Seedance 2.5 holds your product through the shot
Generated video has one flaw photos do not: the product changes as the shot runs. The label wanders, the shape flows, the colour drifts. This is the only engine that takes a series of reference photos and keeps the object steady across every frame.
Rendered by this model
Specification
- Built by
- ByteDance
- Starts from
- a written brief · your own photo · reference photos
- Aspect ratios
- 9:16 · 16:9 · 1:1 · 4:3 · 3:4
- Clip length
- 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 s
- Resolution
- 720p
- Sound
- switchable
- Reference photos
- 9
- Render time
- about 120s
- Cost
- from 6 to 13 credits per clip
What it is good for
- Up to nine reference photos
- Show the product from every side and the engine holds it in motion — the only way to get a clip with a real item rather than an impression of one.
- Three ways to start
- From a brief, from one photo, or from a series of references. The only entry on the roster with all three.
- Five ratios
- Vertical, landscape, square, 4:3 and 3:4 — in the reference variant too, which is unusual: most photo-start engines take their framing from the source file.
When to pick something else
This is the priciest video second on the roster at 1.3 credits, so a ten-second clip costs thirteen credits. The forty you start with buy three. If the product does not have to be exactly yours, literally every other engine is cheaper — Seedance 2.0 gives a very similar picture at 0.81 a second, and PixVerse V6 at 0.16. It also renders slowly, two to two and a half minutes.
See every modelHow to brief this model
The things this engine handles differently from the rest. The habits that hold for every model are collected separately, in the help centre.
- Upload a set of product photographs — it takes nine. This is the only video engine on the list that accepts several references, and the only reason to pay the highest per-second rate here.
- Shoot those references from the sides the clip will show. If the camera goes all the way round, supplying the back as a photograph is cheaper than fixing the clip.
- Choose the starting mode deliberately: from the brief, from a first frame, or from the reference set. Those three give three different degrees of control over what is on screen.
- Work out the cost before rendering: 1.3 credits a second is thirteen credits for ten seconds, which is three such clips out of the free allowance.
- If the product does not have to be exactly yours, move to Seedance 2.0 — the picture is very similar at 0.81 a second, and PixVerse V6 costs 0.16.
Questions about this model
Other models
- Veo 3.1 FastThe default video engine. The cheapest second among the ones that make sound.
- Veo 3.1The best picture and camera move on the roster. And the priciest second.
- Kling 3 ProHands and objects in motion. For unboxing and for showing a product off.
- Seedance 2.0The Seedance picture at two thirds of the price. For clips up to eight seconds.
- Wan 3.0 PrimeTexture up close: cream, fabric, liquid. Five ratios, two credits a clip.
- Gemini Omni FlashThe cheapest clip whose sound cannot be switched off.
- MiniMax H3 MaxSlow motion and moving material. The highest resolution alongside LTX.
- Grok Imagine 1.5A strong grade and night scenes. For ads that are meant to be loud.
- Happy HorseFood, flowers, interiors. Natural light and a calm frame.
- LTX 2.3The only 1080p on the roster. And one of the two cheapest seconds.
- PixVerse V6One credit a clip. The cheapest video second in the whole studio.
- HeyGen Video AgentThe only engine where somebody speaks Polish. Up to 60 seconds of UGC.
Try this model on your own product
Sign up without a card and get 40 credits. Switching model is one click, so you can send the same brief through several of them and keep the best frame.