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ByteDance
Seedance 2.0
Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance's unified multimodal video generation model, released February 2026. It generates multi-shot text-to-video and image-to-video with natively synchronized audio, emphasizing physical motion accuracy, character consistency, and controllable camera movement.
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cost
$7.26
/min

Model Details
Capabilities
Text → VideoImage → VideoFirst Last FrameReference To Video
Constraints
Inputs: Text, Image, VideoOutputs: Video, AudioOutput lengths: 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s, 14s, 15sSupported FPS: 24Aspect ratios: 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 21:9
Scores
Physics63.4
Prompt Adherence78.6
Animation67.2
2D Animation70.8
3D Animation65.6
Anime Animation65.3
Cinematography74.5
Taste40.0
Human77.5
Hands81.2
Animals76.0
Objects64.6
Logic + Consistency75.9
Scene Consistency49.0
Text Fidelity75.9
Actor Performance70.4
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Published Evaluation
Seedance 2.0 Review
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 is a unified text-to-video and image-to-video model released in early 2026, built around precise motion rendering, consistent characters, and synchronized audio. It's debut marked controversy and backlash in Hollywood and marked an inflection point for AI video.
Examples
Creature-film spectacle. A soaring wide shot shows a colossal shaggy fantasy guardian clinging to the antenna of a retro-futurist observation tower, one arm raised as three small propeller aircraft circle at a safe distance. Below, a 1930s-inspired coastal metropolis rests in afternoon haze. Monochrome footage with selective color, fine 35mm grain, grand practical-miniature scale.
Stylized cinematic medium shot, frontal framing of an adult nun in a black and white habit, smoking a cigarette while standing before a sun-bleached clapboard chapel as a puff of smoke from a recent exhale dissipates to reveal her face before drifting away. She tilts her chin up, gaze hidden, lips faintly amused. Dusty Americana palette, soft mid-afternoon flat light.
High-contrast black-and-white aerial, locked overhead shot of a boxing ring with one figure seated low in shadow at the bottom of frame as two opponents circle each other slowly in the bright square below, long shadows pinwheeling. The crowd is invisible blackness beyond the ropes. Single hard top-down light pool, crushed blacks, soft 35mm grain.
High-end skincare commercial macro, slow push-in on a cream-colored cosmetic tube laid diagonally on a glass surface flooded with fresh white foam and pooling water, its black label reading "Lumae Calming Cleanser" focus remaining crisp and unblurred on the label, as suds churn around it. Bubbles rise, water beads slide along the tube, gentle daylight rakes across the glossy plastic.
Fantasy CG short-film moment, medium close-up of a small wrinkled humanoid in a moss-green robe reaching with quiet reverence toward a floating violet crystal suspended in the boughs of a luminous tree of glass leaves. Fireflies drift between him and the orb, the foliage gently chiming as he extends an open palm. Nebular purple sky, bioluminescent ground flora, painterly volumetrics. His open palm stops just short of touching the floating crystal.
Stylized commercial cinematic shot, locked-off down a quiet European cobblestone street as enormous shiny hot-pink balloon letters spelling "DON'T SWEAT IT" wobble in a gentle breeze, the apostrophe bobbing slightly out of formation before drifting back into place. Sunlight glints off each balloon's curvature, soft squeaks audible as they sway. Sherbet color palette, hand-arranged confetti drifting past, every letter clean and evenly kerned
Cozy macro tabletop scene, top-down framing on an open hardback storybook resting on a thick knit blanket, the left page bearing illuminated calligraphy reading "Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away…" as a hand gently turns the page to reveal a watercolor castle on a green hill. Warm bedside lamp glow, dust motes drifting, fingertips brushing the parchment.
Stylized comic-book animated shot, three-quarter medium framing on a gaunt blue-skinned undead gunslinger in a dust-caked duster, revolver in one hand and crumpled wanted poster in the other reading "WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE — UNDEAD COWBOY — REWARD $10,000" in clean weathered typography. Hot crimson dusk behind, barbed-wire silhouettes, the poster wrinkling as he tightens his grip but every word remaining razor legible. Heavy ink-line aesthetic.
Surrealist cinematic wide, locked symmetrical composition on a suited man in dusty taupe standing chest-deep in a sea of pale pink cosmos blooms, a plain brown cardboard box covering his head, briefcase loose in one hand. Wind stirs the flowers in synchronized waves around him while he stands completely motionless. Wes-Anderson-meets-Magritte palette of pastel pinks and turquoise sky, dry midday sun.
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