ 525 credits, 5s 720p ≈ 1,185. A full 30s take runs ≈ 3,150 at 480p and ≈ 7,090 at 720p. |
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | Supplying a starting frame or clip costs less than starting from words alone: 6s 720p ≈ 565 credits from an image, ≈ 925 from text. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 6s 720p text-to-video ≈ 745 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Mini | The cheapest tier of the Seedance 2 family. 6s 720p ≈ 465 credits, 6s 480p ≈ 215 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 1.5 Pro | Audio doubles the rate. 6s 720p ≈ 85 credits silent, ≈ 160 with audio; 1080p ≈ 175 and ≈ 340. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video, not per second, and the tier you pick is the whole price: Lite ≈ 115 credits at 720p and ≈ 135 at 1080p, Fast ≈ 225 at 720p, Quality ≈ 940 at 720p. |
| Video | Kling 3.0 | Audio raises the rate by about half. 6s 720p ≈ 320 credits silent, ≈ 455 with audio; 1080p ≈ 405 and ≈ 610. |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | Fixed 2K, no resolution ladder. Priced per second — a 5s clip ≈ 395 credits. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. 20 credits per 1K image, 30 at 2K, 45 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. 30 credits per 1K or 2K image, 55 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant, and the everyday editing price: a flat 15 credits per image at every resolution. |
| Image | GPT Image 2 | The lowest-cost premium image model here. 10 credits per 1K image, 15 at 2K, 30 at 4K. |
| Image | GPT Image 2.5 Flare | OpenAI's newest image model, on the fast tier. 25 credits per 1K image, 40 at 2K, 60 at 4K — same price whether you generate or edit. |
| Image | GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | The 2.5 tier for edits that touch only what you named. Same price as Flare: 25 credits per 1K image, 40 at 2K, 60 at 4K. |
| Image | Seedream 5.0 Lite | Flat pricing — 20 credits per image whether you generate or edit. |
Common questions about the middle tier of the Seedance 2 family.
Fast caps at 720p where Seedance 2.0 reaches 1080p and above, and runs about 20% under it per second at the same resolution. Both take text, image or video input.
Mini is the cheaper tier below it, also capped at 720p. Fast is where you render the finished take once Mini has told you the prompt and the motion work.
It sits between Mini and Seedance 2.0. Per second it runs about 20% under 2.0 at the same resolution, and handing it an existing clip to work from drops it about 40% further. That band is where a second attempt stops being a decision.
About 350 credits for 6 seconds at 480p and about 745 at 720p. Billing is per second, so ten seconds is about two thirds more.
No — 480p and 720p only. Seedance 2.0 is the tier that reaches 1080p.
Credits are returned automatically, unless the request broke the content policy.
It is the same family tuned for speed, capped at 720p. Use Fast to iterate the motion in volume once Mini has told you the prompt works, and 720p out of Fast is a clip you can publish — move to Seedance 2.0 or 2.5 when you want 1080p.
Supply a clip if you have one, describe the action, and start at 480p.