Seedance 2.5 Flash
ByteDance's Volcano Engine released Seedance 2.5 Flash, a lighter video model that it says is twice as fast as Seedance 2.5 and about 34% cheaper at 720p.
Seedance 2.5 Flash is a lighter tier of the Seedance 2.5 family for high-volume creation and batch production. It makes clips up to 30 seconds at 480p or 720p and takes up to 10 images, five video clips and five audio clips as references. It also supports video editing. The flagship Seedance 2.5 stays the choice for 1080p and 4K.
- Date
- Thursday 12 November 2026
- Lab
- ByteDance
- Kind
- model
- Access
- closed API
- Price
- about 0.99 yuan per second of generated video at 720p
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| Price at 720p text-to-video and image-to-video | about 0.99 yuan per second roughly 34% below Seedance 2.5 | company |
| Generation speed vs Seedance 2.5 | 2x company claim, no benchmarks published | company |
| Maximum clip length | 30 seconds | company |
Available on Jimeng and third-party tools from Nov 12; Volcano Ark API access opens Nov 15. Quality claims are the company's own.
Sources
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