How to Use Seedance 2.0: Online Guide

Here is how to use Seedance 2.0 in SynthPulse: open the Video studio, select Seedance 2.0, enter a prompt or attach a reference frame, then choose duration, resolution and aspect ratio. Check the credit quote before generating. The same workflow applies to 2.5; the version changes the cost and may change the result.

Credit figures reflect the SynthPulse configuration reviewed on October 23, 2026, not official vendor subscription or API prices. Check the live generation quote before submitting.

Try a product-video prompt in the Video studio, select Seedance 2.5 and check the quote before generating. The prompts are starting points to adapt, not a set of benchmarked outputs.

Both versions are configured in the studio as of October 23, 2026. Seedance 2.0 is cheaper at every offered resolution, but the gap narrows at 1080p. Choose by budget and the result you need, rather than treating the newer version as a demonstrated quality upgrade.

The examples below cover Seedance 2.0 prompts and Seedance 2.5 prompts for products, portraits, landscapes and image animation. They are briefs to adapt, not a gallery of generated results.

How to use Seedance 2.0: choose a version

Seedance is ByteDance's video family. Its official 2.5 page describes the wider model capabilities. This tutorial covers SynthPulse's single-clip form: text-to-video, or one uploaded image sent as a first-frame reference. The studio's duration and input options are narrower than the full model capabilities.

At the baseline every other setting multiplies against: 4 seconds, 720p, in credits:

• Seedance 2.0: 410.
• Seedance 2.5: 630.

At 720p, 2.5 costs about 54% more than 2.0. That is a price comparison, not a measure of output quality.

How resolution changes the price gap

Compare a 4-second clip at each available resolution, in credits:

• 480p: 2.0 is 190, 2.5 is 280. The newer model costs 47% more.
• 720p: 2.0 is 410, 2.5 is 630. 54% more.
• 1080p: 2.0 is 1,020, 2.5 is 1,140. Only 12% more.

For 1080p, the pricing multiplier is roughly 2.49 on Seedance 2.0 and 1.81 on 2.5. That is why the price gap narrows at the higher resolution.

Use the difference to plan a test:

• At 1080p, 2.5 costs 120 extra credits per 4-second attempt. Include it as a candidate if that difference fits your testing budget.
• At 720p or 480p, 2.0 saves 220 or 90 credits per attempt. Those savings leave more room to revise the prompt.
• For exploration, start with a short, low-resolution allowance. Keep enough credits to check the final settings.

Set up a single clip

1. Select the version. Choose Seedance 2.0 or 2.5 in the model picker and check the quote. For the lowest-cost Seedance test, use 2.0 at 480p.
2. Choose the input. Enter a prompt for text-to-video, or attach one still for image-to-video. Both versions receive that image as the first-frame reference; inspect the result for unwanted changes.
3. Set duration. Both offer 4, 8 or 12 seconds. Eight seconds costs twice as much as four; twelve costs three times as much.
4. Set resolution. Choose 480p, 720p or 1080p. Compare the new quote before committing to a longer or sharper test.
5. Set aspect ratio and quantity. Choose 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Request up to 4 clips, each charged separately at full price.

Submit after checking the displayed total. Keep the studio open to follow the task status and review the returned clip. Watch it through before deciding whether to revise the prompt or generate another version; the Library is the place to revisit earlier work.

Credit costs for every setting

Seedance 2.5, in credits:

• 480p / 4s: 280
• 480p / 8s: 560
• 480p / 12s: 840
• 720p / 4s: 630
• 720p / 8s: 1,260
• 720p / 12s: 1,890
• 1080p / 4s: 1,140
• 1080p / 8s: 2,280
• 1080p / 12s: 3,420

Seedance 2.0, in credits:

• 480p / 4s: 190
• 480p / 8s: 380
• 480p / 12s: 570
• 720p / 4s: 410
• 720p / 8s: 820
• 720p / 12s: 1,230
• 1080p / 4s: 1,020
• 1080p / 8s: 2,040
• 1080p / 12s: 3,060

A 12-second 1080p attempt on 2.5 costs 3,420 credits. Decide whether that uninterrupted duration is necessary before using a large part of your balance on one take.

To test motion from a still before spending Seedance credits, Grok Imagine 1.5 offers 480p/4s at 24 credits, or 720p/4s at 45. Five 480p attempts cost 120 credits. It is a different model: success there does not prove a Seedance prompt will work. To test Seedance itself, the lowest setting is 2.0 at 480p/4s for 190 credits. Five such attempts plus one 2.5 attempt at 1080p/4s cost 950 + 1,140 = 2,090 credits, with no guarantee of an accepted final take.

Seedance 2.5 prompts to adapt

Write a shot description with one action and a clear camera instruction. You can reuse the structure on 2.0 and 2.5, but changing versions can change the result. A useful prompt checklist is:

Subject → action → camera → framing → light → grade.

Weak prompt:

a woman walking through a city at night

Same idea, filled in:

A woman in a long charcoal coat walks toward camera along a wet sidewalk. She does not look up. Camera tracks backward at walking pace, staying level with her chest. Medium shot, 35mm, shallow depth of field. Lit only by shopfront neon on the left and a streetlight behind her, so her face falls in and out of light as she moves. Cool blue shadows, warm highlights, slight film grain.

Three Seedance 2.5 prompt examples you can adapt. Keep the model, duration and aspect ratio fixed when comparing revisions:

Product

A matte black ceramic mug sits on a pale oak table. Steam rises steadily from it. Camera orbits slowly 30 degrees to the right, at table height. Soft window light from the left, one shadow only. Clean, neutral color, nothing else in frame.

Character moment

An old man at a kitchen table looks down at a photograph in his hands, then slowly raises his head toward the window. Camera holds completely still, medium close-up, eye level, 50mm. Late afternoon light through a half-closed blind lays stripes across his face. Muted palette, no camera movement at all.

Landscape

Drone rises vertically from a pine forest floor through the canopy and out above the treetops, revealing a valley in low fog. Continuous upward movement, no cuts, no tilt. Overcast light, flat contrast, desaturated greens.

Each example gives the camera a direction and keeps the action continuous. For a first 4-second test, simplify further if the movement cannot fit. The forest reveal, for example, asks the model to invent a large unseen area; reduce the rise if the terrain changes shape.

Image-to-video prompts for both versions

With text alone, the model rebuilds the composition on each attempt. A first-frame reference lets you specify the starting composition separately from the movement, though the clip can still drift from it. Both Seedance versions quote the same price for text-to-video and image-to-video.

To animate an existing composition:

1. Upload your own frame or create one in the Image studio. Choose the image for its composition and legibility before animating it.
2. Attach it as the reference in the Video studio and describe the movement. Start with one moving subject and a clear camera direction.

Avoid instructions that redesign the reference. When the frame already contains the car, you can concentrate on its movement instead of adding new appearance details. Compare these two briefs:

Bad: A red vintage car on a coastal road at sunset, driving fast, cinematic.

Good: The car pulls away from camera down the road. Camera stays locked off. Only the car, the wheels, and the grass at the roadside move. Everything else holds still.

The single-clip path sends one reference image, as the first frame, for either version. Put the intended composition in that still; this form does not send a set of images.

Camera movement prompts: change one instruction

Keep the subject description and settings unchanged, then replace only the camera sentence. These are alternate instructions to test:

• Product orbit: “The mug stays fixed on the table. Camera makes a slow, shallow arc to the right at table height; keep the whole mug in frame.” Avoid asking for a full orbit in a short clip: that also asks the model to invent the unseen side.
• Portrait push-in: “The person holds their pose. Camera slowly moves closer from a medium shot to a head-and-shoulders framing. No pan, no cut.” Start with a still when the face and wardrobe already matter.
• Landscape reveal: “Camera rises slowly above the foreground rocks to reveal the valley. Maintain the same horizon direction. One continuous shot.” If the terrain changes shape, reduce the camera travel before adding more detail.

For a Seedance 2.5 product video, choose one visible event: steam rising, a bottle turning, or a lid opening. A four-second prompt containing all three is asking for a sequence rather than a shot. Generate the shots separately if your edit needs separate events.

When the prompt changes your subject

If image animation changes a logo or face, remove words that redesign the reference. Describe the movement and the parts that should remain stable. A prompt can request preservation; it cannot guarantee identical lettering or identity in every frame.

If the camera ignores “locked off,” remove competing directions such as “dynamic cinematic tracking.” If an action is rushed, simplify it or choose a longer supported duration and check the new cost. Keep successful prompts with their model version and settings: the words alone do not reproduce a result.

Plan for a silent clip

SynthPulse submits both Seedance versions with generate_audio: false, and the prices above are for that silent tier. Add sound in an editor or make a track in the Song studio, which shares the credit balance. Do not infer the underlying model's audio capabilities from this studio setting.

Veo 3.1 Fast is an audio candidate because its request does not suppress audio. Check the returned clip before relying on dialogue or a soundtrack; the request shape alone cannot guarantee either.

Seedance or Kling: compare the requirements

At 720p, the configured credit costs are:

• Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro: 105 for 5 seconds, 210 for 10 seconds
• Kling 2.6: 138 for 5 seconds, 275 for 10 seconds
• Kling 3.0: 140 for 4 seconds, 280 for 8 seconds
• Seedance 2.0: 410 for 4 seconds, 820 for 8 seconds
• Seedance 2.5: 630 for 4 seconds, 1,260 for 8 seconds

At 1080p the spread widens sharply: Kling 3.0 is 180 credits for 4 seconds, against 1,020 for Seedance 2.0 and 1,140 for Seedance 2.5. That is 6.3x for the flagship.

Kling is substantially cheaper at these settings. To decide whether Seedance is worth the extra cost for a difficult action, compare your own shot. A low-cost screening pair is Seedance 2.0 at 480p/4s (190 credits) and Kling 3.0 at 720p/4s (140). Because resolution differs, compare motion and subject preservation, then recheck any candidate at delivery settings. No quality advantage is established by the prices.

Kling 2.6 and Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro offer only 5 or 10 seconds at 720p. Both Seedance versions offer 4, 8 or 12 seconds at all three resolutions. Kling 3.0 also offers 12 seconds, so that duration alone does not require Seedance.

Before you generate

• Is the selected version within your testing budget? At 1080p/4s, 2.5 adds 120 credits; at 720p/4s, it adds 220.
• Is the first attempt short enough to check the action without paying for an unnecessary long take?
• Does the prompt give one continuous action and a clear camera instruction?
• If you have a reference, does the prompt preserve it rather than redesign it?
• Have you left time and budget to review the returned clip and add sound?

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More on the family: Seedance on SynthPulse. The cheaper long-take alternative: Kling. Picking between the top-end models: the shortlist by use case, or the six questions that narrow it down. Open the Video studio.