Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Creative teams producing short cinematic audiovisual concepts
- Video creators working from mixed image, video, and audio references
- Teams testing controllable generative video for campaigns and previsualization
Seedance
ByteDance multimodal model for controllable audio-video generation
Seedance is ByteDance Seed's video-generation model family. Seedance 2.0 accepts text, image, audio, and video references, and generates or edits multi-shot audiovisual sequences with controls for subjects, motion, camera movement, composition, lighting, and sound.
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- Best for
- Creative teams producing short cinematic audiovisual concepts
- Pricing signal
- Not publicly listed
- Primary category
- Video generators
- Last verified
- Aug 16, 2026
The decision
Should Seedance make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Generate a multi-shot video from a written concept
- Animate and extend an existing image or video reference
- Create synchronized dialogue, effects, music, and visuals from mixed inputs
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- Official public pricing and access terms are not stated on the model page.
- ByteDance notes that detail stability, hyper-realism, dynamic vitality, and occasional audio distortion still need improvement.
- Generated media requires rights, likeness, disclosure, and brand-safety review before publication.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
Multimodal references
Accepts combinations of text, images, video clips, and audio clips as creative guidance.
Joint audio-video output
Generates multi-shot video with synchronized dialogue, sound effects, music, and visual action.
Controllable generation and editing
Supports camera, motion, composition, character, action, extension, and targeted editing instructions.
Typical workflow
Provide a text prompt and optionally supply image, video, or audio references. Describe the intended subjects, motion, camera language, visual treatment, edits, or extension. Seedance generates a short multi-shot audiovisual result that can be reviewed and refined.
Plans and official links
Plans and accessNot publicly listed.
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Starting pointNot publicly listed
- Provider
- ByteDance Ltd.
- Based in
- CN
- Founded
- 2012
Official destinations
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