Inspect the documented capabilities, access conditions and sources for your task.
Initial research: 2026-09-21. Check current terms before choosing.
Updated
The facts
- Version
- 2.5
- Price
- Price not verified. Open the tool record for the available pricing sources.
- API
✓Supported - Open weights
✕Not supported - Commercial use
- Paid API with pay-as-you-go; not free for production. Volcano Engine (official China) requires real-name verification and RMB payment — Chinese individuals and companies have automated paths, foreign enterprises need manual review. Access, not licence text, is the practical blocker.
- Max Clip Length
✓Supported 30 seconds native, with an optional beta mode extending to 3 minutes — the longest native generation of any model in this list.
Source for Max Clip Length (opens in a new tab)- Audio Generation
✓Supported Sept 2026 roundups list Seedance 2.0 among the three models producing synchronised dialogue, ambience and music inside a single generation.
Source for Audio Generation (opens in a new tab)- Image To Video
✓Supported Accepts up to 50 multimodal references as input, plus local editing that changes a region without regenerating the clip. Reviewers call it the crowd favourite for long-form image-to-video.
Source for Image To Video (opens in a new tab)- Character Consistency
✓Supported The 50-reference input and top-two placement on Artificial Analysis leaderboards are what reviewers cite; access is the constraint, not quality.
Source for Character Consistency (opens in a new tab)
Commercial risk
Materially the riskiest option here. Within a week of Seedance 2.0's 12 Feb 2026 China launch, Disney, Paramount, Netflix, Sony and Warner Bros sent legal threats; Disney's cease-and-desist (13 Feb 2026) alleged training on Disney works without compensation. ByteDance pledged fixes on 16 Feb, paused the global rollout in mid-March, then relaunched with real-face blocking, IP filters and C2PA watermarks; the US got access on 7 Apr 2026. As of Jul 2026 no studio had actually filed suit, so the MPA cease-and-desist letters remain unresolved in court rather than settled.
Sources
Beyond feature support
Quality evidence.
How well a model performs depends on the task, version, and settings.
We have not published a reviewed quality evaluation for these versions yet. Feature support and price do not establish output quality.
Try the same small task with each option. Check accuracy, consistency, and how much editing you need to get a usable result.